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The Margot Macdougall Family Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$6k
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2026
2
Organizations funded FY2024
100%
First-time grantees FY2024
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100% of The Margot Macdougall Family Foundation’s FY2026 grant dollars went to American Endowment Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2026 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

2
’17
1
’18
1
’22
1
’23
2
’24
3
’25
0
’26

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2026
$6,060
Largest grant, FY2026
$6,060
Organizations funded a year
1 to 2
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2026
1
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations The Margot Macdougall Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’22’23’24
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEducationHuman ServicesOther
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
FY2025still arriving3$11k67%
FY20242$105k100%
FY20231$800k0%
FY20222$6k100%
FY20181$15k100%
FY20172$465kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$2.5MEnvironment$1.3MArts & Culture$100kEducation$40kCommunity Improvement$5kRecreation & Sports$4k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Braided River$1,250,000273%
California Heritage Indigenous Research Project$100,00012%
Imagine Worldwide$15,00010%
The Learning Accelerator$15,00011%
Leaderflow Inc$10,00021%
Earthjustice$3,61510%
Marin County Bicycle Coalition$2,50010%
Challenged Athletes Inc$1,00010%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($5k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Margot Macdougall Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBraided River: $1,250,000 over 2y, 73% of budgetCalifornia Heritage Indigenous Research Project: $100,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetImagine Worldwide: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Learning Accelerator: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLeaderflow Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetEarthjustice: $3,615 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarin County Bicycle Coalition: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetChallenged Athletes Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 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 8.

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.

Marin Community FoundationCA13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About The Margot Macdougall Family Foundation

How much does The Margot Macdougall Family Foundation give?
The Margot Macdougall Family Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $6,060 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does The Margot Macdougall Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (64%), Environment (32%), Arts & Culture (3%).
Who are The Margot Macdougall Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Braided River ($1.3M), California Heritage Indigenous Research Project ($100k), Imagine Worldwide ($15k).
Does The Margot Macdougall Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Margot Macdougall Family 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 Margot Macdougall Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marin Community Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is The Margot Macdougall Family Foundation based?
The Margot Macdougall Family Foundation is based in CA.

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 10 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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