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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 you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

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

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

Your grants by size, and where they go.

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
BUILDING SKILLS PARTNERSHIP$250,000
JOIN FREEWORLD INC$250,000
BETTER BLOCK FOUNDATION$250,000
NORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER$250,000
CENTER FOR NATURAL LANDS MANAGEMENT$222,137
NEW NORTH CAROLINA PROJECT$75,000
ST MARGARETS HOUSE$75,000
WATCH DUTY$75,000
ANGEL FLIGHT SOUTH CENTRAL$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

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.

show:

Your 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 your 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

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

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

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.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 6% of The Roger I & Ruth B Macfarlane Fndn’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

The Roger I & Ruth B Macfarlane Fndnlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.4% directed abroad (not shown)

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

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

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you 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

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

  • 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
  • LA
    Los Angeles Room & Boardgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +111%
  • CC
    CULTIVATE CULINARY SCHOOL AND CATERING INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +34%

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

04Your field

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.

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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of St Joseph County Inc and 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.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLocal Food System Organizat…Affordable Housing Developm…Faith-Based Social ServicesCommunity FoundationsCommunity Food PantriesHealth Access Advocacy and …United Way AffiliatesIndependent K-12 SchoolsDevelopmental Disabilities …Community FoundationsAnimal Rescue and ShelterDomestic Violence ServicesImmigrant Worker SupportElementary Literacy TutoringPolicy Research and AdvocacyFood Banks and Pantries
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 21 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%36%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%5%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%42%10–20yr16%30%20–35yr13%17%35–55yr16%6%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%2/64
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,501

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.

05the grantee network

61 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. 61 of the 78 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/61
Grantees still filing
38/61
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JOIN FREEWORLD INC — $250,000 · OtherWAVES PROJECT INC — $225,000 · OtherAMALGAMATED CHARITABLE FUND — $200,000 · OtherNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK — $200,000 · OtherCOLLIN COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS — $200,000 · OtherLos Angeles Room & Board — $250,000 · OtherHOUSING FOR NEW HOPE — $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…ACCESS BOOKS — $150,000 · EducationACCESS BOOKSSAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA — $150,000 · EducationSAINT MARY'S …THRIVE 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…EMMA'S TORCH LTD — $75,000 · Human ServicesEMMA'S TORCH…MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC — $75,000 · Human ServicesMEDICAL DEBT…DWELL WITH DIGNITY INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesALMA BACKYARD FARM — $400,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding America — $200,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more — $15,000 · Food & NutritionBuilding Skills Partnership — $250,000 · EmploymentCULTIVATE CULINARY SCHOOL AND CATERING INC — $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 org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 budgetBuilding Skills Partnership — $250,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER — $250,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetLos Angeles Room & Board — $250,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetCULTIVATE CULINARY SCHOOL AND CATERING INC — $250,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetBETTER BLOCK FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetKHMER GIRLS IN ACTION — $250,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetHOUSING FOR NEW HOPE — $250,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetCAFE MOMENTUM — $225,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetCARING HOUSE INCORPORATED — $225,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetEDUCATIONAL FIRST STEPS — $225,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetWAVES PROJECT INC — $225,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetCENTER FOR NATURAL LANDS MANAGEMENT — $222,137 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetFeeding America — $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF — $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK — $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOURCALLING INC — $200,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetWE NEED DIVERSE BOOKS — $200,000 over 3y, 47% 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 budgetWalking Shield Inc — $150,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetACCESS BOOKS — $150,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetResilience Advocacy Project — $150,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetGLOBAL EMERGENCY RELIEF RECOVERY AND RECONSTRUCTION — $150,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetSAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA — $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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 budgetANGEL FLIGHT INC DBA ANGEL FLIGHT SOUTH CENTRAL — $75,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPEDIATRIC THERAPY NETWORK — $75,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEMMA'S TORCH LTD — $75,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHRIVE SCHOLARS — $75,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWATERORG — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDWELL WITH DIGNITY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY WORK SERVICES INC — $50,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetTrust Women Foundation Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budget
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.

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 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

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 Roger I & Ruth B Macfarlane Fndn 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your 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

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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How do I get to The Roger I & Ruth B Macfarlane Fndn?

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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 78 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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