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Vince & Linda McMahon Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Vince & Linda McMahon Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$100k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.4MYouth Development$820kHuman Services$360kArts & Culture$170kHealth$117kHousing & Shelter$25k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$49k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF STAMFORD$100,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $351k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BULLARD FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $351k → 13%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.
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 6 repeat orgs$501k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
6

Total granted

$2.4M
$501k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+31%

Still filing today

67%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
HealthEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesOther
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

  • AF
    ACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +20%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF STAMFORD INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $800k · revenue +53%
  • GA
    GREENWICH ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATION INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $50k · revenue +120%

Funded once

  • BF
    BULLARD FAMILY FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $351k · revenue +63% · 38% of their budget
  • MARCH OF DIMES INC
    one grant, 2017 · $112k · revenue -41%
  • II
    INSPIRICA INC
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +15%
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.

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Children's Institute Inc

Joining together to raise every child's complete wellbeing.

Health
2
Beth Israel Hospital & Children's Hospital Medical Care Corporation

Pediatric healthcare, education & research

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3
Bigs & Littles Nyc Mentoring Inc

Bigs & littles nyc mentoring is a nonprofit community-based organization which transforms the lives of vulnerable nyc children and strengthens families through professionally guided one-to-one mentoring, life skills programming, and…

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4
Strategic Education Research Partnership Institute

The strategic education research partnership generates innovative, scalable solutions to our schools' most pressing problems through sustained collaborations among researchers, practitioners, and designers. we work to increase equity,…

Science & Tech
5
Massachusetts Association for Gifted Education Inc

The massachusetts association for gifted education (mage) advocates for equitable access to appropriate education for gifted and high-potential learners across the commonwealth. we bring together parents, educators, and policymakers to…

Education
6
The Committee for Hispanic Children and Families Inc

The organization is dedicated to combining education and advocacy to expand opportunities for children and families in order to strengthen the voice of the latino community based on the belief that the most effective way to support latino…

Human Services
7
New York Hall of Science

Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…

Arts & Culture
8
Harlem Children's Zone Inc

We enhance the life for children and families in some of nyc's most devastated neighborhoods.

Human Services
9
Children's Aid College Prep Charter School

Prepare elementary & middle school students for success in high school, college & life.

Education
10
Futures Ignite Inc

We amplify youth and community power by inspiring, guiding, and advocating for youth to determine their college, career, and leadership futures.

Human Services
11
Complete Playground Inc

Complete playground is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing inclusive child, teen, and family development by bringing together neurodivergent and neurotypical children, teenagers, and their families in a shared environment of…

Recreation & Sports
12
The Connecticut Women's Consortium Inc

The mission of the connecticut women's consortium is to ensure that the behavioral health system responds to the needs of women and the people and organization that affect them.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Achievement First Inc; the most unlike its peers is Kids in Crisis Inc. 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

12 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.

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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
10/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC: $1,320,000 · EducationACHIEVEMENT FIRST INCGREENWICH ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATION INC: $50,000 · EducationBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF STAMFORD INC: $800,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF STAMFORD INCCONNECTICUT COALITION FOR ACHIEVEMENT NOW INC: $75,000 · OtherCONNECTICUT COALITION FOR ACHIEVEM…+2 more: $30,000 · OtherBULLARD FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $351,001 · Human ServicesBULLARD FAMIL…CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE ARTS INC: $170,000 · Arts & CultureMARCH OF DIMES INC: $111,855 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $5,000 · Health+1 more: $3,500 · HealthKIDS IN CRISIS INC: $20,000 · Youth Development
Education$1,370,000Other$905,000Human Services$351,001Arts & Culture$170,000Health$120,355Youth Development$20,000

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 budgetACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC: $1,320,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF STAMFORD INC: $800,000 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetBULLARD FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $351,001 over 1y, 38% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE ARTS INC: $170,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetCONNECTICUT COALITION FOR ACHIEVEMENT NOW INC: $75,000 over 3y, 37% of budgetGREENWICH ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetINSPIRICA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKIDS IN CRISIS INC: $20,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetThe Center For Empowerment And Education Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEROES IN TRANSITION INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

Fairfield County's Co…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Vince & Linda McMahon Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vince & Linda McMahon Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Inspirica Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Stamford Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Greenwich Alliance for Education Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Heroes in Transition Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Achievement First Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report 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 Vince & Linda McMahon Family Foundation Inc 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 12 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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