· Private foundation
Michael W McCarthy Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Winters Center for Autism | $25,000 |
| NYC PBA Widows Childrens Foundation | $15,000 |
| Paws of War | $15,000 |
| Christmas Magic | $10,000 |
| Unsung Siblings Foundation | $9,500 |
| Joseph Cotrone Foundation | $7,500 |
| Nephcure | $7,500 |
| Molloy Unerversity | $5,000 |
| The Stony Brook School | $5,000 |
| Dutchman Diamond Club | $5,000 |
| Companions in Courage Foundation | $3,700 |
| LICA | $2,625 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| The Nicholas Center | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $219k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +48% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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
- USUNSUNG SIBLINGS FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $144k · revenue +344% · 76% of their budget
- WCWINTERS CENTER FOR AUTISM3× · 2022–2024 · $48k · revenue +62%
- LWLIFE'S WORC INC5× · 2017–2022 · $40k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- NNEPHCUREone grant, 2017 · $25k
- PEPOP EARTH CORPORATIONone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -21%
- RTRACE TO STOP MS MARATHONone grant, 2017 · $20k
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.
Nassau suffolk services for the autistic (nssa) offers hope to people with autism and their families by providing high quality life-long support through services which enable people with autism to function better in everday life. nssa…
Our mission is to help people live the healthiest and fullest lives possible, and our first priority is those who live with the challenges associated with developmental disabilities.
N of One aims to create breakthroughs in autism by focusing on emerging areas such as the microbiome, immune system, and mitochondrial cell metabolism. We take a venture capital appproach by supporting both innovative academic researchers…
Acld foundation was established to support and raise funds for the exclusive benefit of acld.
Transforming the delivery of autism services in the region by providing a comprehensive, enriched and innovative model that co-locates and coordinates resources offered by multiple providers who are experts in autism spectrum disorder…
We are committed to helping people with intellectual (cont. on schedule o) and developmental disabilities to live full lives.
To support individuals with autism spectrum disorder and their families by expanding and enhancing opportunites to improve quality of life
To provide cost-effective residential, social, intellectual, physical and vocational services to individuals with autism in group homes and in home support.
The mission of nyc autism charter schools is to provide individualized, scientifically based educational services to children with autism and other pervasive development disorders.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Provides home-based Applied Behavior Analysis ABA services to children with autism and other developmental disabilities. Focusing on individualized treatment, caregiver training, and clinical supervision by licensed professionals. Services…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Life's Worc Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Star Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
33 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. 33 of the 58 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.
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- Who funds WINTERS CENTER FOR AUTISM ↗
- Who funds LIFE'S WORC INC ↗
- Who funds The Ministry for Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds NEPHCURE KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds CONCERN FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds OPTIONS FOR COMMUNITY LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds POP EARTH CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PAWS OF WAR INC ↗
- Who funds COMPANIONS IN COURAGE FOUNDATION ↗
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- Who funds Autism Communities Inc ↗
- Who funds PAL-O-MINE EQUESTRIAN INC ↗
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- Who funds COOLEY'S ANEMIA FOUNDATION ↗
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- Who funds MOLLOY UNIVERSITY ↗
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: Posillico Foundation Inc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Frank J Antun Foundation · New York Community Bank Foundation · Investors Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The US Charitable Gift Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
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 Michael W McCarthy Foundation 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.
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.