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The McConnell Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$53k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.2MAnimals$355kYouth Development$194kHealth$170kRecreation & Sports$2kInternational$1k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$40,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
URSULINE ACADEMY OF WILMINGTON DELAWARE INC$40,000
URSULINE ACADEMY OF WILMINGTON DELAWARE INC$13,400
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 3% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 16%URSULINE ACADEMY OF WILMINGTON DELAWARE INC: $50k → 10%BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $100k → 11%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $50k → 22%URSULINE ACADEMY OF WILMINGTON DELAWARE INC: $50k → 10%URSULINE ACADEMY OF WILMINGTON DELAWARE INC: $40k → 10%URSULINE ACADEMY OF WILMINGTON DELAWARE INC: $40k → 10%URSULINE ACADEMY OF WILMINGTON DELAWARE INC: $40k → 10%URSULINE ACADEMY OF WILMINGTON DELAWARE INC: $40k → 10%URSULINE ACADEMY OF WILMINGTON DELAWARE INC: $38k → 10%URSULINE ACADEMY OF WILMINGTON DELAWARE INC: $38k → 10%URSULINE ACADEMY OF WILMINGTON DELAWARE INC: $25k → 10%URSULINE ACADEMY OF WILMINGTON DELAWARE INC: $13k → 10%URSULINE ACADEMY OF WILMINGTON DELAWARE INC: $13k → 10%URSULINE ACADEMY OF WILMINGTON DELAWARE INC: $13k → 10%URSULINE ACADEMY OF WILMINGTON DELAWARE INC: $13k → 10%URSULINE ACADEMY OF WILMINGTON DELAWARE INC: $13k → 10%URSULINE ACADEMY OF WILMINGTON DELAWARE INC: $13k → 10%URSULINE ACADEMY OF WILMINGTON DELAWARE INC: $13k → 10%URSULINE ACADEMY OF WILMINGTON DELAWARE INC: $13k → 10%URSULINE ACADEMY OF WILMINGTON DELAWARE INC: $13k → 10%URSULINE ACADEMY OF WILMINGTON DELAWARE INC: $13k → 10%URSULINE ACADEMY OF WILMINGTON DELAWARE INC: $10k → 10%URSULINE ACADEMY OF WILMINGTON DELAWARE INC: $10k → 10%URSULINE ACADEMY OF WILMINGTON DELAWARE INC: $10k → 10%URSULINE ACADEMY OF WILMINGTON DELAWARE INC: $10k → 10%LIMEN HOUSE INC: $60k → 10%LIMEN HOUSE INC: $50k → 10%BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $50k → 10%SUMMER LEARNING COLLABORATIVE: $25k → 10%LIMEN HOUSE INC: $25k → 10%CHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $25k → 10%SUMMER LEARNING COLLABORATIVE: $15k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $150k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $50k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $25k → 10%FAITHFUL FRIENDS INC: $83k → 10%FAITHFUL FRIENDS INC: $83k → 10%FAITHFUL FRIENDS INC: $83k → 10%FAITHFUL FRIENDS INC: $20k → 10%FAITHFUL FRIENDS INC: $20k → 10%FAITHFUL FRIENDS INC: $20k → 10%FAITHFUL FRIENDS INC: $15k → 10%SERVIAM GIRLS ACADEMY INC: $50k → 10%FAITHFUL FRIENDS INC: $30k → 10%NATIVITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $118k → 10%SALESIANUM SCHOOL INC: $15k → 10%NATIVITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $76k → 10%NATIVITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $65k → 10%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.
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 7 repeat orgs$248k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +121% since the first grant, against -10% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
10

Total granted

$1.6M
$248k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+121%
-10%

Still filing today

57%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Recreation & SportsAnimalsEducationInternationalYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • FF
    FAITHFUL FRIENDS INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $355k · revenue +113%
  • UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE
    3× · 2017–2022 · $225k · revenue +37%
  • LH
    LIMEN HOUSE INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $145k · revenue +241%

Funded once

  • DC
    DEL-MAR-VA COUNCIL INC - BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICAgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +164%
  • SG
    SERVIAM GIRLS ACADEMY INC
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -49%
  • BS
    BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
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
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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2
Delphi Schools Inc

Delphi school's mission is to draw out the best in every student through effective educational materials and empower young adults to bring positive change in the world through reason, creativity and integrity.

