· Private foundation
McMcanus 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $4k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE | $14,225 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF TREASURE COAST | $2,500 |
| TOYS FOR TOTS | $700 |
| ELEVATE HOPE INC | $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 (FY22–24, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +90% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 1 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $700 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
- VIVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE5× · 2020–2024 · $76k
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF THE TREASURE COAST INC5× · 2020–2024 · $18k · revenue +23%
- KCKANE CENTER COUNCIL OF AGING2× · 2020–2021 · $6k
Funded once
- FOFLORIDA OCEANOGRAPHIC SOCIETY INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -9%
- ELENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INCone grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue -29%
- WAWASHINGTON AND LEE COLLEGE ANNUAL FUNDone grant, 2021 · $7k
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.
The advancement of marine and environmental sciences through scientific research, education and public outreach, leading new discoveries, revitalization and sustainability of our oceans and greater public understanding of our marine…
The mission emphasizes environmental education for children and adults. the children's education, largely for elementary schools is designed in conjunction with florida state standards and administered by volunteers and staff. the adult…
Our mission is to change the lives of our youth through enviromental stewardship by providing inspiration and education thorugh recreation.
We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…
Miami children's museum is a non-profit educational institution, which meets the needs of all children in our multicultural community. visitors of all ages are encouraged to play together, learn, imagine, and create. the museum offers…
The purpose of the healthy aquatics marine institute of florida inc. is to function as a source for education, aquaculture, and research using aquariums to promote ocean conservation. the organization offers educational programs in-house…
Florida college, as a private, independent liberal arts college, provides a comprehensive undergraduate experience designed to develop students spiritually, mentally, physically, and socially; to integrate into the students' lives the…
To advance education, awareness, and scientifically supported solutions to restore and protect marine ecosystems and our way of life for future generations.
The maritime aquarium at norwalk seeks to ignite a connection to long island sound and the ocean to enrich the lives of all people and inspire action to protect our blue planet.
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
Reef environmental education foundation (reef) was established as a nonprofit organization in 1990. reef conserves marine environments worldwide. our mission is to protect biodiversity and ocean life by actively engaging and inspiring the…
To inspire ocean conservation through marine mammal rescue, rehabilitation, education, and research.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Florida Oceanographic Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Pike School Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 16 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 HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE TREASURE COAST INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA OCEANOGRAPHIC SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DOLPHIN RESEARCH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TYKES & TEENS INC ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE HOPE INC D/B/A RED EYE ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds THE PIKE SCHOOL INC ↗
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: Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 McMcanus Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Florida Sheriffs Association Inc — 4% of income from government
- Dolphin Research Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Florida Oceanographic Society Inc — 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.