· Private foundation
Richard James McCann Foundation
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k44 grants · $107k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $33k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $12,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $11,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS | $6,000 |
| CENTER ON HALSTED | $5,000 |
| HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $5,000 |
| CASA OF DUPAGE COUNTY | $5,000 |
| PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER | $3,500 |
| MAKE-A-WISH ILLINOIS | $3,000 |
| NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK | $3,000 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $3,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $3,000 |
| FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $64k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of Richard James McCann Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 67% of the giving stays in IL; read by stated purpose it is 64% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
81 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 45 since wound down; 7 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $82k · revenue +40%
- COCASA OF DUPAGE COUNTY INC7× · 2019–2025 · $46k · revenue +61%
- NKNATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS9× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- CCCOLLABORATORY-SWFL COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $10k
- MOMUSEUM OF THE BIBLEone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -54%
The Houston Food Bankgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +107%
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.
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Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
84 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. 84 of the 148 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 ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF DUPAGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds THE DUPAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF GREATER CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF NORTHCENTRAL ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Family Services ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds THREE FIRES COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #127 ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds WORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds THE MORTON ARBORETUM ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLAY FOR ALL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DUPAGE PADS INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds VICTORY JUNCTION GANG CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC ↗
- Who funds Center on Halsted ↗
- Who funds OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Family Shelter Service Inc ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Global ↗
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: The Dupage Community Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Motorola Solutions Foundation · Tyndale House Ministries · AbbVie Foundation · Chicago Foundation for Women · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · The Chicago Community Trust · The Bradshaw Boed Foundation · The Cornerstone Center Foundation · The Rich Foundation · Naperville Rotary Charities 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 Richard James McCann Foundation 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.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
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.