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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 FY2025(still arriving)
27
Grants FY2025
18
Organizations funded FY2024
28%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$14,903
Organizations funded a year
10 to 22
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
13
Total assets, FY2025
$1.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 28% of the organizations McP Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureSocial ScienceEducationCrime & LegalHealthPublic BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving22$62k14%
FY202418$49k28%
FY202316$50k6%
FY202222$53k27%
FY202117$60k29%
FY202015$37k53%
FY201912$16k25%
FY201810$15k10%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

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

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
WI
MI
NY
MA
OH
CA
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
DC
OK
LA
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 37 grantees
All grantees of McP Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Judicial Watch Inc$80,91390%
Camp Five Museum Foundation Inc$44,794710%
Mercatus Center Inc$21,00040%
Media Research Center$19,50040%
Ashland University$19,00050%
National Legal and Policy Center$17,50040%
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation$14,95690%
Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation$13,20070%
Prager University Foundation$12,00040%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$11,50090%
Mackinac Center$10,00030%
The Fund for American Studies$10,00040%
Americans for Prosperity Foundation$9,08020%
Foundation for Economic Education Inc$8,00040%
The Fairness Center Inc$7,00030%
Sustainable Resources Institute Inc$6,00012%
Competitive Enterprise Institute$5,50020%
Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow$5,00010%
George Mason University Foundation Inc$3,50020%
State Policy Network$3,00020%
Friends of Hearthstone Inc$3,00050%
Stratford Area Historical Society Inc$2,7506n/a
Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty$2,00010%
General Society of Mayflower Descendants$2,00010%
American Stewards of Liberty Inc$2,00020%
Young Americans for Liberty Foundation$2,00020%
The Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship & Political Philosophy$2,00020%
Pacific Legal Foundation$1,50010%
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation$1,20050%
Institute for Reforming Government Inc$1,0001n/a
Camp Manito-Wish YMCA Inc$1,00010%
The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America$1,00010%
Wisconsin Historical Foundation Inc$51360%
Marco Patriots Inc$2001n/a
State Historical Society of Wisconsin$1102n/a
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$10010%
Special Olympics Inc$5010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($11k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget McP Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their 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 budgetMackinac Center: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Fund for American Studies: $10,000 over 4y, 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 budgetWisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty: $2,000 over 1y, 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 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 budgetPacific Legal Foundation: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCystic Fibrosis Foundation: $1,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Manito-Wish YMCA Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe National Society of the Colonial Dames of America: $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

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 33.

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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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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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.

About McP Charitable Foundation

How much does McP Charitable Foundation give?
McP Charitable Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $84,542 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does McP Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (46%), Environment (11%), Education (11%).
Who are McP Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Judicial Watch Inc ($81k), Camp Five Museum Foundation Inc ($45k), Mercatus Center Inc ($21k).
Does McP Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does McP Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as McP Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donors Trust Inc, Bradley Impact Fund Inc, Gordon R Connor Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is McP Charitable Foundation based?
McP Charitable Foundation is based in WI.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 47 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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