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Hazelyn & Harrold McComas Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$27k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192025.

Health$34kArts & Culture$33kFood & Nutrition$19kPhilanthropy$15kCivil Rights$13kInternational$12kEducation$9kCrime & Legal$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$417k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DYSLEXIC ADVANTAGE$4,000
WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL$4,000
THE FACE TO FACE PROJECT$3,000
Ed Asner Family Center$2,500
Conscious Alliance$2,250
NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND$2,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA INC$2,000
GIDEON'S PROMISE INC$2,000
UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND$2,000
Razom for Ukraine$1,250
ROOTS OF THE HEART$1,000
MCCARTER THEATER$1,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%GIDEON'S PROMISE INC: $2k → 13%GIDEON'S PROMISE INC: $1k → 13%GIDEON'S PROMISE INC: $1k → 13%GIDEON'S PROMISE INC: $1k → 13%GIDEON'S PROMISE INC: $1k → 13%GIDEON'S PROMISE INC: $1k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

VT
WA
MN
WI
NY
MA
OR
NJ
CA
CO
DC
LA
GA

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$130k · 15 repeat orgs$19k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
8

Total granted

$130k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+17%

Still filing today

93%
13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureInternationalFood & NutritionPhilanthropyCivil RightsOther

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

  • DA
    DYSLEXIC ADVANTAGE BROCK EIDE
    6× · 2019–2024 · $15k · revenue +2%
  • MCCARTER THEATRE COMPANY
    6× · 2019–2024 · $12k · revenue +20%
  • TE
    THE ED ASNER FAMILY CENTER
    4× · 2019–2024 · $12k · revenue +151%

Funded once

  • 1A
    1761 ARTS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue -22%
  • WF
    Women for Women
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • TA
    THE ALS ASSOCIATION INC WISCONSIN CHAPTER
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +17%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
2
American Association of University Women Inc

Aauw advances gender equity for women and girls through research, education, and advocacy.

Education
3
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
4
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
5
Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

6
AI4ALL

Ai4all's mission is to ensure that the next generation of ai leaders reflects humanity. ai4all is transforming the pipeline of ai practitioners who will shape ai for the benefit of humanity.

Youth Development
7
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
8
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
9
Women Donors Network

Women donors network advances a just, equitable, and sustainable world through the power of philanthropy, women's leadership, and collective and individual action.

Philanthropy
10
United Way Worldwide

To improve lives by mobilizing caring power of communities around the world to advance common good.

Philanthropy
11
American University

To advance knowledge, foster intellectual curiosity, build community, and empower lives of purpose, service, and leadership.

Education
12
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Performing Arts Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Face to Face Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%25%10–20yr16%15%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%11%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr16%14%20–35yr13%12%35–55yr16%40%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/20
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,545

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.

04the grantee network

18 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 26 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
13/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DYSLEXIC ADVANTAGE BROCK EIDE — $15,000 · HealthDYSLEXIC ADVANTAGE BROCK EIDETHE ED ASNER FAMILY CENTER — $12,000 · HealthTHE ED ASNER FAMILY CENTERThe Face To Face Project Inc — $9,000 · HealthThe Face To Face Project IncPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC — $5,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN …THE ALS ASSOCIATION INC WISCONSIN CHAPTER — $2,000 · HealthUNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC — $14,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED PERFORMING ARTS…MCCARTER THEATRE COMPANY — $12,000 · Arts & CultureMCCARTER THEATRE COMPA…1761 ARTS INC — $4,000 · Arts & Culture1761 ARTS INCUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC — $15,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY …MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $7,000 · InternationalMEDECINS …WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL — $4,000 · InternationalWOMEN FOR…RAZOM INC — $1,250 · InternationalRAZOM INCTHE CONSCIOUS ALLIANCE — $6,250 · Food & NutritionFEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC — $4,000 · Food & NutritionWomen for Women — $2,500 · OtherWomen for WomenWUWM MILWAUKEE PUBLIC RADIO — $1,500 · OtherLOU GOSSETT JR'S ERACISM FOUNDATION — $1,000 · OtherTHE KENNEDY FORUM — $1,000 · OtherTHE EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH OF AMERICA — $1,000 · OtherSONGBIRD SINGS INC — $1,000 · OtherROOTS OF THE HEART — $1,000 · OtherUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $9,000 · OtherUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE F…GIDEONS PROMISE INC — $7,000 · OtherGIDEONS PROMISE INCAMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION — $4,000 · OtherAMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL U…+1 more — $500 · OtherNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $9,000 · Civil Rights
Health$43,000Arts & Culture$30,000Philanthropy$15,000International$12,250Food & Nutrition$10,250Other$29,500Civil Rights$9,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDYSLEXIC ADVANTAGE BROCK EIDE — $15,000 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC — $15,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC — $14,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMCCARTER THEATRE COMPANY — $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ED ASNER FAMILY CENTER — $12,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetThe Face To Face Project Inc — $9,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGIDEONS PROMISE INC — $7,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CONSCIOUS ALLIANCE — $6,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budget1761 ARTS INC — $4,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetAMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALS ASSOCIATION INC WISCONSIN CHAPTER — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAZOM INC — $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 DYSLEXIC ADVANTAGE BROCK EIDE
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC
  • Who funds UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC
  • Who funds MCCARTER THEATRE COMPANY
  • Who funds THE ED ASNER FAMILY CENTER
  • Who funds The Face To Face Project Inc
  • Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC
  • Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC
  • Who funds GIDEONS PROMISE INC
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
  • Who funds THE CONSCIOUS ALLIANCE
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC
  • Who funds 1761 ARTS INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION
  • Who funds WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL
  • Who funds FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC
  • Who funds THE ALS ASSOCIATION INC WISCONSIN CHAPTER
  • Who funds RAZOM INC

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.

Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY11.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Hazelyn & Harrold McComas Charitable Trust 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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 · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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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    How do I get to Hazelyn & Harrold McComas Charitable Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Hazelyn & Harrold McComas Charitable Trust 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $39k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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