· Private foundation
The McCance 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k86 grants · $186k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $489k
- $50k–250k44 grants · $4.0M
- $250k+5 grants · $2.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | $1,000,500 |
| Massachusetts General Hospital | $502,805 |
| National Educational Equity Lab | $501,903 |
| Fishers Island School | $250,000 |
| Ceres Inc | $250,000 |
| LIFT Inc | $200,000 |
| The Lighthouse Works | $180,000 |
| Henry L Ferguson Museum | $170,700 |
| Forest Trends Association | $150,000 |
| Island Health Project Inc | $149,000 |
| Lake Wales Charter Schools Foundation | $105,000 |
| Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation (dba Cure Alzheimer's Fund) | $102,000 |
| Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund | $100,500 |
| KIPP Foundation | $100,000 |
| Social Finance | $100,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 48% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.
186 repeat relationships: 125 still active in FY2024, 61 since wound down; 29 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $183k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED4× · 2020–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +121%- NENational Education Opportunity Network Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +170%
- CICERES INC5× · 2020–2024 · $900k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- MGMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDone grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +12%
- FPFLORIDA POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +167%
- TMTHE MATCH FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +22%
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.
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.
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.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
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.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
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…
Ilsi is a global, nonprofit federation dedicated to generating and advancing emerging science and groundbreaking research to ensure foods are safe, nutritious and sustainable, and that they improve planetary and human health and well-being…
At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…
How this is measured
251 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 251 of the 322 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds National Education Opportunity Network Inc ↗
- Who funds MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CERES INC ↗
- Who funds Henry L Ferguson Museum ↗
- Who funds KHAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW PROFIT INC ↗
- Who funds LIFT INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAND HEALTH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FOREST TRENDS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
- Who funds ECHOING GREEN INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds WALSH PARK BENEVOLENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds PRIME COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds RARE ↗
- Who funds KIPP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE SUMMIT INC ↗
- Who funds HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIGHTHOUSE WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds Measures for Justice Institute ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE WALES CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FISHERS ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SPORTS HUMANITARIAN GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds RSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC ↗
- Who funds BUSINESSES UNITED IN INVESTING LENDING & DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds PROJECT DRAWDOWN ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOODCORPS INC ↗
- Who funds CODE FOR AMERICA LABS INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Willinphila Foundation · The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation Inc · The Fairfield Foundation · The Long Stems Foundation Inc · The Sooner Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · The Duke of Omnium Fund · The Frederic C Hamilton Family Foundation · Ederic Foundation Inc · The Spofford Foundation Inc · W L Lyons Brown Jr Charitable Foundation · The Schmidt Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The McCance Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The McCance Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Center for Hope and Safety Inc: 69% of income from government
- Center for Hope and Safety: 68% of income from government
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: 63% of income from government
- Greater Bergen Community Action Inc: 62% of income from government
- Lawrence General Hospital: 41% of income from government
- Save the Sound: 37% of income from government
- Bergen Family Center: 25% of income from government
- Metacomet Land Trust Inc: 25% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
- Up Education Network: 22% of income from government
- Foodcorps Inc: 21% of income from government
- The Coral Restoration Foundation Inc: 16% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
- Social Finance Inc: 12% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc: 5% of income from government
- The Red Sox Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
- Scituate Food Pantry Inc: 1% of income from government
- Project Adventure Inc: 1% of income from government
- Friends of Holly Hill Farm Inc: 1% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
- Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
- The Epiphany School Inc: 0% of income from government
- Ceres Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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