· Private foundation
The Robert Macnamara Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ITALIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN | $3,000 |
| DONORS CHOOSE | $1,003 |
| LAS VEGAS PHILHARMONIC | $1,000 |
| CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF LOS ANGELES | $1,000 |
| DONORS CHOOSE | $844 |
| DONORS CHOOSE | $648 |
| DONORS CHOOSE | $560 |
| DONORS CHOOSE | $301 |
| SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH | $250 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY- WESTPORT ISLAND | $250 |
| COMMUNITY SERVINGS | $200 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $200 |
| DONORS CHOOSE | $167 |
| PINE STREET INN | $150 |
| Individual grant recipient | $120 |
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 (FY20–24, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 58% 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.
11 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 8 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
ITALIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN INC7× · 2017–2024 · $19k · revenue +23%- DDONORSCHOOSEORG5× · 2020–2024 · $10k · revenue +1%
- CVCarson Valley Community Food Closet Inc2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +180%
Funded once
- CSCERAMIC SUPPLY INC FOR MUDFLAT STUDIOSone grant, 2017 · $7k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +18%
- CDCHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUMgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +257%
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.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
Boston children's museum engages children and families in joyful discovery experiences that instill an appreciation of our world, develop foundational skills, and spark a lifelong love of learning. boston children's museum is a welcoming,…
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
Driven by the belief that access to healthy food is a basic right for all people, feeding westchester leads hunger action programs and mobilizes the resources needed to eradicate hunger in westchester county.
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
Wamc is chartered by the new york state board of regents to "furnish, prepare and present non-profit and non-commercial educational, instructional and cultural radio programs and also non-profit and non-commercial programs (wamc's mission…
At the children's museum & theatre of maine, we set the stage for every child to imagine and learn through play.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marine Toys for Tots Foundation and the most unlike its peers is School for Advanced Research. 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 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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 41 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 ITALIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds Carson Valley Community Food Closet Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS IMAGE RESOURCE INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds THE LAS VEGAS PHILHARMONIC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Catie's Closet Inc ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds MIDCOAST HUMANE ↗
- Who funds ARTSWESTCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MID COAST MAINE INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WESTPORT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds WATERSHED CENTER FOR THE CERAMIC ARTS ↗
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: 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
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 Robert Macnamara Foundation 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.
- Italian Home for Children Inc — 29% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Catie's Closet Inc — 4% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project 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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