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McGinnity Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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McGinnity Family Foundation Inc

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.

$38k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
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.

Environment$106kInternational$77kFood & Nutrition$25kYouth Development$21kHealth$21kEducation$10kArts & Culture$5kCommunity Improvement$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$595k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CALCEF INNOVATIONS$25,000
AMAL ALLIANCE$10,000
HEAR YOUR SONG$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 (FY17–22, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE POLLINATION PROJECT: $10k → 10%HOMETOWN HEROES: $2k → 6%TIERRA GRATA FOUNDATION: $2k → 7%THE POLLINATION PROJECT: $6k → 10%THE POLLINATION PROJECT: $6k → 10%THE POLLINATION PROJECT: $5k → 10%THE POLLINATION PROJECT: $4k → 10%THE POLLINATION PROJECT: $4k → 10%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

WA
IL
WI
MI
NY
PA
NJ
CA
CO
NE
KY
VA
AR
NC
DC
AL
GA
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.
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 27% of McGinnity Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

McGinnity Family Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 35% directed abroad (not shown)
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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$162k · 11 repeat orgs$94k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +103% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
43

Total granted

$162k
$94k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+103%
+16%

Still filing today

82%
42%

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
EnvironmentEducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesHealthFood & NutritionOther
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

  • CI
    CalCef Innovations
    3× · 2020–2024 · $55k · revenue +106%
  • E
    ENVENTURE
    3× · 2017–2019 · $25k · revenue +20%
  • TA
    THE AMAL ALLIANCE INC
    3× · 2018–2024 · $14k · revenue ×28

Funded once

  • WF
    WISE FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • FF
    FORK FARMS
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • SM
    SUNRISE MOVEMENT EDUCATION FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue -81%
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
Groundwork Milwaukee Inc

Bring about the sustained regeneration, improvement, and management of the physical environment by developing community-based partnerships that empower people, businesses, and organizations to promote environmental, economic, and social…

Environment
2
EcoRise Youth Innovations

Ecorise Youth Innovations inspires a new generation of leaders to design a sustainable future for all. Our school-based programs empower youth to tackle real-world challenges in their schools and communities by teaching sustainability,…

Environment
3
EarthGen Fka Wa Green Schools

EarthGens mission is to guide and support youth, educators, and school communities to become leaders for a healthy environment.

Environment
4
EcoVentures International

To support well-functioning market systems which enable livelihood and environmental sustainability by training, mentoring, and connecting communities, networks, businesses, and vulnerable groups, especially women and youth, within these…

Environment
5
Development in Gardening

Development in Gardening is improving the nutrition and livelihoods of some of the world's most uniquely marginalized people by teaching them to plant regenerative gardens that grow health, wealth, and a sense of belonging.

Community Improvement
6
Earthcorps

To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.

International
7
Minneapolis Climate Action

Minneapolis Climate Action is a 501c(3) nonprofit founded in 2007 by a group of dedicated individuals committed to addressing climate change in their community. After almost 10 years of working at the neighborhood level and piloting the…

Environment
8
Groundswell International Inc

Groundswell International strenghtens communities to build healthy farming and food systems from the ground up.

International
9
Terra Birds

Educating and empowering youth through gardening. TerraBirds leads youth garden programs that promote justice, sustainability, and resiliency to help young people become the stewards of a healthy future.

Youth Development
10
Maia

MAIA is creating a generation of empowered leaders who have the knowledge and resources they need to lead choice-filled lives, break cycles of poverty, and ignite transformational change in their communities.

International
11
Multinational Exchange for Sustainable a Mesa andor Mesa Inc

MESA connects and cultivates sustainable farmers and food systems leaders around the world.

Education
12
Global Forest Generation

Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Running Rebels Community Organization Inc; the most unlike its peers is Marquette University. 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

31 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. 31 of the 55 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/31
Grantees still filing
19/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ENVENTURE: $24,520 · OtherENVENTUREWISE FUND: $15,000 · OtherWISE FUNDFORK FARMS: $4,995 · Other68 INC: $4,000 · OtherAUTISM SOCIETY OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC: $3,870 · OtherTEENS GROW GREENS INC: $4,000 · Other+32 more: $55,834 · Other+32 moreCalCef Innovations: $54,900 · EnvironmentCalCef InnovationsSUNRISE MOVEMENT EDUCATION FUND: $4,000 · EnvironmentSUNRISE MOVEMENT EDUCATION…VICTORY GARDEN INITIATIVE INC: $4,000 · EnvironmentVICTORY GARDEN INITIATIVE …+1 more: $2,000 · EnvironmentTHE POLLINATION PROJECT FOUNDATION: $33,980 · Human ServicesTHE POLLINATION…HOMETOWN HEROES INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesTIERRA GRATA FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesOMPRAKASH INC: $18,746 · PhilanthropyHEAR YOUR SONG INC: $10,000 · HealthISLANDS OF BRILLIANCE INC: $4,764 · HealthFREEDOM COMMUNITY CLINIC INC: $2,000 · HealthTHE AMAL ALLIANCE INC: $14,000 · InternationalYOUTHAITI INC: $610 · InternationalRUNNING REBELS COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION INC: $4,000 · Youth DevelopmentSOCIAL JUSTICE SEWING ACADEMY: $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOOL GIRLS INC: $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentLEAD2CHANGE INC: $1,500 · Youth Development
Other$112,219Environment$64,900Human Services$37,980Philanthropy$18,746Health$16,764International$14,610Youth Development$9,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCalCef Innovations: $54,900 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE POLLINATION PROJECT FOUNDATION: $33,980 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetENVENTURE: $24,520 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetOMPRAKASH INC: $18,746 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE AMAL ALLIANCE INC: $14,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetHEAR YOUR SONG INC: $10,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetISLANDS OF BRILLIANCE INC: $4,764 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSUNRISE MOVEMENT EDUCATION FUND: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRUNNING REBELS COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVICTORY GARDEN INITIATIVE INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTEENS GROW GREENS INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetAUTISM SOCIETY OF SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC: $3,870 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetURBAN STRATEGIES COUNCIL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARTWORKS FOR MILWAUKEE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGLOBAL MINDS INITIATIVE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGARDENEERS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMILWAUKEE RIVERKEEPER INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL WILDERNESS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOMETOWN HEROES INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCUPED CORPORATION: $2,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFREEDOM COMMUNITY CLINIC INC: $2,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCOOL GIRLS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDesigns For Hope: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUnited Roots: $1,975 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLEAD2CHANGE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetURBAN LEARNING COLLABORATIVE 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.

Greater Milwaukee Fou…Green Bay Packers Fou…Herbert H Kohl Charit…Richard and Ethel Her…Youth Foundation IncJoseph and Vera Zilbe…United Way of Greater…East Bay Community Fo…Impact100 Greater Mil…Jerome J and Dorothy …Northwestern Mutual L…The Ros Foundation
Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI28.4× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Inc · Youth Foundation Inc · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · East Bay Community Foundation · Impact100 Greater Milwaukee Inc · Jerome J and Dorothy H Holz Family Foundation C/O Donald Tushaus · Northwestern Mutual Life Foundation Inc · The Ros 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 McGinnity Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McGinnity Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%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
    9report 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 55 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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