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Laurie C McGrath Foundation

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.

$2.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
48
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$487k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 FY2020–2024.

Health$6.2MAnimals$3.4MFood & Nutrition$704kYouth Development$273kHuman Services$146kCivil Rights$129kArts & Culture$83kRecreation & Sports$80kOther$0
02FY2024 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $319k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.3M
$25,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$61M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHARP HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$487,175
PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES$299,772
THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY$256,027
ABORTION CARE NETWORK$251,104
BLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS$249,818
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS$201,015
CHIMP HAVEN$101,399
CENTER FOR A HUMANE ECONOMY$100,846
PETA$100,463
CHIMP HAVEN$59,780
PROJECT CHIMPS$50,935
SAVE THE CHIMPS$50,935
Individual grant recipient$50,873
SOI DOG FOUNDATION$50,525
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY$50,423
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%PEACE HOUSE: $25k → 5%PEACE HOUSE: $20k → 5%PEACE HOUSE: $20k → 5%PEACE HOUSE: $10k → 5%PEACE HOUSE: $6k → 5%PEACE HOUSE: $5k → 5%PEACE HOUSE: $5k → 5%PEACE HOUSE: $250 → 5%WHEEL CHAIR DANCERS ORG: $1k → 11%WHEEL CHAIR DANCERS ORG: $1k → 11%MCGRATH FAMILY YMCA: $25k → 11%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.

Which US states your grants reach

NY
CA
UT
CO
MD
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.9M · 27 repeat orgs$4.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

27 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
21

Total granted

$6.9M
$3.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+7%

Still filing today

81%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $668k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsHealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureCrime & LegalOther

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

  • SH
    Sharp Healthcare Foundation
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +68%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES
    3× · 2022–2024 · $806k · revenue +28%
  • CF
    Center for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc
    3× · 2021–2024 · $361k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • CF
    CENTER FOR HUMANE ECONOMY
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M
  • SB
    STANFORD BOARD OF TRUSTEES NARAYAN CARDIOLOGY RESEARCH FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M
  • TG
    THE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $704k · revenue -35%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for Monterey County

The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…

Animals
2
Animal Care Sanctuary

Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…

Animals
3
The California Wildlife Center

The california wildlife center (cwc) takes responsibility for the protection of all native wildlife through rehabilitiation, education and conservation. as the los angeles area's premier wildlife medical care and rehabilitation facility,…

Health
4
Santa Barbara Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…

Animals
5
Safe Haven for Cats

The mission of safe haven for cats is to use no-kill principles and education to save cats' lives through rescue, adoption, spay/neuter services and community programs.

Animals
6
All About Animals Rescue

All about animals rescue's mission is no more homeless pets.

Animals
7
Pet Orphans of Southern California

In addition to rescue and adoption, pet orphans provides a wide range of services including education, medical/financial, spay/neuter, and training assistance.

Animals
8
Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka Paws

A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.

Animals
9
Animal Care and Control of New York City Inc

Animal care centers of nyc's (acc) mission is to end animal homelessness in nyc.

Animals
10
Actors and Others for Animals

To eliminate pet overpopulation, ensure good care and protection for pet companions, and provide referral and financial support for economically challenged pet guardians.

Animals
11
The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.

Animals
12
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Farm Sanctuary Inc and the most unlike its peers is San Diego Museum of Art. 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 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr16%33%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr16%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%25%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr13%40%35–55yr16%15%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/54
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,511

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.

