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The John L McGraw and Marjorie P McGraw Charitable 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.

$635k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$236k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20242025.

Arts & Culture$562kAnimals$260kHealth$101kFood & Nutrition$10kYouth Development$3kPublic Safety & Disaster$500Human Services$100
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $587k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COTUIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS$236,400
Individual grant recipient$200,000
CAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$100,000
BICHON FRISE CLUB OF AMERICA CHARITABLE TRUST$50,500
HISTORIC TRAPPE$25,000
FAMILY TABLE COLLABORATIVE$10,000
PEACEFUL VALLEY DONKEY RESCUE$8,000
JACK THE BIKE MAN INC$3,000
PROJECT K-9 HERO$1,000
WINTERTHUR MUSEUM$500
BARNSTABLE POLICE OFFICER'S FOUNDATION$500
CAPE COD BAY CHALLENGE$100
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 4%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%THE SEEING EYE INC: $1k → 4%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Bull Terrier Rescue of Southern California Inc

Animal rescue. rescue & re-home bull terrier dogs

2
Pacific Coast Dog Rescue Inc

To rescue, resocialize and place dogs in homes of loving pet owners. while awaiting their new homes, the dogs are kenneled and seen by vets for medical needs, spaying and neutering.

Animals
3
All About Dogs Coastal Rescue

Rescue rehabilitation and rehoming of abandoned dogs and helping elderly and military families find homes for dogs when ill or redeployed

Animals
4
Big Dog Rescue Inc co James & Cheryl Babcock
5
On the Road to Rescue Dog Rescue

Dog rescue and rehabilitation. finding homes for orphan dogs

Animals
6
Flat Broke Farm Animal Rescue Inc

Rescue unwanted or displaced large farm animals. provide a healthy, fun living environment and correct medical care and training. all animals are either under evaluation, in training, or available for adoption.

Animals
7
Shar Pei Savers Inc

Canine rescue adoption shar pei

8
Beach Dog Rescue

We save dogs off the streets

Animals
9
K9 Soldiers Inc

Dog rescue and training for service

10
Boston Terrier Rescue Net Inc

To rehabilitate terriers who are homeless and in need of medical care

11
Patriot K9 Rescue Inc

Our mission is to provide retirement and adoption services to our retired military and police K9's. Including but not limited to veterinary care, transportation services, training, safe, clean housing, rehabilitation, and to provide life…

12
Cape Cod Police K-9 Relief Fund

Provide care for retired and injured k-9 dogs across cape cod, massachusetts

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Seeing Eye Inc and the most unlike its peers is Family Table Collaborative 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

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 13 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COTUIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC — $536,400 · Arts & CultureCOTUIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS INCHISTORIC TRAPPE — $25,000 · Arts & CultureIndividual grant recipient — $200,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $100,000 · OtherCAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION+4 more — $11,100 · OtherBICHON FRISE CLUB OF AMERICA CHARITABLE TRUST — $50,500 · AnimalsPeaceful Valley Donkey Rescue Inc — $8,000 · Animals+1 more — $1,000 · AnimalsJack The Bike Man Inc — $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE SEEING EYE INC — $1,000 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$561,400Other$311,100Animals$59,500Youth Development$3,000Human Services$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOTUIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC — $536,400 over 2y, 10% of budgetTHE SEEING EYE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The John L McGraw and Marjorie P McGraw Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
2021222324
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Cotuit Center for the Arts Inc1% of income from government
  • Family Table Collaborative Inc0% of income from government
  • Jack the Bike Man Inc0% 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 · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY2024

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to The John L McGraw and Marjorie P McGraw Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The John L McGraw and Marjorie P McGraw 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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