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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 FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$30k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$390kInternational$98kArts & Culture$61kHuman Services$48kHealth$19kReligion$16kPhilanthropy$12kCivil Rights$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $81k
$2,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WILLIAMS COLLEGE$30,000
MCA DENVER$25,500
BREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES$15,000
LAB TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICKING$10,676
UNIVERSITY OF DENVER$7,500
HOTCHKISS SCHOOL$2,579
FISTULA FOUNDATION$2,500
DAIRY ARTS CENTER BOULDER$1,620
SCHOOL YEAR ABROAD$1,500
CATE SCHOOL$1,000
COLGATE UNIVERSITY$1,000
STRONG GIRLS UNITED FDN$1,000
FAMILY ACTION NETWORK$1,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–23, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHILDHELP: $43 → 11%WORLD PULSE: $1k → 12%PROJECT WORTHMORE: $3k → 8%WORLD PULSE: $1k → 12%WORLD PULSE: $1k → 12%WORLD PULSE: $1k → 12%AMIGAS IN ACTION: $250 → 12%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $10k → 12%ECDC - AFRICAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 12%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$575k · 27 repeat orgs$112k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
36

Total granted

$575k
$97k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+19%

Still filing today

59%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesInternationalArts & CultureHealthRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • CATE SCHOOL
    5× · 2020–2024 · $80k · revenue +24%
  • Williams College
    5× · 2020–2024 · $44k · revenue +51%
  • MO
    MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DENVER
    4× · 2021–2024 · $41k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • DV
    DEFY VENTURES INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +15%
  • TC
    THE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -24%
  • DR
    DENVER RESCUE MISSION
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -10%
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
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
3
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
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
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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6
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
7
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
8
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
9
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
10
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
11
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
12
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Human Rights Watch Inc; the most unlike its peers is Bradley Pto. 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 65 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/39
Grantees still filing
29/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KELLOGG SCHOOL OF BUSINESS: $131,000 · OtherKELLOGG SCHOOL OF BUSINESSLAB TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICKING: $50,676 · OtherLAB TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICKINGUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDER: $35,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDERFAMILY ACTION NETWORK: $21,000 · OtherFAMILY ACTION NETWORKBREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC: $15,000 · Other+31 more: $69,538 · Other+31 moreCATE SCHOOL: $80,000 · EducationCATE SCHOOLWilliams College: $44,000 · EducationWilliams CollegeUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $27,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF DENVERCOLGATE UNIVERSITY: $19,000 · EducationCOLGATE UNIVERSITYGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $11,000 · EducationBRADLEY PTO: $10,600 · EducationDEFY VENTURES INC: $10,298 · EducationTHE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL: $8,079 · Education+4 more: $4,600 · EducationMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DENVER: $40,500 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF…ART WORKS PROJECTS: $9,500 · Arts & CultureART WORKS…DENVER ART MUSEUM: $5,000 · Arts & CultureDENVER AR…ONE ACRE FUND: $23,000 · InternationalTHE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS: $10,000 · InternationalSCHOOL YEAR ABROAD INC: $6,500 · InternationalCONSCIOUS CAPITALISM INC: $6,500 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $5,000 · InternationalDENVER RESCUE MISSION: $10,000 · Human ServicesWorld Pulse Voices: $4,000 · Human ServicesETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY DEV COUNCIL INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesPROJECT WORTHMORE: $2,500 · Human Services+2 more: $293 · Human ServicesThe Fistula Foundation: $17,500 · Health+1 more: $500 · HealthGIRLFORWARD: $7,000 · Youth Development
Other$322,214Education$215,077Arts & Culture$55,000International$51,000Human Services$19,293Health$18,000Youth Development$7,000

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 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 budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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
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.

  • Who funds CATE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Williams College ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DENVER ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
  • Who funds ONE ACRE FUND ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY ACTION NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds The Fistula Foundation ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds BRADLEY PTO ↗
  • Who funds DEFY VENTURES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS ↗
  • Who funds DENVER RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds ART WORKS PROJECTS ↗
  • Who funds THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds GIRLFORWARD ↗
  • Who funds SCHOOL YEAR ABROAD INC ↗
  • Who funds CONSCIOUS CAPITALISM INC ↗
  • Who funds CIVICO ↗
  • Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
  • Who funds DENVER ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds EXTENDED HANDS OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds World Pulse Voices ↗
  • Who funds ETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY DEV COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds MIDDLESEX SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT WORTHMORE ↗

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 FoundationColorado Gives Founda…Mile High United Way …The Women's Foundatio…Gates Family Foundati…Fidelity FoundationThe Chicago Community…Morgan Stanley Global…Silicon Valley Commun…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The McCall Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The McCall 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%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Williams College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 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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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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