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The Anna McWane Charitable Foundation at a glance

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The Anna McWane Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$255k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$168k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Recreation & Sports$846kEnvironment$120kEducation$86kHuman Services$75kFood & Nutrition$50kInternational$35kHousing & Shelter$25kHealth$24kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $168k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$6.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AFRICAN PARKS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA$168,429
RAINFOREST TRUST$20,000
UPPERVILLE COLT & HORSE sHOW INC$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM$10,000
YWCA OF CENTRAL ALABAMA$5,000
FAUNA & FLORA INTERNATIONAL USA INC$5,000
MIDDLEBURG COMMUNITY CENTER$5,000
MIDDLEBURG HUMANE FOUNDATION$5,000
YMCA OF AVERY COUNTY$5,000
WINDY HILL FOUNDATION$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$5,000
USET FOUNDATION$5,000
BIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL GARDENS$4,770
FAQUIER FREE CLINIC$2,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $5k → 22%DIRECT RELIEF: $10k → 14%UC DAVIS: $10k → 16%DOCTORTS WITHOUT BORDERS: $25k → 17%WINDY HILL FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%YMCA OF AVERY COUNTY: $5k → 15%USET FOUNDATION: $10k → 5%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $5k → 22%UC DAVIS: $10k → 16%DOCTORTS WITHOUT BORDERS: $20k → 17%WINDY HILL FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK: $25k → 16%YMCA OF AVERY COUNTY: $5k → 15%USET FOUNDATION: $5k → 5%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $5k → 22%UC DAVIS: $5k → 16%AFRICAN PARKS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $253k → 17%WINDY HILL FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%BIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL GARDENS: $5k → 16%YMCA OF AVERY COUNTY: $5k → 15%USET FOUNDATION: $5k → 5%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $5k → 22%UC DAVIS: $5k → 16%AFRICAN PARKS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $200k → 17%FAUNA & FLORA INTERNATIONAL USA INC: $5k → 14%BIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL GARDENS: $5k → 16%YMCA OF AVERY COUNTY: $5k → 15%USET FOUNDATION: $5k → 5%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $5k → 22%AFRICAN PARKS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $168k → 17%FAUNA & FLORA INTERNATIONAL USA INC: $5k → 14%THE LINVILLE FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%USET FOUNDATION: $5k → 5%AFRICAN PARKS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $100k → 17%FEEDING AMERICA: $25k → 14%YMCA OF AVERY COUNTY: $5k → 15%AFRICAN PARKS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $100k → 17%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $25k → 17%BIRMINGHAM MUSEUM OF ART: $5k → 16%YWCA OF CENTRAL ALABAMA: $5k → 16%YWCA OF CENTRAL ALABAMA: $5k → 16%RAINFOREST TRUST: $21k → 6%YWCA OF CENTRAL ALABAMA: $5k → 16%RAINFOREST TRUST: $20k → 6%YWCA OF CENTRAL ALABAMA: $5k → 16%RAINFOREST TRUST: $20k → 6%YWCA OF CENTRAL ALABAMA: $5k → 16%RAINFOREST TRUST: $20k → 6%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

NY
PA
NJ
CA
VA
NC
DC
AL
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 19 repeat orgs$99k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +75% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
10

Total granted

$1.2M
$99k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+75%
+20%

Still filing today

63%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Recreation & SportsInternationalYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionAnimalsEducationOther
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

  • RT
    RAINFOREST TRUST
    5× · 2020–2024 · $86k · revenue +54%
  • WY
    WILLIAMS YMCA OF AVERY COUNTY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +91%
  • WH
    WINDY HILL FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • CA
    CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • Feeding Americagraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +40%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +39%
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
Uncompahgre Combined Clinics

To provide quality, cost-effective, accessible, and affordable healthcare to the community.

Health
2
The Land Trust for Tennessee Inc

To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.

Environment
3
Berks Community Health Center

Berks community health center provides exceptional family-centered primary and preventive healthcare for all residents of berks county, regardless of economic status.

Health
4
Rural Health Care Inc

To provide comprehensive primary health care and preventative health services to underserved communities. to serve individuals regardless of their ability to pay.

Health
5
Monongahela Valley Hospital Inc

The mission of penn highlands mon valley is to enhance the health of the residents of the mid-monongahela valley area by providing outstanding healthcare services.

Health
6
The Vermont Community Foundation

The vermont community foundation helps to build philanthropic resources to sustain healthy and vital vermont communities. the foundation connects and mobilizes people through giving to multiply the impact of philanthropy.

