How much does The McCain Family Foundation give?

The McCain Family Foundation reported 42 grants totaling $45,648 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 42 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The McCain Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (22%), Education (14%), Health (13%).

Who are The McCain Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Pacific Beach Christian Church ($40k), The French-American School of Rhode Island ($16k), Greater Los Angeles Zoological Association ($13k).

Does The McCain Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The McCain 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 McCain Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Rhode Island Inc, The Rhode Island Community Foundation, Citizens Charitable Foundation.

Where is The McCain Family Foundation based?

The McCain Family Foundation is based in CA.

The McCain Family Foundation

The McCain Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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.

$46k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$7k

Largest

01What it funds

0191% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$60kEducation$39kHealth$36kCivil Rights$21kHuman Services$19kHousing & Shelter$15kAnimals$14kArts & Culture$11kOther$0

02FY2024 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$878k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
PACIFIC BEACH CHRISTIAN CHURCH	$6,500
BRADY UNITED AGAINST GUN VIOLENCE	$1,909
PROPUBLICA	$1,907
THE TREVOR PROJECT	$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
RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK	$1,000
COMMUNITY LIBRARIES OF PROVIDENCE	$1,000
LA SALLE ACADEMY	$1,000
AMOS HOUSE	$1,000

02The need

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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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$256k · 48 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +27% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$256k

$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%

+27%

Still filing today

56%

54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther

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

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THE FRENCH-AMERICAN SCHOOL OF RHODE ISLAND
8× · 2017–2024 · $16k · revenue +12%
GL
GREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
8× · 2017–2024 · $13k · revenue +3%
TC
TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
8× · 2017–2024 · $7k · revenue +60%

Funded once

TO
THE OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC
one grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +20%
AF
ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INCgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +64%
LOS ANGELES LGBT CENTERgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +27%

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.

South Central Family Health Center

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.

Health

Altamed Health Services Corporation

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.

Health

United States Naval Institute

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 Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

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

Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement

Planned Parenthood California Central Coast

To improve our communities' sexual and reproductive health outcomes through health care, education, and advocacy.

Health

California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement

Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education

National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health

National Public Radio Inc

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…

Arts & Culture

Personal Care Products Council Foundation Inc

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…

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meeting Street; 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.

04the grantee network

39 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. 39 of the 67 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

38/39

Grantees still filing

33/39

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$181,186Education$28,969Human Services$19,937Health$13,588Animals$12,700Arts & Culture$10,950International$6,590

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

United Way of Rhode Island IncRI13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

12report 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, 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.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home