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The McAvity Family Foundation at a glance

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The McAvity Family 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.

$385k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$140k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.2MReligion$225kHealth$195kPhilanthropy$100kInternational$50kArts & Culture$10kEnvironment$10kAnimals$1k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $360k
$70,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Hyde School$140,000
Yampa Valley Community Foundation$100,000
Hyde School$70,000
Global Lyme Alliance$50,000
Jupiter Medical Center Foundation$15,000
Jupiter Narrows Conservation Alliance$10,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 11% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Trustees of Phillips Academy: $100k → 10%Partners in Health: $50k → 16%Jupiter Narrows Conservation Alliance: $10k → 10%Jupiter Medical Center Foundation: $15k → 11%Trinity Church: $50k → 9%Yampa Valley Community Foundation: $100k → 6%Hyde School: $360k → 9%Jupiter Medical Center Foundation: $10k → 11%Trinity Church: $50k → 9%Hyde School: $140k → 9%Jupiter Medical Center Foundation: $10k → 11%Trinity Church: $50k → 9%Hyde School: $135k → 9%Jupiter Medical Center Foundation: $10k → 11%Trinity Church: $50k → 9%Hyde School: $135k → 9%Trinity Church: $25k → 9%Hyde School: $110k → 9%Audubon Center of Greenwich: $1k → 9%Hyde School: $70k → 9%Global Lyme Alliance: $50k → 9%Hyde School: $66k → 9%Global Lyme Alliance: $50k → 9%Hyde School: $60k → 9%Global Lyme Alliance: $50k → 9%Hyde School: $60k → 9%Avon Theatre Film Center: $10k → 9%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.
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 4 repeat orgs$171k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +6% since the first grant, against -2% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
4

Total granted

$1.6M
$161k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
-2%

Still filing today

75%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthPhilanthropyEnvironmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • Hyde School
    7× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +6%
  • TC
    TRINITY CHURCH
    5× · 2018–2022 · $225k
  • GL
    GLOBAL LYME ALLIANCE INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $150k · revenue -9%

Funded once

  • TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue -2%
  • PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -7%
  • AT
    AVON THEATRE FILM CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +559%
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
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
2
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations

Joint Commission evaluates and accredits health care organizations and programs across the United States to ensure compliance with rigorous standards of quality and safety, including the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)…

Health
3
Jupiter Medical Center Physicians Group Inc

JMCPG is committed to providing compassionate, personalized care from the region's most trusted team of physicians and health care professionals. Across the Palm Beaches and the Treasure Coast of Florida, JMCPG practice locations offer…

Health
4
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
5
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
6
Jupiter Medical Center Inc

The mission of jupiter medical center is to deliver excellent and compassionate healthcare advancing the well-being of the people we serve, regardless of their ability to pay. certain services are provided at a loss or at no payment…

Health
7
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
8
Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech
9
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
10
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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11
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
12
Pitzer College

Pitzer College produces engaged socially responsible citizens of the world through an academically rigorous, interdisciplinary liberal arts education emphasizing social justice, intercultural understanding and environmental sensitivity.…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Avon Theatre Film Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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

8 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. 8 of the 10 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Hyde School: $1,136,000 · EducationHyde SchoolTRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY: $100,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMYTRINITY CHURCH: $225,000 · OtherTRINITY CHURCH+1 more: $1,050 · OtherGLOBAL LYME ALLIANCE INC: $150,000 · HealthGLOBAL LYME …PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $50,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN …YAMPA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $45,000 · PhilanthropyJUPITER NARROWS CONSERVATION ALLIANCE INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentAVON THEATRE FILM CENTER INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$1,236,000Other$226,050Health$200,000Philanthropy$145,000Environment$10,000Arts & Culture$10,000

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 budgetHyde School: $1,136,000 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetGLOBAL LYME ALLIANCE INC: $150,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYAMPA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $45,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJUPITER NARROWS CONSERVATION ALLIANCE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetAVON THEATRE FILM CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments …
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 McAvity Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The McAvity Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get 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 · 0–10%
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.

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 10 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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