Philanthropy
7
Central Falls Affordable Housing Corporation

Provide safe sanitary and suitable living accomodations for low, moderate and middle income persons within central falls, rhode island

Housing & Shelter
8
DuBois Regional Medical Center

To provide the patient with exceptional care through our community-based health system while maintaining a reverence for life. it's the vision of the system to be the integrated health system of choice through excellent quality, service…

Health
9
Racine Zoological Society Inc

The mission of the racine zoological society is to foster an enlightening and affordable wildlife experience that improves the bond between people and nature. the society will provide for the recreation and education of the people, the…

Animals
10
Food & Water Watch

Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…

Food & Nutrition
11
Worldwide Vets Incorporated

Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…

Animals
12
Health Care Without Harm

The mission of health care without harm (hcwh) is to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint, becomes a community anchor for sustainability and a leader in the global movement for environmental health…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is African Parks Foundation of America; the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. 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

18 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. 18 of the 30 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
15/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AFRICAN PARKS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $821,704 · Recreation & SportsAFRICAN PARKS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA+2 more: $24,000 · Recreation & SportsIndividual grant recipient: $45,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipie…USET FOUNDATION: $30,475 · OtherUSET FOUNDATIONUC DAVIS: $30,000 · OtherUC DAVISCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK: $25,000 · OtherCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANKWINDY HILL FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · OtherWINDY HILL FOUNDATION IN…MIDDLEBURG COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $25,000 · OtherMIDDLEBURG COMMUNITY CEN…YWCA OF CENTRAL ALABAMA: $25,000 · OtherYWCA OF CENTRAL ALABAMABIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL GARDENS: $24,310 · OtherBIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL GAR…UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM: $20,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT…FAUQUIER FREE CLINIC INC: $10,000 · OtherFAUNA & FLORA INTERNATIONAL USA INC: $10,000 · Other+8 more: $26,000 · Other+8 moreRAINFOREST TRUST: $85,639 · InternationalRAINFOREST…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $25,000 · InternationalMEDECINS S…DIRECT RELIEF: $10,000 · InternationalDIRECT REL…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $25,000 · EducationLINVILLE FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 · EducationWILLIAMS YMCA OF AVERY COUNTY: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentFeeding America: $25,000 · Food & NutritionMIDDLEBURG HUMANE FOUNDATION: $19,000 · Animals
Recreation & Sports$845,704Other$295,785International$120,639Education$36,000Youth Development$25,000Food & Nutrition$25,000Animals$19,000

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 budgetAFRICAN PARKS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $821,704 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetRAINFOREST TRUST: $85,639 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWILLIAMS YMCA OF AVERY COUNTY: $25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetWINDY HILL FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMIDDLEBURG COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUPPERVILLE COLT & HORSE SHOW INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMIDDLEBURG HUMANE FOUNDATION: $19,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetLINVILLE FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetFAUNA & FLORA INTERNATIONAL USA INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFAUQUIER FREE CLINIC INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PLAINS COMMUNITY LEAGUE: $6,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetVIRGINIA HORSE CENTER FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetA PLACE TO BE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL OF THE PIEDMONT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

  • Who funds AFRICAN PARKS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds RAINFOREST TRUST ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAMS YMCA OF AVERY COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds WINDY HILL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MIDDLEBURG COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds Feeding America ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds UPPERVILLE COLT & HORSE SHOW INC ↗
  • Who funds MIDDLEBURG HUMANE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LINVILLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FAUNA & FLORA INTERNATIONAL USA INC ↗
  • Who funds FAUQUIER FREE CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
  • Who funds THE PLAINS COMMUNITY LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA HORSE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds A PLACE TO BE ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL OF THE PIEDMONT INC ↗

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.

Wise FoundationThe Luminescence Foun…Graham Foundation IncDun FoundationJames Lessing Kleebla…The Harmon FoundationMRC Full Circle Found…William M Backer Foun…McGraw FoundationThe Van Metre Family …Frank Mangano Foundat…The Community Foundat…
Wise FoundationVA24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wise Foundation · The Luminescence Foundation Inc · Graham Foundation Inc · Dun Foundation · James Lessing Kleeblatt Memorial Foundation Inc · The Harmon Foundation · MRC Full Circle Foundation · William M Backer Foundation Inc · McGraw Foundation · The Van Metre Family Foundation Inc · Frank Mangano Foundation · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc

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 The Anna McWane Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Anna McWane Charitable Foundation. 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%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 The Anna McWane Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Anna McWane Charitable 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 30 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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