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McCortney Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $87k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $43k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OUR LADY OF TEPEYAC HIGH SCHOOL | $12,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $11,000 |
| THE FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL AND NE MO | $10,000 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $10,000 |
| THE NIGHT MINISTRY | $8,000 |
| TRUE NORTH OF COLUMBIA INC | $7,000 |
| CASA CENTRAL | $6,000 |
| HEART OF MISSOURI - CASA | $6,000 |
| KBIA UNIVERSITY OF MO | $5,000 |
| WBEZ | $5,000 |
| COLUMBIA CENTER FOR URBAN AGRICULTURE | $5,000 |
| COYOTE HILL FOSTER CARE MINISTIES | $5,000 |
| WTTW | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| KOPN UNIV OF CENTAL MISSOURI | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
25 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $62k · revenue +39%
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY6× · 2020–2025 · $47k · revenue +17%- HOHEART OF MISSOURI CASA6× · 2020–2025 · $25k · revenue +427%
Funded once
- OLOUR LADY OF TEPEYAC HSone grant, 2022 · $10k
- CACOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF COOK COUNTYgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue +79%
- HOHOUSE OF GOOD SHEPARDone grant, 2020 · $3k
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.
To assist children who have been victims of abuse
The chicago children's advocacy center unites public, private, and community partners to ensure the safety, health, and well-being of abused children.
The mission of citizens against spouse abuse, inc. is to empower domestic and sexual violence survivors to regain control of their lives through education, advocacy, and coordination of community resources.
Casa of st. louis advocates for abused and neglected children and youth in st. louis by representing their best interests in court and in the community. our vision is that every child lives in a safe permanent home and has the opportunity…
Child safe of central missouri's mission is to respond to and prevent child abuse by providing advocacy, support, and resources to children who are alleged victims of abuse and other traumatic crimes, and to their non-offending family…
Recruit, train, and support volunteer citizen advocates to effectively speak to the best interests of abused, neglected, and dependent children in dupage county's juvenile court system because every child has a right to a safe, permanent…
To provide a voice for the abused and neglected children in the 25th judicial court system. trained and committed volunteers work in conjunction with key agencies and legal representatives of the children to shorten the time from the court…
Casa is a unique non-profit helping abused and neglected children in the jackson county family court system. our team of trained volunteers,staff case supervisors, and staff attorneys allow each child to be represented in a court of law…
Recruit, train and support community volunteers who assist the court in protecting the best interests of abused and neglected children in southwest missouri.
Court appointed special advocates for abused and neglected children in the juvenile court jurisdictions of coles and cumberland counties, illinois
To advocate for abused and neglected children in the legal welfare system.
To recruit, train, supervise and support volunteers who advocate for the best interest (reduction of physical, emotional, intellectual and social injuries) for abused and neglected children in the court system.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa Central Social Services Corporation and the most unlike its peers is True North of Columbia Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 33 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 MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds THE NIGHT MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds HEART OF MISSOURI CASA ↗
- Who funds HAVE DREAMS ↗
- Who funds TRUE NORTH OF COLUMBIA INC ↗
- Who funds CASA CENTRAL SOCIAL SERVICES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BANK FOR CENTRAL & NORTHEAST MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds CHILD'S VOICE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT EMERGENCY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds Share our Spare ↗
- Who funds WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds CITY OF REFUGE ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF COOK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS & EDITORS 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: 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
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 McCortney 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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