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McP Charitable Foundation

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.

$85k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Public Benefit$212kEnvironment$51kEducation$49kArts & Culture$45kSocial Science$34kCrime & Legal$28kHealth$15kHuman Services$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k25 grants · $55k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
$2,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE$14,903
JUDICIAL WATCH INC$14,903
THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE$5,080
AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY FOUNDATION$5,080
CAMP FIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC$5,000
HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION$3,000
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$3,000
ASHLAND UNIVERSITY$3,000
PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$3,000
MACKINAC CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY$3,000
THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES$2,500
WISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR LAW & LIBER$2,000
GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$2,000
JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC$2,000
FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION$2,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 53% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%JUDICIAL WATCH INC: $21k → 14%MACKINAC CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $4k → 9%SUSTAINABLE RESOURCES INSTITUTE INC: $6k → 13%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $3k → 14%CAMP FIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $11k → 14%ASHLEND UNIVERSITY: $5k → 11%NATIONAL LEGAL & POLICY CENTER: $6k → 4%MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER: $10k → 6%THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $21k → 7%PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%JUDICIAL WATCH INC: $20k → 14%MACKINAC CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $3k → 9%CAMP FIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 14%ASHLAND UNIVERSITY: $5k → 11%NATIONAL LEGAL & POLICY CENTER: $5k → 4%MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER: $5k → 6%THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $20k → 7%PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%JUDICIAL WATCH INC: $15k → 14%MACKINAC CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $3k → 9%CAMP FIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $9k → 14%ASHLAND UNIVERSITY: $3k → 11%NATIONAL LEGAL & POLICY CENTER: $4k → 4%MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER INC: $3k → 6%THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $18k → 7%PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%JUDICIAL WATCH INC: $15k → 14%CAMP FIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $6k → 14%ASHLAND UNIVERSITY: $3k → 11%NATIONAL LEGAL & POLICY CENTER: $3k → 4%THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $15k → 7%JUDICIAL WATCH INC: $5k → 14%CAMP FIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 14%ASHLAND UNIVERSITY: $3k → 11%THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $15k → 7%JUDICIAL WATCH INC: $4k → 14%CAMP FIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $4k → 14%MERCATUS CENTER INC: $10k → 7%THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $8k → 7%THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $5k → 7%MERCATUS CENTER INC: $5k → 7%THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES: $3k → 14%MERCATUS CENTER INC: $4k → 7%THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES: $3k → 14%COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUE: $5k → 14%AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%COMMITTEE FOR A CONSTRUCTIVE TOMORR: $5k → 14%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

MN
WI
MI
NY
MA
OH
CA
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
DC
OK
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$333k · 31 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

31 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
11

Total granted

$333k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+26%

Still filing today

77%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureCrime & LegalEducationPublic BenefitHealthSocial ScienceOther

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

  • JUDICIAL WATCH INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $81k · revenue +141%
  • CF
    CAMP FIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +124%
  • NATIONAL LEGAL AND POLICY CENTER
    4× · 2020–2023 · $18k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • SR
    SUSTAINABLE RESOURCES INSTITUTE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +11%
  • CF
    COMMITTEE FOR A CONSTRUCTIVE TOMORROW
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +8%
  • GS
    GENERAL SOCIETY OF MAYFLOWER DESCENDANTSgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +30%

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
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
2
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
3
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.

