· Private foundation
McCoy Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2021 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
98% of McCoy Family Foundation Inc’s FY2021 grant dollars went to Horizon Community Funds Of Northern Kentucky, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2021
- $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
- $250k+1 grant · $875k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HORIZON COMMUNITY FUNDS OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY CORP | $874,730 |
| SHRINER'S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN | $11,000 |
| CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA FOUNDATION | $11,000 |
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 (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2021, 1 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN5× · 2017–2021 · $59k · revenue +120%- IGIndividual grant recipient3× · 2017–2019 · $27k
- CLCHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA FOUNDATION INC2× · 2020–2021 · $20k · revenue -59%
Funded once
- TCTHE CITY OF REFUGE AT HOOVENone grant, 2017 · $3k
- ACACCREDITATION COUNCIL FOR MEDICAL AFFAIRSone grant, 2020 · $3k
- SJST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITALone grant, 2020 · $500
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.
3 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. 3 of the 7 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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization McCoy Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McCoy Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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