Massachusetts · Private foundation
The McCarthy Family 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.
- $122k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 23
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations The McCarthy Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 25 | $122k | 32% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $121k | 35% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $139k | 47% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $102k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $170k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $73k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc | $168,500 | 6 | 0% |
| The Francis Ouimet Scholarship Fund Inc | $103,000 | 5 | 1% |
| City of Peabody | $60,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Pathways for Childreninc | $57,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Northeast Arc Inc | $48,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Peabody Essex Museum Inc | $20,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Citizens Inn Inc | $13,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Jps Fund Inc | $5,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Beth Israel Lahey Health Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc | $168,500 | 6 | 0% |
| The Francis Ouimet Scholarship Fund Inc | $103,000 | 5 | 1% |
| City of Peabody | $60,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Pathways for Childreninc | $57,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Northeast Arc Inc | $48,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Peabody Essex Museum Inc | $20,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Citizens Inn Inc | $13,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Jps Fund Inc | $5,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Beth Israel Lahey Health Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Bourque Family Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Merrimack College | $4,200 | 2 | 0% |
| Catholic Charitable Bureau of the Archdiocese of Boston Inc | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $3,530 | 2 | 0% |
| Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc | $1,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Neurofibromatosis Network | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Care Dimensions Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Loudoun First Responders Foundation | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc | $250 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($216k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The McCarthy Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The McCarthy Family Foundation
- How much does The McCarthy Family Foundation give?
- The McCarthy Family Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $122,449 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 23 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The McCarthy Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (23%), Education (18%), Public Benefit (17%).
- Who are The McCarthy Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc ($169k), The Francis Ouimet Scholarship Fund Inc ($103k), City of Peabody ($60k).
- Does The McCarthy Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The McCarthy 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 McCarthy Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation, Essex County Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is The McCarthy Family Foundation based?
- The McCarthy Family Foundation is based in MA.
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