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The Roger I & Ruth B Macfarlane Fndn at a glance

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The Roger I & Ruth B Macfarlane Fndn

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.6MFood & Nutrition$1.3MCrime & Legal$1.2MHealth$1.2MHousing & Shelter$825kHuman Services$800kInternational$700kYouth Development$650kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $100k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $572k
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.0M
$75,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$42M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER$250,000
JOIN FREEWORLD INC$250,000
BETTER BLOCK FOUNDATION$250,000
BUILDING SKILLS PARTNERSHIP$250,000
CENTER FOR NATURAL LANDS MANAGEMENT$222,137
ANGEL FLIGHT SOUTH CENTRAL$75,000
NEW NORTH CAROLINA PROJECT$75,000
ST MARGARETS HOUSE$75,000
WATCH DUTY$75,000
FISTULA FOUNDATION$50,000
MAKE GOOD INC$40,000
EASTERN SIERRA ARTS ALLIANCE$35,000
OUR STORIES OUR FUTURE INC$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $985k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WALKING SHIELD INC: $150k → 10%MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $75k → 13%EMMA'S TORCH: $75k → 20%OUR CALLING: $200k → 14%REFUGEE WOMAN'S ALLIANCE: $60k → 9%REFUGEE WOMEN'S ALLIANCE: $20k → 9%FOSTER KIDS CHARITY: $280k → 14%DWELL WITH DIGNITY: $50k → 14%UNITED AMERICAN INDIAN INVOLVEMENT: $75k → 14%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

VT
WA
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
IN
CT
CA
MO
VA
MD
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of The Roger I & Ruth B Macfarlane Fndn’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Roger I & Ruth B Macfarlane Fndnlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.4% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

40%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.4M · 21 repeat orgs$6.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
47

Total granted

$4.4M
$5.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+35%

Still filing today

86%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationInternationalFood & NutritionEmploymentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • The Fistula Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · $480k · revenue +42%
  • AD
    ARCHCITY DEFENDERS
    3× · 2019–2021 · $410k · revenue +198%
  • AB
    ALMA BACKYARD FARM
    4× · 2017–2020 · $400k · revenue +690%

Funded once

  • FK
    FOSTER KIDS CHARITY
    one grant, 2020 · $280k
  • HOUSING FOR NEW HOPEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +27%
  • CC
    CULTIVATE CULINARY SCHOOL AND CATERING INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +34%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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.

1
Devworks International

Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.

Human Services
2
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
3
Pathways Kitchen

Pathways kitchen helps justice-impacted youth thrive over survive by providing training, work opportunities and individualized support to ensure they can chart their own path forward

Crime & Legal
4
Cangress Dba Los Angeles Community Action Network

Community organizing, education, advocacy, leadership development, direct services and organizational development for communities faced with immense poverty.

Community Improvement
5
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
6
Equitable Food Initiative

EFIs mission is to transform the produce industry and the lives of farmworkers by facilitating collaboration among workers, agricultural employers, retail buyers and consumer advocates.

Human Services
7
Foundation for the Homeless Inc

Empowering families and individuals experiencing homelessness to build a future filled with dignity, opportunity, and lasting solutions.

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8
Alternatives Inc

Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…

Health
9
Wedontwaste Inc

We Dont Waste increases food access and protects the planet by rescuing and repurposing food, while educating and advocating to increase food security and decrease food waste.

Food & Nutrition
10
Feeding San Diego

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,…

Food & Nutrition
11
Lifeworks Services Inc

Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.

Human Services
12
Disability Rights Washington

Disability rights washington's mission is to advance the dignity, equality, and self determination of people with disabilities. we work to pursue justice on matters related to human and legal rights.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of St Joseph County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Waves Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

