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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.

$3.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$6.6MArts & Culture$6.1MYouth Development$2.7MEducation$1.2MFood & Nutrition$825kHousing & Shelter$555kHuman Services$325kEnvironment$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $193k
  • $50k–250k16 grants · $1.9M
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.1M
$100,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
BRIGHAM AND WOMENS HOSPTIAL$200,000
MUSIC WORKSHOP$200,000
OLYMPIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$200,000
FIELD ARTS AND EVENTS CENTER$200,000
TOMMYS PLACE FOUNDATION INC$100,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND$100,000
GIRLS ON THE RUN WESTSOUND$100,000
IN CONCERT FOR CANCER$100,000
BOSTON BALLET$100,000
METROPOLITAN OPERA ASSOCIATION INC$100,000
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%TOMMYS PLACE FOUNDATION INC: $100k → 7%HOOD RIVER VALLEY ADULT CENTER: $50k → 10%WASHINGTON GORGE ACTION PROGRAMS: $20k → 10%TOMMYS PLACE FOUNDATION INC: $100k → 7%HOOD RIVER VALLEY ADULT CENTER: $35k → 10%HOOD RIVER VALLEY ADULT CENTER: $20k → 10%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
NY
MA
OR
DE
NC
DC
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$18M · 39 repeat orgs$823k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
10

Total granted

$18M
$658k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+100%

Still filing today

64%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $165k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionOther
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

  • UKANDU
    7× · 2018–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +517% · 65% of their budget
  • CK
    CAPE KID MEALS INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $825k · revenue +173% · 31% of their budget
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CAPE COD INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $825k · revenue +165%

Funded once

  • WS
    WASHINGTON STATE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS ASSOgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue +423%
  • FA
    FIELD ARTS AND EVENTS ALL FOR PORT ANGELES
    one grant, 2022 · $200k
  • BA
    BRIGHAM AND WOMENS HOSPTIAL FOR LUPUS CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
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
North Carolina Symphony Society Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
2
Portland Maine Symphony Orchestra

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…

Arts & Culture
3
Bowdoin International Music Festival

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…

Arts & Culture
4
Cape Cod Academy

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…

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5
Boston Philharmonic Orchestra Corporation

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…

Arts & Culture
6
Seattle Symphony Orchestra Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
7
North Carolina Symphony Foundation

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.

Arts & Culture
8
Cape Ann Museum Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
9
Hawaii Symphony Orchestra

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…

Arts & Culture
10
Bridgehampton Chamber Music Associates Inc

The general purpose of the organization is to promote chamber music concerts to the general public.

Arts & Culture
11
Community Music Center

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…

Arts & Culture
12
Cape Cod & Islands Association of Realtors Inc

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

38 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. 38 of the 54 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/38
Grantees still filing
22/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CAPE COD HEALTH CARE: $2,650,000 · OtherCAPE COD HEALTH CAREWINTERTHUR MUSEUM: $1,005,000 · OtherWINTERTHUR MUSEUMBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PUGET SOUND: $600,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PUGET SOUNDHARBORSIDE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $600,000 · OtherHARBORSIDE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INCOLYMPIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $583,376 · OtherOLYMPIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIONMETROPOLITAN OPERA: $500,000 · OtherMETROPOLITAN OPERAFIELD ARTS AND EVENTS CENTER: $400,000 · OtherMSPCA SHELTER: $350,000 · OtherBRIGHAM AND WOMENS HOSPTIAL: $300,000 · Other+18 more: $1,722,500 · Other+18 moreMusic Workshop: $640,000 · Arts & CultureMusic WorkshopCHARLOTTE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC: $500,000 · Arts & CultureCHARLOTTE SYMPHONY O…COTUIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $500,000 · Arts & CultureCOTUIT CENTER FOR TH…NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $450,000 · Arts & CultureNORTON MUSEUM OF ART…PUNTA GORDA SYMPHONY INC: $400,000 · Arts & CulturePUNTA GORDA SYMPHONY…BOSTON BALLET INC: $300,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON BALLET INCTHE CANNON THEATRE CORP: $275,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CANNON THEATRE C…Metropolitan Opera Association Inc: $200,000 · Arts & CultureMetropolitan Opera A…+2 more: $60,000 · Arts & CultureUKANDU: $2,300,000 · Recreation & SportsUKANDUBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CAPE COD INC: $825,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIR…Jack The Bike Man Inc: $315,000 · Youth DevelopmentJack The B…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND: $300,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND G…WASHINGTON STATE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS ASSO: $200,000 · Youth DevelopmentWASHINGTON…COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF PENINSULA: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND: $625,000 · EducationSTETSON UNIVERSITY INC: $255,000 · EducationCHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $240,000 · EducationCHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $40,000 · Education+1 more: $10,000 · EducationCAPE KID MEALS INC: $825,000 · Food & NutritionSAM DAY FOUNDATION: $58,000 · Food & NutritionIN CONCERT FOR CANCER: $250,000 · HealthBENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT VIRGINIA: $100,000 · HealthMULTICARE FOUNDATIONS: $25,000 · Health+1 more: $10,000 · Health
Other$8,710,876Arts & Culture$3,325,000Recreation & Sports$2,300,000Youth Development$1,715,000Education$1,170,000Food & Nutrition$883,000Health$385,000

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 budgetUKANDU: $2,300,000 over 7y, 65% of budgetCAPE KID MEALS INC: $825,000 over 4y, 31% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CAPE COD INC: $825,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetMusic Workshop: $640,000 over 7y, 24% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND: $625,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHARBORSIDE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $600,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetOLYMPIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $583,376 over 2y, 16% of budgetCHARLOTTE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC: $500,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCOTUIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $500,000 over 7y, 4.8% of budgetNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $450,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPUNTA GORDA SYMPHONY INC: $400,000 over 3y, 34% of budgetJack The Bike Man Inc: $315,000 over 7y, 12% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND: $300,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetBOSTON BALLET INC: $300,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CANNON THEATRE CORP: $275,000 over 3y, 82% of budgetSTETSON UNIVERSITY INC: $255,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIN CONCERT FOR CANCER: $250,000 over 3y, 50% of budgetCHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $240,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetWASHINGTON STATE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS ASSO: $200,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetTommy's Place Foundation Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetMetropolitan Opera Association Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOOD RIVER SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $105,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetBENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT VIRGINIA: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF PENINSULA: $75,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetSAM DAY FOUNDATION: $58,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetCHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAPE ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCLEWISTON MUSEUMINC: $35,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMULTICARE FOUNDATIONS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGROW NATIVE MASSACHUSETTS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetCOLUMBIA GORGE CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetWASHINGTON GORGE ACTION PROGRAMS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRED LANG FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 UKANDU ↗
  • Who funds CAPE KID MEALS INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CAPE COD 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 CHARLOTTE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds COTUIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS 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 Tommy's Place Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Metropolitan Opera Association 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 ↗

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.

Cape Cod Foundation IncMA15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
10report 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.
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Find your warmest path to Elizabeth B McGraw Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 54 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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