How much did The Magic Charitable Foundation grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 65% of The Magic Charitable Foundation’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

food dignity

2021

empower

2022

childrenchildals

2023

informationchangegoodyouth sportsmental healthhomelessnesseconomic

2024

chicagospecieslands waterschildrenlivesalsend

2025

therapiesparkinson'sautoimmuneneuropsychiatric syndromecancermental healthadvocacy

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k25 grants · $101k
$10k–50k3 grants · $31k

$4,500

Median grant

States reached

$2.5M

Total assets

Largest grants

National Alliance on Mental Illness$11,000
American Red Cross$10,000
The Margo Fowler Family Foundation$10,000
The Conservation Fund$9,000
St Jude Children's Research Hospita$8,000
Ann Robert H Lurie Children's Hospi$7,000
BraveHearts Therapeutic Riding Ed C$5,000
YWCA EvanstonNorth Shore$5,000
Project Heal$5,000
Nourishing Hope$5,000
St Francis de Sales Catholic School$5,000
Doctors Without Borders$4,500
Feed My Starving Children$4,500
The Les Turner ALS Foundation$4,500
Alzheimer's Association$4,000

02The need

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:

Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8% — the area typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$569k · 24 repeat orgs$159k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$569k

$116k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%

+58%

Still filing today

46%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalFood & NutritionHealthHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyAnimalsOther

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

HF
Habitat for Humanity Lake County
5× · 2020–2025 · $36k · revenue +86%
HF
Habitat for Humanity International
4× · 2020–2023 · $35k · revenue +7%
TW
The Water Project
5× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +7%

Funded once

UF
US Fund for UNICEF dba UNICEF USA
one grant, 2022 · $20k
NI
Northern Illinois Food Bank
one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +15%
Greater Chicago Food Depositorygraduated
one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +97%

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.

World Food Prize Foundation

Philanthropy

Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education

Rainforest Alliance Holding Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

Environment

Rainforest Alliance Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

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The Global FoodBanking Network

The Global FoodBanking Network (GFN) is a global, nonprofit organization that provides food to people facing hunger while reducing food loss and waste, (CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O)

International

Food Forward Inc

Food forward(r) is one of the nation's largest independent urban produce recovery organizations.

Food & Nutrition

Habitat for Humanity International

Construction of homes to sell to qualified families in need at or below market value with no interest.

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Habitat for Humanity International

Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope.

—

Habitat for Humanity International

Habitat for humanity of grayson county is a christian ministry that builds quality, affordable homes in partnership with families in need.

—

Nia Tero Foundation

To secure indigenous guardianship of vital ecosystems.

Environment

International Wildlife

The international wildlife refuge foundation was created in 2005 to help foster conservation, increase refuge visibility, encourage support, and enhance quality of life. it is an alliance of organizations and individuals that builds the…

Environment

World Animal Protection

World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 70 years, we've been rewriting…

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feast Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Margo Fowler Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/27

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,538

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.

05the grantee network

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

26/26

Grantees still filing

21/26

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$497,000International$94,500Housing & Shelter$48,500Food & Nutrition$35,000Philanthropy$28,500Health$12,500Environment$12,000

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

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.

The Chicago Community TrustIL13.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 organisation The Magic Charitable 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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: The Margo Fowler Family Foundation.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~98 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 2 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 931374444 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on The Margo Fowler Family Foundation, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 98 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 3% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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Find your warmest path to The Magic Charitable Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

The Magic Charitable Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Magic Charitable Foundation?

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The Magic Charitable Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Magic Charitable Foundation?

More from the funding graph