04the grantee network

52 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. 52 of the 69 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/52
Grantees still filing
29/52
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Sharp Healthcare Foundation — $1,984,103 · HealthSharp Healthcare FoundationABORTION CARE NETWORK — $806,114 · HealthABORTION CARE NETWORKPLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES — $805,909 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELESPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC — $652,098 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INCBLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS — $502,686 · HealthBLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS+4 more — $184,741 · HealthCENTER FOR HUMANE ECONOMY — $1,013,475 · OtherCENTER FOR HUMANE ECONOMYSTANFORD BOARD OF TRUSTEES NARAYAN CARDIOLOGY RESEARCH FUND — $1,006,938 · OtherSTANFORD BOARD OF TRUSTEES NARAYAN C…PETA — $210,463 · OtherPETANATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATION — $203,071 · OtherNATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATIONPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS — $202,515 · OtherPEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF …CENTER FOR A HUMANE ECONOMY — $201,812 · OtherCENTER FOR A HUMANE ECONOMYREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION — $128,596 · Other+20 more — $610,690 · Other+20 moreCenter for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc — $360,741 · AnimalsCenter for Oran…THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY — $256,027 · AnimalsTHE WILD ANIMAL…CHIMP HAVEN INC — $211,941 · AnimalsCHIMP HAVEN INCAsia Wild — $201,077 · AnimalsAsia WildHumane World for Animals Inc — $150,000 · AnimalsHumane World fo…BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $75,845 · Animals+15 more — $295,370 · Animals+15 moreTHE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC — $703,526 · Food & Nutrition+1 more — $500 · Food & NutritionJUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH — $120,663 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS SAN DIEGO-IMPERIAL COUNCIL INC — $13,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF EAST CO INC — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentPeace House Inc — $91,600 · Human ServicesYMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY — $25,000 · Human Services+2 more — $3,000 · Human ServicesSAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART — $65,000 · Arts & CultureSAN DIEGO MUSICAL THEATRE — $16,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $1,500 · Arts & Culture
Health$4,935,651Other$3,577,560Animals$1,551,001Food & Nutrition$704,026Youth Development$144,163Human Services$119,600Arts & Culture$82,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSharp Healthcare Foundation — $1,984,103 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetABORTION CARE NETWORK — $806,114 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES — $805,909 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC — $703,526 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC — $652,098 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS — $502,686 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetCenter for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc — $360,741 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY — $256,027 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCHIMP HAVEN INC — $211,941 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetNATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATION — $203,071 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetAsia Wild — $201,077 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetNAF HOTLINE FUND — $152,241 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc — $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION — $128,596 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH — $120,663 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetPeace House Inc — $91,600 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetNATIONAL ABILITY CENTER — $78,100 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $75,845 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART — $65,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPROJECT CHIMPS — $50,935 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSAVE THE CHIMPS INC — $50,935 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGREENPEACE FUND INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFARM SANCTUARY INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSTRAY CAT ALLIANCE — $40,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLIONS TIGERS AND BEARS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetYMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSt Madeleine Sophies Center Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA WILDLIFE CENTER INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSAN DIEGO MUSICAL THEATRE — $16,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetEAST COUNTY ANIMAL RESCUE — $15,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS SAN DIEGO-IMPERIAL COUNCIL INC — $13,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMERCY FOR ANIMALS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF EAST CO INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetARM SANCTUARY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetHORSES OF TIR NA NOG — $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCHULA VISTA POLICE FOUNDATION — $7,100 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFERAL CAT COALITION — $7,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPhysicians Committee for Responsible Med — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL RECOVERY MISSION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF CATS INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGrossmont Hospital Foundation — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHEELCHAIR DANCERS ORGANIZATION — $2,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetST GERMAINE CHILDREN'S CHARITY — $1,670 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetPark City Performances — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

The McGrath Family Fo…Sempra FoundationThe Cushman FoundationJewish Community Foun…Rancho Santa Fe Found…The San Diego Foundat…David C Copley Founda…The Conrad Prebys Fou…Walter J & Betty C Za…The Intuit FoundationLPL Financial Foundat…Remiatte Foundation
The McGrath Family FoundationCA41.2× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The McGrath Family Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · The Intuit Foundation · LPL Financial Foundation Inc · Remiatte 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 Laurie C McGrath 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Laurie C McGrath Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Laurie C McGrath 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 69 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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