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The Magis Charitable Foundation at a glance

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The Magis Charitable 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.

$351k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$205k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Education$1.9MHuman Services$348kInternational$297kHousing & Shelter$194kCrime & Legal$176kPhilanthropy$101kReligion$69kHealth$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $58k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $255k
$3,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$7.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BARNABAS CENTER INCORPORATED$205,000
TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS$50,000
COME TO BELIEVE FOUNDATION$35,000
CARE 2 COMMUNITIES INC$23,000
AMELIA TREE CONSERVANCY INC$6,000
LE MOYNE COLLEGE$5,000
FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION IN$3,000
JESUIT VOLUNTEERS$3,000
SISTERS OF LIFE$3,000
JOY TO THE CHILDREN INC$3,000
IGNATIAN LAY VOLUNTEER CORPS$3,000
NASSAU HUMANE SOCIETY INC$2,000
THE FISTULA FOUNDATION$2,000
DRIVEN FOUNDATION$2,000
DIOCESE OF ST AUGUSTINE$2,000
02The need
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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 (FY17–24, $214k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA INC: $1k → 13%THE FOSTER CLOSET CORP: $10k → 14%FERST READERS INC: $1k → 11%COVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA INC: $1k → 13%THE FOSTER CLOSET CORP: $5k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE: $52k → 17%THE FOSTER CLOSET CORP: $1k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE: $50k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $10k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $10k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $10k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $5k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $5k → 17%TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN OF NASSAU COUNTY: $1k → 7%COVENANT HOUSE: $500 → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $51k → 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
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
VA
MD
AZ
DC
OK
AL
GA
FL
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.0M · 25 repeat orgs$191k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
30

Total granted

$3.0M
$176k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+21%

Still filing today

88%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +44%
  • BC
    BARNABAS CENTER INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $325k · revenue +76%
  • CH
    COVENANT HOUSE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $194k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • CR
    COMIC RELIEF INC DBA COMIC RELIEF US
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue -81%
  • ML
    MARYKNOLL LAY MISSIONERS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $15k
  • SV
    ST VINCENTS ACADEMY
    one grant, 2024 · $7k
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
Fajr Scientific

To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.

Science & Tech
2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
Accion International

Our mission is to create a fair and inclusive economy where underserved people have quality financial choices and opportunities to improve their economic well-being. we find and help build innovative companies with the potential to reach…

International
4
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
5
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
6
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
7
Global Partners in Care

The organization's mission is to build partnerships to enhance compassionate care globally. we are dedicated to improving access to hospice and palliative care worldwide.

International
8
Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis

Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.

Human Services
9
Ie New York College

(see schedule o)

Education
10
National Council of Jewish Women Incorporated

The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.

Community Improvement
11
World Vision Inc

World vision, inc. is a christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. (continued on schedule…

International
12
CureCervicalCancer

Dedicated to the early detection and prevention of cervical cancer around the globe for the women who need it most.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Comic Relief Inc Dba Comic Relief Us; the most unlike its peers is The Caddie School for Soldiers. 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

48 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. 48 of the 62 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)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/48
Grantees still filing
32/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $1,677,500 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS+6 more: $82,000 · EducationJESUIT VOLUNTEERS: $166,000 · OtherJESUIT VOLUNTEER…COME TO BELIEVE FOUNDATION: $145,000 · OtherCOME TO BELIEVE …Ignatian Lay Volunteer Corporation: $17,000 · Other+36 more: $145,000 · Other+36 moreBARNABAS CENTER INC: $325,000 · Housing & ShelterBARNABAS CE…COVENANT HOUSE: $193,500 · Human ServicesTHE FOSTER CLOSET CORP: $16,000 · Human Services+3 more: $4,000 · Human ServicesPIVOT WORKS INC: $152,000 · InternationalROOT CAPITAL INC: $36,000 · International+3 more: $2,500 · InternationalCOMIC RELIEF INC DBA COMIC RELIEF US: $100,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $4,500 · PhilanthropyCARE 2 COMMUNITIES FKA CONTAINERS TO CLINICS INC: $91,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$1,759,500Other$473,000Housing & Shelter$325,000Human Services$213,500International$190,500Philanthropy$104,500Arts & Culture$91,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $1,677,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBARNABAS CENTER INC: $325,000 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $193,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetJESUIT VOLUNTEERS: $166,000 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetPIVOT WORKS INC: $152,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetCOME TO BELIEVE FOUNDATION: $145,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetCOMIC RELIEF INC DBA COMIC RELIEF US: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCARE 2 COMMUNITIES FKA CONTAINERS TO CLINICS INC: $91,000 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROOT CAPITAL INC: $36,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetIgnatian Lay Volunteer Corporation: $17,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE FOSTER CLOSET CORP: $16,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetLe Moyne College: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDIVINE MERCY MINISTRIES INC: $12,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetTHE US CONSTITUTION SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Fistula Foundation: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALL AFRICA CONFERENCE - SISTER TO SISTER INC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAMELIA TREE CONSERVANCY INC: $6,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetJOY TO THE CHILDREN INC: $5,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetNATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKINO BORDER INITIATIVE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBAL POVERTY PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHRIVE FOR LIFE PRISON PROJECT INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNASSAU HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOCKTAILS & CAREGIVERS FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetGRASSROOTS HEALTH: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION SURVIVOR: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DRIVEN FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGOLF FIGHTS CANCER INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CLIFTON INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRIPLE NEGATIVE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetADARA DEVELOPMENT (USA): $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFERST READERS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAchilles International Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST BOOK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN IN NASSAU COUNTY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NEWARK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Compassionate Friends Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDOMUS KIDS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILDLIFE SOS: $500 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.

Rose M & Robert W Stu…The Bessemer Giving F…Boston Foundation IncCommunity Foundation …The Goldman Sachs Cha…The Burroughs Family …The Rayonier Advanced…National Philanthropi…Raskob Foundation for…Chubb Charitable Foun…Catholic Community Fo…The Community Foundat…
Rose M & Robert W Stubbs FoundationFL15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rose M & Robert W Stubbs Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Boston Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Burroughs Family Foundation · The Rayonier Advanced Materials Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Raskob Foundation for Catholic Activities Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 150%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Root Capital Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Domus Kids Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Covenant House Florida Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.

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 62 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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