Illinois · Private foundation
McCortney Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $130k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $12,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 21
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $792k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations McCortney Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 20 | $130k | 15% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $90k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $72k | 6% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $72k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $70k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $85k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $62,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Our Lady of Tepeyac High School | $54,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $46,500 | 6 | 0% |
| The Night Ministry | $34,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Heart of Missouri Casa | $25,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Have Dreams | $23,500 | 6 | 0% |
| True North of Columbia Inc | $23,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Casa Central Social Services Corporation | $21,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture | $13,500 | 3 | 0% |
| The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri | $13,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 17 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $62,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Our Lady of Tepeyac High School | $54,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $46,500 | 6 | 0% |
| The Night Ministry | $34,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Heart of Missouri Casa | $25,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Have Dreams | $23,500 | 6 | 0% |
| True North of Columbia Inc | $23,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Casa Central Social Services Corporation | $21,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture | $13,500 | 3 | 0% |
| The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri | $13,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Child's Voice School | $10,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Child Abuse and Neglect Emergency Shelter Inc | $9,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Share our Spare | $8,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Window to the World Communications Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| City of Refuge | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Court Appointed Special Advocates of Cook County | $3,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Investigative Reporters & Editors Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($158k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget McCortney Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Orscheln Industries Foundation Inc · Veterans United Foundation · Boone County Community Trust · Heart of Missouri United Way Inc · Stafford Family Charitable Trust · Allen P and Josephine B Green · AbbVie Foundation · Boone Electric Community Trust · WP & HB White Foundation · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Dr Scholl Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust
How this is measured
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About McCortney Foundation
- How much does McCortney Foundation give?
- McCortney Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $130,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 21 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does McCortney Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (22%), Food & Nutrition (20%), Education (18%).
- Who are McCortney Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($62k), Our Lady of Tepeyac High School ($54k), Greater Chicago Food Depository ($47k).
- Does McCortney Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does McCortney Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as McCortney Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Orscheln Industries Foundation Inc, Veterans United Foundation, Boone County Community Trust.
- Where is McCortney Foundation based?
- McCortney Foundation is based in IL.
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