· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $5,000 |
| HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN | $5,000 |
| CASA OF DUPAGE COUNTY | $5,000 |
| PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER | $3,500 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $3,000 |
| WTTW-WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS | $3,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH ILLINOIS | $3,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION | $3,000 |
| DUPAGE FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $3,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 5% of Richard James McCann Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 67% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 64%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
The Houston Food Bankgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +107%- MOMUSEUM OF THE BIBLEone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -54%
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.
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How this is measured
84 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. 84 of the 148 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 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 DUPAGE PADS INC ↗
- Who funds PLAY FOR ALL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Center on Halsted ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC ↗
- Who funds VICTORY JUNCTION GANG CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Family Shelter Service Inc ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Global ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Richard James McCann Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard James McCann Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
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