· Private foundation
The Rod N McDonald Famiy Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MANNA FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| EISENHOWER MEDICAL CTR FOUNDATION | $9,000 |
| POLAR BEARS INTL | $6,000 |
| CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE | $5,000 |
| WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY | $3,000 |
| NOURISH MEALS ON WHEELS | $2,500 |
| DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL HEALTH | $1,000 |
| CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $600 |
| DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE | $500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 67% of your 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.
20 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- CCCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $31k · revenue +76%
- TWTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY8× · 2017–2024 · $26k · revenue +124%
- PBPOLAR BEARS INTERNATIONAL7× · 2017–2024 · $22k · revenue +173%
Funded once
- MTMCCALLUM THEATREone grant, 2022 · $10k
- SASALVATION ARMYone grant, 2017 · $1k
- RCRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGOone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue -24%
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.
Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
As america's first animal shelter, founded in 1869, women's humane society dba women's animal center (wac), assists people in the community, saves the lives of animals, and improves the health of pets through its shelter and adoptions…
Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.
To bring animals out of crisis and strengthen the bond between people and animals through emergency sheltering, disaster relief services, financial assistance and education. redrover accomplishes its mission by engaging volunteers and…
See schedule o.to prevent cruelty and neglect of animals within the state of colorado by:-assisting agencies in the enforcement of laws relating to cruelty and neglect of companion animals and equines-educating the public on animal welfare…
Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.
San diego zoo wildlife alliance is committed to saving species worldwide by uniting our expertise in wildlife care and conservation science with our dedication to inspiring passion for nature.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Dumb Friends League and the most unlike its peers is Soldiers Organized Services. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 30 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 CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds NOURISH MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds POLAR BEARS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds HIGH LINE CANAL CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SOLDIERS ORGANIZED SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds The New Horizons Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT ↗
- Who funds HELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Rod N McDonald Famiy 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.
- 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.