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The McCain 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PACIFIC BEACH CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $6,500 |
| BRADY UNITED AGAINST GUN VIOLENCE | $1,909 |
| THE TREVOR PROJECT | $1,907 |
| PROPUBLICA | $1,907 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF LOS ANGELES | $1,907 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,907 |
| OPEN ARMS PREGNANCY CENTER | $1,837 |
| GREATER LA ZOO ASSOCIATION | $1,500 |
| GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH | $1,500 |
| FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF BURBANK | $1,250 |
| CROSSROADS COMMUNITY CHURCH | $1,200 |
| MEND | $1,000 |
| AMOS HOUSE | $1,000 |
| RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TFTHE FRENCH-AMERICAN SCHOOL OF RHODE ISLAND8× · 2017–2024 · $16k · revenue +12%
- GLGREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2024 · $13k · revenue +3%
- TCTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $7k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- AFALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +64%
- TOTHE OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH FUND INCone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +20%
LOS ANGELES LGBT CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +27%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To improve the quality of life for the diverse communities we serve providing affordable and comprehensive healthcare and education in a welcoming multi-cultural environment.
To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
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…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
To improve our communities' sexual and reproductive health outcomes through health care, education, and advocacy.
The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
The foundation is set up to deliver one program - look good feel better. the mission of this nationwide program is to improve the quality of life of women, men, and teens undergoing cancer treatment by offering advice on how to cope with…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meeting Street and the most unlike its peers is San Diego Coasters. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 53 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
39 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 39 of the 67 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE FRENCH-AMERICAN SCHOOL OF RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds GREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MEND - Meet Each Need With Dignity ↗
- Who funds REDONDO BEACH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds AMOS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN SERVICE AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds INDIVIDUAL & FAMILY SUPPORT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds Meeting Street ↗
- Who funds ROESSLER-CHADWICK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC BATTLESHIP CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: United Way of Rhode Island Inc · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 McCain Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Planned Parenthood of Maryland Inc — 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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