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McDade Family Foundation at a glance

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McDade Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$384k
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$90k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.4MYouth Development$610kEnvironment$388kHuman Services$297kPhilanthropy$135kInternational$115kHealth$110kRecreation & Sports$77kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $199k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $140k
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Friends of Rye Nature Center$90,000
Lost Tree Foundation$50,000
Hope Rural School$48,000
Immaculate Heart of Mary Church$25,000
Team Rubicon$25,000
Duke University$25,000
Inner City Scholarship Fund$16,000
Inner City Scholarship Fund$10,000
Partners in Health$10,000
Palm Beach County Food Bank$10,000
NY Botanical Garden$10,000
Hospital for Special Surgeries$10,000
Marine Corps Scholarship$10,000
Girl Scouts of Greater NY$5,000
Duke University$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.

area typical 11%MOORE WEALTH INC: $5k → 19%Moore Wealth Inc: $5k → 11%Brain Tumor Foundation: $500 → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.9M · 21 repeat orgs$524k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
37

Total granted

$2.9M
$307k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+38%

Still filing today

71%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $217k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationFood & NutritionArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND
    4× · 2018–2024 · $651k · revenue +19%
  • GS
    Girl Scouts of Greater NY Inc
    5× · 2017–2025 · $609k · revenue +15%
  • PO
    PART OF THE SOLUTION
    5× · 2019–2024 · $260k · revenue +198%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • CF
    CENTER FOR CREATIVE EDUCATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +64%
  • AJ
    ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +469%
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
Long Island University

To provide excellence and access in private higher education to those who seek to expand their knowledge and prepare themselves for meaningful, educated lives and for service to their communities and the world.

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2
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
5
South Shore Charter School

The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…

Education
6
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
7
The York School

York school is an award-winning, private, coed college-prep school for grades 8-12, that develops confident and authentic leaders. we offer an academically challenging experiential program for bright, kind, and driven students in an…

Education
8
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
9
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Brooklyn Law School

To provide students with the knowledge, skills, ethical values needed for a career in law.

Education
11
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Uncommon Schools Inc; the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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

40 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. 40 of the 70 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/40
Grantees still filing
25/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND: $651,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF RICHMONDWATERSIDE SCHOOL INC: $303,300 · EducationWATERSIDE SCHOOL INCDUKE UNIVERSITY: $140,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYWINGED FOOT FOUNDATION: $75,000 · EducationWINGED FOOT FOUNDATIONHOPE RURAL SCHOOL INC: $48,000 · Education+10 more: $84,000 · Education+10 moreLost Tree Foundation: $265,000 · OtherLost Tree FoundationINNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $196,000 · OtherINNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INCLost Tree Village Charitable Foundation: $130,000 · OtherLost Tree Village Charitable Foun…Individual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherGIVEN LIMB FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherNicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation: $37,340 · Other+39 more: $292,200 · Other+39 moreGirl Scouts of Greater NY Inc: $609,305 · Youth DevelopmentGirl Scouts of Grea…PART OF THE SOLUTION: $260,000 · Food & NutritionPART OF T…Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc: $31,100 · Food & NutritionPalm Beac…+1 more: $1,000 · Food & NutritionFRIENDS OF RYE NATURE CENTER: $95,000 · Environment+1 more: $3,000 · EnvironmentTEAM RUBICON INC: $85,000 · Public Safety & DisasterCENTER FOR CREATIVE EDUCATION: $50,000 · Arts & CultureWHYY INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureMINT MUSEUM OF ART INC: $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$1,301,300Other$1,020,540Youth Development$609,305Food & Nutrition$292,100Environment$98,000Public Safety & Disaster$85,000Arts & Culture$62,500

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 RICHMOND: $651,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGirl Scouts of Greater NY Inc: $609,305 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetWATERSIDE SCHOOL INC: $303,300 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetPART OF THE SOLUTION: $260,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetINNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $196,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $140,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLost Tree Village Charitable Foundation: $130,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $85,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR CREATIVE EDUCATION: $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHOPE RURAL SCHOOL INC: $48,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation: $37,340 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPalm Beach County Food Bank Inc: $31,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKIND INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSUNY IMPACT FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER PALM BEACH COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRANSYLVANIA CHRISTIAN MINISTRY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOCEAN DISCOVERY INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWHYY INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetECHOES AROUND THE WORLD: $5,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetEXODUS SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMINT MUSEUM OF ART INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWestchester Land Trust Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHelp Our Military Heroes Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBACKYARD SPORTS CARES INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren of Fallen Patriots Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARITAS OF PORT CHESTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGUARDIAN REVIVAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCUREBOUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE RYE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $200 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

The Goldman Sachs Cha…The Ayco Charitable F…Morgan Stanley Global…Ibm International Fou…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Jewish Communal FundVerizon FoundationThe Pfizer Foundation…
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY19.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Verizon Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc

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 McDade Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McDade Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Hope Rural School Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Center for Creative Education: 2% of income from government
  • Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to McDade Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to McDade Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 70 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home