4
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
5
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
6
American Law Institute

The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…

Crime & Legal
7
The George Washington University

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…

Education
8
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
9
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

10
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
11
The Institute for Law and Strategy

This institute, unlike many institutions concerned with law and public affairs, will not devote itself to advocacy or lobbying, to litigation, or to holding large-scale public events. rather, it will focus on collaboration with established…

Civil Rights
12
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc

The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship & Political Philosophy and the most unlike its peers is Marco Patriots Inc. 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 backsteadyEducation Equity LeadershipGovernment Accountability R…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Substance Abuse TreatmentYouth Sports Booster Organi…Community Arts OrganizationsVeteran Support ServicesYmca Community CentersPublic University Foundatio…Cancer Support Organizations
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 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr16%38%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr13%50%35–55yr16%17%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/39
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,526

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

37 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. 37 of the 47 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
24/37
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Leadership Institute — $100,993 · Public BenefitLeadership InstituteJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $80,913 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WATCH INCMACKINAC CENTER — $10,000 · Public Benefit+1 more — $2,000 · Public BenefitCAMP FIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC — $44,794 · Arts & CultureCAMP FIVE MUSEUM FOUN…MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER — $19,500 · Arts & CultureMEDIA RESEARCH CENTERColonial Williamsburg Foundation — $14,956 · Arts & CultureColonial Williamsburg…FRIENDS OF HEARTHSTONE INC — $3,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $3,513 · Arts & CultureASHLAND UNIVERSITY — $19,000 · EducationASHLAND U…PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $12,000 · EducationPRAGER UN…GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $3,500 · EducationGEORGE MA…HILLSDALE COLLEGE — $3,000 · EducationHILLSDALE…+1 more — $1,000 · EducationMercatus Center Inc — $21,000 · Social ScienceMercatus …Americans for Prosperity Foundation — $9,080 · Social ScienceAmericans…Foundation for Economic Education Inc — $8,000 · Social ScienceFoundatio…THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES — $10,000 · OtherTHE FUND FOR A…COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE — $5,500 · OtherCOMPETITIVE EN…COMMITTEE FOR A CONSTRUCTIVE TOMORROW — $5,000 · OtherCOMMITTEE FOR …BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLI — $3,000 · OtherJAMES MADISON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC — $3,000 · OtherSTRATFORD AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $2,750 · OtherWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $11,500 · OtherWOUNDED WARRIO…SUSTAINABLE RESOURCES INSTITUTE INC — $6,000 · OtherSUSTAINABLE RE…STATE POLICY NETWORK — $3,000 · Other+12 more — $10,552 · Other+12 moreNATIONAL LEGAL AND POLICY CENTER — $17,500 · Crime & LegalTHE FAIRNESS CENTER INC — $7,000 · Crime & LegalWISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR LAW & LIBERTY — $2,000 · Crime & LegalPacific Legal Foundation — $1,500 · Crime & LegalHAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION — $13,200 · HealthCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $1,200 · Health+1 more — $100 · Health
Public Benefit$193,906Arts & Culture$85,763Education$38,500Social Science$38,080Other$60,302Crime & Legal$28,000Health$14,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLeadership Institute — $100,993 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $80,913 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP FIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC — $44,794 over 7y, 10% of budgetMercatus Center Inc — $21,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDIA RESEARCH CENTER — $19,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetASHLAND UNIVERSITY — $19,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL LEGAL AND POLICY CENTER — $17,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetColonial Williamsburg Foundation — $14,956 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION — $13,200 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $11,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES — $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMACKINAC CENTER — $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmericans for Prosperity Foundation — $9,080 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFoundation for Economic Education Inc — $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FAIRNESS CENTER INC — $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSUSTAINABLE RESOURCES INSTITUTE INC — $6,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCOMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE — $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMITTEE FOR A CONSTRUCTIVE TOMORROW — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTATE POLICY NETWORK — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF HEARTHSTONE INC — $3,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR LAW & LIBERTY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG AMERICANS FOR LIBERTY FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGENERAL SOCIETY OF MAYFLOWER DESCENDANTS — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN STEWARDS OF LIBERTY INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $1,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP MANITO-WISH YMCA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC — $513 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC — $50 over 1y, 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.

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.

Donors Trust IncVA19.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donors Trust Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Gordon R Connor Charitable Foundation Inc · Connor Foundation · Hamilton Roddis Foundation Inc · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc

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 McP Charitable Foundation 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 · 40%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
5report 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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to McP Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to McP Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 47 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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