· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
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.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 18% of all-years giving ($564k)
7 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 8% of McN Build Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +3% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- FPFUNDACION PIES DESCALZOS (BAREFOOT FOUNDATION)one grant, 2024 · $105k
- GCGARDEN CITY SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $105k
- CNCATHOLIC NEAR EAST WELFARE ASCone grant, 2022 · $75k
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
59 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. 59 of the 151 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 KENNEDY KRIEGER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL 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 Run-Hope-Work ↗
- Who funds TFL-US INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND FAMILY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds O STREET MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR PGCPS INC ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization McN Build Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McN Build Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Maryland Family Network Inc: 66% of income from government
- Center for Adoption Support and Education Inc: 51% of income from government
How this is measured
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