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McNeill Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$790k
Granted FY2024still arriving
117
Grants FY2024still arriving
22
States reached
$47k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Health$864kEducation$616kHousing & Shelter$445kRecreation & Sports$294kPhilanthropy$284kEnvironment$266kArts & Culture$247kPublic Benefit$232kOther$0
02FY2024 · 117 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k97 grants · $307k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $483k
$3,000
Median grant
22
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION$47,300
ST JOHN'S SCHOOL$45,500
SOUTH TOE FIRE DEPATMENT$42,000
ADOPT-A-SCIENTIST$35,000
DILWORTH CENTER FOR CHEMICAL DEPEND$35,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GULF COAST$31,300
M D ANDERSON CANCER CENTER$30,900
OXBOW WATER SKI CLUB INC$30,000
HOUSTON FOOD BANK$27,800
ST MARK'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL$23,000
FAIRVOTE$19,000
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA$16,500
ONE TREE PLANTED$15,767
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEAN$15,767
SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY$15,766
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%COMMUNITY PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL: $12k → 10%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $1k → 7%COMMUNITY PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 10%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $1k → 7%COMMUNITY PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 10%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $800 → 7%COMMUNITY PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL: $6k → 10%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $500 → 7%HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS - HOUST: $2k → 16%HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS - HOUST: $2k → 16%HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $2k → 16%HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $2k → 16%KIDS MEALS: $4k → 16%KIDS MEALS: $4k → 16%KIDS MEALS: $4k → 16%KIDS MEALS: $4k → 16%KIDS MEALS: $3k → 16%HOUSTON AREA WOMEN'S CENTER: $2k → 16%HOUSTON AREA WOMEN'S CENTER: $2k → 16%HOUSTON AREA WOMEN'S CENTER: $1k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

ME
VT
WA
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
AR
NC
SC
DC
HI
LA
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.9M · 157 repeat orgs$373k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

157 repeat relationships — 104 still active in FY2024, 53 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

157
33

Total granted

$3.9M
$253k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+28%

Still filing today

61%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEnvironmentHealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesInternationalOther

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

  • A
    ADOPT-A-SCIENTIST
    6× · 2019–2024 · $217k · revenue +257%
  • PP
    Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $216k · revenue +3%
  • SJ
    St John's School
    8× · 2017–2024 · $179k · revenue +130%

Funded once

  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD CHULA VISTA
    one grant, 2022 · $47k
  • AP
    ALPHA PROJECT FOR THE HOMELESS
    one grant, 2023 · $47k · revenue +0%
  • GH
    GARCELON HOUSE
    one grant, 2019 · $23k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

2
Houston Botanic Garden

To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.

Environment
3
Trees for Houston

Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.

4
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
5
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

6
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

7
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
8
Npr International Operations Inc

Npr international operations, inc. ("nprio") supports the international newsgathering activities of national public radio, inc. through bureaus and offices established locally in foreign countries.

9
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
10
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
11
Nashville Public Radio

Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.

Arts & Culture
12
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Adopt-a-Scientist. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Cancer Support ServicesPolicy Research and AdvocacyIndependent K-12 SchoolsFood Banks and PantriesChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Pregnancy Support ServicesCommunity College Foundatio…Local History MuseumsHealth Access Advocacy and …Women & Girls Leadership De…Christian Missionary Organi…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…United Way Affiliates
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%1%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr13%33%35–55yr16%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%22%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%19%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.8% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.8%1/129
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,436

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.

04the grantee network

119 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 119 of the 203 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
117/119
Grantees still filing
89/119
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

