How much did MCDAVID FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 51% of MCDAVID FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

—

2020

dogsshelterskillschildrensaint johnscaringhealth care

2021

researchsaint johnscancercarehealth

2022

emergency

2023

emergency

2024

emergency

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k7 grants · $24k
$10k–50k6 grants · $104k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.7M

Total assets

Largest grants

SPRINGFIELD FOUNDATION$27,000
CITY OF HOPE$25,000
EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION$15,000
CAMC FOUNDATION$15,000
BRIDGETTINE SISTERS$12,000
LYONS EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FUND$10,000
SYCAMORE HOUSE PREGNANCY & FAMILY LIFE CENTER$5,000
SUPPORT OUR VETERANS CORP$5,000
CARING KITCHEN$5,000
RECOVERY POINT$4,000
BOULDER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT$2,000
CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE$2,000
ASPCA$500

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 12%. 9% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$570k · 14 repeat orgs$189k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +112% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$570k

$169k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+112%

+40%

Still filing today

57%

63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentAnimalsCommunity ImprovementEducationOther

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

CF
CAMC FOUNDATION
8× · 2017–2024 · $130k · revenue +126%
LE
LYONS EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FUND
7× · 2018–2024 · $83k · revenue +644%
EF
EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION
4× · 2020–2024 · $55k · revenue +112%

Funded once

AR
AMERICAN RED CROSS
one grant, 2021 · $34k
COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTERgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +29%
UO
UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON
one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +16%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Colorado State University Foundation

Colorado state university foundation receives, manages and invests gifts in support of csu.

Education

Common Counsel Foundation

Ccf advances equity and environmental health through a combination of direct grant making and strategic philanthropic advising for client member funds and manages projects focused on organizational development, leadership sustainability…

Community Improvement

Cumberland Valley Animal Shelter Inc

Provide shelter for homeless animals and prevent animal cruelty

Animals

University of Colorado Foundation

The university of colorado foundation is the portal for philanthropic giving to the university of colorado and is responsible for receiving, managing, and investing the endowments and other gift funds the foundation holds for the benefit…

Education

Climate Foundation

To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.

Science & Tech

American Kennel Club Canine Health

To improve the health of all dogs through knowledge and discovery.

Animals

The Anti-Cruelty Society

Builds a healthy and happy community where pets and people thrive together.

Animals

Colorado Veterinary Medical Association

To advance veterinary medicine.

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Animal Cancer Foundation

See schedule o.acf develops and supports research that advances the prevention and treatment of cancer for people and pets. acf focuses on furthering research in comparative oncology, which is the study of cancers that occur similarly in…

Health

Cause for Canines

Cause for Canines is a 501c3, all-breed dog rescue in Columbus, Ohio ran solely by volunteers. In 2024, we rescued and adopted out 68 dogs.

Animals

Canines for Service Inc

CFS seeks to inspire veterans through life-changing canine partnerships.

Human Services

Cat Adoption Team

To save the lives of homeless, sick and injured cats and to work with our community to provide feline expertise and quality programs and services for people and cats.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Springfield Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1/25

the rest of the field

11%

206,163/1,819,540

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

24 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

24/24

Grantees still filing

20/24

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$398,332Health$144,284Human Services$63,000Environment$54,421Philanthropy$49,000Community Improvement$25,000Education$25,000

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.

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.

Baird Foundation IncWI12.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 organisation MCDAVID 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: LYONS EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FUND.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~23 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 7.4× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 810720530 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on LYONS EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FUND, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 23 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 6% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to McDavid Foundation?

Find your warmest path to McDavid Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

MCDAVID FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

24 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to McDavid Foundation?

More from the funding graph

MCDAVID FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

24 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to McDavid Foundation?

More from the funding graph