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The Macmillan Family Foundation Inc

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.

$23M
Granted FY2024still arriving
151
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$5.0M
Largest
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$31MEducation$25MArts & Culture$18MScience & Tech$9.0MHuman Services$3.7MYouth Development$2.0MPhilanthropy$1.5MHousing & Shelter$1.3MOther$0
02FY2024 · 151 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k60 grants · $1.2M
  • $50k–250k65 grants · $7.3M
  • $250k+18 grants · $15M
$50,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$555M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW YORK GENOME CENTER INC$5,000,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$1,600,000
INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY$1,075,000
PRINCETON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION$1,025,000
CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH$1,000,000
THE MARK FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH$1,000,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION$575,000
CENTER FOR SUPPORTIVE SCHOOLS$500,000
FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION$337,000
SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET$325,000
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$325,000
PRINCETON AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$325,000
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY$325,000
JOYCE THEATRE FOUNDATION INC$250,000
CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY$250,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $2.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SOUTH ASIAN YOUTH ACTION (SAYA): $150k → 13%WOMANSPACE: $18k → 15%SOUTH ASIAN YOUTH ACTION (SAYA): $150k → 13%WOMANSPACE: $8k → 15%WOMANSPACE: $8k → 15%WOMANSPACE: $8k → 15%MERCER STREET FRIENDS CENTER: $40k → 11%SPRINGBOARD COLLABERATIVE: $50k → 22%BRONXWORKS: $150k → 28%WOMANSPACE: $8k → 15%MERCER STREET FRIENDS CENTER: $25k → 11%BRONXWORKS: $150k → 28%HOMEFRONT: $30k → 9%MERCER STREET FRIENDS CENTER: $25k → 11%HOMEFRONT: $15k → 9%THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY: $20k → 11%HOMEFRONT: $15k → 9%MERCER STREET FRIENDS CENTER: $20k → 11%NEW YORK FOUNDLING HOSPITAL: $20k → 17%HOMEFRONT: $15k → 9%THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY: $20k → 11%NEW YORK FOUNDLING HOSPITAL: $15k → 17%HOMEFRONT: $15k → 9%MERCER STREET FRIENDS CENTER: $20k → 11%NEW YORK FOUNDLING HOSPITAL: $15k → 17%COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES (CASA) OF MERCER COUNTY INC: $5k → 11%NEW YORK FOUNDLING HOSPITAL: $15k → 17%THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY: $15k → 11%THE NEW YORK FOUNDLING: $15k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $250k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $250k → 17%PRINCETON SENIOR RESOURCE CENTER: $35k → 11%PRINCETON SENIOR RESOURCE CENTER: $15k → 11%PRINCETON SENIOR RESOURCE CENTER: $10k → 11%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $200k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $200k → 17%CHINESE AMERICAN PLANNING COUNCIL: $175k → 17%ROADS TO SUCCESS: $100k → 17%ROADS TO SUCCESS: $100k → 17%YMCA OF GREATER NEW YORK: $125k → 17%GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $150k → 17%GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $150k → 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

MN
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MD
TN
NC
DC
TX
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$83M · 110 repeat orgs$11M to everyone else

110 repeat relationships: 102 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 47 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

110
51

Total granted

$83M
$6.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+24%

Still filing today

80%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.1M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • NY
    NEW YORK GENOME CENTER INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $15M · revenue +21%
  • INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER & MRS FELIX FULD FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $6.4M · revenue +98%
  • TM
    THE MARK FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH (US) LTD
    4× · 2021–2024 · $4.0M · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • PM
    PRINCETON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M
  • TF
    The Frick Collection
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue +12%
  • NJ
    NEW JERSEY ARTS AND CULTURE RENEWAL FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $350k
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
Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…

Arts & Culture
2
New York Public Radio

To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful through excellent audio programming that is deeply rooted in new york.

Arts & Culture
3
Atlantic Theater Company

At Atlantic, our aim is singular: to empower simple and honest storytelling that fosters greater understanding of our shared world. Across our work, we are a family of artists dedicated to exploring essential truths onstage, be it a show…

Arts & Culture
4
Lookingglass Theatre Company

Lookingglass theatre company is a national leader in the creation and presentation of innovative, cutting-edge theatrical work. lookingglass interweaves movement, circus arts and narrative in original and captivating ways. guided by an…

Arts & Culture
5
The Wharton Institute for the Performing Arts Inc

To offer accessible, high-quality performing arts education that sparks personal growth and builds inclusive communities. its vision is to transform performing arts education in an inclusive community accessible to all.

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6
Balletx

Balletx expands the vocabulary of contemporary ballet for all audiences through innovative performances, world premiere choreography, dance education, and community programs.

Arts & Culture
7
New York City Ballet Inc

Perform, promote and sustain classical ballet.

Arts & Culture
8
Berkeley Repertory Theatre

Please see schedule o for the complete mission statement.berkeley repertory theatre creates ambitious theatre that entertains and challenges its audiences, provokes civic engagement, and inspires people to experience the world in new and…

Arts & Culture
9
The New 42ND Street Inc

The new 42nd street, inc. (d/b/a new 42) is a leading performing arts nonprofit whose mission is to make extraordinary performing arts a vital part of everyone's life from the earliest years onward.

Arts & Culture
10
Transport Group Inc Dba Transport Group Theatre Company

Producing and developing plays and musicals.

