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The McCall Family 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.

$133k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Education$690kPhilanthropy$91kHealth$45kYouth Development$45kHousing & Shelter$34kReligion$22kInternational$5kHuman Services$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $33k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS$100,000
DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$5,000
PINE STREET INN$5,000
SQUASH BUSTERS$5,000
THE CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$5,000
ST FRANCIS HOUSE$3,000
REGIS COLLEGE$2,500
HOPE WELL INC$2,000
THE BOSTON FOUNDATION$1,000
CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL$1,000
NATIVITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL$1,000
OBLATES OF THE VIRGIN MARY$1,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES$1,000
02The need
03

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 (FY20–25, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%MISSION OF DEEDS: $1k → 8%HOPE WELL INC: $2k → 7%PINE STREET INN: $5k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $5k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $5k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $5k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $5k → 16%ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $3k → 16%ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $3k → 16%ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $3k → 16%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 edge
repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$879k · 14 repeat orgs$93k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
9

Total granted

$879k
$90k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+17%

Still filing today

50%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther

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

  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS
    6× · 2020–2025 · $505k · revenue +39%
  • PINE STREET INN INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $25k · revenue +36%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    3× · 2023–2025 · $25k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • TM
    THE MGH FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -11%
  • MG
    MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2020 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

3
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

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
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

7
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
8
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
9
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
10
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary

THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…

Health
11
Northeastern University
Education
12
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint Francis House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 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

13 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. 13 of the 26 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS — $505,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS+3 more — $26,000 · EducationBOSTON COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL — $150,000 · OtherBOSTON COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOLTHE MGH FUND — $50,000 · OtherTHE MGH FUNDIndividual grant recipient — $40,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNITED WAY OF MASSACHUSETTS — $27,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF MASSACHUSETTSST MARY'S PARISH — $20,000 · OtherST MARY'S PARISH+8 more — $32,000 · Other+8 moreSQUASHBUSTERS INC — $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentPINE STREET INN INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesSAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC — $9,000 · Human ServicesHOPEWELL INC — $2,000 · Human Services+1 more — $1,000 · Human ServicesDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $25,000 · HealthWINCHESTER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · HealthUnited Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc — $10,000 · PhilanthropyBoston Foundation Inc — $4,000 · Philanthropy
Education$531,000Other$319,000Youth Development$45,000Human Services$37,000Health$30,000Philanthropy$14,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS — $505,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSQUASHBUSTERS INC — $45,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC — $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetREGIS COLLEGE — $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC — $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWINCHESTER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOPEWELL INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Norman B Leventhal Map & Education Center Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMission of Deeds Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS
  • Who funds SQUASHBUSTERS INC
  • Who funds PINE STREET INN INC
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
  • Who funds CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds REGIS COLLEGE
  • Who funds United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc
  • Who funds SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC
  • Who funds WINCHESTER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Boston Foundation Inc
  • Who funds HOPEWELL INC
  • Who funds The Norman B Leventhal Map & Education Center Inc
  • Who funds Mission of Deeds 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.

American Tower Corporation Foundation IncMA13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 McCall Family 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
202122232425
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 11%
  • Hopewell Inc83% of income from government
  • United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc23% of income from government
  • Saint Francis House Inc18% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc11% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc7% of income from government
  • Regis College2% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

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 26 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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