St John's School — $179,350 · OtherSt John's SchoolM D ANDERSON CANCER CENTER — $159,770 · OtherM D ANDERSON CANCER CENTERThe Houston Food Bank — $159,500 · OtherThe Houston Food BankOXBOW WATER SKI SHOW TEAM INC — $113,400 · Other+140 more — $2,112,596 · Other+140 morePlanned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc — $216,400 · HealthPlanned Par…Dilworth Center for Chemical Dependency — $85,000 · HealthDilworth Ce…National Alopecia Areata Foundation — $31,900 · HealthNational Al…PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $28,900 · HealthPLANNED PAR…Midcoast Recovery Coalition — $15,500 · Health+7 more — $53,020 · Health+7 moreHumankindr — $346,700 · Housing & ShelterHumankindrSAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC — $47,300 · Housing & ShelterSAN DIEGO …ADOPT-A-SCIENTIST — $216,700 · PhilanthropyONE TREE PLANTED INC — $55,184 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Greater Houston — $38,750 · Philanthropy+7 more — $25,200 · PhilanthropyWATERCOLOR ART SOCIETY-HOUSTON — $53,200 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $21,650 · Arts & CulturePartners Asia — $20,500 · Arts & CultureHouston Museum of Natural Science — $13,700 · Arts & CultureROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $12,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY RADIO FOR NORTHERN COLORADO — $10,500 · Arts & CultureBOULDER COMMUNITY BROADCAST ASSOC INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureTRUTHOUT — $7,000 · Arts & CulturePublic Radio for the Front Range — $6,200 · Arts & Culture+5 more — $16,550 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS LILITH FUND — $22,400 · EnvironmentOCEANA INC — $16,800 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $15,600 · EnvironmentAMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $15,000 · EnvironmentSouthern Utah Wilderness Alliance — $15,000 · EnvironmentClinic Access Support Network — $9,200 · EnvironmentHermann Park Conservancy — $8,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $6,000 · EnvironmentTHE CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 · EnvironmentCoastal Mountains Land Trust — $5,400 · Environment+4 more — $11,500 · EnvironmentTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $58,120 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $38,040 · Public BenefitCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND — $12,700 · Public Benefit+1 more — $1,200 · Public Benefit
Other$2,724,616Health$430,720Housing & Shelter$394,000Philanthropy$335,834Arts & Culture$171,300Environment$130,900Public Benefit$110,060

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHumankindr — $346,700 over 5y, 100% of budgetADOPT-A-SCIENTIST — $216,700 over 6y, 18% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc — $216,400 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetSt John's School — $179,350 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank — $159,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDilworth Center for Chemical Dependency — $85,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $58,120 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY — $57,482 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetONE TREE PLANTED INC — $55,184 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWATERCOLOR ART SOCIETY-HOUSTON — $53,200 over 8y, 5.2% of budgetALPHA PROJECT FOR THE HOMELESS — $47,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC — $47,300 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Houston — $38,750 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $38,040 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL — $38,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetROCK THE VOTE — $33,600 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetNational Alopecia Areata Foundation — $31,900 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetFAIRVOTE — $31,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $28,900 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ENGINEERING FOUNDATION INC — $28,400 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE — $27,680 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetGuatemalan Tomorrow Fund Inc — $25,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetTHE NIPMUC SKI CLUB INC — $24,800 over 4y, 40% of budgetGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $24,300 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS LILITH FUND — $22,400 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $21,650 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPartners Asia — $20,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHEAST HISTORIC FILM — $20,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetPartners for World Health — $19,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $19,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS' MEALS INC — $17,930 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $17,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOCEANA INC — $16,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $15,600 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMidcoast Recovery Coalition — $15,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC — $15,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMAZON CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $15,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetSouthern Utah Wilderness Alliance — $15,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetRAINFOREST TRUST — $14,900 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE — $14,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSmall Steps Nurturing Center — $14,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHouston Museum of Natural Science — $13,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University — $13,575 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $13,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ST BERNARD PROJECT INC — $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND — $12,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $12,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Zoo Inc — $11,950 over 7y, 0.0% of budget
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 Humankindr
  • Who funds ADOPT-A-SCIENTIST
  • Who funds Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc
  • Who funds St John's School
  • Who funds The Houston Food Bank
  • Who funds Dilworth Center for Chemical Dependency
  • Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY
  • Who funds ONE TREE PLANTED INC
  • Who funds WATERCOLOR ART SOCIETY-HOUSTON
  • Who funds ALPHA PROJECT FOR THE HOMELESS
  • Who funds SAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC
  • Who funds United Way of Greater Houston
  • Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC
  • Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL
  • Who funds ROCK THE VOTE
  • Who funds National Alopecia Areata Foundation
  • Who funds FAIRVOTE
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ENGINEERING FOUNDATION 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.

Shell USA Company FoundationTX26.7× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · John P McGovern Foundation · Baker Hughes Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · The Brown Foundation Inc · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Marek Family Foundation · Strake Foundation · Corporation for Public Broadcasting

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 McNeill Charitable 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 70%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 16%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc30% of income from government
  • The Coral Restoration Foundation Inc16% of income from government
  • Gulf Stream Council of Boy Scouts of America Inc9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 203 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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