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Susan Rasinski McCaw Foundation at a glance

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Susan Rasinski McCaw Foundation

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.

$651k
Granted FY2022
13
Grants FY2022
6
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Susan Rasinski McCaw Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Susan Rasinski McCaw Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $651k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

9
’20
9
’21
5
’22
0
’23
0
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$13MSocial Science$571kPhilanthropy$189kPublic Benefit$151kRecreation & Sports$127kInternational$116kArts & Culture$115kEnvironment$40kOther$0
02FY2022 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k6 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $85k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
  • $250k+1 grant · $400k
$15,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$6.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEACH FOR AMERICA$400,000
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE$100,000
EAST PALO ALTO ACADEMY$50,000
VOW$25,000
THE MILKEN INSTITUTE$25,000
LOST TREE FOUNDATION$20,000
HOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH$15,000
VALKTYRIE GIVES$5,000
BROADWAY EVERYDAY FOUNDATION INC IN NEW YORK$5,000
NCHCFORG$2,815
THE BOYS CLUB OF NEW YORK$1,500
THE BOYS CLUB OF NEW YORK$1,000
PALM BEACH FOOD BANK$500
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 6% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%VOW: $25k → 11%PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE: $100k → 8%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $3.7M → 8%RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION & INSTITUTE: $51k → 10%COMMON SENSE MEDIA: $10k → 10%THE MILKEN INSTITUTE: $25k → 14%WOMEN FOR AFGHAN WOMEN: $10k → 13%THE BALDWIN FUND: $500 → 14%ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $100k → 17%GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%KAKENYA CENTER FOR EXCELLENT: $10k → 14%LOST TREE FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%VALKTYRIE GIVES: $5k → 8%US OLYMPIC & PARALYMPIC: $125k → 9%SEATTLE ACADEMY OF ARTS: $100k → 9%VOW: $25k → 11%PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE: $100k → 8%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $2.9M → 8%CHANGEORG: $89k → 10%SCGA JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%THE BOYS CLUB OF NEW YORK: $2k → 17%SALZBURG GLOBAL SEMINAR: $10k → 14%LOST TREE FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $1.1M → 8%BROADWAY EVERYDAY FOUNDATION INC IN NEW YORK: $5k → 17%SALZBURG GLOBAL SEMINAR: $4k → 14%NCHCFORG: $3k → 11%STANDFORD UNIVERSITY: $999k → 8%THE BOYS CLUB OF NEW YORK: $1k → 17%AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE: $25k → 14%THE MICHELLE MCGANN FUND: $1k → 11%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $988k → 8%HOPE FOR DEPRESSION: $15k → 17%AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE: $25k → 14%PALM BEACH FOOD BANK: $500 → 11%STANDFORD UNIVERSITY: $288k → 8%HOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH: $15k → 17%COX SCIENCE CENTER: $15k → 11%STANDFORD UNIVERSITY: $200k → 8%HOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH: $15k → 17%EAST PALO ALTO ACADEMY: $50k → 8%COUNCIL FOR FOREIGN RELATIONS: $50k → 17%EAST PALO ALTO ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%HOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH: $5k → 17%POSITIVE COACHING: $5k → 8%GIRL SCOUT COUNCIL: $5k → 17%THE AMERICAN AUSTRIAN FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
MA
CA
CO
AZ
DC
TX
FL
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.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 8 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2022, 3 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
18

Total granted

$2.0M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+29%

Still filing today

63%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalSocial SciencePhilanthropyArts & CultureCrime & LegalOther
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

  • CO
    COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $101k · revenue +21%
  • AE
    AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH
    2× · 2020–2021 · $50k · revenue +57%
  • SALZBURG GLOBAL SEMINAR INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $14k · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • HB
    HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL
    one grant, 2020 · $482k
  • TM
    THE MALALA FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $450k · revenue -6%
  • KA
    KHAN ACADEMY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +48%
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.

1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
3
The Fund for American Studies

The fund for american studies (tfas) seeks to create a brighter, more prosperous future by preparing young people for leadership and teaching them the ideas of freedom and a free-market economy. founded in 1967, tfas organizes programs for…

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4
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
5
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
6
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
7
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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8
Rodel Institute

The rodel institute is a nonpartisan center for leadership and intellectual growth. rodel helps america's most promising leaders reach their full potential as public servants, deepen their commitment to democracy and the rule of law,…

Philanthropy
9
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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10
Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University Inc

The Knight First Amendment Institute defends the freedoms of speech and the press in the digital age through strategic litigation, research, public advocacy and public education. Our aim is to promote a system of free expression that is…

Education
11
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
12
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Teach for America Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Michelle McGann Fund Inc. 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

19 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. 19 of the 36 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
12/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $10,138,013 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITYTeach for America Inc: $1,649,758 · EducationTeach for America IncTHE MALALA FUND: $450,000 · Education+5 more: $760,581 · Education+5 moreHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL: $481,927 · OtherUS OLYMPIC & PARALYMPIC: $125,000 · OtherSEATTLE ACADEMY OF ARTS: $100,000 · OtherCHANGEORG: $88,853 · OtherVOW: $50,000 · OtherLOST TREE FOUNDATION: $40,000 · OtherHOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH: $35,000 · Other+12 more: $95,815 · OtherCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $100,823 · InternationalWomen for Afghan Women Inc: $10,000 · InternationalROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $50,000 · Social ScienceSALZBURG GLOBAL SEMINAR INC: $14,000 · Social ScienceCOMMON SENSE MEDIA: $10,000 · Arts & CultureVALKYRIE GIVES: $5,000 · Crime & LegalTHE BOYS' CLUB OF NEW YORK: $2,500 · Youth Development
Education$12,998,352Other$1,016,595International$110,823Philanthropy$101,000Social Science$64,000Arts & Culture$10,000Crime & Legal$5,000Youth Development$2,500

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 budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $10,138,013 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $1,649,758 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MALALA FUND: $450,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKHAN ACADEMY INC: $249,758 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $100,823 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEAST PALO ALTO ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetTHE RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION AND INSTITUTE: $50,823 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MILKEN INSTITUTE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSALZBURG GLOBAL SEMINAR INC: $14,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN AUSTRIAN FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWomen for Afghan Women Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMON SENSE MEDIA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVALKYRIE GIVES: $5,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetTHE BOYS' CLUB OF NEW YORK: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Michelle McGann Fund Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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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 Susan Rasinski McCaw Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Susan Rasinski McCaw Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report 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 Susan Rasinski McCaw Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Susan Rasinski McCaw Foundation 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 36 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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