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McDavid Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$175k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Health$316kHuman Services$298kEducation$80kPhilanthropy$77kPublic Safety & Disaster$34kCommunity Improvement$25kFood & Nutrition$20kAnimals$14kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $88k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAMC FOUNDATION$60,000
SPRINGFIELD FOUNDATION$27,500
CITY OF HOPE$25,000
EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION$20,000
LYONS EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FUND$15,000
GREENWOOD WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER$5,000
SYCAMORE HOUSE PREGNANCY & FAMILY LIFE CENTER$5,000
THE TREVOR PROJECT$5,000
SUPPORT OUR VETERANS CORP$5,000
CARING KITCHEN$5,000
Individual grant recipient$2,500
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 (FY18–25, $83k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%JOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION: $500 → 20%4 PAWS FOR ABILITY: $3k → 9%YMCA OF KANAWHA VALLEY: $5k → 18%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $25k → 12%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $20k → 12%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $15k → 12%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $10k → 12%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $5k → 12%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

NY
MA
IA
OH
CA
CO
MO
WV
DC
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 12% of McDavid Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

McDavid Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$676k · 14 repeat orgs$181k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
25

Total granted

$676k
$169k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+27%

Still filing today

79%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
HealthHuman ServicesAnimalsEnvironmentCivil RightsHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • CF
    CAMC FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $190k · revenue +126%
  • LE
    Lyons Elevating All Fund
    8× · 2018–2025 · $98k · revenue +708%
  • EF
    EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2020–2025 · $75k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $34k · revenue +27%
  • THE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +29%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +13%
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
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
2
Animal Care Sanctuary

Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…

Animals
3
American Kennel Club Canine Health Foundation

The mission of the akc canine health foundation, inc. is to fund, advance, and communicate canine health research and science through knowledge and discovery.

Animals
4
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
5
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.

Health
6
Columbus Humane

To fight animal cruelty, help animals in need and advocate for their well-being.

Animals
7
Animal Cancer Foundation

Animal cancer foundation is dedicated to finding new treatments and eventual cures for cancer by funding research in and increasing public awareness of comparative oncology, the study of naturally occurring, similar cancers in people and…

Health
8
Mental Health Center of Boulder County Inc

Partnering to improve quality of life as a nonprofit organization dedicated to mental health and wellness. healing is our purpose, help is our promise, health is our passion.

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9
Colorado State University Foundation

See schedule o colorado state university foundation assists in the promotion, development, and enhancement of facilities and educational programs and enhancements of faculty, students, and alumni of colorado state university (csu). this is…

Education
10
Charleston Animal Society

Since its founding, our mission has always stayed the same: the prevention of cruelty to animals. in 1874, charleston animal society became the first animal organization in south carolina and one of the first in the nation and has never…

Animals
11
Women's Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc

As america's first animal shelter, founded in 1869, women's humane society dba women's animal center (wac), assists people in the community, saves the lives of animals, and improves the health of pets through its shelter and adoptions…

Animals
12
The Anti-Cruelty Society

Anti-Cruelty is a private, nonprofit organization which was established in 1899 and is chartered in Illinois. Anti-Cruelty builds a healthy and happy community where pets and people thrive together.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint John's Health Center Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 43 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
19/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF HOPE: $115,000 · OtherCITY OF HOPELyons Elevating All Fund: $97,500 · OtherLyons Elevating All FundCaring Kitchen Inc: $23,763 · OtherCaring Kitchen IncSYCAMORE HOUSE PREGNANCY & FAMILY LIFE CENTER: $23,542 · OtherSYCAMORE HOUSE PREGNANCY & FAMILY LIFE CENTERTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC: $25,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC+20 more: $93,027 · Other+20 moreCAMC FOUNDATION INC: $189,500 · HealthCAMC FOUNDATION INCSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $47,500 · HealthSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FO…+4 more: $9,784 · HealthEMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $75,000 · Human ServicesEMERGENCY FAMI…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $34,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Natio…YMCA OF KANAWHA VALLEY INC: $5,000 · Human Services+2 more: $3,000 · Human ServicesTHE SPRINGFIELD FOUNDATION: $76,500 · PhilanthropyTHE SPRIN…COLORADO OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $49,900 · EnvironmentCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC: $2,521 · EnvironmentOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $2,000 · EnvironmentTHE RECOVERY POINT OF HUNTINGTON INC: $26,500 · Housing & ShelterSUPPORT OUR VETERANS: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $25,000 · Community Improvement
Other$377,832Health$246,784Human Services$117,000Philanthropy$76,500Environment$54,421Housing & Shelter$36,500Community Improvement$25,000

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 budgetCAMC FOUNDATION INC: $189,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetLyons Elevating All Fund: $97,500 over 8y, 6.0% of budgetTHE SPRINGFIELD FOUNDATION: $76,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetEMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $75,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCOLORADO OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $49,900 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $47,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $34,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RECOVERY POINT OF HUNTINGTON INC: $26,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCaring Kitchen Inc: $23,763 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetFAIRNESS WV INSTITUTE INC: $5,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetYMCA OF KANAWHA VALLEY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCancer Association of Champaign County: $5,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $3,263 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC: $2,521 over 2y, 0.0% of budget4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLONGMONT HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $1,263 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGolden Endings Golden Retriever Rescue Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGOLDEN RETRIEVER FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBarely Used Pets Inc: $632 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCELIAC DISEASE FOUNDATION: $521 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION: $500 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.

The Greater Kanawha V…Baird Foundation IncTruist West Virginia …Encova Foundation of …Assurant FoundationColorado Gives Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…Charities Aid Foundat…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…
The Greater Kanawha Valley FoundationWV15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Truist West Virginia Foundation Inc · Encova Foundation of West Virginia · Assurant Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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 · 0–40%
    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 43 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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