· Private foundation
The McConnell 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $4k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST MARY'S CHURCH | $10,700 |
| FRIENDS OF THE UNBORN | $1,200 |
| ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON | $1,000 |
| FOCUS MINISTRIES | $911 |
| CHILDRENS INTERNATIONAL | $360 |
| UNBOUND | $252 |
| MARIAN HELPERS CENTER | $173 |
| DYNAMIC CATHOLIC | $120 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION | $103 |
| SERVANTS OF CHRIST MINISTRIES | $30 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.
25 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 2 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FOFRIENDS OF THE UNBORN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +159%
- FSFIVE STONES OF MARY FOUNDATION INC3× · 2018–2023 · $14k · revenue +560%
- SOSERVANTS OF CHRIST MINISTRIES7× · 2017–2025 · $6k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- CCCOREY C GRIFFITH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $5k
- BHBoth Hands Foundationone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +19%
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.
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.
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
Partners In Health (PIH) is a non-profit, global health organization that fights social injustice by bringing the benefits of modern medical science first and foremost to the most vulnerable communities worldwide. In Haiti, Malawi, Rwanda,…
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
To raise donations to (i) provide a daily meal in a place of education for children in the world's poorest communities; (ii) occasionally provide relief for those suffering, in any part of the world, as a result of humanitarian crises…
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
Raise funds for children in Haiti
Haven of hope international (hohi) is at the forefront of orphan care innovation with its mission to raise the standard of care for orphans left behind and abandoned by traditional adoption systems. its mission is simple and specific:…
Susan g. komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting breast cancer across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the u.s. and in countries worldwide. we advocate for policies to protect patients, drive…
To significantly improve the lives of people with down syndrome through research, medical care, education and advocacy. an important part of this mission is to support the global affiliate organizations that we helped establish and…
Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.
Gfoundation reaches out to neighbors who are vulnerable and overlooked with a vision to create a world where there is no distiction between those who give and those who receive help.
How this is measured
25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 70 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 FRIENDS OF THE UNBORN INC ↗
- Who funds FIVE STONES OF MARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SERVANTS OF CHRIST MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Unbound ↗
- Who funds Children International ↗
- Who funds THE DYNAMIC CATHOLIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Both Hands Foundation ↗
- Who funds DUFRESNAY HAITI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING INC ↗
- Who funds My Brothers Keeper Inc ↗
- Who funds MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds BOSTON CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC ↗
- Who funds HAITI180 INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Arbella Insurance Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The McConnell Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The McConnell Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Hull Lifesaving Museum Inc: 13% of income from government
- Salem Pantry Inc: 12% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Boston Children's Chorus Inc: 2% of income from government
- Wellspring Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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