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The Maguire Foundation

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.

$10.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
69
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$59MArts & Culture$13MHealth$3.7MHuman Services$2.6MHousing & Shelter$1.9MCivil Rights$1.8MRecreation & Sports$1.5MReligion$75kOther$0
02FY2024 · 69 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $81k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $496k
  • $50k–250k31 grants · $1.9M
  • $250k+6 grants · $7.5M
$50,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GWYNEDD MERCY UNIVERSITY$2,000,000
WOODMERE ART MUSEUM$2,000,000
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY$1,300,000
Individual grant recipient$997,718
DIOCESAN HIGH SCHOOLS$900,000
MERION MERCY ACADEMY$286,000
INDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS$150,000
PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE AR TS$150,000
GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY$150,000
PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF$105,000
SAINT JOSEPH'S PREPARATORY SCHOOL$61,000
THE HAVERFORD SCHOOL$56,250
GERMANTOWN FRIENDS SCHOOL$50,000
GWYNEDD MERCY ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME$50,000
02The need
03

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 (FY21–24, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE SEEING EYE: $5k → 4%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%GOOD COUNSEL INC: $5k → 7%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $760 → 14%FACE TO FACE: $140k → 22%FACE TO FACE: $125k → 22%FACE TO FACE: $10k → 22%FEAST OF JUSTICE: $5k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $815k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $690k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $325k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

MT
IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MD
DE
AZ
DC
GA
FL

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 — 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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$74M · 90 repeat orgs$11M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

90 repeat relationships — 65 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

90
67

Total granted

$74M
$11M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+12%

Still filing today

60%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • IM
    INDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS
    4× · 2021–2024 · $6.4M · revenue +17%
  • PH
    PROJECT HOME
    3× · 2021–2023 · $1.8M · revenue +5%
  • CH
    CHESTNUT HILL COLLEGE
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • CR
    CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $2.0M
  • GM
    GWYNEDD MERCY UNIVERSITY - FRANCES M MAGUIRE HEALTHCARE
    one grant, 2022 · $2.0M
  • FI
    FAITH IN THE FUTURE
    one grant, 2021 · $1.8M

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.

1
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
2
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
3
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
4
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
5
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

6
St Mary's University

St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.

7
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
8
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
9
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
10
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

11
La Roche University

La roche university advances learning informed by ethical and service-oriented values, reflecting its catholic heritage and the charism of the sisters of divine providence.

Education
12
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is La Salle University and the most unlike its peers is Master Works Foundation Inc. 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 53 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%1%<5yr15%2%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr17%20%20–35yr14%17%35–55yr14%49%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr15%5%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr17%10%20–35yr14%12%35–55yr14%60%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/108
the rest of the field
13%
5,492/41,923

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.

04the grantee network

95 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 95 of the 163 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
94/95
Grantees still filing
61/95
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GWYNEDD MERCY UNIVERSITY — $8,000,000 · EducationGWYNEDD MERCY UNIVERSITYINDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS — $6,354,000 · EducationINDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLSCHESTNUT HILL COLLEGE — $1,600,000 · EducationMOUNT SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY INC — $1,575,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE — $1,575,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $1,575,000 · EducationCABRINI LEGACY CORPORATION — $1,525,000 · EducationCHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND PHILADELPHIA — $1,520,000 · EducationWILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES — $1,475,000 · EducationWILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL INC — $1,450,000 · EducationTHE GESU SCHOOL INC — $1,304,000 · Education+38 more — $11,090,750 · Education+38 moreDIOCESAN HIGH SCHOOLS — $4,050,000 · OtherDIOCESAN HIGH SCHOOLSCRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL — $2,010,000 · OtherCRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOLGWYNEDD MERCY UNIVERSITY - FRANCES M MAGUIRE HEALTHCARE — $2,000,000 · OtherGWYNEDD MERCY UNIVERSITY - FRANCES M MAGUI…Individual grant recipient — $1,997,718 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFAITH IN THE FUTURE — $1,800,000 · OtherFAITH IN THE FUTUREGERMANTOWN FRIENDS SCHOOL — $1,675,000 · OtherSAINT JOSEPH'S PREPARATORY SCHOOL — $1,604,000 · OtherACADEMY OF NOTRE DAME — $1,575,000 · OtherBOWIE STATE UNIVERSITY — $1,575,000 · OtherHOLY GHOST PREPARATORY SCHOOL — $1,575,000 · OtherMOUNT SAINT JOSEPH ACADEMY — $1,496,000 · OtherTHE HAVORFORD SCHOOL — $1,406,250 · OtherOUR MOTHER OF CONSOLATION — $1,095,000 · Other+79 more — $8,065,849 · Other+79 moreWOODMERE ART MUSEUM — $6,010,000 · Arts & CultureWOODMERE ART…THE BARNES FOUNDATION — $3,025,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BARNES F…+3 more — $346,000 · Arts & CulturePROJECT HOME — $1,830,000 · Human ServicesFACE TO FACE INC — $275,000 · Human Services+6 more — $50,760 · Human ServicesLODIGIANO FILM DEVELOPMENT INC — $2,000,000 · ReligionTHE COBBS CREEK RESTORATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 · Recreation & Sports+2 more — $50,000 · Recreation & SportsRICHARD J CARON FOUNDATION — $476,713 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $55,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S CRISIS TREATMENT CENTER — $25,000 · Health+2 more — $10,000 · Health
Education$39,043,750Other$31,924,817Arts & Culture$9,381,000Human Services$2,155,760Religion$2,000,000Recreation & Sports$1,050,000Health$566,713

