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The Robert Macnamara Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$10k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
18
Grants FY2024
10
Organizations funded FY2023
40%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$250
Largest grant, FY2024
$3,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 12
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
7
Total assets, FY2024
$1.0M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 40% of the organizations The Robert Macnamara Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalEducationSocial SciencePhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving13$10k62%
FY202310$9k40%
FY20229$7k33%
FY202110$7k60%
FY202012$6k92%
FY20192$2k50%
FY20183$10k67%
FY20176$19kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$20kArts & Culture$17kEducation$16kFood & Nutrition$12kHealth$2kPhilanthropy$1kSocial Science$1kAnimals$500Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
IL
NY
MA
NV
PA
CA
VA
AZ
NM
KS
NC
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($13k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Robert Macnamara Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetItalian Home for Children Inc: $18,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDonorschooseorg: $10,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCarson Valley Community Food Closet Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUniversity of Nevada Las Vegas Foundation: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Discovery Museum: $3,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetArtists Image Resource Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSchool for Advanced Research: $1,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Las Vegas Philharmonic: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarine Toys for Tots Foundation: $840 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCatie's Closet Inc: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $550 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetArtswestchester Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMidcoast Humane: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlessings in a Backpack Inc: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of Mid Coast Maine Inc: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Folk Art Museum: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $210 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Servings Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPine Street Inn Inc: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $105 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWatershed Center for the Ceramic Arts: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 24.

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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.

Maine Community Foundation IncME12.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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How do I get to The Robert Macnamara Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Robert Macnamara 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.

About The Robert Macnamara Foundation

How much does The Robert Macnamara Foundation give?
The Robert Macnamara Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $9,993 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 12 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Robert Macnamara Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (28%), Arts & Culture (25%), Education (23%).
Who are The Robert Macnamara Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Italian Home for Children Inc ($19k), Donorschooseorg ($10k), Carson Valley Community Food Closet Inc ($10k).
Does The Robert Macnamara Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Robert Macnamara Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Robert Macnamara Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, National Philanthropic Trust, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is The Robert Macnamara Foundation based?
The Robert Macnamara Foundation is based in NV.

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 41 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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