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Thomas and Frances McGregor 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.

$851k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2025
4
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$197,900
Largest grant, FY2025
$290,400
Organizations funded a year
2 to 24
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$3.0M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Thomas and Frances McGregor Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 74% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesAnimalsPublic Safety & DisasterArts & CultureReligionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving6$851k50%
FY20244$270k50%
FY202310$185k70%
FY202224$386k67%
FY20218$127k63%
FY20205$90k40%
FY20197$95k71%
FY20182$15k100%
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$590kReligion$568kHealth$323kEducation$160kPublic Safety & Disaster$114kAnimals$61kRecreation & Sports$55kFood & Nutrition$50kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
NV
PA
CA
CO
VA
TN
NC
HI
OK
AL
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
City Center Outreach Inc$440,400216%
Get a Life Ministries Inc$338,10035%
Sober AF Entertainment Inc$317,900532%
St James Episcopal Church$125,0003n/a
Alexander & Duke de Rego Foundation$60,000265%
Kawaihae Canoe Club Inc$55,000325%
Oklahoma State Troopers Foundation Inc$50,0001n/a
Hill Country Community Needs Council$50,00014%
Durham Academy Inc$29,00050%
Hamakua Youth Foundation Inc$25,00026%
Show all 32 grantees
All grantees of Thomas and Frances McGregor Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
City Center Outreach Inc$440,400216%
Get a Life Ministries Inc$338,10035%
Sober AF Entertainment Inc$317,900532%
St James Episcopal Church$125,0003n/a
Alexander & Duke de Rego Foundation$60,000265%
Kawaihae Canoe Club Inc$55,000325%
Oklahoma State Troopers Foundation Inc$50,0001n/a
Hill Country Community Needs Council$50,00014%
Durham Academy Inc$29,00050%
Hamakua Youth Foundation Inc$25,00026%
Honor Veterans Now$25,00014%
Code of Vets Inc$25,0001n/a
Parker School$20,00010%
Faith Bible Church$20,0001n/a
Calvary Chapel Kaneohe Inc$20,0001n/a
Calvary Chapel Chino Hills$20,0001n/a
Rock Harbor Church$20,0001n/a
The Burke Foundation Inc$20,00010%
Hill Country Animal League Spca Inc$15,00011%
New Horizons House$15,00014%
The Education Fund Inc F/K/A Dade Public Education Fund In$15,00020%
EmilyAnn Theatre Inc$15,00012%
Rocky Mountain Puppy Rescue$10,00012%
Drive a Senior Central Texas$10,00012%
Fredericksburg Theater Company$10,00011%
Kohala Animal Relocation & Education Service$10,00015%
Hawaii Children's Action Network$7,00020%
Durham Public Schools Foundation$5,00010%
North Hawaii Hospice Inc$5,00010%
Preserve Our Hill Country Environment$5,0001n/a
The Daniel R Sayre Memorial Foundation$4,40011%
The Animal Protection Society of Durham$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($240k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Thomas and Frances McGregor Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCity Center Outreach Inc: $440,400 over 2y, 16% of budgetGet a Life Ministries Inc: $338,100 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetSober AF Entertainment Inc: $317,900 over 5y, 32% of budgetAlexander & Duke de Rego Foundation: $60,000 over 2y, 65% of budgetKawaihae Canoe Club Inc: $55,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetHill Country Community Needs Council: $50,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetDurham Academy Inc: $29,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHamakua Youth Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetHonor Veterans Now: $25,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetParker School: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Burke Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHill Country Animal League Spca Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNew Horizons House: $15,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetThe Education Fund Inc F/K/A Dade Public Education Fund In: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEmilyAnn Theatre Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetRocky Mountain Puppy Rescue: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetDrive a Senior Central Texas: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetFredericksburg Theater Company: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetKohala Animal Relocation & Education Service: $10,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetHawaii Children's Action Network: $7,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDurham Public Schools Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNorth Hawaii Hospice Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Daniel R Sayre Memorial Foundation: $4,400 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetThe Animal Protection Society of Durham: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 24.

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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.

Jm Greco FoundationIN13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jm Greco Foundation · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · Servant Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America

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.

Compare Thomas and Frances McGregor Foundation with peer funders

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About Thomas and Frances McGregor Foundation

How much does Thomas and Frances McGregor Foundation give?
Thomas and Frances McGregor Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $851,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Thomas and Frances McGregor Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (29%), Religion (28%), Health (16%).
Who are Thomas and Frances McGregor Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: City Center Outreach Inc ($440k), Get a Life Ministries Inc ($338k), Sober AF Entertainment Inc ($318k).
Does Thomas and Frances McGregor Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Thomas and Frances McGregor Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Thomas and Frances McGregor Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jm Greco Foundation, First Hawaiian Bank Foundation, Servant Foundation.
Where is Thomas and Frances McGregor Foundation based?
Thomas and Frances McGregor Foundation is based in PA.

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 44 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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