· Private foundation
The Mc Daniel Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Free Wheelchair Mission | $100,000 |
| Berklee College of Music | $50,000 |
| Operation Open Water | $45,000 |
| The Bugle Boy Foundation | $10,000 |
| TX State Fiddlers Frolics | $10,000 |
| Project Hope Alliance | $5,000 |
| Dance 4 Joy Ministres | $5,000 |
| Texas Old Time Fiddlers Assoc | $5,000 |
| Free Rein Foundation | $3,000 |
| Festival Ballet Theater | $2,500 |
| Tunnel to Towers Foundaiton | $2,500 |
| Food Share Ventura County | $1,000 |
| Orange Senior Center | $1,000 |
| United Methodist Retirement Comm | $1,000 |
| Boys Girls Club Ventura | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–23, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +4% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- FWFREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION9× · 2017–2025 · $574k · revenue +88%
- OOOPERATION OPEN WATER5× · 2021–2025 · $270k · revenue +74% · 32% of their budget
- BCBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC2× · 2024–2025 · $100k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- SSSOLDIER SONGS AND VOICESone grant, 2020 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $10k
- SWStill we Rise Foundationone grant, 2023 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
Documenting the lives of our military veterans
To provide scuba instruction for veterans with ptsd. the weightlessness of scuba provides a peaceful respite from the pressures and trauma of military service. scuba for amputees provides a freedom of movement not experienced for years…
Providing service dogs to veterans and first responders
1) the brian bill foundation offers the latest therapeutic techniques for warriors suffering from combat post-traumatic stress, mild traumatic brain injury and chronic pain in a unique format that unites eight active and/or former special…
The robert irvine foundation is a not-for-profit entity and is tax exempt under 501(c) (3) of the internal revenue code (irc). the organization supports and strengthens the physical and mental well-being of our service members, veterans,…
Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…
Operation finally home's mission is to provide homes and home modifications to america's military heroes, first responders and their families who have sacrificed so much in services to country and community. we bring together corporate…
Warfighter Outfitters believe in the healing power of the outdoors. Since 2014, we have provided free fishing, hunting, and engagement trips to disabled veterans. On the water or in the woods, these veteran-only trips help service men and…
To provide support to our combat wounded veterans from iraq and afghanistan. we assist them financially for a specified period and if necessary, assist them on legal and financial matters, benefits, housing, and educational needs. we…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gary Sinise Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Soldier Songs and Voices. 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.
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 23 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
25 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. 25 of the 42 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION ↗
- Who funds OPERATION OPEN WATER ↗
- Who funds BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds BUGLE BOY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SURF ↗
- Who funds Project Hope Alliance ↗
- Who funds Serving People In Need Inc ↗
- Who funds MIKEY'S WAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOLDIER SONGS AND VOICES ↗
- Who funds DANCE 4 JOY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds HEROES AND HORSES INC ↗
- Who funds FESTIVAL BALLET THEATER ↗
- Who funds FOOD SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds RIPPLE EFFECT IMAGES ↗
- Who funds Canine Adoption and Rescue League ↗
- Who funds LAKE TAHOE WATERMAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AERIAL RECOVERY ↗
- Who funds Jessie Rees Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S FAMILY SERVICES CENTER ↗
- Who funds DAEDALIAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds THE WALDORF SCHOOL OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Devto Support Foundation · Argyros Family Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Mc Daniel 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.
- Berklee College of Music Inc — 1% of income from government
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.
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