· Private foundation
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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $109k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $150k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $81k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHARLES SCHWAB DAF GIVING 360 | $81,418 |
| ST LOUIS PRIORY SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| NOTRE DAME | $25,000 |
| WESTERN YOUTH SERVICES | $10,000 |
| STAND UP FOR KIDS ORANGE COUNTY CA | $10,000 |
| SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERISTY | $10,000 |
| LAURA'S HOUSE | $10,000 |
| ALS ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $10,000 |
| ORANGE COUNTY RESCUE MISSION | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ORANGE COUNTY | $10,000 |
| OC ANIMAL CARE | $10,000 |
| SOUTHHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $9,418 |
| MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERS USA INC | $8,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 85% 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.
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.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.
Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education
The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.
The mission of umass global is to provide students with an accessible inclusive, and transformative education based on excellence and flexibility, creating lasting value and relevance for a dynamic world.
Loma linda university, a seventh-day adventist christian health sciences institution, seeks to further the healing and teaching ministry of jesus christ "to make man whole" by: - educating ethical and proficient christian health…
We are dedicated to providing exceptional care to every patient, every time.
Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…
To educate caring, inspired health care professionals who are prepared to deliver collaborative, patient-centric health care in an interprofessional environment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth in Need and the most unlike its peers is Marcys Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 50 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.
20 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. 20 of the 34 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 AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Orange County Rescue Mission Inc ↗
- Who funds CHOC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAURA'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Western Youth Services ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds SAG HARBOR FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds SAG HARBOR VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds SAFEHAVEN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds YOUTH IN NEED ↗
- Who funds MARCYS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
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.
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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 R Macdonald Jr 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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