· Private foundation
McCortney 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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $10,000 |
| THE FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL AND NE MO | $10,000 |
| THE NIGHT MINISTRY | $8,000 |
| TRUE NORTH OF COLUMBIA INC | $7,000 |
| CASA CENTRAL | $6,000 |
| HEART OF MISSOURI - CASA | $6,000 |
| WBEZ | $5,000 |
| COLUMBIA CENTER FOR URBAN AGRICULTURE | $5,000 |
| KMOS UNIV OF CENTRAL MO | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| KBIA UNIVERSITY OF MO | $5,000 |
| HAVE DREAMS | $5,000 |
| WTTW | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 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.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 33 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 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization McCortney Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McCortney Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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