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Lucile Coghlan McCormick Memorial Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$22k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$61kInternational$26kHealth$24kEducation$12kArts & Culture$6kCivil Rights$3k
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$480k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Friends of Chimbote$5,000
Womens Care Center$5,000
St Pauls Newman Center$3,000
St Marys Cathedral$2,000
STS Anne and Joachim church$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
St Marys high school$1,000
Presentation Sisters$1,000
JP II Schools$1,000
FM Symphony$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%CArmel of Mary: $1k → 10%St Mary's High School: $1k → 10%Friends of Chimbote: $5k → 12%CARMEL OF MARY: $1k → 10%Holy Spirit Cathedral: $1k → 10%Friends of Chimbote: $5k → 12%CArmel of Mary: $1k → 10%CATHEDRAL OF HOLY SPIRIT: $1k → 10%Friends of Chimbote: $5k → 12%CArmel of Mary: $1k → 10%St Marys high school: $1k → 10%FRIENDS OF CHIMBOTE: $5k → 12%Carmel of Mary: $1k → 10%St Mary's high school: $1k → 10%Friends of Chimbote: $3k → 12%Carmel of Mary: $1k → 10%Holy spirit Cathedral: $1k → 10%Friends of Chimbote: $3k → 12%St Mary's Hugh School: $1k → 10%St Paul's Newman Center: $10k → 12%Holy Spirit Cathedral: $1k → 10%ST PAULS NEWMAN CENTER: $10k → 12%Cathedral of Holy Spirit: $1k → 10%Womens Care Center: $5k → 12%St Marys high school: $1k → 10%Women's Care Clinic: $5k → 12%Holy Spirit Cathedral: $1k → 10%wOMENS CARE CENTER: $5k → 12%ST MARY'S HIGH SCHOOL: $1k → 10%Womens Care Center: $5k → 12%St Paul's Newman Center: $5k → 12%Womens Care Center: $3k → 12%St Pauls Newman Center: $3k → 12%St Marys Cathedral: $2k → 12%St Paul's Newman Center: $1k → 12%St Pauls Newman Center: $1k → 12%St Mary's Cathedral: $1k → 12%St Marys Cathedral: $1k → 12%ST MARYS CATHEDRAL: $1k → 12%Womens Care Center: $1k → 12%St Mary's Cathedral: $1k → 12%St Mary's Cathedral: $1k → 12%FM Symphony: $1k → 12%FM Symphony: $1k → 12%FM Symphony: $1k → 12%Presentation sisters: $1k → 12%Presentation Sisters: $1k → 12%FM SYMPHONY: $1k → 12%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$125k · 14 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
3

Total granted

$125k
$7k

Still filing today

29%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalArts & CultureCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF CHIMBOTE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $26k · revenue +72%
  • WC
    WOMENS CARE CENTER
    5× · 2021–2025 · $19k · revenue +168%
  • FO
    FARGO-MOORHEAD ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • WC
    Women's Care Clinic
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • SM
    St Mary's Hugh School
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
  • JI
    JP II Catholic schools
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
How this is measured

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

04Its field
04the grantee network

4 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. 4 of the 17 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
4/4
Grantees still filing
4/4
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

St Paul's Newman Center: $30,000 · OtherSt Paul's Newman CenterWOMENS CARE CENTER: $19,000 · OtherWOMENS CARE CENTERSt Marys Cathedral: $7,000 · OtherSt Marys CathedralIndividual grant recipient: $6,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPresentation sisters: $6,000 · OtherPresentation sistersJP II SCHOOLS: $5,000 · OtherSt Mary's high school: $5,000 · OtherWomen's Care Clinic: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $4,000 · OtherSTS ANNE & JOACHIM CHURCH: $4,000 · Other+4 more: $6,000 · Other+4 moreFRIENDS OF CHIMBOTE: $26,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF CHIMBOTEFARGO-MOORHEAD ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION: $6,000 · Arts & CultureBIKING FOR BABIES: $3,000 · Civil Rights
Other$97,000International$26,000Arts & Culture$6,000Civil Rights$3,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRIENDS OF CHIMBOTE: $26,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetWOMENS CARE CENTER: $19,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetFARGO-MOORHEAD ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION: $6,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBIKING FOR BABIES: $3,000 over 3y, 0.4% 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 FRIENDS OF CHIMBOTE ↗
  • Who funds WOMENS CARE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds FARGO-MOORHEAD ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds BIKING FOR BABIES ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO7.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lucile Coghlan McCormick Memorial Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lucile Coghlan McCormick Memorial Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    0get 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, FY20–25
    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 Lucile Coghlan McCormick Memorial Trust 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 17 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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