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Pierre and Kathryn McCormick Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Pierre and Kathryn McCormick Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$100k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$539kHealth$88kCommunity Improvement$19kArts & Culture$9kHuman Services$6kPublic Benefit$6kPhilanthropy$5kHousing & Shelter$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$725k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GANNON UNIVERSITY$50,000
ERIE CATHOLIC SCHOOLS$25,000
HAMOT HEALTH FOUNDATION$25,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–21, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%BARBER NATIONAL INSTITUTE: $1k → 15%THE BARBER NATIONAL INSTITUTE: $1k → 15%THE BARBER NATIONAL INSTITUTE: $1k → 15%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.
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$627k · 14 repeat orgs$52k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
10

Total granted

$627k
$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+120%

Still filing today

71%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEducationHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentOther
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

  • GU
    GANNON UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2018–2024 · $435k · revenue +18%
  • JE
    JEFFERSON EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY OF ERIE INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $6k · revenue +12%
  • OW
    OUR WEST BAYFRONT INC
    3× · 2018–2021 · $5k · revenue +140%

Funded once

  • ED
    ERIE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATI
    one grant, 2021 · $8k
  • CF
    CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF NW PA
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • MM
    MICHAEL MAKING LIVES BETTER
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
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.

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Greater Erie Economic Development Corporation
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2
Erie County Economic Development Charitable Fund

To facilitate both the creation and retention of jobs within erie county and increase economic opportunities for individuals and businesses through comprehensive economic development programs.

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3
Environment Erie

A non-profit organization dedicated to the protection, restoration, enhancement, and sustainable development of the lake erie watershed in pennsylvania.

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4
Erie Marsh Conservation Foundation
Environment
5
Erie Downtown Development Corporation

The purpose of the organization is to serve as a real estate development and financing non-profit corporation to strengthen the core assets of the downtown erie and drive revitalization across the region.

Community Improvement
6
Erie Independence House Inc

Erie Independence House, Inc. (EIH) exists to enhance and promote independence in people with disabilities through the provision of accessible, affordable, adaptive housing necessary for them to lead productive, independent lives. We offer…

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7
Erie Together

Were working together to make the Erie region a community of opportunity where everyone can learn, work and thrive.

Community Improvement
8
Erie Chamber of Commerce

The mission of the Erie Chamber of Commerce is to unite community and commerce

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9
Erie Neighborhood House

Erie neighborhood house provides the most comprehensive support to immigrant and low-income families in chicago. our mission is to empower our communitylatinx immigrants alongside individuals and families of all backgroundsthrough…

Human Services
10
Buffalo Erie Niagara Land Improvement Corporation

The buffalo erie niagara land improvement corporation (benlic) seeks to confront and alleviate the problems distressed properties cause to communities by supporting municipal and regional revitalization efforts and strategically acquiring,…

Community Improvement
11
East Buffalo Development Corporation

East Buffalo Development Corporation is a community-based real estate development corporation committed to our mission of leveraging private and public funds to drive equitable and inclusive eastside planning, construction, land use, and…

Community Improvement
12
Lake Erie Shores and Islands

To develop and implement a marketing plan to grow the region's tourism economy through promotion of the region and thereby increase visitor spending in the region.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Serverie; the most unlike its peers is Eagles Nest Leadership Corporation. 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

15 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. 15 of the 25 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GANNON UNIVERSITY: $435,000 · EducationGANNON UNIVERSITY+1 more: $2,000 · EducationMOTHER THERESA ACADEMY: $35,000 · OtherMOTHER THERESA ACADE…ERIE CATHEDRAL PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $31,000 · OtherERIE CATHEDRAL PREPA…ERIE CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: $25,000 · OtherERIE CATHOLIC SCHOOL…VILLA MARIA CATHERDRAL PREPARATORY CATHOLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM: $10,000 · OtherVILLA MARIA CATHERDR…ERIE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATI: $7,500 · OtherERIE DOWNTOWN DEVELO…CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF NW PA: $5,000 · OtherMICHAEL MAKING LIVES BETTER: $5,000 · Other+3 more: $5,500 · OtherHAMOT HEALTH FOUNDATION: $85,000 · HealthHAMOT HEALTH F…+1 more: $1,000 · HealthERIE ART MUSEUM: $6,000 · Arts & CultureJEFFERSON EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY OF ERIE INC: $6,000 · Arts & CultureFlagship Niagara League: $2,000 · Arts & CultureExpERIEnce Children's Museum: $1,000 · Arts & CultureOUR WEST BAYFRONT INC: $4,500 · Community ImprovementSERVERIE: $3,000 · Community ImprovementBAYFRONT EAST SIDE TASKFORCE INC: $2,000 · Community ImprovementERIE DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP: $1,000 · Community ImprovementDR GERTRUDE A BARBER CENTER INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesSAFENET INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesPERRY SQUARE ALLIANCE: $2,000 · Environment
Education$437,000Other$124,000Health$86,000Arts & Culture$15,000Community Improvement$10,500Human Services$4,000Environment$2,000

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 budgetGANNON UNIVERSITY: $435,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHAMOT HEALTH FOUNDATION: $85,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetERIE ART MUSEUM: $6,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetJEFFERSON EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY OF ERIE INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetOUR WEST BAYFRONT INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetDR GERTRUDE A BARBER CENTER INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSERVERIE: $3,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFlagship Niagara League: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBAYFRONT EAST SIDE TASKFORCE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetERIE DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCRIME VICTIM CENTER OF ERIE COUNTY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAFENET INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Erie Community Founda…M J Surgala TrGe Aerospace Foundati…Northwest Charitable …Kern Family Foundatio…The Arts Council of E…The Britton Family Fo…United Way of Erie Co…Wabtec FoundationThe Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …
Erie Community FoundationPA32.2× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Erie Community Foundation · M J Surgala Tr · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Northwest Charitable Foundation · Kern Family Foundation Inc · The Arts Council of Erie · The Britton Family Foundation · United Way of Erie County · Wabtec Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Pierre and Kathryn McCormick Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pierre and Kathryn McCormick Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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

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    How do I get to Pierre and Kathryn McCormick Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Pierre and Kathryn McCormick Family Foundation Inc 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 25 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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