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The Malone Family 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.

$3.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$57MRecreation & Sports$3.2MHuman Services$2.0MHealth$1.5MArts & Culture$450k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
  • $250k+2 grants · $3.1M
$1,121,440
Median grant
3
States reached
$88M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOOTHBAY REGION YMCA$2,000,000
HARMONY AMATUER SPORTS FOUNDATION$1,121,440
GLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME FDN$50,000
DSST PUBLIC SCHOOLS FDN$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 (FY18–20, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CREATIVE THERAPY CARE: $41k → 8%CREATIVE THERAPHY CARE: $600 → 8%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

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NH
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NY
MA
OR
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IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
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MD
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HI
OK
LA
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AL
GA
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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.

47%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$30M · 13 repeat orgs$34M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +75% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
52

Total granted

$30M
$32M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+75%
+11%

Still filing today

77%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther

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

  • CS
    COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    5× · 2019–2023 · $10M · revenue +28%
  • DP
    DSST PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $5.2M · revenue +167% · 80% of their budget
  • RI
    RIVERSTONE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL INC
    2× · 2017–2023 · $1.5M · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5.0M · revenue +51%
  • MS
    MARY S PEAKE FELLOWSHIP INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $2.1M · revenue ×162
  • TP
    THE PARK SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue -3%

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
Capitol Hill Day School

Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…

Education
2
Darrow School

Darrow school is dedicated to serving students with diverse backgrounds and abilities, building on each student's talents and interests to inspire enduring confidence for success in college and life. this mission is accomplished through…

Education
3
Concord Academy

Concord academy is a community animated by love of learning, diverse and striving for equity, with common trust as our foundation. honoring each individual, we challenge and expand our understanding of ourselves and the world through…

Education
4
Austin Trinity School

Trinity episcopal school (trinity) is a not-for-profit independent school whose mission is to provide an enriched academic curriculum in a christian environment. trinity is not affiliated with or sponsored by any parish. we will nurture…

Education
5
The Seattle Academy of Arts & Sciences

Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.

Education
6
School One

Creative, collaborative, and college preparatory, school one students write with purpose and participate actively. each student is well-known and valued for their emerging strengths. small by design for 50 years, classes average nine…

Education
7
Morristown-Beard School

Morristown beard school is an educational college preparatory school in grades 6 to 12 located in morristown, new jersey.

Education
8
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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9
Hillbrook School

Hillbrook provides an extraordinary educational experience that fosters a love of learning in our students and helps them to develop the knowledge, skills and confidence to achieve their highest individual potential in school and in life.…

Education
10
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
11
The Chandler School

Chandler's mission is to provide each student with the highest quality and most academically challenging education in a nurturing, balanced and diverse environment. chandler strives to have its students gain a love of learning, a means of…

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12
Spartanburg Day School

The mission of the spartanburg day school is to provide a superior educational experience, in a community of trust, that prepares students for a life well lived. spartanburg day school is dually accredited by southern association of…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Columbus Academy and the most unlike its peers is Creative Therapy Care. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyIndependent K-12 SchoolsCommunity FoundationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Cancer Support ServicesCommunity College Foundatio…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 62 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr16%5%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr16%63%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%6%20–35yr13%16%35–55yr16%58%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% 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%0/60
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,505

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

56 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 56 of the 68 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/56
Grantees still filing
45/56
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $10,095,194 · EducationCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONDSST PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $5,209,485 · EducationDSST PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $5,010,391 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYMARY S PEAKE FELLOWSHIP INC — $2,100,000 · EducationRIVERSTONE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL INC — $1,500,000 · Education+37 more — $17,769,494 · Education+37 moreDSST PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $7,111,058 · OtherDSST PUBLIC SCHOOLSHARMONY AMATUER SPORTS FOUNDATION — $3,226,176 · OtherHARMONY AMATUER SPORTS FOUNDATIONYoung Men's Christian Association Boothbay Region — $2,000,000 · OtherYoung Men's Christian Association Bo…+18 more — $8,450,000 · Other+18 moreINTERVENTIONAL ORTHOBIOLOGICS FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 · HealthCraig Hospital Foundation — $400,000 · HealthGLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION — $75,000 · HealthCOLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $150,000 · Arts & CultureCREATIVE THERAPY CARE — $41,764 · Human Services
Education$41,684,564Other$20,787,234Health$1,475,000Arts & Culture$150,000Human Services$41,764

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $10,095,194 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetDSST PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $5,209,485 over 3y, 80% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $5,010,391 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association Boothbay Region — $2,000,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetRIVERSTONE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL INC — $1,500,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetINTERVENTIONAL ORTHOBIOLOGICS FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 over 2y, 42% of budgetTHE OVERLAKE SCHOOL — $700,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTHE PARK SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC — $500,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFORT WORTH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC — $500,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCHARLOTTE LATIN SCHOOLS — $500,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE COLUMBUS ACADEMY — $500,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCOLORADO ACADEMY — $500,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetINDIAN SPRINGS SCHOOL — $500,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetKENTUCKY COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC — $500,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTHE WHEELER SCHOOL — $500,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATLIN GABEL SCHOOL — $500,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE COMMONWEALTH SCHOOL INC — $500,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetSEVERN SCHOOL INC — $500,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetISIDORE NEWMAN SCHOOL — $500,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNEWARK ACADEMY — $500,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPEMBROKE HILL SCHOOL — $500,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMANLIUS PEBBLE HILL SCHOOL INC — $500,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetPULASKI ACADEMY — $500,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTHE DERRYFIELD SCHOOL — $500,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetWICHITA COLLEGIATE SCHOOL — $500,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetMARY BALDWIN UNIVERSITY — $500,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetROESSLER-CHADWICK FOUNDATION — $500,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE — $500,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetKENT DENVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $500,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetROWLAND HALL-ST MARK'S SCHOOL — $500,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSANTA FE PREPARATORY SCHOOL — $500,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetMOUNDS PARK ACADEMY — $500,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE NORFOLK ACADEMY — $500,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMARET SCHOOL INC — $500,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBROWNELL-TALBOT SCHOOL — $500,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetTHE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL — $500,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetWAYNFLETE SCHOOL — $500,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetHOPKINS SCHOOL INCORPORATED — $500,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE LINSLY SCHOOL INCORPORATED — $500,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTHE HEAD ROYCE SCHOOL — $500,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE AUGUSTA PREPARATORY DAY SCHOOL INC — $500,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetSEABURY HALL — $500,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTHE PRAIRIE SCHOOL INC — $500,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetROEPER CITY AND COUNTRY SCHOOL INC — $500,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetCANTERBURY SCHOOL INC — $500,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetWINCHESTER THURSTON SCHOOL — $500,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCraig Hospital Foundation — $400,000 over 2y, 3.6% 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.

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.

Ibm International Fou…Fidelity FoundationUnited Way WorldwideThe Ayco Charitable F…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Acworth FoundationThe Breakthrough Coll…The Edward E Ford Fou…Folds of Honor Founda…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…
Ibm International FoundationNY24× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ibm International Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · United Way Worldwide · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Acworth Foundation · The Breakthrough Collaborative · The Edward E Ford Foundation Xxxxx2009 · Folds of Honor Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Malone Family 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.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Johns Hopkins University — 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 Malone Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Malone Family 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 68 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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