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McM Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$190k
Granted FY2021
10
Grants FY2021
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

93% of McM Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year McM Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $190k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

8
’19
6
’20
6
’21
7
’22
1
’23

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2023.

Philanthropy$2.2MEducation$550kEnvironment$115kReligion$26kAnimals$5kArts & Culture$3k
02FY2021 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k2 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $129k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$13,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DEERFIELD ACADEMY$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND$45,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$20,000
DE LA SALLE HIGH SCHOOL$15,000
Katherine Delmar Burke School$13,000
MARIN HORIZON SCHOOL$13,000
Nantucket Golf Club Foundation$12,500
University of Virginia$10,000
Church of Our savior$6,500
MORAGA EDUCATION FUND$5,000
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 (FY19–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 74% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%NANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 6%DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $50k → 14%ST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL: $5k → 8%MARIN HORIZON SCHOOL: $13k → 8%DE LA SALLE HIGH SCHOOL: $15k → 9%HEAD ROYCE SCHOOL: $10k → 10%Katherine Delmar Burke School: $15k → 10%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $25k → 7%University of Virginia: $10k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND: $45k → 22%Nantucket Golf Club Foundation: $25k → 6%DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $25k → 14%MARIN HORIZON SCHOOL: $13k → 8%De La Salle Annual Fund: $15k → 9%Katherine Delmar Burke School: $13k → 10%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $20k → 7%University of Virginia: $10k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND: $45k → 22%Nantucket Golf Club Foundation: $13k → 6%MARIN HORIZON SCHOOL: $10k → 8%DE LA SALLE HIGH SCHOOL: $5k → 9%Katherine Delmar Burke School: $13k → 10%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $20k → 7%University of Virginia: $10k → 8%University of Richmond: $15k → 22%Nantucket Golf Club Foundation: $13k → 6%Church of Our savior: $8k → 8%Lafayette Partners in Education: $3k → 9%Katherine Delmar Burke School: $1k → 10%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $20k → 7%University of Virginia: $10k → 8%Nantucket Golf Club Foundation: $13k → 6%Church of Our savior: $7k → 8%SAVE MOUNT DIABLO: $5k → 9%SF University High School: $53k → 10%Church of Our savior: $7k → 8%RALLY FOR READING: $2k → 9%SF University High School: $25k → 10%Church of Our savior: $5k → 8%MORAGA EDUCATION FUND: $5k → 9%TOWN SCHOOL FOR BOYS: $25k → 10%MARIN HORIZON SCHOOL: $2k → 8%MORAGA EDUCATION FUND: $5k → 9%TOWN SCHOOL FOR BOYS: $10k → 10%Headlands Center for the Arts: $3k → 8%Moraga Education Fund: $3k → 9%SAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL: $8k → 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.
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$518k · 11 repeat orgs$95k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2021, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
8

Total granted

$518k
$58k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+36%

Still filing today

55%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23
EducationPhilanthropyAnimalsArts & CultureEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY
    2× · 2021–2022 · $75k · revenue +6%
  • NG
    NANTUCKET GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $63k · revenue +114%
  • KD
    KATHERINE DELMAR BURKE SCHOOL
    4× · 2019–2022 · $42k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • DL
    De La Salle Annual Fund
    one grant, 2019 · $15k
  • UO
    University of Richmond
    one grant, 2019 · $15k
  • TH
    THE HEAD ROYCE SCHOOL
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +15%
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
The Seven Hills School

The institution provides educational instruction and activities to students ranging from preschool through 8th grade.

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2
The Buckley School

The buckley school is a dynamic, nurturing learning community committed to equity and inclusion. our innovative teachers and challenging programs inspire creativity, courage, and collaboration. by promoting a balanced development of mind,…

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3
Westside Neighborhood School

Wns is committed to creating a deeply caring community of lifelong learners that nurtures students from diverse backgrounds to reach their full potential, develop cultural competency, and inspire the world with their curiosity, innovation,…

Education
4
University Cooperative School

We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.

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5
The San Francisco School

A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.

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6
Mark Day School

Innovative and full of heart, mark day school nurtures each child to pursue their curiosity, think critically, embrace challenge with courage and joy, and work in partnership with others to build more caring and inclusive communities.

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7
Flintridge Preparatory School

Learning with purpose in a diverse and nurturing community, flintridge prep students thrive in adolescence and grow as curious scholars, creative thinkers , empathetic leaders, and global citizens.

Education
8
San Francisco Friends School

At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…

Education
9
Marin Academy

Marin academy asks every individual to think, question, and create in an environment of encouragement and compassion, and challenges each person to accept the responsibilities posed by education in a democratic society.

Education
10
Sage Hill School

We inspire in our students a love of knowledge and the ability to use that knowledge creatively, compassionately and courageously throughout their lives.sage hill school's commitment to academic excellence and our outstanding college…

Education
11
Midland School Corporation

Midland school provides a distinctive co-educational boarding school experience to a diverse student body in grades 9-12. through study and work, midland teaches the value of a lifetime of learning, self-reliance, simplicity,…

Education
12
Morristown-Beard School

Morristown beard school is an educational college preparatory school in grades 6 to 12 located in morristown, new jersey.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of Deerfield Academy; the most unlike its peers is Think Wild. 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

15 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. 15 of the 24 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
12/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $2,190,416 · PhilanthropyVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM+1 more: $62,500 · PhilanthropyTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $85,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CO…SF University High School: $77,500 · OtherSF University…KATHERINE DELMAR BURKE SCHOOL: $41,500 · OtherKATHERINE DEL…University of Virginia: $40,000 · OtherUniversity of…Church of Our savior: $25,800 · OtherChurch of Our…DE LA SALLE HIGH SCHOOL OF CONCORD INC: $20,000 · OtherDE LA SALLE H…De La Salle Annual Fund: $15,000 · OtherUniversity of Richmond: $15,000 · OtherMORAGA EDUCATION FUND: $13,000 · Other+3 more: $17,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND: $90,000 · EducationUNIVERSIT…TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $75,000 · EducationTRUSTEES …MARIN HORIZON SCHOOL INC: $37,900 · EducationMARIN HOR…TOWN SCHOOL FOR BOYS: $35,000 · EducationTOWN SCHO…+2 more: $10,500 · EducationNANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · EnvironmentThink Wild: $5,000 · AnimalsSAVE MOUNT DIABLO: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsHEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $2,500 · Arts & Culture
Philanthropy$2,252,916Other$349,800Education$248,400Environment$25,000Animals$5,000Recreation & Sports$5,000Arts & Culture$2,500

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 budgetVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $2,190,416 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND: $90,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $85,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $62,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetKATHERINE DELMAR BURKE SCHOOL: $41,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMARIN HORIZON SCHOOL INC: $37,900 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTOWN SCHOOL FOR BOYS: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HEAD ROYCE SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThink Wild: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSAVE MOUNT DIABLO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLafayette Partners in Education: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 San Francisco Fou…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The William G Irwin C…Jewish Community Fede…Marin Community Found…Morgan Stanley Global…East Bay Community Fo…McKesson Foundation I…American Endowment Fo…The Stanley S Langend…The Ayco Charitable F…National Philanthropi…
The San Francisco FoundationCA20.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The William G Irwin Charity Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Marin Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · East Bay Community Foundation · McKesson Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Stanley S Langendorf Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · 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 McM Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McM Foundation. 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%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Think Wild: 7% of income from government
  • Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc: 4% 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 · 0–25%
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 24 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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