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The John & Patty McEnroe Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$70k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$126kArts & Culture$71kHealth$50kPublic Safety & Disaster$30kFood & Nutrition$25kEnvironment$21kCrime & Legal$12kCivil Rights$12kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $63k
$1,200
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JOHNNY MAC TENNIS PROJECT$40,000
CHARITY NAVIGATOR GIVING BASKET$13,295
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$10,000
ARTISTIC NOISE INC$1,500
AVENUES FOR JUSTICE$1,500
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$1,200
LOUISIANA CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS$772
INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE$660
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$600
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVATORY$350
BOOK'EM$164
MUSICARES FOUNDATIONS$38
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $7k → 14%WOLF CONSERVATION CENTER: $800 → 9%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%CORE - COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT: $25k → 14%MS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN: $2k → 20%WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN: $1k → 14%ALZHEIMERS DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $10k → 14%BABY2BABY: $11k → 14%WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN: $1k → 14%UCLA: $5k → 14%WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN: $1k → 14%FRIENDS OF MALIBU URGENT CARE: $1k → 14%WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN: $1k → 14%WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN: $800 → 14%HUMAN RIGHTS FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%CENTRAL PARK CONSERVATORY: $1k → 17%NEW YORK POPS: $10k → 17%ARTISTIC NOISE INC: $2k → 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: $40k → 17%AVENUES FOR JUSTICE: $2k → 17%JOHNNY MAC TENNIS PROJECT: $37k → 17%AVENUES FOR JUSTICE: $2k → 17%AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $10k → 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
TN
NC
DC
HI
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$268k · 14 repeat orgs$177k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
26

Total granted

$268k
$161k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+17%

Still filing today

79%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureAnimalsHealthCrime & LegalFood & NutritionInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
    6× · 2017–2025 · $166k · revenue +364%
  • GL
    GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC
    4× · 2017–2023 · $25k · revenue +226%
  • AM
    American Museum of Natural History
    2× · 2019–2025 · $20k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • MO
    MUSEUM OF CONTEMP ART
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • CC
    CORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -35%
  • PW
    PIONEER WORKS ART FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue -30%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International
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
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
4
Wildlife Conservation Network Inc

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

Animals
5
American Flood Coalition Inc

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

Environment
6
Women First Inc

Women first invests in grassroots initiatives driven by women in developing economies that sustainably advance their lives.

International
7
National Forest Foundation

The national forest foundation (nff), chartered by congress, turns america's love of nature into meaningful action for 193-million acre national forest system through on the ground program work and grant making activities, and accepts and…

Recreation & Sports
8
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
9
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…

Education
10
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
11
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ms Foundation for Women Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 45 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
19/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JOHNNY MAC TENNIS PROJECT INC: $166,196 · Youth DevelopmentJOHNNY MAC TENNIS PROJECT INCMUSEUM OF CONTEMP ART: $25,000 · OtherMUSEUM OF CONTEMP ARTIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCHARITY NAVIGATOR GIVING BASKET: $13,295 · OtherCHARITY NAVIGATOR GIVING BASKETBABY2BABY: $10,549 · OtherBABY2BABYHUMAN RIGHTS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherHUMAN RIGHTS FOUNDATIONEPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $7,200 · OtherUCLA: $5,000 · OtherHACKENSACK MERIDIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 · OtherALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISOR…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $6,600 · Other+21 more: $26,749 · Other+21 morePIONEER WORKS ART FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Arts & CulturePIONEER WORKS…American Museum of Natural History: $20,000 · Arts & CultureAmerican Muse…NEW YORK POPS INC: $10,300 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK POPS…HEDGEBROOK: $2,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $38 · 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 · EnvironmentAVENUES FOR JUSTICE INC: $13,500 · Crime & LegalARTISTIC NOISE INC: $1,500 · Crime & LegalLOUISIANA CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $772 · Crime & Legal
Youth Development$166,196Other$139,393Arts & Culture$52,338Food & Nutrition$25,257Public Safety & Disaster$25,000Environment$20,400Crime & Legal$15,772

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJOHNNY MAC TENNIS PROJECT INC: $166,196 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPIONEER WORKS ART FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAVENUES FOR JUSTICE INC: $13,500 over 6y, 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 budgetEPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $7,200 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $6,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $2,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC: $2,420 over 4y, 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 budgetARTISTIC NOISE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% 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 budgetLOUISIANA CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $772 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVERY MOTHER COUNTS: $511 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERKEEPER INC: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBook Em: $264 over 2y, 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 budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $60 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSICARES FOUNDATION INC: $38 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The John & Patty McEnroe Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The John & Patty McEnroe Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% 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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 45 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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