· Private foundation
The McCarthy Charities Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $85k
- $10k–50k31 grants · $442k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMISSION ON ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY FOR THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION | $50,000 |
| EMMA WILLARD SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| EAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD RECREATION CENTER - HOPE 7 | $35,000 |
| TROY SAVINGS BANK MUSIC HALL | $33,000 |
| CAPITAL DISTRICT YMCA - TROY BRANCH | $30,000 |
| MEDIA ALLIANCESANCTUARY FOR INDEPENDENT MEDIA | $23,000 |
| HUDSON VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| QUESTAR III BOCESEDUCATION FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| TROY PUBLIC SCHOOL 2 PTA | $20,000 |
| SIDEWALK WARRIORS - TROY | $20,000 |
| HUDSON TACONIC LANDS | $15,000 |
| TROY YOUTH ASSOCIATION INC | $12,000 |
| FRIENDS OF PROSPECT PARK | $12,000 |
| TROY YOUTH ASSOCIATION INC | $12,000 |
| ACADEMY OF THE HOLY NAMES | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $247k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of The McCarthy Charities Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 90% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
85 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2025, 48 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CRCAPITAL ROOTS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $423k · revenue +53%
- ESEAST SIDE NEIGHBORHD RECREATION CTR INC HOPE 7 COMMUNITY CENTER8× · 2017–2025 · $170k · revenue +15%
- JHJOSEPH'S HOUSE AND SHELTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $117k · revenue +113%
Funded once
- HFHVCC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $55k
- CDCAPITAL DISTRICT YMCA - TROYone grant, 2017 · $25k
- WYWHITNEY YOUNG HEALTHone grant, 2023 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The troy community land bank acquires, rehabilitates and resells vacant and abandoned buildings throughout the city of troy, new york
Food bank of central new york is a not-for-profit organization: our mission is to lead the effort to eliminate hunger in our region, through partnerships with others in our community, through education, advocacy, and distribution of…
Support regional economic development in new york's 14 northernmost counties
Established for the purpose of stimulating planning, economic development, and neighborhood revitalization in the city of newburgh, new york.
Acap works in partnership with families and communities to empower people to achieve economic self-sufficiency and an improved quality of life.
The mission of the organization is to foster sustainable economic growth through service to our members, strategic advocacy, workforce development, destination marketing, and quality of life investments. Our vision is an inclusive…
The mission of the organization is to enhance and build resilient diverse communities, by supporting economic growth, creative community-based initiatives, and quality housing services in the neighborhoods it serves.
CNY Arts' mission is to promote, support, and celebrate arts and culture in Central New York.
Our mission is to help individuals achieve their highest level of capability and increase opportunities for their future success. we are committed to person-centered, family focused services.
To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.
The central new york land trust seeks to preserve and protect natural areas in order to provide our communities clean water, clean air, wildlife habitat, and a chance to connect with the land.
The organization's mission is to sustain a vibrant, healthy and strong community through affordable, culturally competent, quality primary health care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Commission On Economic Opportunity for the Greater Capital Region Inc and the most unlike its peers is Siena University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 27. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
64 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 64 of the 157 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 CAPITAL ROOTS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMISSION ON ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY FOR THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION INC ↗
- Who funds EAST SIDE NEIGHBORHD RECREATION CTR INC HOPE 7 COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds JOSEPH'S HOUSE AND SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITY HOUSE OF TROY INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION INC ↗
- Who funds TROY SAVINGS BANK MUSIC HALL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CAPITAL AREA ↗
- Who funds 518 ELEVATED INC ↗
- Who funds EMMA WILLARD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MEDIA ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds HUDSON VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TROY REHABILITATION AND IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds SIENA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Troy Youth Association Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ARTS CENTER OF THE CAPITAL REGION ↗
- Who funds ST PETER'S HEALTH PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds FOOD PANTRIES FOR THE CAPITAL DISTRICT INC ↗
- Who funds TROY AREA UNITED MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Sidewalk Warriors Troy Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH PARTNERSHIP FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY M YOUNG JR HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOANE STUART SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CAPITAL DISTRICT (4416) ↗
- Who funds LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF RENSSELAER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Umbrella of the Capital District Inc ↗
- Who funds OAKWOOD COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds RENSSELAER LAND TRUST 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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · Review Foundation · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · The Troy Savings Bank Charitable Fo · Pioneer Bank Charitable Foundation · The Howard and Bush Foundation Inc · United Way of the Greater Capital Region · Capital District Physicians' Health Plan Inc · William Gundry Broughton Charitable Private Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Kiwi Foundation · Neil Jane William Estelle Golub Family Foundation Inc
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 McCarthy Charities Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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