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McGuire & Hester Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB FOR ALAMEDA | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION WEST STATES | $15,000 |
| CYPRESS MANDELA TRAINING CENTER INC | $12,500 |
| REBUILDING TOGETHER PENINSULA | $7,500 |
| URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER BAY AREA INC | $5,000 |
| ACE MENTOR SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA INC | $5,000 |
| EAST OAKLAND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $5,000 |
| GIRLS INC OF THE ISLAND CITY | $2,500 |
| MISSION HIRING HALL | $2,500 |
| EAST BAY ECONOMIC ALLIANCE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE | $2,500 |
| LITTLE OPERA HOUSE | $2,500 |
| WOMEN IN CONSTRUCTION OPERATIONS(WIOPS) | $2,500 |
| PCMSF | $2,000 |
| PLACER WRESTLING BOOSTERS | $500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–23, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
29 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc5× · 2018–2022 · $76k · revenue +26%
- ABALAMEDA BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC6× · 2017–2022 · $57k · revenue +110%
- RTRebuilding Together Peninsula4× · 2018–2024 · $35k · revenue +105%
Funded once
- TLTHE LEGACY FUNDS OF HOLY NAMES UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -97%
- EBEPSILON BETA BOULE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $8k
- SGSHEPHERDS GATEone grant, 2021 · $7k · 59% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
BRIDGEGOOD increases opportunity and digital literacy for under-resourced students with a focus on Black Indigenous and Women People of Color. We prepare first-generation college students for careers in UX UI and Visual Design while…
East Bay Rowing is the home of community rowing in Oakland; we run nationally competitive rowing teams for youth and adults, fostering health, discipline, teamwork and accountability.
The California School-Age Consortium (CalSAC) builds professional networks that provide training, leadership development and advocacy to ensure that all young people have access to high quality out-of-school time programs and to create a…
Enterprise for youth empowers under-resourced san francisco youths to reach their potential through transformative paid internship experiences supported by a community of employers, caring adults, and peers.
To create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
Improve the quality of life for individuals in Alameda County, Contra Costa County, Solano County, Monterey County, Sacramento County and the surrounding area in the State of California.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is East Oakland Youth Development Center and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Stone Lakes National Wildlife. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
45 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 45 of the 80 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CYPRESS MANDELA TRAINING CENTER ↗
- Who funds ALAMEDA BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Rebuilding Together Peninsula ↗
- Who funds ACE Mentor San Francisco Bay Area Inc ↗
- Who funds Oakland Childrens Fairyland Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LEGACY FUNDS OF HOLY NAMES UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds East Oakland Youth Development Center ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF THE ISLAND CITY ↗
- Who funds THE CRUCIBLE ↗
- Who funds Fairytale Town Inc ↗
- Who funds Oregon State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds Oakland Parks and Recreation Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALAMEDA POINT COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds ROOMS OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERDS GATE ↗
- Who funds SPANISH SPEAKING UNITY COUNCIL OF ALAMEDA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Oakland Elizabeth House ↗
- Who funds ANRAK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 100 BLACK MEN OF THE BAY AREA INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN IN CONSTRUCTION OPERATIONS ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds LUCIOUS BATEMAN FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: East Bay Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Lowell Berry Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Dome Construction Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · The Oakland Athletics Community Fund · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Mitchell Kapor Foundation · The PG&E Corporation Foundation · Turner Construction Company Foundation · Stupski Foundation
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 organization McGuire & Hester 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.
- Oregon State University Foundation — 0% of income from government
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 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.
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