· Private foundation
The McDonald Family Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS GIRLS CLUBS OF BROWARD COUNTY | $20,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF BROWARD COUNTY | $10,300 |
| BROWARD PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | $6,000 |
| JACK JILL CHILDREN'S CENTER | $2,500 |
| SOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL OF DAVIE | $1,500 |
| ELS FOR AUTISM | $1,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA | $500 |
| HISTORIC STRANAHAN HOUSE | $265 |
| AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION | $250 |
| PLAY FOR PINK | $250 |
| BROWARD BULLDOG INC | $250 |
| BROWARD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $250 |
| HANDY INC | $250 |
| NOW PROGRAM | $250 |
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 (FY20–23, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
17 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- UWUNITED WAY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $71k · revenue +42%
Nova Southeastern University Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $65k · revenue +37%- BPBROWARD PARTNERSHIP FOR THE HOMELESS INC3× · 2020–2023 · $6k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- HOHOUSING OPPORTUNITIES MORTGAGE ASSIST & EFFECTIVE NEIGHBORHOOD SOLUTIONS INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue +136%
- UOUniversity of Miamigraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +48%
- VLVICTORY LIVING PROGRAMS INCone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -29%
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.
Mission the mission of broward house is to improve the quality of life for individuals impacted with chronic health challenges, including hiv, by providing pathways to wellness. vision providing hope and healing to our communities,
Barry university is a catholic institution of higher education founded by the adrian dominican sisters. with a liberal arts tradition, barry university is a scholarly community committed to the highest academic standards in undergraduate,…
Broward regional health planning council is committed to delivering health and human service innovations at the national, state, and local level through planning, direct services, evaluation and capacity building.
Healthy mothers-healthy babies is dedicated to reducing infant deaths by providing resources and education to pregnant women, parents, and their families. the organization serves all families of broward county but focuses primarily on…
We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…
Founded in 1910, the greater fort lauderdale chamber of commerce is the oldest and largest business organization in broward county and it is apparent that throughout our history we have transitioned to better serve the business community.
To provide public education and assistance to those without necessary resources and whom have the need for diagnosis and treatment of breast disease.
Banner health's nonprofit mission is "making health care easier, so life can be better".
The mission of the greater fort lauderdale diaper bank is to provide diapers to families in need in broward county while supporting community partners. we are committed to education, advocacy, and connecting families to essential…
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…
Our mission is to lead the broward county maternal child health system of care serving mothers, infants and families, promoting health and well-being to achieve a successful pregnancy and a healthy start in life. our vision is that all…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Broward County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Share the Blessings Ministry Inc. 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 36 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 18% 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 46 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 UNITED WAY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Nova Southeastern University Inc ↗
- Who funds BROWARD PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES MORTGAGE ASSIST & EFFECTIVE NEIGHBORHOOD SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds BROWARD PARTNERSHIP FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds ELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds VICTORY LIVING PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA Inc ↗
- Who funds HOLY CROSS HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN DISTRESS INC ↗
- Who funds WARRIORS & QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Broward Bulldog Inc DBA Florida Bulldog ↗
- Who funds BROWARD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PARKLAND CARES INC ↗
- Who funds PLAY FOR PINK INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PINKBALL INC ↗
- Who funds ARC BROWARD INC ↗
- Who funds TOMORROW'S RAINBOW INC ↗
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: Community Foundation of Broward Inc · The Thomas Family Foundation Inc · The Amaturo Family Foundation · Bbx Capital Foundation Inc · Florida Panthers Foundation Inc · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · American Express Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 McDonald Family Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- United Way of Broward County Inc — 27% of income from government
- Feeding South Florida Inc — 5% of income from government
- Broward Partnership for the Homeless Inc — 5% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Nova Southeastern University Inc — 2% of income from government
- Holy Cross Hospital Inc — 0% of income from government
- Kids in Distress Inc — 0% 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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