How much did MCCARTHY FAMILY FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 65% of MCCARTHY FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

—

2020

—

2021

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2022

gloucestereducationchildrenpathwayshavencape annbeverly

2023

childrenhavenpathwaysfoodpantrygirls lynncape ann

2024

childrenhavenbeverlyartcape anngirls lynnpantry

2025

greatereducationlynnpantrycape anngirlshaven

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k19 grants · $103k
$10k–50k10 grants · $100k

$7,500

Median grant

States reached

$5.1M

Total assets

Largest grants

BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES$10,000
NEW AMERICAN ASSN OF MASSACHUSETTS$10,000
THE OPEN DOOR CAPE ANN FOOD PANTRY INC$10,000
ACTION INC$10,000
CASA MARIPOSA INC$10,000
THE SALEM PANTRY$10,000
HAVEN FROM HUNGER OF PEABODY INC$10,000
UNITED WAY OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY$10,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LYNN$10,000
GIRLS INC OF BOSTON & LYNN$10,000
ROOT NS INC$7,500
RAW ART WORKS$7,500
CAMP FIRE NORTH SHORE INC$7,500
BACKYARD GROWERS$7,500
EXPRESS YOURSELF INC$7,500

02The need

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 (FY22–25, $82k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 7%. 94% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.2M · 24 repeat orgs$194k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +81% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

24 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.2M

$124k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+81%

+21%

Still filing today

79%

42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEducationOther

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

GIRLS INCORPORATED OF LYNN
4× · 2022–2025 · $48k · revenue +87%
THE OPEN DOOR CAPE ANN FOOD PANTRY INC
3× · 2023–2025 · $40k · revenue +78%
EXPRESS YOURSELF INC
4× · 2022–2025 · $38k · revenue +38%

Funded once

TO
THE OPEN DOOR CAPE ANN FOOD
one grant, 2022 · $15k
HF
HAVEN FROM HUNGER
one grant, 2022 · $10k
BB
BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS
one grant, 2022 · $10k

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.

Massachusetts Education & Career

Massedco works to bridge the gap in postsecondary education attainment for low-income, first generation youth and adults in massachusetts.

Education

Cutchins Programs for Children

For children and families to have access to compassionate and transformative mental health care.

Health

East End House Inc

Provide childcare and community action programs to the local population.

Human Services

Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc

To inspire excitement for learning, create paths to and through college, and promote careers in education.

Education

Massachusetts Affordable Housing

Massachusetts affordable housing alliance, inc. (maha) breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.

Housing & Shelter

The Barn On Winter Street Inc

To operate a preschool mainly for children ages 2 through 5 in concord, ma.

Education

Massachusetts Nonprofit Network

Strengthen nonprofit sector through public policy, public awareness, and capacity building services.

Education

Community Nursery School Inc

To conduct a school in lexington, ma for children of preschool age.

Education

Brookline Arts Center

The Brookline Arts Center is a visual arts center committed to bringing the community meaningful experience in the arts through classes, exhibitions and outreach.

Arts & Culture

Broccoli Hall Inc

Not-for-profit educational institution

Education

Goodwill Industries of the Berkshires

To help community members with barriers to employment attain independence and self-sufficiency, gain confidence, and enhance their quality of life, through vocational education, work training, and other support services.

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Carter Nursery School Inc

Nursery school program

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Beverly Bootstraps Community Services I and the most unlike its peers is Pathways for Childreninc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/40

the rest of the field

10%

415/4,138

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

39 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

37/39

Grantees still filing

33/39

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$934,500Youth Development$105,000Human Services$89,500Food & Nutrition$83,000Arts & Culture$69,000Community Improvement$50,000Housing & Shelter$42,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

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.

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.

Essex County Community Foundation IncMA49.2× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Institution for Savings in Newburyport & · People's United Community Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust - East Boston Savings · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower · Bruce J Anderson Foundation · Edward S & Winifred G Moseley Foundation

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 organisation MCCARTHY FAMILY 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

15get no government money at all

3rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: BACKYARD GROWERS.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~3 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +57% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 471553021 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on BACKYARD GROWERS, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 3% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to McCarthy Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to McCarthy Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

MCCARTHY FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

39 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to McCarthy Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph

MCCARTHY FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

39 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to McCarthy Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph