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Kenneth J McCord 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.

$225k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$33k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20242025.

Community Improvement$80kReligion$39kEducation$37kPhilanthropy$25kHousing & Shelter$18kYouth Development$15kRecreation & Sports$10kHuman Services$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $207k
$15,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$11k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TELA ROTARY CLUB$32,500
MURRAY COUNTY FUTURE FOUNDATION$32,500
LIVING WISDOM$25,000
JUST IN TIME$25,000
ALABASTER JAR PROJECT$18,000
THIENSVILLE-MEQUON ROTARY CLUB$15,000
MESA COLLEGE FOUNDATION$15,000
7 SISTERS INTL$14,000
SBPL FOSTER HOPE MINISTRY$10,000
HADLEY LIONS CLUB$10,000
SHARED SPACE FOR ALL$10,000
KUMARI PROJECT$8,000
ROTARY CLUB OF PRAGUE INTL$5,000
SHARED SPACE FOR ALL$5,000
02The need
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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 US giving — 85% of grant dollars ($210k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 15% that went abroad ($38k) is mapped below.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HADLEY LIONS CLUB: $10k → 9%MURRAY COUNTY FUTURE FOUNDATION: $33k → 14%LIVING WISDOM: $25k → 11%MESA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%KUMARI PROJECT: $8k → 15%7 SISTERS INTL: $14k → 9%THIENSVILLE-MEQUON ROTARY CLUB: $15k → 9%Living Wisdom School: $22k → 11%JUST IN TIME: $25k → 11%SHARED SPACE FOR ALL: $10k → 9%SBPL FOSTER HOPE MINISTRY: $10k → 11%SHARED SPACE FOR ALL: $5k → 9%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.

Beyond the US — 15% of all-years giving ($38k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Czechia$38k · 2 grants

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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your field
04the grantee network

3 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. 3 of the 14 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
3/3
Grantees still filing
0/3
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MURRAY COUNTY FUTURE FOUNDATION — $32,500 · OtherMURRAY COUNTY FUTURE FOUNDATIONTELA ROTARY CLUB — $32,500 · OtherTELA ROTARY CLUBJUST IN TIME — $25,000 · OtherJUST IN TIMELIVING WISDOM — $25,000 · OtherLIVING WISDOMLiving Wisdom School — $22,000 · OtherLiving Wisdom SchoolTHIENSVILLE-MEQUON ROTARY CLUB — $15,000 · OtherTHIENSVILLE-MEQUON ROTARY CLUBMESA COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $15,000 · OtherMESA COLLEGE FOUNDATION7 SISTERS INTL — $14,000 · Other7 SISTERS INTLSBPL FOSTER HOPE MINISTRY — $10,000 · OtherHADLEY LIONS CLUB — $10,000 · Other+1 more — $5,000 · OtherTHE ALABASTER JAR PROJECT — $18,000 · Human ServicesSHARED SPACE FOR ALL — $15,000 · PhilanthropyTHE KUMARI PROJECT — $8,000 · International
Other$206,000Human Services$18,000Philanthropy$15,000International$8,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100kgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE ALABASTER JAR PROJECT — $18,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetSHARED SPACE FOR ALL — $15,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetTHE KUMARI PROJECT — $8,000 over 1y, 11% 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 THE ALABASTER JAR PROJECT
  • Who funds SHARED SPACE FOR ALL
  • Who funds THE KUMARI PROJECT

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Kenneth J McCord Foundation 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.

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no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2125

    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.

    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Kenneth J McCord Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Kenneth J McCord Foundation 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 14 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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