· Private foundation
McCarthy Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $103k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW AMERICAN ASSN OF MASSACHUSETTS | $10,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LYNN | $10,000 |
| THE SALEM PANTRY | $10,000 |
| ACTION INC | $10,000 |
| THE OPEN DOOR CAPE ANN FOOD PANTRY INC | $10,000 |
| CASA MARIPOSA INC | $10,000 |
| HAVEN FROM HUNGER OF PEABODY INC | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY | $10,000 |
| GIRLS INC OF BOSTON & LYNN | $10,000 |
| BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES | $10,000 |
| CAMP FIRE NORTH SHORE INC | $7,500 |
| RAW ART WORKS | $7,500 |
| EXPRESS YOURSELF INC | $7,500 |
| ROOT NS INC | $7,500 |
| BACKYARD GROWERS | $7,500 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +40% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.
35 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 17 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
How this is measured
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
- LFLEAP FOR EDUCATION, INCone grant, 2019 · $10k
Gloucester Education Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +30%- CICITIZENS INN INCone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
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.
How this is measured
40 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. 40 of the 77 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 THE OPEN DOOR CAPE ANN FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF BOSTON AND LYNN ↗
- Who funds EXPRESS YOURSELF INC ↗
- Who funds BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I ↗
- Who funds ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds LYNN SHELTER ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SALEM PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds ROOT NS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LYNN INC ↗
- Who funds HAVEN FROM HUNGER OF PEABODY 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 United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc ↗
- Who funds Gloucester Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Casa Mariposa Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT PLUS INC ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization McCarthy Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McCarthy Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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