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Emmett and Miriam McCoy Foundation at a glance

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Emmett and Miriam McCoy Foundation

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.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$1.9MHuman Services$273kCrime & Legal$150kPublic Benefit$60kAnimals$60kEducation$60kArts & Culture$40kYouth Development$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $36k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $396k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.5M
$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HEART OF TX COMMUNITY HEALTH CTR$1,484,829
CEREBRAL PALSY AWARENESS TRANSITION$120,650
SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER$100,000
Individual grant recipient$100,000
HAYS COUNTY CHILD PROTECTIVE BOARD$75,000
VETERANS ASSISTANCE DOGS OF TEXAS$20,000
PEGASUS SCHOOLS INC$15,500
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:

Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $214k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%PEGASUS SCHOOLS INC: $20k → 15%PEGASUS SCHOOLS INC: $20k → 15%PEGASUS SCHOOLS INC: $18k → 15%REDWOOD COMMUNITY CENTER: $65k → 10%PEGASUS SCHOOLS INC: $17k → 15%GREATER SAN MARCOS YOUTH COUNCIL: $30k → 10%PEGASUS SCHOOLS INC: $16k → 15%PEGASUS SCHOOLS INC: $15k → 15%SCHOOL FUEL SAN MARCOS: $13k → 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.
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.

17%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$456k · 5 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
9

Total granted

$456k
$571k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+6%

Still filing today

40%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesAnimalsHealthPublic BenefitEducationOther
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

  • HC
    HAYS COUNTY CHILD PROTECTIVE BOARD
    2× · 2023–2024 · $150k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2023–2024 · $130k
  • PS
    PEGASUS SCHOOLS INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $106k · revenue -2%

Funded once

  • RA
    RED ARENA INC
    one grant, 2023 · $300k · revenue -5%
  • RC
    REDWOOD COMMUNITY CENTER INC
    one grant, 2018 · $65k
  • SR
    SUL ROSS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $60k · revenue -26%
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
Molino de Suenos

Animal rescue and sanctuary and relocation of animals. Reprogramming rescued animals into service and therapy animals to serve the community.

Animals
2
Lone Star Sanctuary for Animals Inc

Shelter, food and veterniary care provided for animals in a clean shelter environment. this is a no-kill facility. animals are neutered, vaccinated, microchipped prior to being adopted. every effort is made to educate the community about…

Animals
3
Southern California Dachshund Relief Inc

Rescue, rehabilitate and rehome dogs

Animals
4
2nd Chance Ranch and Rescue

Sanctuary for abused or abandoned animals

Animals
5
Texas Rescue Inc
Animals
6
Red Collar Rescue Inc

RED COLLAR RESCUE is an all-volunteer 501 (c) (3) animal welfare charity dedicated to rescuing and providing extensive medical care, foster care, training, rehabilitation, and adoptive placement to stray, abandoned, and abused dogs in…

Animals
7
Zuma's Rescue Ranch

Zumas Rescue Ranch serves as an advocate and mentor for neglected horses and humans providing them with the trust and love they need to heal.Children, families and veterans grow to be productive members of the community through Zumas…

Animals
8
Azaya Ranch Sanctuary
Philanthropy
9
Helotes Humane Society

Rescue and place abandoned and unwanted pets. Provide low cost spay / neuter. Provide low-cost microchips. Provide community education.

Animals
10
South Texas Animal Rescue Group

We own and operate a spay/neuter and wellness clinic. Our purpose is to end animal cruelty in Texas, spay/neuter, vaccinate, and end the dumping and abandonment of cats and dogs. We also have an education program to teach Texas residents…

Animals
11
Redwood Coast Humane Society

Prevention of pet abuse, neglect, and over-population by providing temporary and permanent homes for abandoned cats and dogs and providing neutering and spaying services for these animals.

Animals
12
Wild West Wildlife Rehabilitation Center

The organization is dedicated to rescuing, rehabilitating and releasing orphaned and injured wildlife in the texas panhandle.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hays-Caldwell Women's Center; the most unlike its peers is School Fuel Dba School Fuel San Marcos. 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

10 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. 10 of the 17 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HEART OF TX COMMUNITY HEALTH CTR: $1,484,829 · OtherHEART OF TX COMMUNITY HEALTH CTRHAYS COUNTY CHILD PROTECTIVE BOARD: $150,000 · OtherHAYS COUNTY CHILD PROTECTIVE BOARDIndividual grant recipient: $130,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCEREBRAL PALSY AWARENESS TRANSITION: $120,650 · OtherCEREBRAL PALSY AWARENESS TRANSITIONSOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $100,000 · Other+2 more: $50,000 · OtherRED ARENA INC: $300,000 · HealthRED ARENA IN…PEGASUS SCHOOLS INC: $105,700 · Human ServicesREDWOOD COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $65,000 · Human ServicesGreater San Marcos Youth Council Inc: $30,000 · Human ServicesSCHOOL FUEL DBA SCHOOL FUEL SAN MARCOS: $13,000 · Human Services+1 more: $2,500 · Human ServicesVETERANS ASSISTANCE DOGS OF TEXAS INC: $60,000 · Public BenefitSUL ROSS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $60,000 · EducationThe Public For Animal Welfare Inc: $40,000 · AnimalsLIVING GRACE CANINE RANCH: $20,000 · Animals
Other$2,035,479Health$300,000Human Services$216,200Public Benefit$60,000Education$60,000Animals$60,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRED ARENA INC: $300,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetPEGASUS SCHOOLS INC: $105,700 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetVETERANS ASSISTANCE DOGS OF TEXAS INC: $60,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetSUL ROSS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetThe Public For Animal Welfare Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetGreater San Marcos Youth Council Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetLIVING GRACE CANINE RANCH: $20,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetSCHOOL FUEL DBA SCHOOL FUEL SAN MARCOS: $13,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetHAYS-CALDWELL WOMEN'S CENTER: $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.

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.

San Marcos Lions Inte…Ingram Family Foundat…St David's FoundationDonor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
San Marcos Lions InternationalTX15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: San Marcos Lions International · Ingram Family Foundation · St David's Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Emmett and Miriam McCoy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Emmett and Miriam McCoy Foundation. 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%1%3%4%5%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 · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Emmett and Miriam McCoy Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Emmett and Miriam McCoy Foundation 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 17 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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