Illinois · Private foundation
The Macdougal Family 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.
- $240k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 57
- Grants FY2025
- 63
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,200
- Organizations funded a year
- 51 to 71
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations The Macdougal Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 56 | $239k | 23% |
| FY2024 | 63 | $283k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 51 | $129k | 16% |
| FY2022 | 56 | $175k | 27% |
| FY2021 | 66 | $144k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 52 | $119k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 58 | $77k | 28% |
| FY2018 | 71 | $89k | 38% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Next Generation Bulgaria Fund | $150,000 | 9 | 28% |
| A song for You | $85,200 | 4 | 82% |
| Barry a Murphy Fund | $78,700 | 6 | n/a |
| Wirepoints Corp | $70,000 | 6 | 12% |
| Guiding Light Mission Inc | $69,700 | 4 | 1% |
| Central Park Conservancy Inc | $37,500 | 7 | 0% |
| University of Chicago | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Illinois Policy Institute | $21,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Alex Fund Inc | $16,500 | 8 | 4% |
| History Center of Lake Forest-Lake Bluff | $16,450 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 89 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 88 recipients with no EIN on record ($459k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Macdougal Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 79 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · The Canning Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Ranch Spur Charitable Trust · Garrett Family Foundation · Butler Family Foundation · The Robert Thomas Bobins Foundation · John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy · Robert R McCormick Foundation · The Allstate Foundation
How this is measured
About The Macdougal Family Foundation
- How much does The Macdougal Family Foundation give?
- The Macdougal Family Foundation reported 57 grants totaling $239,670 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 51 and 71 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Macdougal Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (19%), Arts & Culture (16%), Public Benefit (13%).
- Who are The Macdougal Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Next Generation Bulgaria Fund ($150k), A song for You ($85k), Barry a Murphy Fund ($79k).
- Does The Macdougal Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Macdougal Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Macdougal Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Lloyd a Fry Foundation, The Canning Foundation.
- Where is The Macdougal Family Foundation based?
- The Macdougal Family Foundation is based in IL.
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