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McCarthy Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $103k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LYNN | $10,000 |
| HAVEN FROM HUNGER OF PEABODY INC | $10,000 |
| THE SALEM PANTRY | $10,000 |
| GIRLS INC OF BOSTON & LYNN | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY | $10,000 |
| 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 |
| ROOT NS INC | $7,500 |
| RAW ART WORKS | $7,500 |
| BACKYARD GROWERS | $7,500 |
| CAMP FIRE NORTH SHORE INC | $7,500 |
| EXPRESS YOURSELF INC | $7,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $82k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
THE OPEN DOOR CAPE ANN FOOD PANTRY INC4× · 2022–2025 · $55k · revenue +11%
GIRLS INCORPORATED OF BOSTON AND LYNN4× · 2022–2025 · $48k · revenue +41%
BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I4× · 2022–2025 · $38k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- GIGIRLS INC OF LYNNone grant, 2019 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
Gloucester Education Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +30%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…
The mission of the massachusetts nonprofit network is to unite and strengthen the nonprofit sector in the commonwealth through public policy, public awareness, and capacity building services.
Daycare services
The mission of Massachusetts Avenue Project is to nurture the growth of a diverse and equitable community food system and promote local economic opportunities, access to affordable, nutritious food and social-change education.
LPC's mission is to help children become good friends, proficient problem solvers, creative risk takers, and self-governing, accepting classmates. We want them to be as self-sufficient and independent as they can be based on their age and…
Lifestream, inc. (the organization") provides community-based services that support individuals in attaining greater independence, promising opportunities, and lives that are meaningful and fulfilling on their own terms.
Since 1972, the open center for children has worked in partnership with families to create a nurturing early education and care experience. the play-based curriculum inspires children to become motivated, self-directed learners, feel…
Multi-service agency providing many direct social services: education, community outreach, case management, counseling, transportation, crisis intervention, food programs, thrift shops, etc.
Brookview's mission is to help homeless and at risk families learn the skills necessary to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.
To provide family services and job training for women and their families in the greater gardner, ma area.
To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Open Door Cape Ann Food Pantry Inc and the most unlike its peers is Haven From Hunger of Peabody Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
40 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 40 of the 81 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds THE OPEN DOOR CAPE ANN FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF BOSTON AND LYNN ↗
- Who funds BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I ↗
- Who funds EXPRESS YOURSELF INC ↗
- Who funds ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds LYNN SHELTER ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SALEM PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds HAVEN FROM HUNGER OF PEABODY INC ↗
- Who funds ROOT NS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LYNN INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP FIRE NORTH SHORE INC ↗
- Who funds BACKYARD GROWERS INC ↗
- Who funds RAW ART WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE ANN ART HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS ADULT EDUCATION & TRAINING INC ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS FOR CHILDRENINC ↗
- Who funds GLOUCESTER MARITIME HERITAGE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Mission of Deeds Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc ↗
- Who funds Casa Mariposa Inc ↗
- Who funds Gloucester Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HABITAT PLUS INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Alfred Chase Charity Fdn Ui · People's United Community Foundation of Eastern Massachusetts Inc · Edward S & Winifred G Moseley Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc
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 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.
- Pathways for Childreninc — 86% of income from government
- Ipswich River Watershed Association — 68% of income from government
- Agespan Inc — 57% of income from government
- Habitat Plus Inc — 50% of income from government
- Pathways Adult Education & Training Inc — 45% of income from government
- Girls Incorporated of Boston and Lynn — 28% of income from government
- Root Ns Inc — 26% of income from government
- United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc — 23% of income from government
- New American Association of Massachusetts Inc — 12% of income from government
- Salem Pantry Inc — 12% of income from government
- Lynn Shelter Association Inc — 12% of income from government
- Leap for Education Inc — 9% of income from government
- Wellspring House Inc — 9% of income from government
- Raw Art Works Inc — 7% of income from government
- Cabot Performing Arts Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- Action Inc — 3% of income from government
- Cape Ann Art Haven Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Lynn Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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