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The Robert R Macdonald Jr 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.

$341k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
34
Grants FY2025
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Median grant, FY2025
$8,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$81,418
States reached, FY2025
10
Total assets, FY2025
$6.4M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
OR
IN
CA
NE
MO
VA
NC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2025 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Western Youth Services$10,00010%
Orange County Rescue Mission Inc$10,00010%
Choc Foundation$10,00010%
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Assn$10,00010%
Texas Christian University$10,00010%
County of Orange$10,0001n/a
Laura's House$10,0001n/a
The Southampton Hospital Foundation Inc$9,4181n/a
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$8,0001n/a
Feeding America$8,00010%
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All grantees of The Robert R Macdonald Jr Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Western Youth Services$10,00010%
Orange County Rescue Mission Inc$10,00010%
Choc Foundation$10,00010%
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Assn$10,00010%
Texas Christian University$10,00010%
County of Orange$10,0001n/a
Laura's House$10,0001n/a
The Southampton Hospital Foundation Inc$9,4181n/a
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$8,0001n/a
Feeding America$8,00010%
North Shore Animal League America Inc$8,0001n/a
Sag Harbor Fire Department Inc$8,00011%
Sag Harbor Volunteer Ambulance Corps Inc$8,00013%
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$8,0001n/a
Safehaven Humane Society$6,41810%
Duke University$6,00010%
St Louis University$5,00010%
Youth in Need$2,00010%
Marcys Project$1,40010%
St Teresa's Academy$1,0001n/a
Westminster Christian Academy$1,00010%
Washington University$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($189k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWestern Youth Services: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOrange County Rescue Mission Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChoc Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Assn: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Christian University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSag Harbor Fire Department Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSag Harbor Volunteer Ambulance Corps Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetSafehaven Humane Society: $6,418 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDuke University: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Louis University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYouth in Need: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarcys Project: $1,400 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWestminster Christian Academy: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWashington University: $1,000 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 15.

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.

The Robert R Macdonald Jr FoundationMO13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 R Macdonald Jr Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Robert R Macdonald Jr 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 R Macdonald Jr Foundation

How much does The Robert R Macdonald Jr Foundation give?
The Robert R Macdonald Jr Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $340,654 in its FY2025 IRS filing.
What does The Robert R Macdonald Jr Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2025 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (24%), Education (18%), Animals (12%).
Who are The Robert R Macdonald Jr Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2025 to FY2025: Western Youth Services ($10k), Orange County Rescue Mission Inc ($10k), Choc Foundation ($10k).
Does The Robert R Macdonald Jr Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Robert R Macdonald Jr Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Robert R Macdonald Jr Foundation, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is The Robert R Macdonald Jr Foundation based?
The Robert R Macdonald Jr Foundation is based in MO.

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 34 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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