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McS Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$16k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$50kEducation$39kHuman Services$20kAnimals$9kReligion$8kArts & Culture$5kRecreation & Sports$5kFood & Nutrition$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$193k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Leyden Highschool Dist 212$3,000
Capuchin Soup Kitchen Detroit$3,000
Leyden HS District 212$2,000
Cornerstone Services Inc$1,200
Dancing with Chicago Stars Charity$1,050
Ronald McDonald House Charities$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Hinsdale Humane Society$1,000
Stratford High School PTO$1,000
Individual grant recipient$600
Make-A-Wish Foundation of America$500
Gower Foundation$340
Make-A-Wish Illinois$155
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Cornerstone Services Inc: $1k → 7%Catholic Charities: $100 → 17%Community House: $1k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
MI
NY
OH
NJ
CA
AZ
TN
DC
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$123k · 17 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +74% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
32

Total granted

$123k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%
+15%

Still filing today

41%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
HealthEducationHuman ServicesEmploymentPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $21k · revenue +145%
  • TT
    THE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    3× · 2017–2019 · $15k · revenue +74%
  • RM
    Ronald McDonald House Global
    6× · 2020–2025 · $10k · revenue +82%

Funded once

  • RM
    Ronald McDonald House CNI
    2× · 2023–2024 · $3k
  • DW
    Dancing with Celebrities Chicago
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
  • GI
    GoFundMecom in honor of Janet Pav
    one grant, 2024 · $1k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health
2
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
3
St Marys Healthcare System for Children Inc

To serve as the sole member of the various health care and supporting organizations that comprise st. mary's healthcare system for children

Health
4
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

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5
Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare Group

The elmhurst memorial healthcare group follows the mission of endeavor health (f/k/a ns-ee holdings). the mission of endeavor health is to "help everyone in our communities be their best." central to this mission is a commitment to…

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6
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
7
Cook Children's Medical Center

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.

Health
8
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
9
St Martin Hospital Inc

To improve, maintain and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
10
Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

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11
Edward-Elmhurst Healthcare

Edward-Elmhurst Healthcare follows the mission of Endeavor Health to "help everyone in our communities be their best."

Health
12
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America; the most unlike its peers is Ocular Melanoma Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 57 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
12/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Gower Foundation: $12,340 · OtherGower FoundationCornerstone: $8,450 · OtherCornerstoneLeyden HS District 212: $5,500 · OtherLeyden HS District 212USO: $4,760 · OtherUSOK-I-C-K FOUNDATION INC: $4,750 · OtherK-I-C-K FOUNDATION INCLeyden Highschool Dist 212: $4,000 · OtherLeyden Highschool Dist 212PROVINCE OF ST JOSEPH OF THE CAPUCHIN ORDER INC: $4,000 · OtherPROVINCE OF ST JOSEPH OF THE CAPUCHIN ORDER INCCapuchin Franciscan Province of St Joseph: $3,600 · OtherCapuchin Soup Kitchen Detroit: $3,000 · OtherLiterary Volunteers of DuPage: $3,000 · OtherRAY GRAHAM ASSOCIATION FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: $2,950 · OtherRonald McDonald House CNI: $2,500 · Other+28 more: $15,082 · Other+28 moreST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $20,500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPIT…THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $12,550 · HealthTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDRE…Ronald McDonald House Global: $10,250 · HealthRonald McDonald House Global+4 more: $1,810 · HealthTHE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $15,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $1,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILL…+1 more: $107 · EducationHINSDALE HUMANE SOCIETY: $8,500 · AnimalsThe Cara Program: $1,500 · EmploymentMDRC: $1,000 · EmploymentCORNERSTONE SERVICES INC: $1,200 · Human ServicesTHE COMMUNITY HOUSE: $1,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $100 · Human ServicesThe CHIditarod Foundation: $522 · Philanthropy
Other$73,932Health$45,110Education$16,107Animals$8,500Employment$2,500Human Services$2,300Philanthropy$522

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $20,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $12,550 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House Global: $10,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHINSDALE HUMANE SOCIETY: $8,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetRAY GRAHAM ASSOCIATION FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: $2,950 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Cara Program: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCORNERSTONE SERVICES INC: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY HOUSE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMDRC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $560 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWomankind Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONQUERING CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE: $500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOASIS CENTER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKELLI JOY O'LAUGHLIN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOcular Melanoma Foundation: $208 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $155 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarquette University: $107 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUKRAINIAN MUSEUM-ARCHIVE INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
  • Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds Ronald McDonald House Global ↗
  • Who funds HINSDALE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds RAY GRAHAM ASSOCIATION FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES ↗
  • Who funds The Cara Program ↗
  • Who funds CORNERSTONE SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds MDRC ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds The CHIditarod Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Womankind Inc ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds CONQUERING CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE ↗
  • Who funds OASIS CENTER 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.

Baird Foundation IncAbbVie FoundationEnterprise Holdings F…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Baird Foundation IncWI14.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baird Foundation Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization McS Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McS Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology: 12% of income from government
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 57 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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