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The McCall 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.

$101k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2024
30
Organizations funded FY2023
30%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
25 to 33
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
7
Total assets, FY2024
$2.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 30% of the organizations The McCall Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureInternationalHousing & ShelterHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving13$101k8%
FY202330$167k30%
FY202233$193k42%
FY202125$122k48%
FY202028$103kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$390kInternational$98kArts & Culture$61kHuman Services$48kHealth$19kReligion$16kPhilanthropy$12kCivil Rights$10kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
IN
CT
CA
CO
AZ
TN
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Cate School$80,00050%
Williams College$44,00050%
Museum of Contemporary Art Denver$40,50041%
University of Denver$27,50030%
One Acre Fund$23,00040%
Family Action Network$21,00051%
Colgate University$19,00040%
The Fistula Foundation$17,50050%
Breakthrough Urban Ministries Inc$15,00010%
Georgetown University$11,00040%
Show all 38 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($271k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The McCall Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCate School: $80,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetWilliams College: $44,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Contemporary Art Denver: $40,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetUniversity of Denver: $27,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOne Acre Fund: $23,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Action Network: $21,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetColgate University: $19,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Fistula Foundation: $17,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBreakthrough Urban Ministries Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGeorgetown University: $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBradley PTO: $10,600 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetDefy Ventures Inc: $10,298 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Chicago Council on Global Affairs: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDenver Rescue Mission: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArt Works Projects: $9,500 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetThe Hotchkiss School: $8,079 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGirlforward: $7,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSchool Year Abroad Inc: $6,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetConscious Capitalism Inc: $6,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCivico: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHuman Rights Watch Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDenver Art Museum: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetExtended Hands of Hope: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWorld Pulse Voices: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEthiopian Community Dev Council Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMiddlesex School: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProject Worthmore: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPTA Colorado Congress dba South High School PTSA: $1,300 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Force Basketball: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNorthwestern University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLynn Sage Breast Cancer Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLakewood Health System: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeed the Hungry San Miguel Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHalleck Creek Ranch: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAcademy for Global Citizenship Charter School: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildhelp Inc: $43 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 37.

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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.

The Denver FoundationCO18.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Women's Foundation of Colorado Inc · Gates Family Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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.

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About The McCall Family Foundation

How much does The McCall Family Foundation give?
The McCall Family Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $100,875 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 33 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does The McCall Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (57%), International (14%), Arts & Culture (9%).
Who are The McCall Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Cate School ($80k), Williams College ($44k), Museum of Contemporary Art Denver ($41k).
Does The McCall Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The McCall 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 McCall Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Denver Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation, Mile High United Way Inc.
Where is The McCall Family Foundation based?
The McCall Family Foundation is based in IL.

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 65 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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