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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 FY2024(still arriving)
69
Grants FY2024
79
Organizations funded FY2023
16%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$2,000,000
Organizations funded a year
79 to 117
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
12
Total assets, FY2024
$18M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 16% of the organizations The Maguire Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
EducationRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyMembership BenefitOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving67$9.9M3%
FY202379$16M16%
FY202297$42M27%
FY2021117$17Mn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

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

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Gwynedd Mercy University$8,000,00046%
Independence Mission Schools$6,354,000414%
Woodmere Art Museum$6,010,000442%
The Barnes Foundation$3,025,00026%
Cristo Rey Philadelphia High School$2,510,000210%
Lodigiano Film Development Inc$2,000,000224%
Project Home$1,830,00031%
Germantown Friends School$1,675,0004n/a
Chestnut Hill College$1,600,00042%
Mount Saint Mary's University Inc$1,575,00041%
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All grantees of The Maguire Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Gwynedd Mercy University$8,000,00046%
Independence Mission Schools$6,354,000414%
Woodmere Art Museum$6,010,000442%
The Barnes Foundation$3,025,00026%
Cristo Rey Philadelphia High School$2,510,000210%
Lodigiano Film Development Inc$2,000,000224%
Project Home$1,830,00031%
Germantown Friends School$1,675,0004n/a
Chestnut Hill College$1,600,00042%
Mount Saint Mary's University Inc$1,575,00041%
Georgetown University$1,575,00040%
Trustees of Boston College$1,575,00040%
Cabrini Legacy Corporation$1,525,00032%
Children's Scholarship Fund Philadelphia$1,520,00034%
Mount Saint Joseph Academy$1,496,0004n/a
Williamson College of the Trades$1,475,00046%
William Penn Charter School Inc$1,450,00022%
The Gesu School Inc$1,304,00049%
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts$1,285,00042%
Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education$1,140,00030%
Chestnut Hill Community Centre$1,000,000176%
The Cobbs Creek Restoration and Community Foundation$1,000,00016%
Saint Joseph's University$925,00040%
Merion Mercy Academy$680,0003n/a
Pennsylvania School for the Deaf$676,14341%
Gallaudet University$675,00040%
Loyola University Maryland Inc$525,00020%
Villanova University$500,00020%
Richard J Caron Foundation$476,71330%
Haverford School$343,75030%
Neumann University$337,50040%
Moore College of Art and Design$335,00040%
Trustees of the College of the Holy Cross$335,00040%
University of Scranton$326,00040%
Malvern Preparatory School$325,00040%
Shipley School$325,00040%
Springside Chestnut Hill Academy$325,00040%
Immaculata University$325,00040%
Gwynedd-Mercy Academy$325,0004n/a
Fairfield University$325,00040%
Rosemont College of the Holy Child Jesus$325,00040%
The Baldwin School$325,00040%
Catholic Partnership Schools Camden$275,00041%
Face to Face Inc$275,00036%
Academy in Manayunk$241,50040%
The Woodlynde School Corporation$234,00041%
Lasalle College High School$234,0004n/a
Museum of the American Revolution$200,00021%
Philadelphia Museum of Art$145,00040%
Mercy Vocational High School Sisters of Mercy$140,0004n/a
The Agnes Irwin School$100,00010%
Jones-Gordon Foundation$100,00014%
Catholic Charities Appeal of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia$100,0002n/a
Prostate Cancer Foundation$75,00010%
Thomas Jefferson University$75,00020%
Philadelphia Youth Orchestra$75,00022%
Wheaton College$75,00010%
The Catholic University of America$75,00030%
Waldron Mercy Academy$68,0004n/a
La Salle Academy$59,00041%
American Cancer Society Inc$55,00040%
St Francis Desales Church$54,0004n/a
Legacy Youth Tennis And Education Inc$52,00021%
Ukraine Relief$50,0001n/a
Hope Partnership for Education$41,00021%
Saint John's Hospice$40,00011%
St James School$36,0002n/a
Challenged Athletes Inc$30,00030%
Byerschool Foundation$25,00012%
Children's Crisis Treatment Center$25,00010%
Bicycle Coalition Of Greater Philadelphia$25,00012%
Philadelphia Youth Basketball Inc$25,00010%
Inn Dwelling Inc$25,00016%
Master Works Foundation Inc$20,0001n/a
Mission Kids Child Advocacy Center$20,00020%
American Friends of Masterworks Inc$20,000115%
La Salle University$15,50020%
Founding Forward (Formerly the Union League Legacy Foundation)$15,00010%
Quail Valley Charities Inc$12,52521%
Widener University$12,50020%
Insurance Society of Philadelphia$11,00022%
Generation Life$10,00014%
Support Center for Child Advocates$10,00010%
Healey Education Foundation Inc$10,00011%
Metropolitan Area Neighborhood Nutrition Alliance$10,00010%
Sisters of Mercy of the Americas Inc$10,0001n/a
Foundant Technologies Inc$7,1442n/a
Historical Society of Pennsylvania$5,00010%
Good Counsel Inc$5,00010%
Mighty Writers$5,00010%
Speakup$5,00010%
Be a Part of the Conversation$5,00012%
The Birth Center$5,00010%
Liguori Inc$5,00010%
Hopeworks 'N Camden Inc$5,00010%
Women Against Abuse Inc$5,00010%
The Seeing Eye Inc$5,00010%
Feast of Justice$5,00010%
Minding Your Mind$5,00010%
Guadalupe Family Services Inc$5,00011%
Friends of St Malachy$1,00011%
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum$1,00010%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$76010%
Chestnut Hill Meals on Wheels$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 54 recipients with no EIN on record ($22M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Maguire Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 90 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetCristo Rey Philadelphia High School: $2,510,000 over 2y, 9.9% 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 budgetGeorgetown University: $1,575,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTrustees of Boston College: $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 budgetChestnut Hill Community Centre: $1,000,000 over 1y, 76% of budgetThe Cobbs Creek Restoration and Community Foundation: $1,000,000 over 1y, 5.5% 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 budgetRichard J Caron Foundation: $476,713 over 3y, 0.3% 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 budgetShipley School: $325,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSpringside Chestnut Hill Academy: $325,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetImmaculata University: $325,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFairfield University: $325,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRosemont College of the Holy Child Jesus: $325,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetThe Baldwin School: $325,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCatholic Partnership Schools Camden: $275,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetFace to Face Inc: $275,000 over 3y, 6.3% 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 budgetThe Agnes Irwin School: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJones-Gordon Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetProstate Cancer Foundation: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThomas Jefferson University: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 90.

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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 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

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.

Compare The Maguire Foundation with peer funders

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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.

About The Maguire Foundation

How much does The Maguire Foundation give?
The Maguire Foundation reported 69 grants totaling $9,981,968 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 79 and 117 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does The Maguire Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (55%), Arts & Culture (12%), Health (3%).
Who are The Maguire Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Gwynedd Mercy University ($8.0M), Independence Mission Schools ($6.4M), Woodmere Art Museum ($6.0M).
Does The Maguire Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Maguire Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Maguire Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Philadelphia Foundation, Connelly Foundation, United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey.
Where is The Maguire Foundation based?
The Maguire Foundation is based in PA.

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 162 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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