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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 FY2025still arriving
66
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$95k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% 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
02FY2025 · 66 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k29 grants · $139k
  • $10k–50k34 grants · $625k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
$10,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF GREATER TWIN CITIES$95,000
ALIA$90,000
ST DAVID'S CENTER$65,000
THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP$45,000
WITHALL (FKA EMILY PROG FDN)$40,000
SALVATION ARMY$35,000
Individual grant recipient$30,000
WAY TO GROW$25,000
OPEN CUPBOARD$25,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$25,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$20,000
SECOND HARVEST$20,000
MINNESOTA ORCHESTRA$20,000
BABY'S SPACE$20,000
WASHBURN CENTER FOR CHILDREN$20,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $859k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $8k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $8k → 14%YOUTH FRONTIERS: $4k → 11%YOUTH FRONTIERS: $4k → 11%YOUTH FRONTIERS: $4k → 11%YOUTH FRONTIERS: $4k → 11%YOUTH FRONTIERS: $4k → 11%YOUTH FRONTIERS: $4k → 11%ALIA: $90k → 14%ALIA: $90k → 14%WAY TO GROW: $50k → 11%ALIA: $40k → 14%WAY TO GROW: $40k → 11%ALIA: $30k → 14%WAY TO GROW: $40k → 11%ALIA: $30k → 14%WAY TO GROW: $35k → 11%ALIA: $30k → 14%WAY TO GROW: $35k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $25k → 11%BABY'S SPACE: $35k → 11%BABY'S SPACE: $20k → 11%BABY'S SPACE: $15k → 11%BABY'S SPACE: $15k → 11%BABY'S SPACE: $15k → 11%SABATHANI COMMUNITY CENTER: $8k → 11%SABATHANI COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 11%SABATHANI COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 11%SABATHANI COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 11%SABATHANI COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 11%SABATHANI COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 11%THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $45k → 11%THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $40k → 11%THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $15k → 11%THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $15k → 11%THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $10k → 11%THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $10k → 11%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

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
KS
DC
MS
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.4M · 80 repeat orgs$155k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

80 repeat relationships: 65 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

80
14

Total granted

$5.4M
$150k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+10%

Still filing today

65%
21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesInternationalHealthYouth 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

  • MO
    MINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $370k · revenue +64%
  • A
    ALIA
    6× · 2020–2025 · $310k · revenue +101%
  • W
    WITHALL
    6× · 2020–2025 · $290k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $30k
  • KH
    KANABECK HISTORY CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
  • G
    GTCYS
    one grant, 2024 · $15k
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
Minnesota Institute for Talented Youth

Mity's mission is to inspire and challenge intellectually curious students to pursue their passions within a diverse, inclusive community and empower them by building skills and relationships for lifelong success.

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2
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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3
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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4
St Catherine University

We educate women to lead and influence. we educate at all degree levels through valuing and integrating the liberal arts and professional education within the catholic intellectual tradition, see schedule oemphasizing scholarly inquiry and…

Education
5
Minneapolis Saint Paul Regional Economic Development Partnership

The mission of the greater msp partnership is to accelerate regional competitiveness and inclusive economic growth through job creation, capital investment and execution of strategic initiatives. the partnership works to strengthen our…

Community Improvement
6
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
7
Augsburg University

Augsburg university educates students to be informed citizens, thoughtful stewards, critical thinkers, and responsible leaders.the augsburg experience is supported by an engaged community that is committed to intentional diversity in its…

Education
8
Minnesota State University Student Association Inc

Led by minnesota state university students, we are the inclusive voice for all future, current, and former students. we actively work to represent and support minnesota state university students and advocate at a campus, state, and federal…

Education
9
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
10
Milkweed Editions Inc

To identify, nurture and publish transformative literature, and build an engaged community around it.

Arts & Culture
11
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…

Education
12
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Loaves and Fishes Too; the most unlike its peers is Como Early Learning Center. 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

