Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
MARGARET MCNAMARA EDUCATION GRANTS
MARGARET MCNAMARA EDUCATION GRANTS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $844,470 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($621,507). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $492k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $844k
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Margaret McNamara Education Grants does
Mission
To award education grants to exceptional women from developing countries who are at least 25 years old and enrolled at universities in the u.s., canada, and select universities in europe, south africa and latin america.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In fy25, mmeg awarded 38 grants to outstanding women attending a variety of universities, including 13 women attending universities in the us and canada, 12 in south africa, 3 in europe, and 10 in latin america.
$363,110 spentof which $320,500 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $363,110.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $2.5M to $1.8M (−28%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $24k → $129k.
4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 80% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of MARGARET MCNAMARA EDUCATION GRANTS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
MARGARET MCNAMARA EDUCATION GRANTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
87% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund MARGARET MCNAMARA EDUCATION GRANTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 100% · 2019 47% · 2020 39% · 2021 84% · 2022 90% · 2023 87% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
80% of MARGARET MCNAMARA EDUCATION GRANTS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $173k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $672k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like MARGARET MCNAMARA EDUCATION GRANTS
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
65%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MARGARET MCNAMARA EDUCATION GRANTS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MARGARET MCNAMARA EDUCATION GRANTS?
- MARGARET MCNAMARA EDUCATION GRANTS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $844,470 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($621,507). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MARGARET MCNAMARA EDUCATION GRANTS have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $844,470 in grants to MARGARET MCNAMARA EDUCATION GRANTS, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARGARET MCNAMARA EDUCATION GRANTS?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $621,507 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARGARET MCNAMARA EDUCATION GRANTS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing