· Private foundation
McN Build 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k46 grants · $130k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $201k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $63k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NAFDA | $63,000 |
| WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| BREAD FOR THE CITY | $30,000 |
| KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $24,000 |
| KIPP DC | $20,000 |
| KIPP DC | $15,000 |
| KIPP DC | $15,000 |
| OUR LADY OF LEBANON CHURCH | $12,000 |
| DC PREPARATORY ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| PROJECT PROMISE | $6,300 |
| THE BLUE AND GOLD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION CORPORATION | $6,147 |
| DC HISPANIC CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION | $6,000 |
| DC HISPANIC CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION | $6,000 |
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 US giving — 82% of grant dollars ($2.6M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 18% that went abroad ($564k) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% 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
Beyond the US — 18% of all-years giving ($564k)
7 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of McN Build Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +45% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $171k 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
- WIWASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL6× · 2019–2025 · $230k · revenue +40%
- BFBREAD FOR THE CITY INC5× · 2019–2025 · $151k · revenue +70%
- KDKIPP DC PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS6× · 2019–2025 · $125k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- GCGARDEN CITY SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $105k
- FPFUNDACION PIES DESCALZOS (BAREFOOT FOUNDATION)one grant, 2024 · $105k
- CNCATHOLIC NEAR EAST WELFARE ASCone grant, 2022 · $75k
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.
Our mission is to dramatically improve the early career outcomes of dc youth and young adults of color by creating innovative programs and by mobilizing employers, educators, and city leaders to create a local, diverse talent pipeline. our…
Provide students with the academic foundation and ambition to earn a college degree.
Wla combines best practices in teaching and learning, with the latest in educational technology to create an unparalleled high school experience. students will graduate from wla prepared for college, career, and lives of public leadership.
Center city public charter schools (center city pcs) empowers our students for lifelong success by building strong character, promoting academic excellence, and generating public service throughout washington, d.c.
Global citizens school's mission is to inspire and prepare the next generation or global citizens. we will do this by supporting students, ages 3-11, to reach their full academic and leadership potential in a nurturing learning…
To provide a rigorous, classical education to public school middle and high school students from across the district of columbia.
The district of columbia college access program's (dc cap's) primary purpose is to encourage and enable district of columbia students to attend and graduate college.
To inspire inquiring, engaged, knowledgeable and caring secondary students who are multilingual, culturally competent, and committed to proactively creating a socially just and sustainable world.
To inspire and prepare young people to create a better world by challenging them to reach their full potential in a nurturing chinese/english educational environment.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
The howard university middle school of mathematics and science is the only middle school in the country that is located on the campus of an hbcu. we were chartered by howard university for the express purpose of creating a pipeline for…
The mission of dc bilingual public charter school is to create a learning community that ensures high academic achievement for all students in both spanish and english, develops leadership, and values all cultures.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kipp Dc Public Charter Schools and the most unlike its peers is O Street Museum Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
59 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. 59 of the 151 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 WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BREAD FOR THE CITY INC ↗
- Who funds KIPP DC PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds JOBS FOR LEBANON INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY OF SAINT SHARBEL USA ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE TRACK ↗
- Who funds DC PREPARATORY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds KENNEDY KRIEGER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DC HISPANIC CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FEDERAL CITY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TWO RIVERS PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds TFL-US INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Run-Hope-Work ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND FAMILY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR PGCPS INC ↗
- Who funds O STREET MUSEUM 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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Education Forward DC · Flamboyan Foundation Inc · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Richard E & Nancy P Marriott Foundation · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Gamba Family Foundation Inc · The Cpmg Foundation · Washington Nationals Philanthropies
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 McN Build 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.
- Maryland Family Network Inc — 66% of income from government
- Center for Adoption Support and Education Inc — 51% 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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