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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 FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$290k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% 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
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $501k
  • $250k+1 grant · $290k
$197,900
Median grant
5
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITY CENTER$290,400
GET A LIFE MINISTRIES INC$248,100
SOBER AF ENTERTAINMENT$197,900
C7 HUMAN TRAFFICKING COALITION - BOB'S HOUSE OF HOPE$55,000
Individual grant recipient$35,000
BLACKLAND PRAIRIE RAPTOR CENTER$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 (FY20–25, $763k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 58% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CITY CENTER: $290k → 16%SOBER AF ENTERTAINMENT: $198k → 12%CITY CENTER: $150k → 16%SOBER AF ENTERTAINMENT: $50k → 12%SOBER AF ENTERTAINMENT: $25k → 12%SOBER AF ENTERTAINMENT: $25k → 12%SOBER AF ENTERTAINMENT: $20k → 12%NORTH HAWAII HOSPICE: $5k → 15%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

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

Who it funds again

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

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 12 repeat orgs$543k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +65% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
29

Total granted

$1.5M
$428k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+25%

Still filing today

75%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SA
    Sober AF Entertainment Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $318k · revenue +179% · 32% of their budget
  • AD
    ALEXANDER & DUKE DE REGO FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $60k · revenue +139% · 65% of their budget
  • KC
    KAWAIHAE CANOE CLUB INC
    3× · 2019–2022 · $55k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • OS
    Oklahoma State Troopers Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -98%
  • HC
    HILL COUNTRY COMMUNITY NEEDS COUNCILgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +44%
  • HV
    HONOR VETERANS NOWgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +38%
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
Humane Society of Harris County

Humane Society of Harris County's mission remains steadfast: to provide high-quality adoption, transport, foster, Trap, neuter, release, and pet food pantry services to our community. Yet, with a fresh perspective and a renewed passion,…

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2
Kauai Humane Society Inc

To ensure compassionate, informed care of all animals on kauai, to promote the human-animal bond, to operate a shelter providing temporary care of animals and to educate the community on proper care & treatment of animals.

Animals
3
Humane Animal Partners

Founded in 2023, humane animal partners is a nonprofit no-kill animal care and adoption center. we are committed to providing for the needs of homeless and owned dogs and cats in our community. we make "friends for life" by connecting…

Animals
4
Dfw Humane Society of Irving Inc

Provide food, shelter and care for homeless, unwanted, pets. give pets a second chance by adoption. pay medical bills incoming injured animals, assist pet owners with free spay/neuter and medical appointments at veterinarians. educate thr…

Animals
5
Humane Society of Navarro County

Provides spaying/neutering services to reduce pet overpopulation.

Animals
6
Hawaii Pet Network Inc

The organization rescues unwanted, injured, and neglected animals and rehomes them into forever homes. the organization promotes the benefits or spaying & neutering pets, educates the community about the humane treatment of animals, and is…

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7
Frisco Humane Society

Frisco Humane Society (FHS) is an all-volunteer, all-foster home based, no kill animal rescue organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for unwanted, homeless or abused animals. FHS provides temporary foster care and medical…

Animals
8
Happy Paws Haven Co

Happy Paws Haven Co. is a foster based animal rescue agency that helps animals in need.

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9
Ho'ola Na Pua

Ho'ola na pua is committed to the prevention of sex trafficking and providing care for children who have been exploited.

Human Services
10
Hawaii Public Radio

The mission of hawai'i public radio is to serve the people of hawai'i by informing with essential news, inspiring through the power of music and the arts, and connecting through conversations and convenings.

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11
Honolulu Police Relief Association

The honolulu police relief association is committed to providing support to its members and to foster the spirit of 'ohana (family).

Membership Benefit
12
Helotes Humane Society

Rescue and place abandoned and unwanted pets. Provide low cost spay / neuter. Provide low-cost microchips. Provide community education.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawaii Children's Action Network; the most unlike its peers is Rocky Mountain Puppy Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 44 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/26
Grantees still filing
16/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

City Center Outreach Inc: $440,400 · Human ServicesCity Center Outreach IncSober AF Entertainment Inc: $317,900 · Human ServicesSober AF Entertainment Inc+2 more: $20,000 · Human ServicesST JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $125,000 · OtherST JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCHUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA: $59,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINAC7 HUMAN TRAFFICKING COALITION - BOB'S HOUSE OF HOPE: $55,000 · OtherC7 HUMAN TRAFFICKING COALITION - …HILL COUNTRY COMMUNITY NEEDS COUNCIL: $50,000 · OtherHILL COUNTRY COMMUNITY NEEDS COUN…Individual grant recipient: $35,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBLACKLAND PRAIRIE RAPTOR CENTER: $25,000 · OtherCODE OF VETS INC: $25,000 · OtherHONOR VETERANS NOW: $25,000 · Other+17 more: $205,500 · Other+17 moreGET A LIFE MINISTRIES INC: $338,100 · ReligionGET A LIFE MINISTR…KAWAIHAE CANOE CLUB INC: $55,000 · EducationDURHAM ACADEMY INC: $29,000 · EducationPARKER SCHOOL: $20,000 · EducationTHE EDUCATION FUND INC F/K/A DADE PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND IN: $15,000 · EducationHAWAII CHILDREN'S ACTION NETWORK: $7,000 · EducationDURHAM PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationALEXANDER & DUKE DE REGO FOUNDATION: $60,000 · Public Safety & DisasterOklahoma State Troopers Foundation Inc: $50,000 · Public Safety & DisasterThe Daniel R Sayre Memorial Foundation: $4,400 · Public Safety & DisasterHILL COUNTRY ANIMAL LEAGUE SPCA INC: $15,000 · AnimalsRocky Mountain Puppy Rescue: $10,000 · AnimalsKOHALA ANIMAL RELOCATION & EDUCATION SERVICE: $10,000 · Animals+1 more: $1,000 · AnimalsHamakua Youth Foundation Inc: $25,000 · Youth Development
Human Services$778,300Other$604,500Religion$338,100Education$131,000Public Safety & Disaster$114,400Animals$36,000Youth Development$25,000

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

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
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.

Jm Greco FoundationFirst Hawaiian Bank F…Servant FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…Raymond James Charita…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Charities Aid Foundat…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Thomas and Frances McGregor Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thomas and Frances McGregor Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The Education Fund Inc F/K/a Dade Public Education Fund in: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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 Thomas and Frances McGregor Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Thomas and Frances McGregor 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 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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