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McCloskey Family Charitable Trust at a glance

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McCloskey Family Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$365k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$754kArts & Culture$533kSocial Science$262kFood & Nutrition$115kInternational$105kHealth$104kPhilanthropy$45kEnvironment$37kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $86k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $270k
$16,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$563k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Leland Stanford Junior University$150,000
The Better Angels Society$60,000
The Aspen Institute Inc$60,000
Bill Cook Foundation$25,000
Caminos de Agua$20,000
Aspen Education Foundation$16,000
Feed the Hungry San Miguel Inc$15,000
Sweet Briar College$10,000
Christ Episcopal Church Aspen$3,500
Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation$3,000
University of Notre Dame$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–21, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS: $500 → 10%FRIENDS OF CASA HOGAR: $25k → 13%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $500 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
MA
NV
IA
IN
CA
CO
VA
MD
DC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 8 repeat orgs$439k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +80% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
14

Total granted

$1.4M
$396k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+80%
+17%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationInternationalSocial ScienceHuman ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TT
    The Thacher School Inc
    2× · 2017–2018 · $302k · revenue +32%
  • THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $262k · revenue +243%
  • TB
    THE BILL COOK FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2018–2025 · $105k · revenue +109%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $65k
  • PC
    PALMER COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +17%
  • SMILE TRAIN INC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +2%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
4
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
5
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
6
Duke University

To provide a superior liberal education, to prepare future members of learned professions, to advance the frontiers of knowledge, and to help those who suffer, cure disease, and promote health

Education
7
Institute for Shipboard Education

Journeys of discovery that spark bold solutions to global challenges.

Education
8
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.

Education
9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
10
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
11
Pitzer College

Pitzer College produces engaged socially responsible citizens of the world through an academically rigorous, interdisciplinary liberal arts education emphasizing social justice, intercultural understanding and environmental sensitivity.…

Education
12
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Aspen Institute Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Bill Cook Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 29 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
12/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Thacher School Inc: $302,350 · EducationThe Thacher School IncTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $300,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND ST…PALMER COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationPALMER COLLEGE FOUNDATIONPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION+2 more: $16,000 · EducationTHE BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY INC: $533,333 · Arts & CultureTHE BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY IN…THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $262,000 · Social ScienceTHE ASPEN INST…+1 more: $1,000 · Social ScienceIndividual grant recipient: $65,000 · OtherIndividual g…SMILE TRAIN INC: $50,000 · OtherSMILE TRAIN …THE CALI FOUNDATION: $40,000 · OtherTHE CALI FOU…THE MARIN SPECIAL OLYMPICS: $25,000 · OtherTHE MARIN SP…CHRIST ESPICOPAL CHURCH: $8,000 · OtherASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES: $16,500 · OtherASPEN CENTER…ASPEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $16,000 · OtherASPEN EDUCAT…+6 more: $19,075 · Other+6 moreTHE BILL COOK FOUNDATION INC: $105,000 · InternationalTHE BILL C…BAJA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · InternationalBAJA COMMU…FOUNDATION FOR MANAGEMENT EDUCATION IN CENTRAL AMERICA: $20,000 · InternationalFOUNDATION…CAMINOS DE AGUA: $20,000 · InternationalCAMINOS DE…FEED THE HUNGRY SAN MIGUEL INC: $115,000 · Food & NutritionFRIENDS OF CASA HOGAR: $25,000 · Human ServicesSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc: $1,000 · Human Services
Education$718,350Arts & Culture$533,333Social Science$263,000Other$239,575International$195,000Food & Nutrition$115,000Human Services$26,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY INC: $533,333 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetThe Thacher School Inc: $302,350 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $300,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $262,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFEED THE HUNGRY SAN MIGUEL INC: $115,000 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetTHE BILL COOK FOUNDATION INC: $105,000 over 5y, 9.6% of budgetPALMER COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBAJA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF CASA HOGAR: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR MANAGEMENT EDUCATION IN CENTRAL AMERICA: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCAMINOS DE AGUA: $20,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES: $16,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetASPEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $16,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA8.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization McCloskey Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McCloskey Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc: 0% of 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 · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to McCloskey Family Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to McCloskey Family Charitable Trust 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home