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MCS 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 44 grants below total $4,847,050 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $5,401,050 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $554,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k9 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $237k
- $50k–250k19 grants · $2.3M
- $250k+5 grants · $2.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARIZONA ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE & SPCA | $700,000 |
| BEAVER COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $555,000 |
| 100 CLUB OF ARIZONA | $425,000 |
| CHICAGO HOPE ACADEMY | $350,000 |
| CHAMPION LIFE CHURCH | $250,000 |
| EDUCATIONAL MEDIA FOUNDATION (K-LOVE) | $210,000 |
| ARIZONA HUMANE SOCIETY | $205,000 |
| MILLCREEK RETIREMENT HOME FOR HORSES | $200,000 |
| HUNKAPI PROGRAMS | $197,000 |
| VETERANS HEALING FARM | $175,000 |
| MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $135,563 |
| SAM CENTER (SERVING AREA MILITARY) | $112,000 |
| ARIZONA SMALL DOG RESCUE OF TEXAS | $100,000 |
| HARTT'S MISSION (HUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE AND TRAPPING TEAM) | $100,000 |
| ALMOST THERE: A MOM+PUPS RESCUE | $100,000 |
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 human-services grants (FY22–22, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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
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.
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.
28 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2023, 16 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.7M 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
- TATHE ARIZONA ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE6× · 2017–2023 · $830k · revenue +50%
- BCBEAVER COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION2× · 2022–2023 · $630k · revenue +47%
- HHHALO HELPING ANIMALS LIVE ON INC6× · 2017–2022 · $505k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- JFJUMET FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $75k
- FHFISHER HOUSE INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +64%
- FOFRIENDS OF ARIZONA FISHER HOUSEone grant, 2017 · $50k
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.
To compassionately serve pets and the people who love them.
To reduce the number of homeless pets through adoption, rescue and spay and neuter programs.
Founded in 2023, humane animal partners is a nonprofit no-kill animal care and adoption center. we are committed to providing for the needs of homeless and owned dogs and cats in our community. we make "friends for life" by connecting…
At Animal Samaritans we champion compassion and respect for all living creatures, with a primary focus on dogs, cats, and the people who love them. We view pets not merely as animals, but as members of our families. As their guardians and…
The arizona pet project creates systemic change and provides resources, so no families are forced to balance their own basic needs of food, shelter, and safety and the needs of their companion animals, often the only meaningful connection…
The friends are dedicated to the rescue, protection, and adoption of companion animals in need while inspiring the human-animal bond. we meet our mission by:-saving 100% of healthy and treatable animals.-providing high-quality animal care…
To care for pets, find them homes and save lives.
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
The Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland nurtures the connection between people and pets to advance animal welfare and improve the quality of life in our community.
Reduce the euthanasia rate of healthy and adoptable animals and improve the lives of companion animals by finding permanent homes for animals in need, providing support to communities who do not have access to humane organizations,…
Stray Hearts is a socially conscious shelter and adoption facility reuniting lost pets with their families and providing humane care and shelter for surrendered, lost, and homeless companion animals in Taos County, New Mexico.Our pledge:…
Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arizona Humane Society and the most unlike its peers is Jumet Charitable Foundation. 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.
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 25 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 82 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 THE ARIZONA ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds HAVE A GREAT SPAY ↗
- Who funds BEAVER COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HALO HELPING ANIMALS LIVE ON INC ↗
- Who funds PACKAGES FROM HOME ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
- Who funds 100 CLUB OF ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HOPE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Arizona Humane Society ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL MEDIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUNKAPI PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds Veterans Healing Farm ↗
- Who funds Midwestern University ↗
- Who funds Retirement Home For Horses Inc ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds BEAVER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ALMOST THERE A MOM PUPS RESCUE ↗
- Who funds JUMET CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SAN ANTONIO (AUDIT) ↗
- Who funds San Antonio Pets Alive Inc ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds HONOR FLIGHT NORTHERN ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE 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.
Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · American Express Foundation · Petsmart Charities Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · BHHS Legacy Foundation · Petco Love · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Louis J & Millie Matcek Kocurek Charitable · Cb and Anita Branch Trust James L Drought Trustee · Mc Companies - Sharing the Good Life Foundation · John F Long Foundation Inc · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation
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 MCS 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.
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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