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Dale & Nancy McGhee Foundation Inc at a glance

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Dale & Nancy McGhee 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.

$25k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Animals$41kHealth$24kEducation$14kReligion$8kFood & Nutrition$8kRecreation & Sports$6kInternational$6kPhilanthropy$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$417k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$2,500
ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY$2,500
PETA$2,500
SPCA OF MARTINSVILLE & HENRY COUNTY$2,500
ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION$2,500
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$2,500
NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE$2,500
FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN$2,500
HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS$2,500
AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION$2,500
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 69% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%OPERATION UNDERGROUND: $3k → 10%NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE: $3k → 6%HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS: $3k → 14%CURE INTERNATIONAL: $3k → 8%HEARTY HOG VETERANS BBQ CAMP: $3k → 12%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPIT: $1k → 17%ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION: $3k → 8%JACKS FURRYTAIL RESCUES: $3k → 11%ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY: $5k → 12%VICTORY JUNCTION: $3k → 14%FORSYTH HUMANE SOCIETY OF NC: $5k → 15%SUSIE'S HOPE: $3k → 16%COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL: $3k → 9%GREATER GOOD CHARITIES: $5k → 9%SHRINERS CHILDREN'S: $1k → 14%CIRCLE OF HOPE PROGRAM: $3k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $3k → 8%SPCA OF MARTINSVILLE & HENRY COUNTY: $5k → 17%PETA: $3k → 19%NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE: $2k → 6%ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION: $3k → 8%JACKS FURRYTAIL RESCUES: $3k → 11%ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY: $3k → 12%FEEDING THE CAROLINAS: $5k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $3k → 8%SPCA OF MARTINSVILLE & HENRY COUNTY: $3k → 17%ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION: $3k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $2k → 8%SPCA OF MARTINSVILLE-HENRY COUNTY: $2k → 17%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $3k → 8%SPCA OF MARTINSVILLE & HENRY COUNTY: $1k → 17%ST MARY'S COLLEGE: $3k → 8%SPCA OF MARTINSVILLE-HENRY COUNTY: $1k → 17%ST MARY'S COLLEGE: $3k → 8%FIELDALE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $2k → 17%ST MARY'S COLLEGE: $2k → 8%FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH: $6k → 17%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $3k → 8%COLLINSVILLE VOL FIRE DEPARTMENT: $500 → 17%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $3k → 8%SALVATION ARMY: $500 → 17%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $3k → 8%COMMUNITY STOREHOUSE MARTINHENRY: $2k → 17%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $2k → 8%COMMUNITY STOREHOUSE MARTINHENRY: $1k → 17%FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN: $3k → 8%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

WA
IL
MI
NY
CA
CO
VA
TN
NC
DC
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.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$65k · 10 repeat orgs$57k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
16

Total granted

$65k
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+16%

Still filing today

40%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
AnimalsHealthInternationalFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • MH
    MARTINSVILLE HENRY COUNTY SPCA
    3× · 2023–2025 · $9k · revenue +110%
  • AH
    ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $8k · revenue +53%
  • NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC
    2× · 2023–2025 · $4k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • FB
    FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2019 · $6k
  • FH
    Forsyth Humane Society
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -12%
  • GG
    GREATER GOOD CHARITIES
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -44%
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
Humane World for Animals International

HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…

Animals
2
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…

Animals
3
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
4
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
5
Hope for China Dogs Rescue

At Hope for China Dogs, we are committed to combating the cruel and inhumane practice of the dog meat trade in China. We believe that every dog deserves to live a life free from pain and suffering, and we are dedicated to rescuing and…

Animals
6
Cherokee County Humane Society

Prevention of animal cruelty.

Animals
7
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
8
Humane Farm Animal Care

Every farmer and rancher participating in the Certified Humane program had to modify their operations to meet the Animal Care Standards and be certified. Schedule O

Animals
9
Charleston Animal Society

Since its founding, our mission has always stayed the same: the prevention of cruelty to animals. in 1874, charleston animal society became the first animal organization in south carolina and one of the first in the nation and has never…

Animals
10
600 Million Stray Dogs Need You Corporation

To end the #1 cause of suffering and death for dogs and cats globally, by developing food that will spay and neuter them, without surgery and end the overpopulation problem without killing.

Animals
11
The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.

Animals
12
Lucky Dog Animal Rescue

Lucky dog animal rescue is a volunteer-powered nonprofit dedicated to rescuing homeless, neglected, and abandoned animals from certain euthanasia and finding them loving forever homes. we educate the community and all pet owners on…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Asheville Humane Society Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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

16 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. 16 of the 31 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
8/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION: $8,000 · OtherALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATIONST MARY'S COLLEGE: $7,000 · OtherST MARY'S COLLEGEUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $7,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIAJACKS FURRYTAIL RESCUES: $5,500 · OtherJACKS FURRYTAIL RESCUESFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH: $5,500 · OtherFIRST BAPTIST CHURCHOPERATION UNDERGROUND: $3,000 · OtherOPERATION UNDERGROUNDSPCA OF MARTINSVILLE-HENRY COUNTY: $2,500 · OtherHEARTY HOG VETERANS BBQ CAMP: $2,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY STOREHOUSE MARTINHENRY: $2,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $2,500 · OtherCIRCLE OF HOPE PROGRAM: $2,500 · OtherFIELDALE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $2,000 · Other+3 more: $2,000 · OtherMARTINSVILLE HENRY COUNTY SPCA: $8,500 · AnimalsMARTINSVILLE HENRY COUNTY SPCAASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $7,500 · AnimalsASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INCForsyth Humane Society: $5,000 · AnimalsForsyth Humane SocietyNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC: $4,000 · AnimalsNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMER…Humane World for Animals Inc: $2,500 · AnimalsHumane World for Animals IncSUSIE'S HOPE: $2,500 · AnimalsSUSIE'S HOPEPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC: $2,500 · AnimalsPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATME…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $12,500 · HealthAMERICAN CANCE…American Diabetes Association: $2,500 · HealthAmerican Diabe…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDR…Feeding the Carolinas: $5,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC: $2,500 · Food & NutritionCURE INTERNATIONAL INC: $3,000 · InternationalCompassion International Incorporated: $2,500 · InternationalGREATER GOOD CHARITIES: $5,000 · PhilanthropyVICTORY JUNCTION GANG CAMP INC: $3,000 · Youth Development
Other$52,500Animals$32,500Health$16,000Food & Nutrition$7,500International$5,500Philanthropy$5,000Youth Development$3,000

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 budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMARTINSVILLE HENRY COUNTY SPCA: $8,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetForsyth Humane Society: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER GOOD CHARITIES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding the Carolinas: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCURE INTERNATIONAL INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVICTORY JUNCTION GANG CAMP INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUSIE'S HOPE: $2,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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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 Dale & Nancy McGhee Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dale & Nancy McGhee Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s 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 · 0–20%
    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 31 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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