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G McCarthy Charitable Foundation at a glance

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G McCarthy Charitable Foundation

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.

$78k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Health$94kHuman Services$44kReligion$18kPhilanthropy$16kEducation$15kHousing & Shelter$10kFood & Nutrition$5kArts & Culture$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $58k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Brigham & Womens Hosp$20,000
NCH Health Care Sys for Philantropy$7,500
Our Sisters School$5,000
Sister of St Joseph's$5,000
Cape Cod Hosp Aux$5,000
Parent Supporting Parents$5,000
Alzheimers Family Support$5,000
Habitat For Humanity$5,000
Boston Hope Lodge CO American Cancer Fund$5,000
Harmony House$5,000
Sisters of Notre Dame$3,000
Cape Cod Times Neighbor Fund$3,000
Rotary Club of Bourne-Sandwich Foundation$2,000
Colorful Kidz$2,000
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 (FY23–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Lutheran Family Services: $2k → 12%Lutheran Services Florida: $2k → 13%Rick's Place: $5k → 17%Harmony House: $5k → 17%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.

33%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$68k · 5 repeat orgs$140k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue 0% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
22

Total granted

$68k
$100k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

60%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyInternationalEducationOther
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

  • MG
    MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED
    2× · 2024–2025 · $25k
  • OS
    OUR SISTERS SCHOOL
    3× · 2023–2025 · $15k · revenue +27%
  • PS
    PARENTS SUPPORTING PARENTS INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $10k · revenue 0%

Funded once

  • CA
    Child and Family Services
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • NC
    NCH Center for Philantropy NCH Hospital
    one grant, 2024 · $8k
  • NC
    NCH Center Philanthropy
    one grant, 2023 · $8k
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
Care Dimensions Inc

Care dimensions, inc. (cd) enriches quality of life by providing expert care, support, education, and consultation for those affected by life limiting illness, death, and loss.

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2
Furnishing Hope of Massachusetts Inc

Collecting and warehousing household goods for distribution and delivery to poor, needy or distressed individuals and families in need of financial assistance, in cooperation with and/or upon referral by charitable and other organizations…

Human Services
3
Coastal Hospice

Coastal hospice promotes dignity and quality of life for patients and families who face life-limiting conditions.

Human Services
4
House of Hope Housing Inc

To promote improved social and economic conditions of families who are or who have recently been homeless; to promote, develop, and manage affordable housing for families and to assist in carrying out the charitable purposes of house of…

Housing & Shelter
5
Helping Our Women Inc

Helping our women was formed in 1992 as a response to the lack of services available to women with cancer on outer cape cod. the organization has expanded to serve women with chronic and life threatening or disabling illness

Human Services
6
The Home for Little Wanderers Inc

To help vulnerable children and their families build permanent, positive change.

Human Services
7
Southeast Family Services Inc

The organization is dedicated to the provision of emergency family shelter and residential services, as well as supporting services to families in recovery from substance abuse.

—
8
David's House Inc

To provide a home away from home and support for families with children receiving treatment through the children's hospital at dartmouth-hitchcock medical center.

Health
9
Hospice of the North Coast

Hospice of the north coast provides comprehensive, individualized care for the terminally ill and their families throughout north coast san diego county. our goal is to maintain dignity, comfort, and the highest quality of life.

Human Services
10
Coastal Kids Home Care

We provide specialized pediatric medical, social service and therapy visits to any child (newborn through age 21) living in counties along california's central coast.

Health
11
Hospice of Humboldt Inc

Offers a new hope for comfortable,peaceful and dignified end of life while focusing on patient's goals and wishes at all times.

Human Services
12
Sarah's House of Maine

Temporary residential housing for patients receiving treatments for cancer in the greater bangor, maine area.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Habitat for Humanity of Cape Cod Inc; the most unlike its peers is Harmony House Inc. 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

13 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. 13 of the 36 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
4/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $25,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDChild and Family Services: $10,000 · OtherChild and Family ServicesAlzheimers Family Support: $10,000 · OtherAlzheimers Family SupportNCH Center for Philantropy NCH Hospital: $7,500 · OtherNCH Center Philanthropy: $7,500 · OtherNCH Health Care Sys for Philantropy: $7,500 · Other+20 more: $84,500 · Other+20 moreOUR SISTERS SCHOOL: $15,000 · EducationRicks Place Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesHARMONY HOUSE INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN SERVICES FLORIDA INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesCAPE COD TIMES NEIGHBORS FUND INC: $8,000 · PhilanthropyKIND HEARTS FOR KIDS INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyPARENTS SUPPORTING PARENTS INC: $10,000 · HealthRECOVERY WITHOUT WALLS INC: $1,000 · HealthFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $2,500 · International
Other$152,000Education$15,000Human Services$14,000Philanthropy$13,000Health$11,000International$2,500

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 budgetOUR SISTERS SCHOOL: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPARENTS SUPPORTING PARENTS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetCAPE COD TIMES NEIGHBORS FUND INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCAPE COD HOSPITAL AUXILIARY: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetRicks Place Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CAPE COD INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKIND HEARTS FOR KIDS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetHARMONY HOUSE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORFUL KIDZ INC: $2,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetLUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHERAN SERVICES FLORIDA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRECOVERY WITHOUT WALLS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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 OUR SISTERS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds PARENTS SUPPORTING PARENTS INC ↗
  • Who funds CAPE COD TIMES NEIGHBORS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds CAPE COD HOSPITAL AUXILIARY ↗
  • Who funds Ricks Place Inc ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CAPE COD INC ↗
  • Who funds KIND HEARTS FOR KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds HARMONY HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds FEED THE CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds COLORFUL KIDZ INC ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN SERVICES FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds RECOVERY WITHOUT WALLS 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.

Cape Cod Foundation I…The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Cape Cod Foundation IncMA15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cape Cod Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 G McCarthy Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from G McCarthy Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 19%
  • Ricks Place Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Lutheran Services Florida Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Our Sisters School: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 36 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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