Macdonald Family Foundation
Los Angeles, CA · EIN 95-4396044. Reported 52 grants totalling $6,656,487 to 51 recipients across tax years 2024. This foundation told the IRS it does not accept unsolicited requests: it contributes only to organizations it selects itself.
Does this foundation accept applications?
No -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation to check a box if it "only makes contributions to preselected charitable organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests for funds". Macdonald Family Foundation checked it on its most recent filing, as 78% of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered did. An unsolicited request is unlikely to go anywhere.
Organizations it funds that make grants of their own
3 of the organizations Macdonald Family Foundation funded make grants themselves, and it reported 4 grants totalling $5,059,987 to them. That is 80% of the $6,352,987 of its giving we could match to a registered organization. Each is classified by the IRS as a philanthropy or grantmaking organization, reported grants to at least 25 organizations of its own, and has at least 10 funders behind it.
All of them file Form 990, which never asks whether an organization funds only groups it picks, so there is no answer on record either way.
What that does not mean. It does not mean an application to any of them reaches this foundation's money. A private foundation's grant to a community foundation or a federated campaign is often a donor-advised fund or a gift designated for a purpose the foundation chose, and has nothing to do with any open programme the receiving organization runs. Its return's purpose text sometimes names a family fund or a designated purpose, which is the plainest case of money no applicant can reach; where it names none, neither return says which. The list is who this foundation paid that also makes grants. Whether any of them would fund you is a question for its own page.
| Grantmaker | Kind | State | Received | Grants | Years | Last | Only funds organizations it picks? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Barbara Foundation | community foundation | California | $4,999,987 | 2 | 1 | 2024 | Its form does not ask |
| Tim Tebow Foundation Inc | grantmaking organization | Florida | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 | Its form does not ask |
| United Way of Santa Barbara County Inc | federated giving programme | California | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 | Its form does not ask |
A floor, not a full list. A grantmaker appears here only where this foundation's return named it clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows, and only where that grantmaker has a page on this site. There may be more. Dollars here are summed by EIN across every spelling on its returns, so a figure can differ from the matching row in the full list below, which groups names as written. And the IRS classification cannot tell a grantmaker from a funders' association or a donor-advised fund sponsor, so a payment to one of these may be dues or an account rather than support for a grants programme.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $25,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $18,000 and $50,000; the smallest was $7,500 and the largest $4,703,434.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Barbara Foundation | Santa Barbara, CA | $4,999,987 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rape Abuse & Incest National Network | Washington, DC | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Richmond Wildlife Center | Richmond, VA | $80,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| River City Inclusive Gymnastics Inc | Henrico, VA | $80,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Grey Muzzle Organization | Raleigh, NC | $73,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Happy Doggo US | Ames, IA | $73,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| South Florida Wildlife Center | Fort Lauderdale, FL | $73,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Wildlife Rescue & Rehabilitation Inc | Kendalia, TX | $73,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Charity Water | Franklin, TN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Peachtree Presbyterian Pre-School | Atlanta, GA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Surfrider Foundation | San Clemente, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Westminster Schools Inc | Atlanta, GA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tim Tebow Foundation | Jacksonville, FL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Laguna Blanca School | Santa Barbara, CA | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Dream Foundation | Santa Barbara, CA | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse | Santa Barbara, CA | $44,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Yosemite Conservancy | San Francisco, CA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Women for Women International | Washington, DC | $37,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Santa Barbara Police Foundation | Santa Barbara, CA | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Colonel Jf Toney Memorial Library | Erwin, TN | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rm Pyles Boys Camp | Valencia, CA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Atlanta Botanical Garden | Atlanta, GA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Atlanta-Fulton County Zoo Inc | Atlanta, GA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Breast Cancer Resource Center | Santa Barbara, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Charles River Alleycats Inc | Cambridge, MA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Gateway Education Center PTA | Santa Barbara, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Georgia Aquarium Inc | Atlanta, GA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Global Lyme Alliance Inc | New York, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hoag Hospital Foundation | Newport Beach, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Santa Barbara Region of Catholic Charities | Santa Barbara, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Art of Elysium | Los Angeles, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Coral Restoration Foundation Inc | Tavernier, FL | $24,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Santa Barbara School of Squash | Santa Barbara, CA | $22,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Regents of the University of California | Oakland, CA | $22,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Camp Hope of East Tennessee | Church Hill, TN | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fernbank Inc | Atlanta, GA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Special Olympics Tennessee Inc | Brentwood, TN | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Santa Barbara Youth Project | Santa Barbara, CA | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Direct Relief | Santa Barbara, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Santa Barbara Revels Inc | Santa Barbara, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Lobero Theater Foundation | Santa Barbara, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Youth With a Mission San Diegobaja | Chula Vista, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Court Appointed Special Advocates of Orange County | Orange, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Newport Harbor Football Boosters | Newport Beach, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| ONE805 Inc | Santa Barbara, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Santa Barbara Police Activities League | Santa Barbara, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St Andrew's Presbyterian Church | Newport Beach, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation | Santa Barbara, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| United Way of Santa Barbara County | Santa Barbara, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Storyteller Children's Center Inc | Santa Barbara, CA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Newport Harbor Athletic Foundation | Newport Beach, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Santa Barbara Foundation
GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSES
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 38 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Where its money goes
84% of its giving went to organizations in California.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more. Unlike this foundation, none of them is on record as funding only organizations it picks, and each page says what its filings show.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Macdonald Family Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 400 S Hope Street 1300, Los Angeles, CA, 90071. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS.
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