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Mar C Richards Char Found Inc Dba McR 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.

$244k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2025
17
Organizations funded FY2024
29%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
12 to 21
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$994k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Mar C Richards Char Found Inc Dba McR Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationReligionHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving20$244k25%
FY202417$270k29%
FY202318$136k39%
FY202213$127k31%
FY202112$90k42%
FY202021$109k19%
FY201917$83k29%
FY201819$85k37%
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$403kReligion$132kInternational$105kHousing & Shelter$70kHealth$54kPublic Benefit$38kEmployment$38kPublic Safety & Disaster$30kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Assistance League of Indianapolis Inc$199,17595%
Geist Christian Church$124,4008n/a
Samaritan's Purse$112,00060%
Golden PAWS Assistance Dogs Inc$77,80061%
Hvaf of Indiana Inc$65,00050%
Sheltering Wings Center for Women Inc$52,00080%
Outreach Inc$49,00081%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$40,00030%
National Kidney Foundation Of Indiana Inc$40,00023%
Bay Presbyterian Church$38,8007n/a
Show all 32 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($283k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mar C Richards Char Found Inc Dba McR Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAssistance League of Indianapolis Inc: $199,175 over 9y, 4.6% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $112,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGolden PAWS Assistance Dogs Inc: $77,800 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetHvaf of Indiana Inc: $65,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSheltering Wings Center for Women Inc: $52,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetOutreach Inc: $49,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation Of Indiana Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetThe Julian Center Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCoburn Place Safehaven II Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetU Foundation: $14,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetHumane Society for Hamilton County: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Hendricks County Child Advocacy Center Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetIndiana Center for Prevention of Youth Abuse and Suicide: $6,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTara Treatment Center Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Way Station: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTMP Enterprises Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDomestic Violence Network of Greater Indianapolis Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFair Haven Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWheeler Mission Ministries Inc: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMiami County Historical Societyinc: $3,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetIndiana University Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStrides to Success Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetGleaners Food Bank of Indiana Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRediscover Downtown Peru Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetEskenazi Health Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIndiana Historical Society: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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.

Central Indiana Community Foundation IncIN34.9× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc · Samerian Foundation Inc · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Pacers Foundation Inc · Maurer Family Foundation Inc

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.

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About Mar C Richards Char Found Inc Dba McR Foundation

How much does Mar C Richards Char Found Inc Dba McR Foundation give?
Mar C Richards Char Found Inc Dba McR Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $243,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Mar C Richards Char Found Inc Dba McR Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (41%), Religion (13%), International (11%).
Who are Mar C Richards Char Found Inc Dba McR Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Assistance League of Indianapolis Inc ($199k), Geist Christian Church ($124k), Samaritan's Purse ($112k).
Does Mar C Richards Char Found Inc Dba McR Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Mar C Richards Char Found Inc Dba McR Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Mar C Richards Char Found Inc Dba McR Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc, Lilly Endowment Inc, Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation.
Where is Mar C Richards Char Found Inc Dba McR Foundation based?
Mar C Richards Char Found Inc Dba McR Foundation is based in IN.

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 57 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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