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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% 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
02FY2024 · 69 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
WOODMERE ART MUSEUM$2,000,000
GWYNEDD MERCY UNIVERSITY$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
GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY$150,000
PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE AR TS$150,000
PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF$105,000
SAINT JOSEPH'S PREPARATORY SCHOOL$61,000
THE HAVERFORD SCHOOL$56,250
GWYNEDD MERCY ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL$50,000
THE SHIPLEY SCHOOL$50,000
BALDWIN SCHOOL$50,000
02The need
03

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 (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 its 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
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

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

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$76M · 91 repeat orgs$8.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

91 repeat relationships: 65 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

91
65

Total granted

$76M
$8.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+13%

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
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

  • IM
    INDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS
    4× · 2021–2024 · $6.4M · revenue +17%
  • CR
    CRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL
    2× · 2021–2022 · $2.5M · revenue +50%
  • PH
    PROJECT HOME
    3× · 2021–2023 · $1.8M · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • GM
    GWYNEDD MERCY UNIVERSITY - FRANCES M MAGUIRE HEALTHCARE
    one grant, 2022 · $2.0M
  • FI
    FAITH IN THE FUTURE
    one grant, 2021 · $1.8M
  • TH
    THE HAVORFORD SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $1.4M
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
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.

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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.

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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

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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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is La Salle University; 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.
04the grantee network

95 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 95 of the 162 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
94/95
Grantees still filing
62/95
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GWYNEDD MERCY UNIVERSITY: $8,000,000 · EducationGWYNEDD MERCY UNIVERSITYINDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS: $6,354,000 · EducationINDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLSCRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL: $2,510,000 · EducationCRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOLCHESTNUT HILL COLLEGE: $1,600,000 · EducationMOUNT SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY INC: $1,575,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $1,575,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $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 · Education+38 more: $11,894,750 · Education+38 moreDIOCESAN HIGH SCHOOLS: $4,050,000 · OtherDIOCESAN HIGH SCHOOLSGWYNEDD MERCY UNIVERSITY - FRANCES M MAGUIRE HEALTHCARE: $2,000,000 · OtherGWYNEDD MERCY UNIVERSITY - FRANCES M MA…Individual grant recipient: $1,997,718 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFAITH IN THE FUTURE: $1,800,000 · OtherFAITH IN THE FUTUREGERMANTOWN FRIENDS SCHOOL: $1,675,000 · OtherGERMANTOWN FRIENDS SCHOOLSAINT JOSEPH'S PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $1,604,000 · OtherSAINT JOSEPH'S PREPARATORY SCHOOLHOLY GHOST PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $1,575,000 · OtherBOWIE STATE UNIVERSITY: $1,575,000 · OtherACADEMY OF NOTRE DAME: $1,575,000 · OtherMOUNT SAINT JOSEPH ACADEMY: $1,496,000 · OtherTHE HAVORFORD SCHOOL: $1,406,250 · OtherOUR MOTHER OF CONSOLATION: $1,095,000 · OtherCHESTNUT HILL COMMUNITY CENTRE: $1,000,000 · Other+78 more: $7,065,849 · Other+78 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$41,053,750Other$29,914,817Arts & Culture$9,381,000Human Services$2,155,760Religion$2,000,000Recreation & Sports$1,050,000Health$566,713

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

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 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 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 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 budgetTHE AGNES IRWIN SCHOOL: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

  • Who funds GWYNEDD MERCY UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds INDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds WOODMERE ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds THE BARNES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL ↗
  • 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 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
  • 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 CHESTNUT HILL COMMUNITY CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds THE COBBS CREEK RESTORATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • 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 RICHARD J CARON FOUNDATION ↗

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 Foun…Connelly FoundationUnited Way of Greater…Business Leadership O…Wsfs Cares FoundationChubb Charitable Foun…Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…Lindback Cr & Mf Foun…Central Pennsylvania …Hamilton Family Found…The William Penn Foun…The Cedarcrest Charit…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Maguire Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Maguire Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Loyola University Maryland Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
  • Fairfield University: 1% of income from government
  • Mount Saint Mary's University Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wheaton College: 0% 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, 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.
05Through Plinth

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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.

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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