58 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 58 of the 97 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/58
Grantees still filing
46/58
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED WAY: $305,000 · OtherUNITED WAYIndividual grant recipient: $217,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSALVATION ARMY: $210,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $120,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST: $115,000 · OtherKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $90,000 · OtherKANABEC COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $85,000 · OtherTHE LOPPET FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 · OtherJEREMIAH PROGRAM: $90,000 · Other+50 more: $1,209,600 · Other+50 moreALIA: $310,000 · Human ServicesALIAWAY TO GROW: $225,000 · Human ServicesWAY TO GROWThe Family Partnership: $135,000 · Human ServicesThe Family Partne…BABY'S SPACE A PLACE TO GROW: $100,000 · Human ServicesBABY'S SPACE A PL…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $35,000 · Human ServicesSABATHANI COMMUNITY CENTER: $32,500 · Human Services+1 more: $21,000 · Human ServicesUNITED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF THE TWIN CITIES: $140,000 · EducationUNITED THEOLOGIC…The Principia Corporation: $90,000 · EducationThe Principia Co…RUST COLLEGE: $90,000 · EducationRUST COLLEGEUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $90,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MI…STERLING COLLEGE: $90,000 · EducationSTERLING COLLEGEAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $90,000 · EducationAMERICAN INDIAN …UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC: $60,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF TH…LEELANAU CHILDREN'S CENTER: $60,000 · EducationLEELANAU CHILDRE…PROJECT SUCCESS: $35,000 · EducationCOMO EARLY LEARNING CENTER KATIE JOHNSON EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: $30,000 · Education+2 more: $35,000 · EducationMINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION: $370,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA ORC…TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $55,000 · Arts & CultureTWIN CITIES P…MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $45,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA HIS…The Cedar Cultural Center Inc: $35,000 · Arts & CultureThe Cedar Cul…GRAYWOLF PRESS: $30,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $106,000 · Arts & Culture+7 moreWITHALL: $290,000 · HealthWashburn Center for Children: $80,000 · Health+1 more: $6,000 · HealthGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY: $190,000 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $10,000 · PhilanthropyST DAVID'S CENTER: $130,000 · Youth DevelopmentMinneapolis Recreation Development Inc Love One Another: $18,000 · Youth Development
Other$2,532,100Human Services$858,500Education$810,000Arts & Culture$641,000Health$376,000Philanthropy$200,000Youth Development$148,000

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 budgetMINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION: $370,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetALIA: $310,000 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetWITHALL: $290,000 over 6y, 14% of budgetWAY TO GROW: $225,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY: $190,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF THE TWIN CITIES: $140,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetThe Family Partnership: $135,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetST DAVID'S CENTER: $130,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBABY'S SPACE A PLACE TO GROW: $100,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetTHE LOPPET FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetThe Principia Corporation: $90,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRUST COLLEGE: $90,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJEREMIAH PROGRAM: $90,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSTERLING COLLEGE: $90,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $90,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWashburn Center for Children: $80,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLOAVES AND FISHES TOO: $75,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLEELANAU CHILDREN'S CENTER: $60,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetSTUDIO-180: $60,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $55,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCHRISTIAN CUPBOARD EMERGENCY FOOD SHELF DBA OPEN CUPBOARD: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $45,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Cedar Cultural Center Inc: $35,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT SUCCESS: $35,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER TWIN CITIES YOUTH SYMPHONIES: $35,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBESTPREP: $34,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSABATHANI COMMUNITY CENTER: $32,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetPILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES: $32,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOMO EARLY LEARNING CENTER KATIE JOHNSON EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: $30,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetGRAYWOLF PRESS: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION INC: $28,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $25,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HENNEPIN COUNTY LIBRARY: $25,100 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetADVENTURE UNLIMITED: $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Cedars Camps Inc: $21,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Minnesota Opera: $21,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $21,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $20,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVictory Gardens Theater: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetShattered Globe Theatre: $20,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetWOMENVENTURE: $18,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMinneapolis Recreation Development Inc Love One Another: $18,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetSCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA: $15,000 over 5y, 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 MINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds ALIA ↗
  • Who funds WITHALL ↗
  • Who funds WAY TO GROW ↗
  • Who funds GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ↗
  • Who funds UNITED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF THE TWIN CITIES ↗
  • Who funds The Family Partnership ↗
  • Who funds ST DAVID'S CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BABY'S SPACE A PLACE TO GROW ↗
  • Who funds THE LOPPET FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds The Principia Corporation ↗
  • Who funds RUST COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JEREMIAH PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds STERLING COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
  • Who funds Washburn Center for Children ↗
  • Who funds LOAVES AND FISHES TOO ↗
  • Who funds ABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC ↗
  • Who funds LEELANAU CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
  • Who funds STUDIO-180 ↗
  • Who funds TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN CUPBOARD EMERGENCY FOOD SHELF DBA OPEN CUPBOARD ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds PATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds The Cedar Cultural Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗

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 & Minnesot…The Minneapolis Found…Mightycause Charitabl…Xcel Energy FoundationThe Walser FoundationThe Richard M Schulze…The Head Family Found…Target FoundationOtto Bremer TrustMargaret a Cargill Fo…The McKnight Foundati…Hb Fuller Company Fou…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    18report 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to McVay Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to McVay 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 97 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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