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Brian a McCarthy Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$400k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$880kCivil Rights$725kCommunity Improvement$360kHousing & Shelter$245kArts & Culture$225kCrime & Legal$200kHuman Services$95kYouth Development$90kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $375k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$9.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH$75,000
ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC$75,000
WGBH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$75,000
CENTER FOR HIV LAW AND POLICY$50,000
ALI FORNEY CENTER$50,000
IM FROM DRIFTWOOD INC$50,000
IM FROM DRIFTWOOD INC$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%UNLOCAL INC: $50k → 17%UNLOCAL INC: $50k → 17%UNLOCAL INC: $40k → 17%UNLOCAL INC: $30k → 17%UNLOCAL INC: $30k → 17%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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of Brian a McCarthy Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Brian a McCarthy Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 13 repeat orgs$185k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
5

Total granted

$2.7M
$185k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+9%

Still filing today

77%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureEducationHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • IF
    IM FROM DRIFTWOOD
    7× · 2019–2025 · $385k · revenue +56%
  • NATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIC INNOVATION IN
    7× · 2019–2025 · $360k · revenue +426%
  • CH
    COMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $300k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • CN
    COUNTER NARRATIVE PROJECTEQUITY FOUNDATION OF GEORGIA
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • EF
    EQUALITY FOUNDATION OF GA INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +9%
  • TS
    THE SAN DIEGO LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue +22%
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.

1
Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center Inc

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…

Human Services
2
3 Kings Project

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.

Civil Rights
3
Carribean Equality Project Inc

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.

Human Services
4
The American Museum of Lesbian Gay Bisexual & Transgender History & Culture

Celebrate cultures of lgbtq+ people

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5
Legacy Community Health Services Inc

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."

Health
6
New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project

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…

—
7
Atlanta Black Pride Inc

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.

Civil Rights
8
Interpride

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…

Education
9
Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund Inc

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,…

Civil Rights
10
National Black Justice Collective

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.

Human Services
11
Los Angeles Lgbt Center

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…

—
12
The Attic Youth Center

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…

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bailey House Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH: $325,000 · HealthTHE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCHCOMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT INC: $300,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT INCELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 · HealthELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INCBAILEY HOUSE INC: $75,000 · HealthBAILEY HOUSE INCTHE SAN DIEGO LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER: $40,000 · HealthIM FROM DRIFTWOOD: $385,000 · Civil RightsIM FROM DRIFTWOODSAN DIEGO LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER PRIDE INC: $120,000 · Civil RightsSAN DIEGO LESBIAN GAY …EQUALITY FOUNDATION OF GA INC: $50,000 · Civil RightsEQUALITY FOUNDATION OF…NATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIC INNOVATION IN: $360,000 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL CENTE…SAN DIEGO LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER: $145,000 · OtherSAN DIEGO LGBT…COUNTER NARRATIVE PROJECTEQUALITY FOUNDATION OF GEORGIA: $120,000 · OtherCOUNTER NARRAT…COUNTER NARRATIVE PROJECTEQUITY FOUNDATION OF GEORGIA: $50,000 · OtherCOUNTER NARRAT…GLOBAL ACTION PROJECT INC: $30,000 · OtherGLOBAL ACTION …THE HIV LEAGUE: $15,000 · OtherWGBH Educational Foundation: $225,000 · Arts & CultureALI FORNEY CENTER INC: $220,000 · Housing & ShelterUNLOCAL INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesBlack Gifted Whole Inc: $65,000 · Education
Health$865,000Civil Rights$555,000Community Improvement$360,000Other$360,000Arts & Culture$225,000Housing & Shelter$220,000Human Services$200,000Education$65,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIM FROM DRIFTWOOD: $385,000 over 7y, 23% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIC INNOVATION IN: $360,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH: $325,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT INC: $300,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation: $225,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALI FORNEY CENTER INC: $220,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetUNLOCAL INC: $200,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSAN DIEGO LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER PRIDE INC: $120,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetBAILEY HOUSE INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEQUALITY FOUNDATION OF GA INC: $50,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetTHE SAN DIEGO LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER: $40,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE HIV LEAGUE: $15,000 over 1y, 13% 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.

The Elizabeth Taylor …Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS FoundationCA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Brian a McCarthy Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brian a McCarthy Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 18 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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