· Private foundation
Brian a McCarthy Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $375k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC | $75,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH | $75,000 |
| WGBH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| ALI FORNEY CENTER | $50,000 |
| CENTER FOR HIV LAW AND POLICY | $50,000 |
| IM FROM DRIFTWOOD INC | $50,000 |
| IM FROM DRIFTWOOD INC | $25,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $200k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Brian a McCarthy Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- IFIM FROM DRIFTWOOD7× · 2019–2025 · $385k · revenue +56%
NATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIC INNOVATION IN7× · 2019–2025 · $360k · revenue +227%- CHCOMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT INC6× · 2019–2024 · $300k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- CNCOUNTER NARRATIVE PROJECTEQUITY FOUNDATION OF GEORGIAone grant, 2020 · $50k
- EFEQUALITY FOUNDATION OF GA INCone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +9%
- TSTHE SAN DIEGO LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTERone grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue +22%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
EMPOWERING LGBT PEOPLE, BUILDING STRONG COMMUNITY. NEW YORK CITY'S LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, & TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER EMPOWERS PEOPLE TO LEAD HEALTHY, SUCCESSFUL LIVES. The Center celebrates our community and advocates for justice and…
3 Kings Project is at the forefront of driving positive representation and visibility in minority communities, with a mission to eradicate health inequities impacting Black and Brown LGBTQ populations.
The Caribbean Equality Project is an NYC-based community organization that empowers, advocates for, and represents Afro and Indo-Caribbean LGBTQ+ immigrants in New York City.
Celebrate cultures of lgbtq+ people
The mission of legacy community health services is, "driving healthy change in our communities." our vision is, "connecting our communities to health every day, in every way."
The new york city gay and lesbian anti-violence project (avp) mission is to empower lgbtq and hiv-affected communities and allies to end all forms of violence through organizing and education, and support survivors through counseling and…
To educate, celebrate, promote self-empowerment and ensure that the social and cultural needs of LGBTQ+ individuals and families are met throughout the Atlanta Metropolitan area.
To contribute to the visibility and inclusion of diverse sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, and sex characteristics (sogiesc) communities. to connect, grow, and support pride platforms and networks globally. to assist…
Lambda legal defense and education fund, inc. is a national organization committed to achieving full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people, and anyone living with hiv through impact litigation,…
Our mission is to support the autonomy of Black LGBTQ+/SGL people, communities, and families by building community,changing hearts and minds, and advancing social justice.
Building a world where lgbt people thrive as healthy, equal and complete members of society. since its inception, the los angeles lgbt center (center) has been building a world where lgbt people thrive as healthy, equal and complete…
The attic youth center creates opportunities for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (lgbtq) youth to develop into healthy, independent, civic-minded adults within a safe and supportive community, and promotes the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bailey House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wgbh Educational Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 18 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 IM FROM DRIFTWOOD ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIC INNOVATION IN ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WGBH Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALI FORNEY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNLOCAL INC ↗
- Who funds ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER PRIDE INC ↗
- Who funds BAILEY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Black Gifted Whole Inc ↗
- Who funds EQUALITY FOUNDATION OF GA INC ↗
- Who funds THE SAN DIEGO LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL ACTION PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE HIV LEAGUE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Brian a McCarthy Foundation Inc 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.
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
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.