Arts & Culture
11
The Royal National Theatre

Theatre can lead to extraordinary moments of shared imagination. it enables us to stand in anothers shoes to better understand ourselves and the world around us. it shows us who we are, who we have been, who we could be. the nt delivers on…

Arts & Culture
12
Move(Nyc) Foundation Inc

Move|nyc| is a civic arts and social justice organization committed to cultivating a more diverse and inclusive society through transforming the field of professional dance. more than an arts organization, move|nyc| is a movement for…

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partnership With Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Lupus Research Foundation. 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

166 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. 166 of the 211 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
166/166
Grantees still filing
108/166
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $18,060,000 · EducationRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1,600,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNI…CONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $1,150,000 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION INC: $1,053,960 · Education+17 more: $2,700,000 · Education+17 moreNEW YORK GENOME CENTER INC: $15,000,000 · HealthNEW YORK GENOME CENTER INCTHE MARK FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH (US) LTD: $4,000,000 · HealthTHE MARK FOUNDATION FOR CAN…THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $2,710,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF …PRINCETON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC: $1,185,000 · Health+11 more: $960,500 · HealthCANCER INSTITUTE OF NEW JERSEY: $5,075,000 · OtherCANCER INSTITUTE OF NEW JE…CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH: $2,000,000 · OtherCANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR ADV…FRICK MUSEUM: $1,040,000 · OtherPRINCETON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $1,025,000 · OtherThe Frick Collection: $1,010,000 · Other+76 more: $12,816,700 · Other+76 moreWORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $2,000,000 · Arts & CultureWORLD TRADE CENTE…NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC: $1,405,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CITY CEN…METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $950,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSE…PRINCETON BALLET SOCIETY: $805,000 · Arts & CulturePRINCETON BALLET …SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC: $800,000 · Arts & CultureSCHOOL OF AMERICA…+58 more: $8,771,500 · Arts & Culture+58 moreINSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER & MRS FELIX FULD FOUNDATION: $6,375,000 · Science & TechTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $500,000 · Human ServicesHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $400,000 · Human ServicesSOUTH ASIAN YOUTH ACTION SAYA INC: $300,000 · Human ServicesGOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $300,000 · Human ServicesBRONXWORKS INC: $300,000 · Human ServicesROADS TO SUCCESS INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesCHINESE-AMERICAN PLANNING COUNCIL INC: $175,000 · Human ServicesMERCER STREET FRIENDS CENTER: $130,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW YORK: $125,000 · Human Services+6 more: $382,500 · Human ServicesPrinceton Area Community Foundation Inc: $1,232,500 · PhilanthropyROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $75,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $65,000 · Philanthropy
Education$24,563,960Health$23,855,500Other$22,966,700Arts & Culture$14,731,500Science & Tech$6,375,000Human Services$2,812,500Philanthropy$1,372,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $18,060,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetNEW YORK GENOME CENTER INC: $15,000,000 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER & MRS FELIX FULD FOUNDATION: $6,375,000 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetTHE MARK FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH (US) LTD: $4,000,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $2,710,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $2,000,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1,600,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC: $1,405,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetPrinceton Area Community Foundation Inc: $1,232,500 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetPRINCETON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC: $1,185,000 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetCONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $1,150,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION INC: $1,053,960 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetThe Frick Collection: $1,010,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $950,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPRINCETON BALLET SOCIETY: $805,000 over 4y, 6.9% of budgetSCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC: $800,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetCENTER FOR SUPPORTIVE SCHOOLS INC: $750,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetALL OUR KIN INC: $749,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $690,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetLIFE SCIENCES RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $660,000 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetISLES INC: $640,000 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $620,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetThe Peddie School: $550,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetPARTNERSHIP WITH CHILDREN INC: $500,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $500,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILD CENTER OF NY INC: $500,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC: $450,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetAMIGOS DEL MUSEO DEL BARRIO INC EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO: $418,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetPHIPPS NEIGHBORHOODS INC: $400,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetGLOBAL KIDS INC: $400,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $400,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPrinceton Symphony Orchestra Inc: $391,000 over 5y, 9.6% of budgetTHE NATIONAL BLACK THEATRE WORKSHOP: $375,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetMake the Road New York: $350,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMCCARTER THEATRE COMPANY: $315,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $300,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSOUTH ASIAN YOUTH ACTION SAYA INC: $300,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $300,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBRONXWORKS INC: $300,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $257,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP INC: $250,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetThe Bronx Museum of the Arts: $250,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $250,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEL PUENTE DE WILLIAMSBURG INC: $250,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetGROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE INC: $237,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSIGNATURE THEATRE COMPANY INC: $235,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetROOM TO READ: $220,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CLASSICAL THEATRE OF HARLEM INC: $210,000 over 3y, 6.1% 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.

The Hyde and Watson FoundationNJ84.1× affinity46 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Macmillan Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Macmillan Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Children's Futures Inc: 46% of income from government
  • The Childrens Home Society of New Jersey: 43% of income from government
  • New Jersey Theatre Alliance Inc: 41% of income from government
  • Prevention Education Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Jazz House Kids Inc: 29% of income from government
  • Arts Ed Nj Inc: 21% of income from government
  • Isles Inc: 21% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Passage Theatre Company Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Reach Out and Read Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Paper Mill Playhouse: 9% of income from government
  • Center for Supportive Schools Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation: 7% of income from government
  • Princeton Symphony Orchestra Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Mile Square Theatre Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Grounds for Sculpture Inc: 1% of income from government
  • All Our Kin Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Rider University: 1% of income from government
  • Young Audiences of New Jersey Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Connecticut College: 0% of income from government
  • Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
44report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 Macmillan Family Foundation Inc 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 211 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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