How much did THE MCDONALD FAMILY FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 53% of THE MCDONALD FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k15 grants · $14k
$10k–50k3 grants · $40k

$265

Median grant

States reached

$587k

Total assets

Largest grants

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
HANDY INC$250
BROWARD BULLDOG INC$250
BROWARD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION$250
PLAY FOR PINK$250
AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION$250
NOW PROGRAM$250

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$284k · 17 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$284k

$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%

+26%

Still filing today

41%

32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthPhilanthropyEducationHuman ServicesCrime & LegalFood & NutritionOther

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

UW
UNITED WAY OF BROWARD COUNTY
5× · 2020–2024 · $71k · revenue +74%
NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
5× · 2020–2024 · $65k · revenue +23%
SO
SPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA
4× · 2021–2024 · $2k · revenue +42%

Funded once

HI
HOMES INC
one grant, 2020 · $7k
SI
SISTRUNK INC
one grant, 2020 · $3k
VL
VICTORY LIVING PROGRAMS
one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -8%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Boca Raton Regional Hospital Inc

As part of the baptist health network, the mission of boca raton regional hospital is to improve the health and well-being of individuals, and to promote the sanctity and preservation of life, in the communities we serve. baptist health is…

Health

Baptist Hospital of Miami Inc

As part of the baptist health network, the mission of baptist hospital of miami is to improve the health and well-being of individuals, and to promote the sanctity and preservation of life, in the communities we serve. baptist health is a…

Health

Southern Baptist Hospital of Florida Inc

To make hope, healing and well-being accessible to every person as an expression of God's love.

Health

Miami Children's Health System Inc

To perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes of nicklaus children's hospital and its affiliated entities.

Health

University of Miami

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Barry University Inc

A Catholic institution of higher education, Barry University was founded in 1940 by the Adrian Dominican Sisters. Grounded in the liberal arts tradition, we are a scholarly community committed to the highest academic standards in…

Education

Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc

The foundation supports the hospital's mission of providing superior, compassionate health care through the cultivation & stewardship of philanthropic gifts & raising the public awareness of the hospital.

Community Improvement

Baptist Health South Florida Foundation Inc

As part of the baptist health network, the mission of baptist health south florida foundation, inc is to improve the health and well-being of individuals, and to promote the sanctity and preservation of life, in the communities we serve.…

Health

Miami Cancer Institute At Baptist Health Inc

As part of the baptist health network, the mission of miami cancer institute at baptist health, inc is to improve the health and well-being of individuals, and to promote the sanctity and preservation of life, in the communities we serve.…

Health

Broward Behavioral Health Coalition Inc

To deliver a comprehensive array of behavioral health services in the state of florida to eligible children,adolescents, adults, elders and families in the organizations service area .

Health

Jupiter Medical Center Inc

To deliver excellent and compassionate healthcare advancing the well-being of the people we serve.

Health

University of Florida

To assist the university of florida in funding of research & development through grants & contractual arrangements & in the commercialization of intellectual properties, which include inventions, discoveries, processes, & work products.

Education

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 Holy Cross Hospital Inc. 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

21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

20/21

Grantees still filing

17/21

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$168,116Philanthropy$71,600Education$68,100Human Services$3,660Recreation & Sports$2,000Health$1,809Animals$950

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.

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.

The Thomas Family Foundation IncFL16× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Thomas Family Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Broward Inc · The Amaturo Family Foundation · 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 · 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 organisation 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.

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typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SHARE THE BLESSINGS MINISTRY.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

high risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 273204034 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on SHARE THE BLESSINGS MINISTRY, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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Find your warmest path to The McDonald Family Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE MCDONALD FAMILY FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The McDonald Family Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

THE MCDONALD FAMILY FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The McDonald Family Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph