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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 it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
MESA COLLEGE FOUNDATION$15,000
THIENSVILLE-MEQUON ROTARY CLUB$15,000
7 SISTERS INTL$14,000
HADLEY LIONS CLUB$10,000
SHARED SPACE FOR ALL$10,000
SBPL FOSTER HOPE MINISTRY$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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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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, its grants (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

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
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
03Its field
04the grantee network

3 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. 3 of the 14 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100kgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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 THE ALABASTER JAR PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds SHARED SPACE FOR ALL ↗
  • Who funds THE KUMARI PROJECT ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Kenneth J McCord Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kenneth J McCord Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
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no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's 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, FY21–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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