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Cathleen McFarlane Foundation Inc at a glance

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Cathleen McFarlane 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.

$1.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
42
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$199k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$4.7MHousing & Shelter$1.4MYouth Development$1.3MPhilanthropy$1.3MAnimals$836kHealth$528kEducation$510kRecreation & Sports$473kOther$0
02FY2025 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $387k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.3M
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$34M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PROJECT LIFT$199,000
HANLEY FOUNDATION$192,500
PLACE OF HOPE$130,016
CENTER FOR CHILD COUNSELING INC$98,876
FAITH HOPE LOVE AND CHARITY$90,000
PATH TO COLLEGE$80,400
ADOPT-A-FAMILY$75,000
STUDENT ACES$74,000
WOUNDED VETERANS RELIEF FUND$70,000
TOWN OF PALM BEACH UNITED WAY$65,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF PALM BEACH$52,000
HOLY GROUND SHELTER$51,800
EL SOL$50,000
ACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN$50,000
PASADENA HUMANE$50,000
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 (FY19–25, $2.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FERN HOUSE: $25k → 11%COVENANT HOUSE: $35k → 13%FERN HOUSE: $20k → 11%COVENANT HOUSE: $35k → 13%FERN HOUSE: $15k → 11%HOMELESS COALITION OF PALM BEACH CO: $40k → 11%HOMELESS COALITION OF PALM BEACH CO: $30k → 11%HOMELESS COALITION OF PALM BEACH CO: $30k → 11%TRIANGLE CLUB: $23k → 11%TRIANGLE CLUB: $20k → 11%TRIANGLE CLUB: $20k → 11%TRIANGLE CLUB: $20k → 11%EL SOL: $50k → 11%EL SOL: $45k → 11%EL SOL: $40k → 11%EL SOL: $40k → 11%EL SOL: $39k → 11%EL SOL: $35k → 11%HOMELESS COALITION OF PALM BEACH CO: $550 → 11%BELLA'S ANGELS: $5k → 11%VITA NOVA: $28k → 11%THE TRUSTBRIDGE FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%WOUNDED VETERANS RELIEF FUND: $75k → 11%WOUNDED VETERANS RELIEF FUND: $75k → 11%WOUNDED VETERANS RELIEF FUND: $70k → 11%WOUNDED VETERANS RELIEF FUND: $65k → 11%WOUNDED VETERANS RELIEF FUND: $64k → 11%WOUNDED VETERANS RELIEF FUND: $50k → 11%PATHWAYS TO PROSPERITY: $50k → 11%PLACE OF HOPE: $206k → 11%PLACE OF HOPE: $195k → 11%PLACE OF HOPE: $190k → 11%PLACE OF HOPE: $183k → 11%PLACE OF HOPE: $138k → 11%PLACE OF HOPE: $130k → 11%PLACE OF HOPE: $120k → 11%PAWS 4 LIBERTY: $30k → 11%PAWS 4 LIBERTY: $25k → 11%PAWS 4 LIBERTY: $25k → 11%PAWS 4 LIBERTY: $25k → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
WY
IA
CA
KY
MD
TN
DC
TX
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 57 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

57 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
32

Total granted

$11M
$940k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+16%

Still filing today

60%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $249k 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
AnimalsHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • PO
    PLACE OF HOPE INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +56%
  • PL
    PROJECT LIFT INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +281%
  • SA
    Student Aces Inc
    6× · 2019–2025 · $408k · revenue +248%

Funded once

  • SH
    SACRED HEART SCHOOL
    one grant, 2019 · $205k
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -47%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR FAMILY SEREVICES
    one grant, 2024 · $65k
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
Tri County Humane Society

Tri-county animal rescue is a no-kill, nonprofit animal shelter working to prevent the killing of over 573,000 unwanted pets in broward, miami-dade, and palm beach counties. tri-county has no boundaries; we go all over the u.s. whenever we…

Animals
2
Pet Rescue Miami Inc
Animals
3
Harbor House of Central Florida Inc

Harbor house strives to prevent and break the cycle of domestic abuse through empowerment-based programs, advocacy, education, and community involvement.

