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McChord 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k11 grants · $945k
- $250k+9 grants · $5.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MUSEUM OF SCIENCE | $1,200,000 |
| DONORSCHOOSE | $1,000,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC | $750,000 |
| BELOVED ASHEVILLE | $750,000 |
| NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL | $500,000 |
| MANRESA ISLAND CORP | $500,000 |
| NEWTOWN FOREST ASSOCIATION | $475,000 |
| LET GROW | $250,000 |
| BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER | $250,000 |
| HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL | $140,000 |
| A BETTER CHANCE OF WILTON | $120,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE NORWALK RIVER VALLEY TRAIL | $100,000 |
| NEWTOWN HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $100,000 |
| FRASER WOODS MONTESSORI SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| NEWTOWN BRIDLE LANDS ASSOCIATION | $75,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $750k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 15 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, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.0M 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
- NFNEWTOWN FOREST ASSOCIATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $500k · revenue ×17 · 33% of their budget
- NHNEWTOWN HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +1% · 74% of their budget
- NMNEWTOWN MONTESSORI SOCIETY DBA FRASER WOODS MONTESSORI SCHOOL2× · 2022–2023 · $195k · revenue +102%
Funded once
- FWFRASER WOODS MONTESSORI SCHOOL NEWTOWNone grant, 2023 · $1.0M
MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +227%- PCPITTSBURGH CHAPTER NTMFFOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $400k
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.
Ingenuityne, inc. was formed to inspire young people to be science and technology leaders, by engaging them in exciting mentor-based programs that build science, engineering and technology skills, that inspire innovation, and that foster…
Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…
The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…
To empower students with a love of learning through ocean-based experiential programs that serve schools, teachers, and families.
The mission of FIRST Global is to enhance the global call for STEM education in the international student community. FIRST Global does so by combining the excitement of sport through robotic challenges with the rigors of science and…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Whitehead institute forges new frontiers in science, uncovering insights today that unlock the potential of tomorrow. our advances in genetics and genomics are now enabling us to tackle the complexities of life with unprecedented depth and…
The ecotarium's mission is to inspire a passion for science and nature among all members of the community through one-of-a-kind experiences, interactive exhibits, and accessible programming. as new england's leading science and nature…
We develop future thought leaders through experiences in science and engineering practices using well-proven programs and novel approaches that empower students.
Science buddies mission is to inspire and educate students of all ages with hands-on stem explorations that reflect their unique personal interests. by providing highly personalized educational experiences, we drive student discovery,…
To provide children of new england and beyond with opportunities to develop critical thinking and problem solving skills through invention and innovation, instilling the creative spirit in students today and for the rest of their lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Best Robotics Inc and the most unlike its peers is Norwalk High School Parents Club. 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 16 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 67 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 DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds BELOVED ASHEVILLE ↗
- Who funds Manresa Island Corp ↗
- Who funds NEWTOWN FOREST ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ATTACK ROBOTICS ↗
- Who funds LET GROW INC ↗
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds NEWTOWN HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NEWTOWN MONTESSORI SOCIETY DBA FRASER WOODS MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GROWINGSTEMS INC ↗
- Who funds HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Newtown Bridle Lands Association Inc ↗
- Who funds A BETTER CHANCE OF WILTON INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Norwalk River Valley Trail Inc ↗
- Who funds NEWTOWN HOOK & LADDER COMPANY NO 1 INC ↗
- Who funds EDESIA INC ↗
- Who funds CATHERINE VIOLET HUBBARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE FROGS ↗
- Who funds BEST ROBOTICS INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN BOATWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE ATL INC D/B/A ATLANTA SCIENCE FESTIVAL 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: Jeniam Foundation · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · Synchrony Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 McChord 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.
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
- Youth Development Organization Inc — 4% of income from government
- Museum of Science — 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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