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGWYNEDD MERCY UNIVERSITY — $8,000,000 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetINDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS — $6,354,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetWOODMERE ART MUSEUM — $6,010,000 over 4y, 42% of budgetTHE BARNES FOUNDATION — $3,025,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetLODIGIANO FILM DEVELOPMENT INC — $2,000,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetPROJECT HOME — $1,830,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetCHESTNUT HILL COLLEGE — $1,600,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetMOUNT SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY INC — $1,575,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE — $1,575,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $1,575,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCABRINI LEGACY CORPORATION — $1,525,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND PHILADELPHIA — $1,520,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetWILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES — $1,475,000 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetWILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL INC — $1,450,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetTHE GESU SCHOOL INC — $1,304,000 over 4y, 9.4% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS — $1,285,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $1,140,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COBBS CREEK RESTORATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetCHESTNUT HILL COMMUNITY CENTRE — $1,000,000 over 1y, 76% of budgetSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY — $925,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF — $676,143 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetGALLAUDET UNIVERSITY — $675,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLoyola University Maryland Inc — $525,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY — $500,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL — $500,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetRICHARD J CARON FOUNDATION — $476,713 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $410,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAVERFORD SCHOOL — $343,750 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNEUMANN UNIVERSITY — $337,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMOORE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN — $335,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS — $335,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Scranton — $326,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMALVERN PREPARATORY SCHOOL — $325,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFairfield University — $325,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetROSEMONT COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CHILD JESUS — $325,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSHIPLEY SCHOOL — $325,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSPRINGSIDE CHESTNUT HILL ACADEMY — $325,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BALDWIN SCHOOL — $325,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetIMMACULATA UNIVERSITY — $325,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac — $300,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS CAMDEN — $275,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetFACE TO FACE INC — $275,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $250,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetACADEMY IN MANAYUNK — $241,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE WOODLYNDE SCHOOL CORPORATION — $234,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION — $200,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART — $145,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJONES-GORDON FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budget
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.

  • Who funds GWYNEDD MERCY UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds INDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS
  • Who funds WOODMERE ART MUSEUM
  • Who funds THE BARNES FOUNDATION
  • Who funds LODIGIANO FILM DEVELOPMENT INC
  • Who funds PROJECT HOME
  • Who funds CHESTNUT HILL COLLEGE
  • Who funds MOUNT SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY INC
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds CABRINI LEGACY CORPORATION
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND PHILADELPHIA
  • Who funds WILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES
  • Who funds WILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds THE GESU SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
  • Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education
  • Who funds THE COBBS CREEK RESTORATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds CHESTNUT HILL COMMUNITY CENTRE
  • Who funds SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF
  • Who funds GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds Loyola University Maryland Inc
  • Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds CRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL

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 Philadelphia FoundationPA66.5× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · Connelly Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Business Leadership Organized for Catholic Schools · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · Central Pennsylvania Scholarship Fund · Hamilton Family Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · The Cedarcrest Charitable Foundation Aka Blbb Charitable

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 organization The Maguire 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
202122232425
no gov · 80%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Loyola University Maryland Inc6% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College3% of income from government
  • Fairfield University1% of income from government
  • Mount Saint Mary's University Inc0% of income from government
  • Wheaton College0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Maguire Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Maguire Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 163 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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