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The John & Patty McEnroe Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$58k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Recreation & Sports$126kArts & Culture$71kHealth$50kPublic Safety & Disaster$30kFood & Nutrition$25kEnvironment$21kCrime & Legal$12kCivil Rights$12kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
$1,100
Median grant
4
States reached
$714k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JOHNNY MAC TENNIS PROJECT$40,000
NEW YORK POPS$10,300
HACKENSACK MERIDIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION$5,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$1,100
INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE$605
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$550
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVATORY$350
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 91% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE: $660 → 8%EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $7k → 14%WOLF CONSERVATION CENTER: $800 → 9%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $600 → 17%PIONEER WORKS ART FOUNDATION: $20k → 20%WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN: $1k → 14%SERIOUSFUN CHILDREN'S NETWORK: $1k → 9%DICK VITALE GALA: $20k → 8%AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $1k → 10%THE WILD FOUNDATION: $1k → 12%HEDGEBROOK: $2k → 7%MUSEUM OF CONTEMP ART: $25k → 14%HACKENSACK MERIDIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE: $605 → 8%CORE - COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT: $25k → 14%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $600 → 17%MS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN: $2k → 20%WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN: $1k → 14%ALZHEIMERS DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $10k → 14%BABY2BABY: $11k → 14%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $600 → 17%WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN: $1k → 14%UCLA: $5k → 14%WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN: $1k → 14%FRIENDS OF MALIBU URGENT CARE: $1k → 14%WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN: $800 → 14%HUMAN RIGHTS FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%CENTRAL PARK CONSERVATORY: $1k → 17%NEW YORK POPS: $10k → 17%CROHN'S COLITIS FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%NEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT: $10k → 17%NEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT: $10k → 17%GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER: $8k → 17%GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER: $8k → 17%AVENUES FOR JUSTICE: $6k → 17%GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER: $5k → 17%GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER: $5k → 17%JOHNNY MAC TENNIS PROJECT: $40k → 17%AVENUES FOR JUSTICE: $2k → 17%JOHNNY MAC TENNIS PROJECT: $37k → 17%AVENUES FOR JUSTICE: $2k → 17%JOHNNY MAC TENNIS PROJECT: $25k → 17%AVENUES FOR JUSTICE: $2k → 17%AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $10k → 17%JOHNNY MAC TENNIS PROJECT: $14k → 17%AVENUES FOR JUSTICE: $2k → 17%JOHNNY MAC TENNIS PROJECT: $10k → 17%CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
TN
NC
DC
HI

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$203k · 12 repeat orgs$171k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +80% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
26

Total granted

$203k
$156k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+80%
+17%

Still filing today

75%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsArts & CultureHealthFood & NutritionInternationalEducationOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • JM
    JOHNNY MAC TENNIS PROJECT INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $126k · revenue +364%
  • GL
    GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC
    4× · 2017–2023 · $25k · revenue +226%
  • AF
    AVENUES FOR JUSTICE INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $12k · revenue +131%

Funded once

  • CC
    CORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -35%
  • MO
    MUSEUM OF CONTEMP ART
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $20k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
2
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
3
American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit
4
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
5
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

6
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
7
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
8
Wildlife Conservation Network Inc

Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.

Animals
9
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
10
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Animals
11
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
12
Natural Areas Conservancy Inc

The natural areas conservancy champions urban natural areas in new york city and across the nation through innovative research, partnerships, and advocacy. we increase the health and resilience of urban forests and wetlands, catalyze…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ms Foundation for Women Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Museum of Natural History. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth Sports Booster Organi…Classical Music EnsemblesNative Hawaiian Community D…Elementary Literacy TutoringWildlife Rehabilitation Cen…Land Conservation Organizat…Animal Rescue and AdoptionFood Pantries & AssistanceCancer Support OrganizationsCommunity Arts Organizations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr19%35%20–35yr13%31%35–55yr16%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%63%10–20yr19%11%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr16%5%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/29
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,731

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 41 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
19/29
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JOHNNY MAC TENNIS PROJECT INC — $126,196 · Youth DevelopmentJOHNNY MAC TENNIS PROJECT INCMUSEUM OF CONTEMP ART — $25,000 · OtherMUSEUM OF CONTEMP ARTIndividual grant recipient — $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBABY2BABY — $10,549 · OtherBABY2BABYHUMAN RIGHTS FOUNDATION — $10,000 · OtherHUMAN RIGHTS FOUNDATIONEPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $7,200 · OtherEPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA MEDICAL RESEAR…HACKENSACK MERIDIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION — $5,000 · OtherUCLA — $5,000 · OtherAVENUES FOR JUSTICE INC — $12,000 · OtherAVENUES FOR JUSTICE INCWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $5,400 · Other+18 more — $21,990 · Other+18 morePIONEER WORKS ART FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Arts & CulturePIONEER WORK…NEW YORK POPS INC — $10,300 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK POP…American Museum of Natural History — $10,000 · Arts & CultureAmerican Mus…HEDGEBROOK — $2,000 · Arts & CultureGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC — $25,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more — $257 · Food & NutritionCORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT — $25,000 · Public Safety & DisasterNEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT — $20,000 · Environment+1 more — $400 · EnvironmentALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $1,350 · HealthSERIOUSFUN CHILDREN'S NETWORK — $1,124 · HealthEVERY MOTHER COUNTS — $511 · Health
Youth Development$126,196Other$122,139Arts & Culture$42,300Food & Nutrition$25,257Public Safety & Disaster$25,000Environment$20,400Health$12,985

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJOHNNY MAC TENNIS PROJECT INC — $126,196 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetCORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC — $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPIONEER WORKS ART FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAVENUES FOR JUSTICE INC — $12,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBABY2BABY — $10,549 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK POPS INC — $10,300 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $7,200 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $5,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $2,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHEDGEBROOK — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $1,922 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC — $1,760 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $1,350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND — $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSERIOUSFUN CHILDREN'S NETWORK — $1,124 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL WILDERNESS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC — $855 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEVERY MOTHER COUNTS — $511 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERKEEPER INC — $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC — $257 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILD BIRD FUND INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBook Em — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY — $60 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

National Philanthropic TrustPA10.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The John & Patty McEnroe Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY2025

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

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How do I get to The John & Patty McEnroe Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The John & Patty McEnroe Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 41 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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