· Private foundation
John R McCune Dec'D Charitable
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 168 grants below total $6,265,634 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $7,806,245 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,540,611 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k117 grants · $2.3M
- $50k–250k48 grants · $4.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL | $200,000 |
| MINNESOTA CONFERENCE UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST | $157,709 |
| CASADY SCHOOL | $157,709 |
| DBA CITIZENS JOURNALISM FOUNDATION BRADLEY IMPACT FUND DBA TURNING POINT USA | $157,709 |
| METHODIST HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| PRESBYTERIAN SENIORCARE NETWORK | $125,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $107,500 |
| OKLAHOMA HUMANE SOCIETY | $100,000 |
| CSU/COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS | $100,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN COLORADO | $100,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY | $100,000 |
| SHADY SIDE ACADEMY | $100,000 |
| BELHAVEN UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| CHILDRENS COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| FOUNDATION OF HOPE | $100,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $883k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +28% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
149 repeat relationships — 66 still active in FY2024, 83 since wound down; 79 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.3M 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
- TCTHE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL5× · 2020–2024 · $846k · revenue +32%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $658k · revenue +289%
- NENEXUS EQUINE INC4× · 2020–2023 · $625k · revenue +731% · 32% of their budget
Funded once
- RCRESPITE CAREone grant, 2023 · $112k
- ACAGAWAN COUNCILone grant, 2023 · $106k
- TCTHE CARE CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +50%
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.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Walnut Hill Center for the Arts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Conanskickboxingacademyfoundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
177 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 177 of the 331 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL ↗
- Who funds THE PRESBYTERIAN FOUNDATION OF COLUMBUS INDIANA ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NEXUS EQUINE INC ↗
- Who funds MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds ELLIE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE COD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SHADY SIDE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds HAZELWOOD INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds DEMOS A NETWORK FOR IDEAS AND ACTION LTD ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CRESTFIELD CAMP AND CONFERENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Food Bank for Larimer County ↗
- Who funds HOMEWARD ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Texas Women's Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE ELLIS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ARSENAL FAMILY & CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE HOMEWOOD CEMETERY ↗
- Who funds Bucknell University ↗
- Who funds THE DALLAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS ↗
- Who funds The Family Place ↗
- Who funds Portland Community Squash ↗
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: The Pittsburgh Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Texas Women's Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Richard King Mellon Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · Howard & Nell E Miller Foundat · Massey Charitable Trust · McCune Foundation Pnc Bank Na · The Addy 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 John R McCune Dec'D Charitable 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.
- World Neighbors Inc — 46% of income from government
- Ellie Fund Inc — 15% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Remerge Inc — 7% of income from government
- Cape Cod Academy — 0% of income from government
- Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated — 0% of income from government
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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