Education
3
Wilmington University Inc

Wilmington university is committed to excellence in teaching, relevancy of the curriculum, and individual attention to students. as an institution with admissions policies that provide access for all, it offers opportunity for higher…

Education
4
Early College School At Delaware State University

To provide highly motivated students with a curriculum that is integrated with the relevant curriculum at delaware state university such that all students graduate with one to two years of college credits, preparing them for completion of…

Education
5
Leadership Delaware Inc

Leadership delaware, inc. (ldi) recruits outstanding delawareans and prepares them with the knowledge, vision, integrity and networks to significantly impact and transform their communities, and to excel at community, non-profit,…

Public Benefit
6
First State Montessori Academy

The mission of the first state montessori academy is to create successful, contributing, life-long learners in a montessori public educational program for students in kindergarten through 8th grade.

Education
7
St Andrew's School of Delaware Inc

St. andrew's school develops the independence, character, mind, and spirit of its students to prepare them for lives of citizenship, service, and purpose.all our students live, learn, and play in the natural beauty of our 2,200-acre…

Education
8
Daemen University

Private, independent university providing higher education to students. The mission of Daemen University is to prepare creative, ethically-minded leaders for a diverse and interconnected world by integrating the intellectual strengths…

Education
9
Delaware State University

Delaware state university is a public, comprehensive, 1890 land-grant institution that offers access and opportunity to diverse populations from delaware, the nation, and the world. (continued on schedule o.)building on its heritage as a…

Education
10
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
11
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
12
Thomas Jefferson School of Law

The mission of the school is to provide outstanding legal education in a collegial and supportive environment with attention to newly emerging areas of law, particularly those related to technological development, globalization and the…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Junior Achievement of Delaware Inc; the most unlike its peers is Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania. 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

12 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. 12 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

URSULINE ACADEMY OF WILMINGTON DELAWARE INC: $529,500 · OtherURSULINE ACADEMY OF WILMINGTON DELAWARE INCNATIVITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $269,000 · OtherNATIVITY PREPARATORY SCHOOLUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $225,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARELIMEN HOUSE INC: $145,000 · OtherLIMEN HOUSE INCDEL-MAR-VA COUNCIL INC - BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $100,000 · OtherDEL-MAR-VA COUNCIL INC - BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICASERVIAM GIRLS ACADEMY INC: $50,000 · OtherBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $50,000 · Other+4 more: $55,225 · OtherFAITHFUL FRIENDS INC: $355,000 · AnimalsFAITHFUL FRIENDS INCTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $50,000 · EducationCENTREVILLE LAYTON SCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationTHE SUMMER LEARNING COLLABORATIVE INC: $40,400 · Recreation & SportsCITYFEST INC: $2,000 · Recreation & SportsDUAL SCHOOL INC: $4,000 · Youth DevelopmentJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF DELAWARE INC: $1,000 · International
Other$1,423,725Animals$355,000Education$60,000Recreation & Sports$42,400Youth Development$4,000International$1,000

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 budgetFAITHFUL FRIENDS INC: $355,000 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $225,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLIMEN HOUSE INC: $145,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetDEL-MAR-VA COUNCIL INC - BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $100,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSERVIAM GIRLS ACADEMY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetTHE SUMMER LEARNING COLLABORATIVE INC: $40,400 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetCHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCENTREVILLE LAYTON SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDUAL SCHOOL INC: $4,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCITYFEST INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF DELAWARE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Delaware Community Fo…Longwood Foundation I…Laffey-McHugh Foundat…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Bacchieri FoundationThe Anthony & Catheri…Marmot FoundationUnited Way of DelawareCrestlea Foundation I…Wsfs Cares FoundationThe Struthers Family …Vinton Family Foundat…
Delaware Community Foundation IncDE29.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Longwood Foundation Inc · Laffey-McHugh Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Bacchieri Foundation · The Anthony & Catherine Fusco Foundation · Marmot Foundation · United Way of Delaware · Crestlea Foundation Inc · Wsfs Cares Foundation · The Struthers Family Foundation · Vinton Family 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.

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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • The Summer Learning Collaborative Inc: 54% of income from government
  • Christiana Care Health System Inc: 43% of income from government
  • Limen House Inc: 38% of income from government
  • University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
  • Faithful Friends Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Cityfest Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Serviam Girls Academy Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 McConnell Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The McConnell 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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