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4
Humane Society of Tampa Bay Inc

The Humane Society of Tampa Bay is dedicated to ending animal homelessness and providing care and comfort for companion animals in need. Our vision is "Leading the way because every life counts". In 2025, we saved 10,631 animals.

Animals
5
Saving Paws Rescue of Florida Inc

To assist in the medical care, misc care and rehoming of animals that do not have a home

Animals
6
Suncoast Humane Societyinc

Our mission is to encourage, honor and support the human-animal bond in the suncoast region of florida. our vision is to celebrate a community whose pets are safe and loved. suncoast humane society provides sheltering, prevention and…

Animals
7
Humane Society of Vero Beach and Indian River County Inc

None

Animals
8
Florida Pointer Rescue Inc

Rescue pointer dogs and treat back to health and f

Animals
9
Blue Waters Dog Rescue

We are a non-profit organization dedicated to helping animals in need. Our focus is on rescuing and rehabilitating animals. We provide the full curriculum of care for each dog rescued, This includes: shelter, food, spaying & neutering,…

Animals
10
Jacksonville Humane Society Inc

The jacksonville humane society provides care, comfort and compassion to animals in need while engaging the hearts, hands and minds of our community to bring about an end to the killing of abandoned and orphaned shelter animals.

Animals
11
Second Chance Pet Adoptions Inc

To champion homeless cats and dogs who are healthy or treatable in the quest to find their forever homes and engage with our community to provide responsible pet ownership reducing future generations of homeless animals.

Animals
12
Barky Pines Animal Rescue & Sanctuary Incorporated

To rescue local animals in need, reduce pet overpopulation, and educate the communityespecially our youthon responsible animal care to help break the cycle of neglect. We are committed to supporting Palm Beach as a no-kill county and…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Olive Crest; the most unlike its peers is Hanley 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

61 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. 61 of the 103 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/61
Grantees still filing
37/61
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FAITH HOPE LOVE AND CHARITY: $756,572 · OtherFAITH HOPE LOVE AND CHARITYHOLY GROUND SHELTER: $351,689 · OtherHOLY GROUND SHELTERST ANN PLACE: $314,600 · OtherST ANN PLACECATHOLIC CHARITIES OF PALM BEACH: $256,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF PALM BEACHCARP: $205,900 · OtherSACRED HEART SCHOOL: $205,000 · OtherAdopt a Family Inc: $635,000 · OtherAdopt a Family IncSUNSET HOUSE INC: $162,675 · Other+53 more: $1,810,986 · Other+53 morePLACE OF HOPE INC: $1,161,626 · Human ServicesPLACE OF HOPE INCWOUNDED VETERANS RELIEF FUND INC: $398,500 · Human ServicesWOUNDED VETERANS RELIE…El Sol Jupiters Neighborhood Resource Center Inc: $249,000 · Human ServicesEl Sol Jupiters Neighb…PAWS 4 LIBERTY INC: $105,000 · Human ServicesHOMELESS COALITION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $100,550 · Human ServicesTRIANGLE CLUB INC: $82,500 · Human Services+7 more: $259,220 · Human Services+7 morePROJECT LIFT INC: $1,117,000 · Youth DevelopmentPROJECT LIFT…Jack The Bike Man Inc: $148,743 · Youth DevelopmentJack The Bik…+1 more: $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentHANLEY FOUNDATION: $880,000 · PhilanthropyHANLEY FOUN…Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc: $165,000 · PhilanthropyTown of Pal…UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY …+2 more: $34,000 · PhilanthropyStudent Aces Inc: $408,261 · EducationStudent A…CENTER FOR CHILD COUNSELING INC: $362,628 · EducationCENTER FO…PATH TO COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $145,400 · EducationPATH TO C…CANCER ALLIANCE OF HELP AND HOPE INC: $69,500 · EducationCANCER AL…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $40,000 · EducationTHE DARBSTER FOUNDATION INC: $153,060 · AnimalsTHE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC: $140,000 · AnimalsPalm Beach Island Cats Inc: $130,000 · AnimalsBIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC: $90,000 · AnimalsPASADENA HUMANE: $50,000 · AnimalsPet Cottage Inc: $33,000 · AnimalsTHE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF THE PALM BEACHES INC: $30,000 · AnimalsWORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION: $26,600 · Animals+6 more: $71,700 · AnimalsTHE LORD'S PLACE INC: $655,010 · Housing & ShelterCITY HOUSE - DELRAY BEACH INC: $51,210 · Housing & Shelter
Other$4,698,422Human Services$2,356,396Youth Development$1,271,743Philanthropy$1,179,000Education$1,025,789Animals$724,360Housing & Shelter$706,220

