· Private foundation
Melvin L McKay Ta
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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDRENS THERAPY CENTER OF QC NFP | $10,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS MS VALLEY | $5,500 |
| CHRISTIAN CARE | $5,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTSEASTERN IA WESTERN IL | $5,000 |
| MIDWEST WRITING CENTER | $5,000 |
| YOUTHHOPE | $5,000 |
| YMCA | $5,000 |
| ROCK ISLAND CTY EXT 4H EDUC FDN | $4,700 |
| MARRIAGE FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE | $4,050 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE HEARTLAND | $4,050 |
| QUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSN | $4,050 |
| ONE EIGHTY | $4,050 |
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 (FY21–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 78% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- RIROCK ISLANDMILAN LITTLE LEAGUE INC3× · 2022–2024 · $25k · revenue +57%
- CCCHRISTIAN CARE5× · 2021–2025 · $18k · revenue +19%
- QCQUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION5× · 2021–2025 · $13k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- CTCHILDREN'S THERAPY CENTER OF THE QUAD CITIES NFPone grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue -26%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $5k
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL IOWAgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue +79%
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 empower central iowa youth with an entrepreneurial mindset, financial capability and foundation for career success so that they can creat a bright and fulfilling future.
The st. louis jewish community center enriches lives, builds community, promotes inclusivity and creates meaningful jewish experiences.
In partnership with state and federal government, our mission is to administer programs designed to help residents in our 10-county region of southwest iowa achieve self-sufficiency.
Mica helps families experencing poverty meet their needs, build on their strengths, and achieve their goals.
We build strong kids, strong families, and strong communities with a primary focus on youth activities and programs.
Cancer support community iowa & nw illinois uplifts and strengthens people impacted by cancer by providing support, fostering compassionate communities, and breaking down barriers to care.
To provide a highly structured environment which emphasizes a safety and security to all juveniles while serving as a deterrent to criminal and anti-social behaviors. Working youth in the center and communities.
Our mission is to inspire the iowa city area to be greater by: 1) elevating business, 2) investing in strategic initiatives, and 3) advocating for the economic resiliency of the greater community.
The mission of the lincoln young men's christian association is to organize human, financial and material resources to encourage the spiritual, physical, mental and social growth of individuals within a judeo-christian atmosphere.
To put christian principles into practice that build a healthy spirit, mind, and body for all.
Reach for your potential, inc is a provider of adult daycare services and rehabilitation/housing of disabled individuals serving approximately 135 individuals from iowa city and the surrounding communities.
To provide advocacy and services for disadvantaged persons and bring about institutional change for the benefit of the people we serve and the community at large. (see schedule o).to achieve this mission, scicap operates programs to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ywca of the Quad Cities and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Douglas Park. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 35 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 ROCK ISLANDMILAN LITTLE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN CARE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF DOUGLAS PARK ↗
- Who funds RIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF THE QUAD CITIES ↗
- Who funds QUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE MIDWEST WRITING CENTER ↗
- Who funds YOUTHHOPE ↗
- Who funds Two Rivers YMCA Inc ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE HEARTLAND INC ↗
- Who funds MARRIAGE AND FAMILY COUNSELING OF R I CO ↗
- Who funds THE 180 ZONE ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTANA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S THERAPY CENTER OF THE QUAD CITIES NFP ↗
- Who funds SCOTT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds QUAD CITY ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SERVICES IN IOWA 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: Rauch Family Foundation I Inc · Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable Foundation · Quad Cities Community Foundation · Grant & Virginia Brissman Foundation Nfp · The Rock Island Community Foundation · Scott County Regional Authority · Doris & Victor Day Foundation Inc · Mary Iva Gittins Knouse Tr Uw · Modern Woodmen of America · Harold R Bechtel Charitable Trust · Moline Foundation · United Way Quad Cities
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 Melvin L McKay Ta 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.