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The Catherine Terrell McCartney Foundation C/O Catherine McCartney Mill

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.

$20k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2025
10
Organizations funded FY2024
40%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 14
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$242k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 40% of the organizations The Catherine Terrell McCartney Foundation C/O Catherine McCartney Mill funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureReligionHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving12$20k17%
FY202410$19k40%
FY20239$17k22%
FY202211$16k45%
FY20212$75050%
FY202014$15kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$31kHealth$22kReligion$9kEducation$7kHuman Services$7kPublic Safety & Disaster$4kFood & Nutrition$3kAnimals$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
SD
OH
UT
NC
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Texas Book Festival$14,50050%
Library Foundation of Lampasas Texas$7,00055%
Center for New American Media Inc$5,00012%
Historic Fort Worth Inc$4,00040%
Rutherford County Humane Society Inc$2,00021%
Christian Aid Ministries$2,00010%
Chimney Rock Volunteer Fire Department Inc$2,0002n/a
Texas Division National Society Magna Charta Dames and Barons$1,5002n/a
Meals on Wheels$1,50021%
The Shriners' Hospital for Children$1,50020%
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All grantees of The Catherine Terrell McCartney Foundation C/O Catherine McCartney Mill by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Texas Book Festival$14,50050%
Library Foundation of Lampasas Texas$7,00055%
Center for New American Media Inc$5,00012%
Historic Fort Worth Inc$4,00040%
Rutherford County Humane Society Inc$2,00021%
Christian Aid Ministries$2,00010%
Chimney Rock Volunteer Fire Department Inc$2,0002n/a
Texas Division National Society Magna Charta Dames and Barons$1,5002n/a
Meals on Wheels$1,50021%
The Shriners' Hospital for Children$1,50020%
Star of Hope Mission$1,00010%
Hickory Nut Gorge Outreach Inc$1,00010%
Houston Symphony Society$1,00010%
Good Samaritan Society Inc$1,00010%
The Supreme Court Historical Society$75020%
The Texas State Historical Association$50010%
Central Texas Food Bank Inc$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($41k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Catherine Terrell McCartney Foundation C/O Catherine McCartney Mill supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTexas Book Festival: $14,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetLibrary Foundation of Lampasas Texas: $7,000 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetCenter for New American Media Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetHistoric Fort Worth Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetRutherford County Humane Society Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetChristian Aid Ministries: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMeals on Wheels: $1,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetThe Shriners' Hospital for Children: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetStar of Hope Mission: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHickory Nut Gorge Outreach Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHouston Symphony Society: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGood Samaritan Society Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Supreme Court Historical Society: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Texas State Historical Association: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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.

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About The Catherine Terrell McCartney Foundation C/O Catherine McCartney Mill

How much does The Catherine Terrell McCartney Foundation C/O Catherine McCartney Mill give?
The Catherine Terrell McCartney Foundation C/O Catherine McCartney Mill reported 12 grants totaling $20,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 14 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does The Catherine Terrell McCartney Foundation C/O Catherine McCartney Mill fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (36%), Health (25%), Religion (10%).
Who are The Catherine Terrell McCartney Foundation C/O Catherine McCartney Mill's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Texas Book Festival ($15k), Library Foundation of Lampasas Texas ($7k), Center for New American Media Inc ($5k).
Does The Catherine Terrell McCartney Foundation C/O Catherine McCartney Mill fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Catherine Terrell McCartney Foundation C/O Catherine McCartney Mill accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Catherine Terrell McCartney Foundation C/O Catherine McCartney Mill?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The Catherine Terrell McCartney Foundation C/O Catherine McCartney Mill based?
The Catherine Terrell McCartney Foundation C/O Catherine McCartney Mill is based in TX.

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 28 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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