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McGrath Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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McGrath Family Foundation Inc

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.

$464k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$120k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0184% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Education$460kHealth$145kInternational$75kFood & Nutrition$7kHuman Services$3kPhilanthropy$550Other$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $398k
$50,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$7.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE$120,000
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS$100,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$65,000
Individual grant recipient$62,500
NONVIOLENCE INTERNATIONAL$50,000
NOVA UKRAINE$25,000
SARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTH$25,000
SIMMONS UNIVERSITY$10,000
OUR COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY$6,500
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE: $120k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $100k → 12%SIMMONS UNIVERSITY: $10k → 16%OUR COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $7k → 17%NOVA UKRAINE: $25k → 8%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $2k → 17%NONVIOLENCE INTERNATIONAL: $50k → 14%SARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTH: $25k → 9%AL-ANON FAMILY GROUP: $3k → 10%TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE: $120k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $100k → 12%THE GIVENGAIN FOUNDATION: $550 → 16%FRIENDS OF RCSI: $63k → 17%FRIENDS OF RCSI: $50k → 17%FRIENDS OF RCSI: $3k → 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.
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$673k · 4 repeat orgs$132k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
4

Total granted

$673k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+9%

Still filing today

25%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $117k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
EducationHealthPhilanthropyInternationalFood & 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

  • Trustees of Tufts College
    2× · 2024–2025 · $240k · revenue +12%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS
    2× · 2024–2025 · $200k
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD
    3× · 2023–2025 · $118k

Funded once

  • WS
    Westfield State University Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +23%
  • AF
    AL-ANON FAMILY GROUP
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue -9%
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 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
2
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
3
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
4
Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

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5
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
6
National Taxpayers Union Foundation

National taxpayers union foundation (ntuf) provides crucial, impactful research and analysis showing americans how taxes, government spending, and regulations affect them. with our unique combination of policy expertise, outreach know-how,…

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7
Waynesburg University

Waynesburg university educates students to make connections between faith, learning and serving so they might faithfully transofrm their communiities and the world. see continuation on schedule o.as a christian comprehensive university, we…

Education
8
Thomas University

Thomas university is an independent, not for profit, institution of higher education with undergraduate and graduate programs that prepare students for successful careers and responsible citizenship in a rapidly changing and complex world.

Education
9
Union Institute & University

Union Institute & University educates highly motivated adults who seek academic programs to engage, enlighten, and empower them to pursue professional goals and a lifetime of learning and service. Offering accredited bachelors, masters,…

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10
Fudan University Education Development Foundation

1) Support academic research and talents cultivation in Fudan University. 2) Promote higher education in Fudan University and other educational organizations in China. 3) Strengthen global cooperations of education and research. 4) Enhance…

Education
11
Syracuse University

Organization's missionas a university with the capacity to attract and engage the best scholars from around the world, yet small enough to support a personalized and academically rigorous student experience, syracuse university faculty and…

Education
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Westfield State University Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Non-Violence International. 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

8 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. 8 of the 13 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $200,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTSPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $117,500 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODIndividual grant recipient: $115,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNON-VIOLENCE INTERNATIONAL: $50,000 · OtherNON-VIOLENCE INTERNATIONALSARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTH: $25,000 · Other+1 more: $2,500 · OtherTrustees of Tufts College: $240,000 · EducationTrustees of Tufts CollegeWestfield State University Foundation Inc: $10,000 · EducationSIMMONS UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationNOVA UKRAINE: $25,000 · InternationalOUR COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC: $6,500 · Food & NutritionAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $2,000 · HealthGivenGain Foundation USA: $550 · Philanthropy
Other$510,000Education$260,000International$25,000Food & Nutrition$6,500Health$2,000Philanthropy$550

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $240,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWestfield State University Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSIMMONS UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGivenGain Foundation USA: $550 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Simmons University: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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 13 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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