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Bill McCarty III Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$13k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182025.

Arts & Culture$677kReligion$78kEducation$10kCommunity Improvement$8kInternational$5kHuman Services$4kHousing & Shelter$2kHealth$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$8,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$8,000
NEW STAGE THEATRE$5,250
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 31%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%GRACEWATER: $2k → 37%GRACE WATER: $1k → 37%GRACEWATER: $1k → 37%GRACE WATER: $1k → 37%OPERATION SHOESTRING: $1k → 23%OPERATION SHOESTRING: $1k → 23%OPERATION SHOESTRING: $1k → 23%OPERATION SHOESTRING: $1k → 23%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$758k · 12 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
17

Total granted

$758k
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
0%

Still filing today

58%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureHousing & ShelterAnimalsHealthPhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • LE
    LEFLEUR EAST FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2023 · $8k · revenue +138%
  • G
    GRACEWATER
    4× · 2018–2023 · $5k · revenue +238%
  • MM
    MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $3k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • ZE
    ZION EPISCOPAL CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • SA
    ST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • SA
    ST ANYTHONY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $4k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Mississippi Museum of Art Foundation

Development of cultural and artistic enlightenment

2
Jobs for Mississippi Graduates Inc

Jmg's mission is to keep young people in school through graduation and provide work-based learning experiences that will lead to career advancement opportunities or to enroll in a postsecondary institution that leads to a rewarding career.

3
Mission Mississippi

To encourage and demonstrate grace in the body of christ across racial lines, so that communities throughout mississippi can see practical evidence of the gospel message.

Civil Rights
4
Mississippi Arts and Entertainment Center Inc

To promote mississippi arts and entertainment.

Arts & Culture
5
Methodist Foundation of Mississippi Inc

The foundation exists to cultivate and administer current and deferred gifts for the benefit of ms united methodist related institutions, agencies, local churches, and other ministries for charitable purposes and support and to educate…

Religion
6
Memphis Academy of Science and Engineeri

To produce lifelong learners, critical thinkers, effective communicators, and productive members of the global community

Education
7
Alabama School of Fine Arts Foundation

The foundation's purpose is to sponsor and encourage the efforts of the alabama school of fine arts. the school is the beneficiary of all gifts and charitable disbursements, and qualifies for such due to its not for profit status.

8
Missouri Southern Foundation

To provide financial support to missouri southern state university from donations from the public for scholarships, awards to students, departmental support, cultural activities, general college support and faculty development.

Education
9
Isidore Newman School

Newman inspires individual growth and academic excellence within an inclusive community committed to strong relationships and high expectations.

Education
10
Humane Society of South Mississippi

The mission of the humane society is to save and enhance the lives of pets through cooperative and innovative approaches to adoption, spay/neuter, sheltering and community engagement.

Animals
11
Mississippi Society for Disabilities Incorporated

To provide a broad spectrum of programs and program services to meet the needs of mississippi children and adults with disabilities, thus enabling them to achieve maximum independence and gain the greatest quility of life.

12
Stuart Hall

Live the words of catholic educator janet erskine stuart,"education is formation, not just information." faculty is dedicated to work with parents to help each child build a foundation for a life centered on a love of learning, desire to…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for Mississippi History and the most unlike its peers is St Anthony Scholarship Foundation. 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

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 29 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NEW STAGE INC — $670,237 · OtherNEW STAGE INCIndividual grant recipient — $36,000 · Other+19 more — $54,500 · Other+19 moreGRACEWATER — $5,000 · Human ServicesOPERATION SHOESTRING INC — $4,000 · Human ServicesLEFLEUR EAST FOUNDATION — $8,000 · Community ImprovementMISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INC — $3,000 · Arts & CultureINSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN JEWISH LIFE — $1,000 · Arts & CultureGRACE HOUSE INC — $1,750 · Housing & ShelterFOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI HISTORY — $1,000 · PhilanthropyST ANTHONY SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION — $1,000 · Education
Other$760,737Human Services$9,000Community Improvement$8,000Arts & Culture$4,000Housing & Shelter$1,750Philanthropy$1,000Education$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNEW STAGE INC — $670,237 over 6y, 19% of budgetLEFLEUR EAST FOUNDATION — $8,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetGRACEWATER — $5,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetOPERATION SHOESTRING INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGRACE HOUSE INC — $1,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST ANTHONY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONINC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI HISTORY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN JEWISH LIFE — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST ANTHONY SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetBALLET MISSISSIPPI INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY ANIMAL RESCUE & ADOPTION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds NEW STAGE INC
  • Who funds LEFLEUR EAST FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL
  • Who funds GRACEWATER
  • Who funds OPERATION SHOESTRING INC
  • Who funds MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INC
  • Who funds GRACE HOUSE INC
  • Who funds ST ANTHONY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONINC
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI HISTORY
  • Who funds INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN JEWISH LIFE
  • Who funds ST ANTHONY SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION
  • Who funds BALLET MISSISSIPPI INC
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ANIMAL RESCUE & ADOPTION INC
  • Who funds MAGNOLIA SPEECH SCHOOL

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Walker FoundationMS22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Walker Foundation · Community Foundation for Mississippi · Kathryn & Julian Wiener Fund · Selby and Richard McRae Foundation · Ergon Foundation Inc · The Dick Molpus Foundation · Phil Hardin Foundation · Mississippi Humanities Council Inc · Hf McCarty Jr Family Foundation · T H Etheridge Trust · Van Devender Family Foundation William Van Devender Trustee · American Endowment Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Bill McCarty III Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Bill McCarty III Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Bill McCarty III 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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