· Private foundation
James J McCann Charitable Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $334k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $373k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DUTCHESS COUNTY SPCA | $482,000 |
| MCCANN - CAVEN GOLF COURSE INC | $350,000 |
| MARIST COLLEGE | $300,000 |
| MCGC SAM DIPASQUALE CONTRACTOR | $125,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF THE HUDSON VALLEY | $100,000 |
| MCGC GRASSLAND EQUIPMENT CORP | $78,060 |
| BARDAVON OPERA HOUSE | $70,000 |
| THE ART EFFECT | $35,000 |
| OUR LADY OF LOURDES HIGH SCHOOL | $32,500 |
| MCGC FOX AIR CORP | $26,220 |
| HUDSON VALLEY CLUBHOUSE | $25,000 |
| DUTCHESS COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY | $25,000 |
| DUTCHESS OUTREACH | $25,000 |
| FAMILY SERVICES | $25,000 |
| MID-HUDSON DISCOVERY MUSEUM | $20,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $155k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
68 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MUMARIST UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +29%
- MGMCCANN-CAVEN GOLF COURSES INC3× · 2023–2025 · $845k · revenue +46%
- DCDUTCHESS COUNTY SPCA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $788k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $829k
- BSBoy Scouts of Americaone grant, 2018 · $225k
- MGMcCann-Caven Golf Course, Inc.one grant, 2019 · $145k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
& part iii, line 1: the mission of the nassau-suffolk hospital council, inc. (nshc) is to:- provide a forum for the exchange of ideas regarding the development of regional, state, and national health policy,- identify key policy issues…
Dutchess land conservancy (dlc) is dedicated to preserving the scenic, agricultural and environmental resources of dutchess county, new york, and the surrounding area. dlc, as a private non-profit land conservation organization, carries…
We strive to maximize participation in, and support for, federally funded nutrition assistance programs including supplemental nutrition assistance program (snap), the school breakfast program and national school lunch program, the summer…
The mission of the daughters of sarah nursing center, inc. is to enhance the quality of life, assure the safety and dignity, and foster the independence of those we serve through residential, personal care, health and other quality…
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
Cvph medical center's mission is to provide quality health care for the north country region in upstate new york.
The mission of island harvest is to end hunger and reduce food waste on long island.
To preserve a unique hudson valley settlement and engage diverse audiences in the exploration of america's multicultural past in order to understand the historical forces that have shaped america.
Situated on the banks of the hudson river in yonkers, new york, the hudson river museum's mission is to engage, inspire, and connect diverse communities through the power of the arts, sciences, and history.
To create and steward a 7.5-mile linear park along the Hudson River that solves existing safety concerns around visitation, provides welcoming access to people of all abilities, restores and protects natural resources, and enhances quality…
Nassau suffolk hospital council foundation provides investment income and maintains restricted asset funds.
The historic house trust of new york city (hht), in partnership with the new york city department of parks & recreation (nyc parks), advocates for, promotes, and provides expertise to preserve 23 publicly owned historic sites in new york…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Maplebrook School Foundation. 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 33 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 152 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 MARIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MCCANN-CAVEN GOLF COURSES INC ↗
- Who funds DUTCHESS COUNTY SPCA INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE MAPLEBROOK SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME OF POUGHKEEPSIE INC ↗
- Who funds CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE POUGHKEEPSIE-HIGHLAND RAILROAD ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley Inc · Ulster Savings Charitable Foundation · The Dyson Foundation · Evelyn M Davies Charitable Trust Mark V Dennis Trustee · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Herbert H Redl Family Foundation · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · The Vincent and Carol W Dean Family Charitable Foundation · Henry Nias Foundation Inc · Peckham Family Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Ibm International 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 James J McCann 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.
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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