· Private foundation
Elizabeth B McGraw Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k8 grants · $193k
- $50k–250k16 grants · $1.9M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UKANDU INC | $300,000 |
| CAPE KID MEALS INC | $275,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CAPE COD | $275,000 |
| CAPE COD HEALTH CARE INC | $250,000 |
| FIELD ARTS AND EVENTS CENTER | $200,000 |
| OLYMPIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| MUSIC WORKSHOP | $200,000 |
| BRIGHAM AND WOMENS HOSPTIAL | $200,000 |
| TOMMYS PLACE FOUNDATION INC | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND | $100,000 |
| GIRLS ON THE RUN WESTSOUND | $100,000 |
| BOSTON BALLET | $100,000 |
| METROPOLITAN OPERA ASSOCIATION INC | $100,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND | $100,000 |
| COTUIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC | $100,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $325k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 38% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
39 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $165k 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
UKANDU7× · 2018–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +517% · 65% of their budget- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CAPE COD INC4× · 2021–2024 · $825k · revenue +165%
- CKCAPE KID MEALS INC4× · 2021–2024 · $825k · revenue +173% · 31% of their budget
Funded once
- FAFIELD ARTS AND EVENTS ALL FOR PORT ANGELESone grant, 2022 · $200k
- WSWASHINGTON STATE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS ASSOgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue +423%
- BABRIGHAM AND WOMENS HOSPTIAL FOR LUPUS CENTERone grant, 2022 · $100k
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.
To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
The portland symphony orchestra (pso) serves our community by enriching lives through music. the pso strives for the highest possible level of artistic quality; inspires children and adults through music education and encourages lifelong…
The mission of the Bowdoin International Music Festival is to provide gifted young musicians from around the world with an opportunity to study with world-class artists, and to provide audiences with classical music performed to the…
Cape cod academy cultivates academic excellence and fosters a passion for life-long learning. our nurturing k-12 community is deeply rooted in our core values of scholarship, integrity, compassion, and respect. empowered by meaningful…
The BPO was formed in 1979 to provide opportunities for an evolving community of amateur student and professional players to perform together present challenging classical repertoire & enhance the publics awareness & understanding of this…
To present symphonic music of the highest quality in a distinctive way for the cultural enrichment, education, engagement and enjoyment of the people of our community.
To receive and hold the endowment of the north carolina symphony society, inc. (the "society"), solicit additions to the endowment, safeguard assets, and expend funds for the exclusive use and benefit of the society.
To foster an appreciation of the quality and diversity of life on cape ann, past and present; to further the knowledge and enjoyment of cape ann history and art; to collect and preserve significant information and artifacts; and to…
To present the highest-quality performances of great music, bringing national and international distinction to the orchestra and its community; to delight and educate audiences of all ages and backgrounds, and enhance the cultural vitality…
The general purpose of the organization is to promote chamber music concerts to the general public.
The mission of community music center is to make high-quality music accessible to people of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities, regardless of financial means. we believe in the power of music to connect people, celebrate cultures and…
The purpose of the cape cod & islands association of realtors, inc. ("cc&iaor") is to unite and serve those involved in the real estate industry in our region and work in concert with the massachusetts association of realtors and the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Benaroya Research Institute At Virginia. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
38 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. 38 of the 54 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 UKANDU ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CAPE COD INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE KID MEALS INC ↗
- Who funds Music Workshop ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND ↗
- Who funds HARBORSIDE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds OLYMPIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COTUIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds PUNTA GORDA SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds Jack The Bike Man Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND ↗
- Who funds BOSTON BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds THE CANNON THEATRE CORP ↗
- Who funds STETSON UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds IN CONCERT FOR CANCER ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON STATE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS ASSO ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Tommy's Place Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HOOD RIVER SENIOR CITIZENS INC ↗
- Who funds BENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF PENINSULA ↗
- Who funds SAM DAY FOUNDATION ↗
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: Cape Cod Foundation Inc · Cape & Coast Bank Foundation · Bilezikian Family Foundation Inc · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · School's Out Washington · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 Elizabeth B McGraw 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Columbia Gorge Childrens Advocacy Center — 12% of income from government
- Cape Cod Concert Band — 10% of income from government
- Music Workshop — 10% of income from government
- Grow Native Massachusetts Inc — 3% of income from government
- Oregon Health & Science University Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Cotuit Center for the Arts Inc — 1% of income from government
- Stetson University Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Ballet Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Jack the Bike Man Inc — 0% 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.
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