· Private foundation
Helen & Jack McCullough Family Fndn
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $62k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Lick-Wilmerding High School | $29,000 |
| Special Operations Warrior Foundation | $11,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,000 |
| Second Harvest Food Bank | $11,000 |
| Fisher House Foundation | $9,000 |
| Freedom Alliance | $6,000 |
| Warrior Foundation Freedom Station | $3,000 |
| William Jessup University | $3,000 |
| Tunnels to Towers Foundation | $2,500 |
| Troop Direct | $2,000 |
| Salvation Army | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Project independence | $1,000 |
| KCOLF Foundation | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CSCALIFORNIA SCHOOL OF MECHANICAL ARTS9× · 2017–2025 · $236k · revenue +10%
- SOSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $96k · revenue +265%
- FHFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $69k · revenue +32%
Funded once
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.
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.
To develop, operate, and support a synergistic group of wellness, quality of life, and event-based initiatives in support of today's combat-wounded military personnel and their families, while facilitating a greater recognition and…
The special forces foundation provides immediate and ongoing support to the special forces community and their families.
We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
The special operators transition foundation ("sotf") assists special operation forces veterans transition from the military into their next successful career.
Sentinels of Freedom Scholarship Foundation (the Foundation) is a Colorado notprofit organization formed in 2007 for the purpose of assisting veterans who have suffered severe duty-related injuries resulting in permanent physical…
To assist and empower all post 9/11 veterans and their families from the tri-state area, regardless if they have been wounded or have been deployed, with our various programs thus, leading them to a successful and enriched life.
The fund cares for our nation's critically wounded, ill, and injured service members, veterans and military families. we assist all military branches, including both post-9/11 and vietnam veterans, providing one-on-one case management,…
The intrepid fallen heroes fund serves military personnel suffering traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress, and other severe injuries.the intrepid fallen heroes fund serves military personnel suffering traumatic brain injury,…
NextOp helps place talented enlisted service members and veterans into civilian careers through highly individualized preparation and an array of programming.
FDD Action is a non-profit, non-partisan 504(c)4 organization established to advocate for effective policies to promote U.S. National Security and defend free nations.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 15 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 CALIFORNIA SCHOOL OF MECHANICAL ARTS ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM JESSUP UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Troops Direct ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT INDEPENDENCE ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS 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.
Open a dossier: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Helen & Jack McCullough Family Fndn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Helen & Jack McCullough Family Fndn. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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