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Maccauley Foundation at a glance

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Maccauley 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.

$522k
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$111k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Animals$247kYouth Development$236kFood & Nutrition$119kHealth$98kReligion$42kHuman Services$33kRecreation & Sports$25kScience & Tech$23kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $52k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $246k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $225k
$10,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED SUFFOLK SHEEP FOUNDATION$110,500
PENNSYLVANIA FARM SHOW SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION$64,000
ALL-AMERICAN JUNIOR SHEEP SHOW$50,000
CHESTER COUNTY 4-H COUNCIL$38,500
CHESTER COUNTY COUNCIL SCOUTING AMERICA$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
NATIONAL WOODEN PALLET & CONTAINER ASSOCAITION$25,000
MCKEOWN FOUNDATION$22,500
PENNINGTONVILLE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$20,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION$20,000
PENN STATE STOCKMEN'S CLUB$15,200
FOUNDING FORWARD$12,500
PENN STATE UNIVERSITY$12,500
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ARKANSAS RIVER VALLEY$10,000
HLMA EDUCATION INC$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SENTINEL FOUNDATION: $5k → 6%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
MA
IA
IN
OH
PA
RI
VA
DE
AR
DC
TX
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$734k · 14 repeat orgs$169k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
2

Total granted

$734k
$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+10%

Still filing today

50%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $136k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
Food & NutritionYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyHealthScience & TechEducationOther
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

  • PF
    PENNSYLVANIA FARM SHOW SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $118k · revenue +25% · 41% of their budget
  • TM
    THE MCKEOWN FOUNDATION CO JOSEPH MCKEOWN
    3× · 2023–2025 · $60k · revenue +6%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $36k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • TP
    The Pallet Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $23k · revenue 0%
  • NW
    National Wooden Pallet & Container Association
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +10%
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

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Friends of the Pennsylvania Farm Show Foundation Inc

The friends of the pennsylvania farm show foundation, inc. exists in order to stimulate, facilitate, and support educational programs, incentives, and events relating to the annual pennsylvania farm show.

Education
2
Pennsylvania Pork Producers Council Inc

To promote the pork industry through consumer and farmer education, research, and promotion, and to meet the requirements of the national pork board (npb).

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3
Farming for the Future Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Ppf Pennsylvania State Association

Promote the interest and welfare of the industry by recommending legislation to protect the trade.

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5
Pennsylvania State Assn of County Fairs

Promote growth of agriculture fairs, associations and societies within the state of pennsylvania.

Community Improvement
6
Pennsylvania Beef Council

The pennsylvania beef council (pbc) is a non-profit organization working on behalf of 25,000 beef, dairy, and veal producers in pennsylvania. the council seeks to promote the beef industry in pennsylvania and educate consumers through a…

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7
Nc Farm Bureau Legal Foundation Inc
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8
Kansas Livestock Foundation

To operate solely and exclusively for charitable, scientific, and educational purposes that advance the interests of the beef industry.

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9
Pennsylvania Forest Products Association

The association's mission is to promote public knowledge and understanding regarding the role that the forest industry and its products play within our society.

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10
Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution
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11
Western Pennsylvania Foundation for the Arts
Arts & Culture
12
American Farm Bureau Federation

The american farm bureau federation is the voice of agriculture (r). we are farm and ranch families working together to build a sustainable future of safe and abundant food, fiber and renewable fuel for our nation and the world.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pennsylvania Friends of Agriculture Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Octorara Area Food Cupboard. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 33 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
9/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALL AMERICAN JUNIOR SHOW: $76,490 · OtherALL AMERICAN JUNIOR SHOWCHESTER COUNTY 4-H COUNCIL: $53,500 · OtherCHESTER COUNTY 4-H COUNCILPENNINGTONVILLE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $42,000 · OtherPENNINGTONVILLE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $36,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPENN STATE STOCKMEN'S CLUB: $25,200 · OtherPENN STATE STOCKMEN'S CLUBCHESTER COUNTY COUNCIL SCOUTING AMERICA: $25,000 · OtherCHESTER COUNTY COUNCIL SCOUTING AMERICANATIONAL WOODEN PALLET & CONTAINER ASSOCAITION: $25,000 · OtherNATIONAL WOODEN PALLET & CONTAINER ASSOCAITIO…PENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $12,500 · Other+13 more: $64,500 · Other+13 moreUNITED SUFFOLK SHEEP FOUNDATION: $245,500 · Food & NutritionUNITED SUFFOLK SHEEP FOUNDATIONPENNSYLVANIA FRIENDS OF AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Food & NutritionPENNSYLVANIA FRIENDS OF AGRICULTU…+2 more: $10,000 · Food & NutritionPENNSYLVANIA FARM SHOW SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $118,000 · Youth DevelopmentPENNSYLVANIA FARM…FOUNDING FORWARD (FORMERLY THE UNION LEAGUE LEGACY FOUNDATION): $12,500 · Youth DevelopmentFOUNDING FORWARD …National 4-H Council: $11,000 · Youth DevelopmentNational 4-H Coun…THE MCKEOWN FOUNDATION CO JOSEPH MCKEOWN: $60,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,750 · PhilanthropyTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $36,000 · HealthThe Pallet Foundation Inc: $22,500 · Science & TechHLMA EDUCATIONAL INC: $10,000 · Education
Other$360,190Food & Nutrition$270,500Youth Development$141,500Philanthropy$61,750Health$36,000Science & Tech$22,500Education$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED SUFFOLK SHEEP FOUNDATION: $245,500 over 3y, 59% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA FARM SHOW SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $118,000 over 3y, 41% of budgetTHE MCKEOWN FOUNDATION CO JOSEPH MCKEOWN: $60,000 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $36,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Pallet Foundation Inc: $22,500 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA FRIENDS OF AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFOUNDING FORWARD (FORMERLY THE UNION LEAGUE LEGACY FOUNDATION): $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNational 4-H Council: $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNational Wooden Pallet & Container Association: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHLMA EDUCATIONAL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetINDIANA BEEF CATTLE ASSOCIATION INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA LIVESTOCK ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSentinel Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOCTORARA AREA FOOD CUPBOARD: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDARREN DAULTON FOUNDATION INC: $1,750 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

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.

Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA5.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Maccauley Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Maccauley Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.

    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 33 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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