· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| YMCA | $5,000 |
| YOUTHHOPE | $5,000 |
| CHRISTIAN CARE | $5,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTSEASTERN IA WESTERN IL | $5,000 |
| MIDWEST WRITING CENTER | $5,000 |
| ROCK ISLAND CTY EXT 4H EDUC FDN | $4,700 |
| QUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSN | $4,050 |
| ONE EIGHTY | $4,050 |
| MARRIAGE FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE | $4,050 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE HEARTLAND | $4,050 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against -5% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 35 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Melvin L McKay Ta funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Melvin L McKay Ta. Bigger dots raise more.
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