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McCreight Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$1.9M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$8.4MHealth$2.7MCommunity Improvement$430kHousing & Shelter$330kHuman Services$320kArts & Culture$216kAnimals$110kRecreation & Sports$79kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.9M
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VIRGINIA MASON FRANCISCAN HEALTH FOUNDATION$1,850,000
NATIONAL MS FOUNDATION$10,000
THE HOMESTEAD COMMUNITY$5,000
GIGI HARBOR NOW$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $310k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE HOMESTEAD COMMUNITY: $300k → 9%THE HOMESTEAD COMMUNITY: $5k → 9%HILLSIDES: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.4M · 17 repeat orgs$5.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
17

Total granted

$7.4M
$5.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+16%

Still filing today

71%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • PE
    PASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2022 · $3.1M · revenue +254%
  • PH
    Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd
    6× · 2017–2022 · $405k · revenue +25%
  • FF
    FAMILIES FORWARD
    7× · 2017–2023 · $330k · revenue +148%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5.0M · revenue +189%
  • MH
    MARSHALL HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2018 · $73k
  • PP
    PRISON PET PARTNERSHIP PROGRAMgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +35%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
2
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
3
Planned Parenthood Los Angeles

To provide convenient and affordable access to a comprehensive range of quality reproductive health care and sexual health information through patient services, education, and advocacy.

Health
4
Planned Parenthood Pasadena and San Gabriel Valley Inc

Planned Parenthood Pasadena and San Gabriel Valley, Inc. ("PPPSGV") are essential health care providers and trusted educators who center our work on sexual and reproductive care and advocate for all people to live authentic and healthy…

Health
5
Scripps Health

Founded in 1924 by philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps, Scripps Health is a $4.9 billion, private not-for-profit integrated health system in San Diego, Ca. (see Sch O)

Health
6
Parents for Public Schools of San Francisco

PPS-SF's mission is to promote the fundamental value of public education and pursue the success of every public school by sharing knowledge, bridging communities, and informing policy.

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7
Union Station Homeless Services

We work to end homelessness through housing solutions, supportive services, and connection to community. we advocate for equitable and just systems that ensure all individuals and families will have a safe place they can call home.

Human Services
8
Maranatha High School

Maranatha high school is a christ-centered, evangelical college preparatory school that celebrates the whole student by equipping hearts and minds to reflect god's glory through academics, as well as the arts, athletics, and service. we…

Education
9
Huntington Medical Foundation

Provide the highest quality, most patient friendly healthcare through innovative programs. we are responsive to our community's need and sensitive to financial responsiblity.

Health
10
Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…

Health
11
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
12
Pasadena Community Foundation

Pasadena Community Foundation builds and preserves permanently endowed charitable funds, provides grants and assistance to nurture and strengthen community organizations, serves donors to meet their philanthropic goals and promotes and…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young & Healthy; the most unlike its peers is Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 34 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
18/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $5,020,200 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION+3 more: $156,500 · EducationVIRGINIA MASON FRANCISCAN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $2,027,000 · OtherVIRGINIA MASON FRANCISCAN HEA…CITY OF HOPE: $425,000 · OtherCITY OF HOPEFAMILIES FORWARD: $330,000 · OtherFAMILIES FORWARDFive Acres The Boys and Girls' Aid Society of Los Angeles County: $250,000 · OtherFive Acres The Boys and Girls…+14 more: $288,812 · Other+14 morePASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $3,080,100 · PhilanthropyPASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDA…Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd: $405,000 · Health+3 more: $4,500 · HealthThe Homestead Community: $305,000 · Human Services+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY: $145,000 · Arts & CultureA Noise Within: $26,000 · Arts & CulturePasadena Conservatory of Music: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $6,000 · Arts & CulturePASADENA HUMANE: $85,000 · Animals
Education$5,176,700Other$3,320,812Philanthropy$3,080,100Health$409,500Human Services$310,000Arts & Culture$187,000Animals$85,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $5,020,200 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetPASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $3,080,100 over 6y, 12% of budgetPasadena Hospital Association Ltd: $405,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILIES FORWARD: $330,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetThe Homestead Community: $305,000 over 2y, 56% of budgetFive Acres The Boys and Girls' Aid Society of Los Angeles County: $250,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPASADENA EDUCATION NETWORK: $150,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY: $145,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPASADENA HUMANE: $85,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetA Noise Within: $26,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPRISON PET PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM: $25,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetPasadena Conservatory of Music: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGIG HARBOR NOW: $6,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetKHAN ACADEMY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINNOVATE PASADENA: $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSIDES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE ACCESS PLAN: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG & HEALTHY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Pasadena Community Fo…Helen and Will Webste…The Rose Hills Founda…The Ralph M Parsons F…California Community …Michael J Connell Fou…Ann Peppers FoundationWeingart FoundationRotary Club of Pasade…John Jewett & Helen C…Pasadena Showcase Hou…S Mark Taper Foundati…
Pasadena Community FoundationCA21.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pasadena Community Foundation · Helen and Will Webster Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · California Community Foundation · Michael J Connell Foundation Michael J Connell Charities Lte · Ann Peppers Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Rotary Club of Pasadena Foundation · John Jewett & Helen Chandler Garland Fou Ndation · Pasadena Showcase House For The Arts · S Mark Taper Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization McCreight Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McCreight Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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