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPLACE OF HOPE INC: $1,161,626 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetPROJECT LIFT INC: $1,117,000 over 7y, 11% of budgetHANLEY FOUNDATION: $880,000 over 7y, 73% of budgetTHE LORD'S PLACE INC: $655,010 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetStudent Aces Inc: $408,261 over 6y, 8.3% of budgetWOUNDED VETERANS RELIEF FUND INC: $398,500 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetCENTER FOR CHILD COUNSELING INC: $362,628 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetEl Sol Jupiters Neighborhood Resource Center Inc: $249,000 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc: $165,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSUNSET HOUSE INC: $162,675 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetTHE DARBSTER FOUNDATION INC: $153,060 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetJack The Bike Man Inc: $148,743 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetPATH TO COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $145,400 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetTHE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC: $140,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetPalm Beach Island Cats Inc: $130,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetThe Society of the Four Arts Inc: $120,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPAWS 4 LIBERTY INC: $105,000 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetHOMELESS COALITION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $100,550 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC: $90,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTRIANGLE CLUB INC: $82,500 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA INC: $70,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCANCER ALLIANCE OF HELP AND HOPE INC: $69,500 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetTHE HOUSE OF HOPE INC: $61,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFERN HOUSE INC: $60,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetCITY HOUSE - DELRAY BEACH INC: $51,210 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetLOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCARIBBEAN AUTISM PROJECT INC: $50,000 over 5y, 89% of budgetKIDSANCTUARY CAMPUS INC: $45,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHospitality Helping Hands: $33,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetTHE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF THE PALM BEACHES INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVita Nova Inc: $27,720 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION: $26,600 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHER 2ND CHANCE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetCROSSROADS CLUB INC: $25,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR INNER CITY EDUCATION DBA PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR CREATIVE EDUCATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPAWS 2 HELP INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGolden Thread Initiative: $14,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetSanta Barbara Bucket Brigade: $13,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $11,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAVING HUEY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPassion for Paws Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetKUTCHER FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 1y, 11% 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.

  • Who funds PLACE OF HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT LIFT INC ↗
  • Who funds HANLEY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE LORD'S PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds Adopt a Family Inc ↗
  • Who funds Student Aces Inc ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED VETERANS RELIEF FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR CHILD COUNSELING INC ↗
  • Who funds El Sol Jupiters Neighborhood Resource Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc ↗
  • Who funds SUNSET HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE DARBSTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Jack The Bike Man Inc ↗
  • Who funds PATH TO COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC ↗
  • Who funds Palm Beach Island Cats Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Society of the Four Arts Inc ↗
  • Who funds PAWS 4 LIBERTY INC ↗
  • Who funds HOMELESS COALITION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY INC ↗
  • Who funds BIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds TRIANGLE CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds CANCER ALLIANCE OF HELP AND HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HOUSE OF HOPE INC ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Quantum Foundation IncThe Batchelor Foundat…Lost Tree Village Cha…United Way of Palm Be…Leslie L Alexander Fo…The Mary Alice Fortin…The Jim Moran Foundat…Ibis Charities Founda…The Chamber of Nonpro…Children's Healthcare…Allegany Franciscan M…
Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties IncFL44.5× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · Quantum Foundation Inc · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation · United Way of Palm Beach County Inc · Leslie L Alexander Foundation Inc · The Mary Alice Fortin Foundation · The Jim Moran Foundation Inc · Ibis Charities Foundation Inc · The Chamber of Nonprofit Health and Human Agencies in Palm Beach County Inc · Children's Healthcare Charity Inc · Allegany Franciscan Ministries Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 220%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Vita Nova Inc: 42% of income from government
  • The Lord's Place Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Center for Child Counseling Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Feeding South Florida Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Center for Creative Education: 2% of income from government
  • Covenant House Florida Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Jack the Bike Man Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Paws 2 Help Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Place of Hope Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
22get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 103 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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