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The Robert R Macdonald Jr Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
34
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$81k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k21 grants · $109k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $150k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $81k
$8,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$6.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHARLES SCHWAB DAF GIVING 360$81,418
ST LOUIS PRIORY SCHOOL$25,000
NOTRE DAME$25,000
LAURA'S HOUSE$10,000
ALS ASSOCIATION$10,000
OC ANIMAL CARE$10,000
STAND UP FOR KIDS ORANGE COUNTY CA$10,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ORANGE COUNTY$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$10,000
TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY$10,000
WESTERN YOUTH SERVICES$10,000
ORANGE COUNTY RESCUE MISSION$10,000
SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERISTY$10,000
SOUTHHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$9,418
FEEDING AMERICA$8,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%LAURA'S HOUSE: $10k → 10%YOUTH IN NEED: $2k → 5%MARCY'S PROJECT: $1k → 5%WESTERN YOUTH SERVICES: $10k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

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NY
OR
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CA
NE
MO
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NC
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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University of Southern California

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…

Education
2
Southern California University of Health Sciences

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,…

Education
3
Western New England University

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…

Education
4
New York University

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.

Education
5
St Mary's University

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.

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Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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California Lutheran University

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.

Education
8
University of Massachusetts Global

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.

Education
9
Loma Linda University

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…

Education
10
St Lukes Episcopal-Presbyterian Hospitals

We are dedicated to providing exceptional care to every patient, every time.

Health
11
University of Chicago Medical Center

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…

Health
12
Marshall B Ketchum University

To educate caring, inspired health care professionals who are prepared to deliver collaborative, patient-centric health care in an interprofessional environment.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth in Need; 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.
03the grantee network

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
5/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHARLES SCHWAB DAF GIVING 360: $81,418 · OtherCHARLES SCHWAB DAF GIVING 360NOTRE DAME: $25,000 · OtherNOTRE DAMEST LOUIS PRIORY SCHOOL: $25,000 · OtherST LOUIS PRIORY SCHOOLSAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERISTY: $10,000 · OtherCOUNTY OF ORANGE: $10,000 · OtherSTAND UP FOR KIDS ORANGE COUNTY CA: $10,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $10,000 · OtherTHIRTEENORG: $8,000 · OtherWQXRORG: $8,000 · OtherHUMANE SOCIETY OF NY: $8,000 · OtherMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $8,000 · OtherFeeding America: $8,000 · Other+4 more: $5,000 · OtherCHOC FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthCHOC FOUN…AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $10,000 · HealthAMYOTROPH…THE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $9,418 · HealthTHE SOUTH…Western Youth Services: $10,000 · Human ServicesLAURA'S HOUSE: $10,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH IN NEED: $2,000 · Human ServicesMARCYS PROJECT: $1,400 · Human ServicesTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY: $6,000 · EducationST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · EducationWESTMINSTER CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $1,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $1,000 · EducationNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC: $8,000 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $8,000 · AnimalsSAFEHAVEN HUMANE SOCIETY: $6,418 · AnimalsSAG HARBOR FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $8,000 · Public Safety & DisasterSAG HARBOR VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS INC: $8,000 · Public Safety & DisasterOrange County Rescue Mission Inc: $10,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$216,418Health$29,418Human Services$23,400Education$23,000Animals$22,418Public Safety & Disaster$16,000Housing & Shelter$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 Macdonal…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Robert R Macdonald Jr FoundationMO13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Robert R Macdonald Jr Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Robert R Macdonald Jr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robert R Macdonald Jr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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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.

    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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