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Mechanical Contractors Association of America Inc

Mcaa's mission is to guide and facilitate member success to build a stronger, more sustainable future for the mechanical contracting industry.

$290k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 63% of MECHANICAL CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 2 grants below total $34,651 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $290,367 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $255,716 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $10k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$40M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MILWAUKEE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE$25,000
CONVOY OF HOPE$9,651
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THERE WITH CARE (TWC): $25k → 12%MCAA DISASTER RELIEF FUND: $100k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your field

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.

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American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

2
Great Mn Schools

We believe that great schools are the cornerstone of a just and thriving community. ensuring that every child is able to attend a school that works is our moral and social imperative - our children deserve no less.

Education
3
Mastery Charter High School

All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.

Education
4
University Health Inc

Primary functions are the coordination and delivery of health care resources and services, health care education for the hospital service area, long range analysis of health care needs and development of programs, and arranging for…

5
Minnesota Hospital Association

Advance the health of individuals and communities through leadership, advocacy and collaboration on behalf of minnesota hospitals and health systems. vision: minnesotans are healthy and have access to the right care at the right time in…

Community Improvement
6
Geneva Foundation

Geneva's mission is to advance military medicine through research, development and education. geneva was established in 1993 to facilitate medical research in military medical facilities, including research proposal development and program…

Science & Tech
7
Alliant Educational Foundation

The alliant educational foundation builds bridges between under-resourced communities, universities, and other organizations to create a more equitable, healthy, and just society.

Education
8
American Geophysical Union

Agu's mission is to advance and support an inclusive community of earth and space scientists and partners dedicated to discovery and solutions to societal challenges. agu seeks to catalyze discovery and solutions to scientific and societal…

Science & Tech
9
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

10
Memorial Hermann Medical Group

Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…

Health
11
National Academy of Engineering Fund

Naef supports the activities of the national academy of engineering (nae). nae operates within the charter and framework of the national academy of sciences (nas) and advises the federal government on matters of science and technology. nae…

Science & Tech
12
Arc Prize Foundation

The arc prize foundation advances progress toward artificial general intelligence (agi) by creating public benchmarks, running competitions,and fostering a global research community. we educate students, researchers, and the broader public…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Convoy of Hope and the most unlike its peers is Ua Charitable Fund Trust. 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

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 11 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE MECHANICAL CONTRACTING FOUNDATION INC — $500,000 · OtherTHE MECHANICAL CONTRACTING FOUNDATION INCJB KNOWLEDGE INC — $55,000 · OtherJB KNOWLEDGE INCMCAA CHARITABLE FUND — $100,000 · Human ServicesMCAA CHARITABLE…THERE WITH CARE — $25,000 · Human ServicesTHERE WITH CARECONVOY OF HOPE — $106,151 · InternationalCONVOY OF HOP…THE MILWAUKEE SCIENCE EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC — $25,000 · EducationIDEA Public Schools — $25,000 · EducationHOMENETMEN-ARMENIAN GENERAL ATHLETIC & SCOUTS INC — $20,000 · Recreation & SportsUA CHARITABLE FUND TRUST — $10,000 · Public Safety & DisasterGLOBAL HEALTH CORPS INC — $10,000 · HealthTHE HAWN FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$555,000Human Services$125,000International$106,151Education$50,000Recreation & Sports$20,000Public Safety & Disaster$10,000Health$10,000Philanthropy$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE MECHANICAL CONTRACTING FOUNDATION INC — $500,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetCONVOY OF HOPE — $106,151 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MILWAUKEE SCIENCE EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIDEA Public Schools — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOMENETMEN-ARMENIAN GENERAL ATHLETIC & SCOUTS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUA CHARITABLE FUND TRUST — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGLOBAL HEALTH CORPS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HAWN FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
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.

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Mechanical Contractors Association of America Inc 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.

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no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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