How much does McVay Foundation give?

McVay Foundation reported 66 grants totaling $1,013,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 63 and 72 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does McVay Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (20%), Human Services (17%), Arts & Culture (16%).

Who are McVay Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Minnesota Orchestral Association ($370k), Alia ($310k), Withall ($290k).

Does McVay Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does McVay 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 McVay Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation, Mightycause Charitable Foundation.

Where is McVay Foundation based?

McVay Foundation is based in MN.

Foundation Dossiers

Minnesota · Private foundation

McVay 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.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 66
Grants FY2025: 65
Organizations funded FY2024: 20%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $10,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $95,000
Organizations funded a year: 63 to 72; FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 10
Total assets, FY2025: $12M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 20% of the organizations McVay Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $234k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CulturePhilanthropyScience & TechRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentEducationOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	66	$1.0M	2%
FY2024	65	$1.0M	20%
FY2023	63	$1.0M	3%
FY2022	63	$871k	3%
FY2021	68	$882k	7%
FY2020	72	$754k	n/a

91% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$917kHuman Services$773kArts & Culture$744kHealth$585kPhilanthropy$400kFood & Nutrition$249kRecreation & Sports$122kCommunity Improvement$85kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Minnesota Orchestral Association	$370,000	6	0%
Alia	$310,000	6	4%
Withall	$290,000	6	14%
Way to Grow	$225,000	6	1%
Salvation Army	$210,000	6	n/a
Greater Twin Cities United Way	$190,000	2	0%
United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities	$140,000	6	1%
The Family Partnership	$135,000	6	1%
St David's Center	$130,000	6	0%
Baby's Space a Place to Grow	$100,000	5	2%

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All grantees of McVay Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Minnesota Orchestral Association	$370,000	6	0%
Alia	$310,000	6	4%
Withall	$290,000	6	14%
Way to Grow	$225,000	6	1%
Salvation Army	$210,000	6	n/a
Greater Twin Cities United Way	$190,000	2	0%
United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities	$140,000	6	1%
The Family Partnership	$135,000	6	1%
St David's Center	$130,000	6	0%
Baby's Space a Place to Grow	$100,000	5	2%
The Loppet Foundation Inc	$90,000	6	1%
The Principia Corporation	$90,000	6	0%
Rust College	$90,000	6	0%
University of Minnesota Foundation	$90,000	6	0%
Jeremiah Program	$90,000	6	0%
Sterling College	$90,000	6	0%
American Indian College Fund	$90,000	6	0%
Kansas State University	$90,000	6	n/a
Washburn Center for Children	$80,000	5	0%
Loaves and Fishes Too	$75,000	5	0%
Abbott Northwestern Hospital Foundation	$70,000	2	0%
University of the Cumberlands Inc	$60,000	6	0%
Leelanau Children's Center	$60,000	5	3%
Studio-180	$60,000	3	2%
Twin Cities Public Television Inc	$55,000	6	0%
Christian Cupboard Emergency Food Shelf Dba Open Cupboard	$50,000	2	0%
Minnesota Historical Society	$45,000	5	0%
Pathfinder International	$40,000	4	0%
The Cedar Cultural Center Inc	$35,000	4	1%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches	$35,000	4	0%
Project Success	$35,000	6	0%
Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies	$35,000	3	1%
Bestprep	$34,000	6	0%
Sabathani Community Center	$32,500	6	0%
Pillsbury United Communities	$32,500	6	0%
Como Early Learning Center Katie Johnson Executive Director	$30,000	6	1%
Graywolf Press	$30,000	3	0%
Union Gospel Mission Inc	$28,000	6	1%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc	$25,500	6	0%
Friends of the Hennepin County Library	$25,100	6	0%
Adventure Unlimited	$25,000	4	0%
The Cedars Camps Inc	$21,000	6	0%
The Minnesota Opera	$21,000	6	0%
Youth Frontiers Inc	$21,000	6	0%
Minneapolis College of Art and Design	$20,000	6	0%
Victory Gardens Theater	$20,000	2	1%
Shattered Globe Theatre	$20,000	2	2%
Womenventure	$18,000	6	0%
Minneapolis Recreation Development Inc Love One Another	$18,000	4	3%
Science Museum of Minnesota	$15,000	5	0%
National Park Foundation	$15,000	6	0%
Trustees of the Hamline University of Minnesota	$15,000	1	0%
The Center for Victims of Torture	$15,000	6	0%
Vocalessence	$10,000	1	0%
Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts Dba Minneapolis Institute of Arts	$10,000	2	0%
Guthrie Theater Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
AIDS Foundation of Chicago	$6,000	5	0%
Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc	$2,000	2	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.

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

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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 56.

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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.

Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN41.9× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Walser Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · The Head Family Foundation · Target Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Hb Fuller Company 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.

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About McVay Foundation

How much does McVay Foundation give?: McVay Foundation reported 66 grants totaling $1,013,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 63 and 72 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does McVay Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (20%), Human Services (17%), Arts & Culture (16%).
Who are McVay Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Minnesota Orchestral Association ($370k), Alia ($310k), Withall ($290k).
Does McVay Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does McVay 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 McVay Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation, Mightycause Charitable Foundation.
Where is McVay Foundation based?: McVay Foundation is based in MN.