· Private foundation
McCole 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, FY2019 to 2021.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2021
- $50k–250k4 grants · $500k
- $250k+5 grants · $2.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KING'S COLLEGE | $500,000 |
| WYOMING SEMINARY | $500,000 |
| MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY | $500,000 |
| CHILDRENS SERVICE CENTER | $500,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500,000 |
| WILKES UNIVERSITY | $200,000 |
| CEOWEINBERG FOOD BANK | $100,000 |
| SISTERS OF MERCY | $100,000 |
| ST VINCENT DEPAUL KITCHEN | $100,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of its 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.
14 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2021, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MUMISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY3× · 2019–2021 · $520k · revenue +28%
- WUWILKES UNIVERSITY3× · 2019–2021 · $220k · revenue +9%
- OFOSTERHOUT FREE LIBRARY2× · 2019–2020 · $5k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- WFWEINBERG FOOD BANKone grant, 2020 · $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.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
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Empowering our community of learners to discover and create better futures.
The mission of lycoming college is to provide a distinguished baccalaureate education in the liberal arts and sciences within a coeducational, supportive, and residential setting.
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
York college prepares graduates for fulfilling, productive, and purposeful lives by providing high quality programs of study supported by relevant real-world experiences. continued on schedule o.as a rich and diverse community of educators…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
Waynesburg university educates students to make connections between faith, learning and serving so they might faithfully transofrm their communiities and the world. see continuation on schedule o.as a christian comprehensive university, we…
As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…
The college of wooster is a community of independent minds, working together to prepare students to become leaders of character and influence in an interdependent global community. (continued on schedule o)we engage motivated students in a…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 16 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 WYOMING SEMINARY COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds KING'S COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS SVC CTR OF WYOM VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds WILKES UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds OSTERHOUT FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WYOMING VALLEY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF LACKAWANNA WAYNE AND PIKE COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds FM KIRBY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
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: Sordoni Family Foundation · The Blackhorse Foundation · Shoval Foundation · The Tambur Family Foundation · Moses Taylor Foundation Inc · William G McGowan Charitable Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization McCole Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McCole Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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