· Private foundation
McCabe Family 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WINGS | $10,000 |
| SHIRLEY HEINZE LAND TRUST | $5,000 |
| BEYOND HUNGER | $4,000 |
| HEART TO HEART EXPERIENCES | $3,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP BOTANIC GARDENS | $3,000 |
| BABY 2 BABY | $3,000 |
| DUNES ARTS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| WATER MISSION | $2,000 |
| INTERFAITH COMMUNITY PADS | $2,000 |
| GIRLS ON THE RUN CHICAGO | $2,000 |
| CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA | $2,000 |
| TIMELINE THEATER | $2,000 |
| UNCF | $1,000 |
| KALO FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.
52 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 39 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SHSHIRLEY HEINZE LAND TRUST INC8× · 2017–2024 · $54k · revenue +102%
- CPCHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC7× · 2017–2024 · $39k · revenue +38%
- SPSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC4× · 2017–2020 · $28k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- GTGREEN TIE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $992k
- RFROSETREE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $992k
- WWBEZone grant, 2020 · $11k
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.
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.
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How this is measured
44 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. 44 of the 94 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 SHIRLEY HEINZE LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Heart to Heart Experiences Inc ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER ↗
- Who funds WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds BEYOND HUNGER ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds 1000 FRIENDS OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds Bay State Performing Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds URBAN CPE CONSORTIUM INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY STUDY INSTITUTE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization McCabe Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McCabe Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
- Bay State Performing Arts Inc: 1% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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