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McCain 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.

$37k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$6k
Largest
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 FY20202024.

Health$74kPhilanthropy$40kEducation$38kFood & Nutrition$12kArts & Culture$8kReligion$6kYouth Development$1k
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$4,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$983k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DAFMARK DANCE THEATER ACADAMEY$6,000
Julia Hospice Palliative Care$5,000
HAMOT HEALTH FOUNDATION$5,000
PENNWEST UNIVERSITY$4,000
BARBER NATIONAL INSTITUTE$4,000
INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$4,000
Erie Cancer Wellness Center$4,000
STAIRWAYS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH$2,000
Second Harvest Food Bank$1,500
Emmaus Ministries Soup Kitchen$1,500
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BARBER NATIONAL INSTITUTE: $4k → 15%BARBER NATIONAL INSTITUTE: $4k → 15%BARBER NATIONAL INSTITUTE: $4k → 15%BARBER NATIONAL INSTITUTE: $400 → 15%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.

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 7% of McCain Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 95% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

McCain Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$122k · 13 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
3

Total granted

$122k
$8k

Still filing today

54%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureOther

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

  • GU
    GANNON UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2020–2023 · $14k · revenue +4%
  • DG
    DR GERTRUDE A BARBER CENTER INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $12k · revenue +34%
  • JH
    JULIA HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE
    3× · 2022–2024 · $11k · revenue +217%

Funded once

  • I
    INDIANA
    one grant, 2023 · $4k
  • DG
    Dr Gertrude Barber Center Found
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
  • PS
    Pennsylvania State University
    one grant, 2020 · $2k

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
Edward-Elmhurst Healthcare

Edward-Elmhurst Healthcare follows the mission of Endeavor Health to "help everyone in our communities be their best."

Health
2
Penn Highlands Healthcare Inc

Our community-based and controlled health care system exists to improve regional access to a wide array of premier primary care and advanced health services while supporting a reverence for life and the worth and dignity of each individual.

Health
3
Daemen University

Private, independent university providing higher education to students. The mission of Daemen University is to prepare creative, ethically-minded leaders for a diverse and interconnected world by integrating the intellectual strengths…

Education
4
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

5
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

6
Edward Hospital

Edward Hospital follows the mission of Endeavor Health to "help everyone in our communities be their best."

Health
7
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

8
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
DuBois Regional Medical Center

To provide the patient with exceptional care through our community-based health system while maintaining a reverence for life. it's the vision of the system to be the integrated health system of choice through excellent quality, service…

Health
10
Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare Group

The elmhurst memorial healthcare group follows the mission of endeavor health (f/k/a ns-ee holdings). the mission of endeavor health is to "help everyone in our communities be their best." central to this mission is a commitment to…

11
Mercyhurst University

Rooted in our Mercy Catholic liberal arts identity, we educate and inspire diverse learners in an environment where faith and reason flourish together for meaningful lives, dignified work, and leadership in service toward a just and loving…

Education
12
University of Maryland Dermatologists Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stairways Behavioral Health Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dafmark Dance Theater. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 19 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Erie Cancer Wellness Center — $12,000 · OtherErie Cancer Wellness CenterROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · OtherROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITYEMMAUS MINISTRIES — $5,500 · OtherEMMAUS MINISTRIESSECOND HARVET FOOD BANK — $5,500 · OtherSECOND HARVET FOOD BANKINDIANA — $4,000 · OtherINDIANAINDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $4,000 · OtherINDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIAGRANTS IN US-GOVERNMENTS-990 — $4,000 · OtherGRANTS IN US-GOVERNMENTS-990Emmaus Ministries Soup Kitchen — $3,000 · OtherSecond Harvest Food Bank — $3,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $2,000 · OtherDr Gertrude Barber Center Found — $2,000 · OtherPennsylvania State University — $2,000 · OtherHAMOT HEALTH FOUNDATION — $20,000 · HealthHAMOT HEALTH FOUNDATIONSTAIRWAYS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC — $17,000 · HealthSTAIRWAYS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH IN…JULIA HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE — $11,000 · HealthJULIA HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CAR…ERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $40,000 · PhilanthropyERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONGANNON UNIVERSITY — $14,000 · EducationDR GERTRUDE A BARBER CENTER INC — $12,400 · Human ServicesDAFMARK DANCE THEATER — $7,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$57,000Health$48,000Philanthropy$40,000Education$14,000Human Services$12,400Arts & Culture$7,000

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 budgetERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHAMOT HEALTH FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSTAIRWAYS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC — $17,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGANNON UNIVERSITY — $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDR GERTRUDE A BARBER CENTER INC — $12,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJULIA HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE — $11,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDAFMARK DANCE THEATER — $7,000 over 2y, 2.3% 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.

  • Who funds ERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds HAMOT HEALTH FOUNDATION
  • Who funds STAIRWAYS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC
  • Who funds GANNON UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds DR GERTRUDE A BARBER CENTER INC
  • Who funds JULIA HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE
  • Who funds ROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds DAFMARK DANCE THEATER

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 Britton Family FoundationPA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Britton Family Foundation · M J Surgala Tr · Erie Community Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 McCain 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 McCain Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to McCain 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 19 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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