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The Frederick W McCarthy Family 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.

$18k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2025
8
Organizations funded FY2024
38%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$8,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 12
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$134k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 38% of the organizations The Frederick W McCarthy Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 37% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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 arriving4$13k25%
FY20248$34k38%
FY20239$20k22%
FY20227$24k14%
FY20216$13k50%
FY20207$18k29%
FY20199$28k44%
FY201812$67k33%
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$81kReligion$52kHealth$51kHuman Services$28kRecreation & Sports$27kPhilanthropy$25kArts & Culture$15kSocial Science$13kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
WY
RI
CA
CO
MD
TN
NC
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
American Heart Association Inc$29,50040%
Achilles International Inc$26,00030%
Kindoo Family Center$25,50062%
Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc$25,00030%
Diocese of Palm Beach$13,5005n/a
The Milken Institute$12,50010%
St Sebastians School Inc$12,5004n/a
St Edwards Church$10,5604n/a
Milton Academy$10,00010%
White Horse Stepstone$10,00011%
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All grantees of The Frederick W McCarthy Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
American Heart Association Inc$29,50040%
Achilles International Inc$26,00030%
Kindoo Family Center$25,50062%
Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc$25,00030%
Diocese of Palm Beach$13,5005n/a
The Milken Institute$12,50010%
St Sebastians School Inc$12,5004n/a
St Edwards Church$10,5604n/a
Milton Academy$10,00010%
White Horse Stepstone$10,00011%
Pipers Angels Foundation Inc$10,00023%
Georgetown University$5,00020%
Prostate Cancer Foundation$5,0001n/a
Citizen Film Inc$5,00011%
Hope Rural School Inc$4,00030%
Hope From Harrison Inc$3,00033%
Malden Catholic High School$2,5001n/a
Sharing Hearts Joining Hands Corp$2,0001n/a
The Francis Ouimet Scholarship Fund Inc$2,00020%
Haymakers for Hope Inc$1,03010%
National Pancreatic Cancer Foundation$1,00010%
South Shore Young Men's Christian Association$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($67k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Frederick W McCarthy Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $29,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAchilles International Inc: $26,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetKindoo Family Center: $25,500 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Milken Institute: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMilton Academy: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWhite Horse Stepstone: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPipers Angels Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetGeorgetown University: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCitizen Film Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHope Rural School Inc: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHope From Harrison Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetThe Francis Ouimet Scholarship Fund Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHaymakers for Hope Inc: $1,030 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Pancreatic Cancer Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSouth Shore Young Men's Christian Association: $100 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 16.

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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.

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC8.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Frederick W McCarthy Family Foundation

How much does The Frederick W McCarthy Family Foundation give?
The Frederick W McCarthy Family Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $17,530 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Frederick W McCarthy Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (27%), Religion (17%), Health (17%).
Who are The Frederick W McCarthy Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: American Heart Association Inc ($30k), Achilles International Inc ($26k), Kindoo Family Center ($26k).
Does The Frederick W McCarthy Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Frederick W McCarthy Family Foundation 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 Frederick W McCarthy Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, National Philanthropic Trust, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is The Frederick W McCarthy Family Foundation based?
The Frederick W McCarthy Family Foundation is based in DC.

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 37 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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