61 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. 61 of the 78 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/61
Grantees still filing
39/61
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JOIN FREEWORLD INC: $250,000 · OtherWAVES PROJECT INC: $225,000 · OtherCOLLIN COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS: $200,000 · OtherAMALGAMATED CHARITABLE FUND: $200,000 · OtherNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $200,000 · OtherHOUSING FOR NEW HOPE: $250,000 · OtherLos Angeles Room & Board: $250,000 · OtherKHMER GIRLS IN ACTION: $250,000 · OtherCAFE MOMENTUM: $225,000 · OtherARCHCITY DEFENDERS: $410,000 · OtherARCHCITY DEFENDERSBETTER BLOCK FOUNDATION: $250,000 · OtherCENTER FOR NATURAL LANDS MANAGEMENT: $222,137 · OtherUNITED WAY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC: $185,000 · Other+32 more: $2,320,000 · Other+32 moreBRIGHT PROSPECT: $300,000 · EducationBRIGHT PROSPE…CARING HOUSE INCORPORATED: $225,000 · EducationCARING HOUSE …EDUCATIONAL FIRST STEPS: $225,000 · EducationEDUCATIONAL F…WE NEED DIVERSE BOOKS: $200,000 · EducationWE NEED DIVER…SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA: $150,000 · EducationSAINT MARY'S …ACCESS BOOKS: $150,000 · EducationACCESS BOOKSTHRIVE SCHOLARS: $75,000 · EducationTHRIVE SCHOLA…The Fistula Foundation: $480,000 · HealthThe Fistula F…WE CARE SOLAR: $296,520 · HealthWE CARE SOLARCARING HOUSE INC: $150,000 · HealthCARING HOUSE …Apla Health & Wellness: $125,000 · HealthApla Health &…MAKE GOOD INC: $115,000 · HealthMAKE GOOD INCANGEL FLIGHT INC DBA ANGEL FLIGHT SOUTH CENTRAL: $75,000 · HealthANGEL FLIGHT …Trust Women Foundation Inc: $50,000 · HealthFOSTER KIDS CHARITY: $280,000 · Human ServicesFOSTER KIDS …NORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER: $250,000 · Human ServicesNORTH CAROLI…OURCALLING INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesOURCALLING I…Walking Shield Inc: $150,000 · Human ServicesWalking Shie…Refugee Womens Alliance: $80,000 · Human ServicesRefugee Wome…UNITED AMERICAN INDIAN INVOLVEMENT INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesUNITED AMERI…MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesMEDICAL DEBT…EMMA'S TORCH LTD: $75,000 · Human ServicesEMMA'S TORCH…DWELL WITH DIGNITY INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesALMA BACKYARD FARM: $400,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding America: $200,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $15,000 · Food & NutritionCULTIVATE CULINARY SCHOOL AND CATERING INC: $250,000 · EmploymentBuilding Skills Partnership: $250,000 · EmploymentCOMMUNITY WORK SERVICES INC: $50,000 · EmploymentDIRECT RELIEF: $200,000 · InternationalGLOBAL EMERGENCY RELIEF RECOVERY AND RECONSTRUCTION: $150,000 · InternationalDays For Girls International: $149,930 · InternationalWATERORG: $50,000 · International
Other$5,437,137Education$1,325,000Health$1,291,520Human Services$1,235,000Food & Nutrition$615,000Employment$550,000International$549,930

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Fistula Foundation: $480,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetARCHCITY DEFENDERS: $410,000 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetALMA BACKYARD FARM: $400,000 over 4y, 22% of budgetBRIGHT PROSPECT: $300,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetWE CARE SOLAR: $296,520 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetHOUSING FOR NEW HOPE: $250,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetCULTIVATE CULINARY SCHOOL AND CATERING INC: $250,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetBETTER BLOCK FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetBuilding Skills Partnership: $250,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetLos Angeles Room & Board: $250,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER: $250,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetKHMER GIRLS IN ACTION: $250,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetCAFE MOMENTUM: $225,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetWAVES PROJECT INC: $225,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetCARING HOUSE INCORPORATED: $225,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetEDUCATIONAL FIRST STEPS: $225,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetCENTER FOR NATURAL LANDS MANAGEMENT: $222,137 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetOURCALLING INC: $200,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetFeeding America: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWE NEED DIVERSE BOOKS: $200,000 over 3y, 47% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC: $185,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetSt Margarets House: $175,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetGLOBAL EMERGENCY RELIEF RECOVERY AND RECONSTRUCTION: $150,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetResilience Advocacy Project: $150,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetWalking Shield Inc: $150,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetSAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACCESS BOOKS: $150,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetDays For Girls International: $149,930 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetApla Health & Wellness: $125,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE GOOD INC: $115,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetMAMMOTH LAKES FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetDISMAS INC: $100,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetLANDMARK COLLEGE INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRefugee Womens Alliance: $80,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSHERWOOD FORESTRY SERVICE: $75,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetPEDIATRIC THERAPY NETWORK: $75,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED AMERICAN INDIAN INVOLVEMENT INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF COLLIN COUNTY INC: $75,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHRIVE SCHOLARS: $75,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEMMA'S TORCH LTD: $75,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetANGEL FLIGHT INC DBA ANGEL FLIGHT SOUTH CENTRAL: $75,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWATERORG: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMONO ARTS COUNCIL: $50,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetDWELL WITH DIGNITY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetTrust Women Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% 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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

California Community …The Ralph M Parsons F…Klockow Harvey R and …Carroll F V Char Tr-M…Asante Foundation IncJudd Leighton Foundat…The Pokagon Fund Inc1st Source Bank Found…Community Foundation …Communities Foundatio…United Way of Metropo…The Ahmanson Foundati…
California Community FoundationCA20.2× affinity12 shared granteesties to 6 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Klockow Harvey R and Doris Fdn · Carroll F V Char Tr-Main · Asante Foundation Inc · Judd Leighton Foundation Inc · The Pokagon Fund Inc · 1st Source Bank Foundation Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Community Foundation of St Joseph County Inc · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · The Ahmanson 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 Roger I & Ruth B Macfarlane Fndn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Roger I & Ruth B Macfarlane Fndn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Landmark College Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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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Find your warmest path to The Roger I & Ruth B Macfarlane Fndn 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 78 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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