· Private foundation
The Magee Foundation
Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
96% of The Magee Foundation’s FY2020 grant dollars went to Community Giving Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2020 names 11 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year The Magee Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 11 organizations, $101k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $8,000 |
| BLOOMSBURG PUBLIC LIBRARY | $6,000 |
| GEISINGER COLUMBIA MONTOUR HOSPICE | $6,000 |
| AGAPE LOVE FROM ABOVE | $5,000 |
| BLOOMSBURG FIRE DEPARTMENT | $5,000 |
| BRIGHTER CHRISTMAS FUND | $5,000 |
| COLUMBIA COUNTY TRAVELING LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| CAMP VICTORY | $5,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE | $4,000 |
| CHILDRENS MUSEUM | $4,000 |
| THE WOMENS CENTER | $4,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $3,500 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $3,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS IN THE HEART OF PA | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against -2% for those funded once.
31 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2019, 0 since wound down. Read against FY2019, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BPBLOOMSBURG PUBLIC LIBRARY4× · 2017–2020 · $24k · revenue +16%
- NWNICHOLAS WOLFF FOUNDATIONINC4× · 2017–2020 · $20k · revenue +4%
- TWTHE WOMEN'S CENTER4× · 2017–2020 · $15k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- BTBLOOMSBURG THEATRE ENSEMBLE INCone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue -2%
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.
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.
Public lending library
Public lending library
Public lending library
Provides free library services to residents of pike county, pennsylvania
Public library services
Public lending library
To create and distribute trusted content, build connections and strengthen our community through public media.
To provide educational, informational, cultural, and recreational services to the public. services are provided in bethlehem, pennsylvania and its supporting communities.
Public lending library
Public lending library
Humane pennsylvania empowers the people in our communities to increase their capacity to care for animals so that all animals are healthy, safe, and treated humanely.
To provide, maintain, operate and support a free public library in monroe county, pa
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 33 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds COMMUNITY GIVING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLOOMSBURG PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds BLOOMSBURG FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds NICHOLAS WOLFF FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF THE ROSES ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS IN THE HEART OF PA ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA CHILD DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds PA PETS INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds BLOOMSBURG THEATRE ENSEMBLE INC ↗
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: Community Giving Foundation · First Community Foundation Partnership of Pennsylvania · United Way of Columbia and Montour County · Ppl Foundation · Bloomsburg Area Community Foundation · Susquehanna Valley United Way · Geisinger Health · The 1994 Charles B Degenstein Fdn · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Magee Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Magee Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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