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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 FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Youth Development$169kEducation$133kPublic Benefit$126kHealth$109kHuman Services$63kPhilanthropy$45kReligion$30kArts & Culture$23kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k21 grants · $52k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
$2,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION$30,000
CITY OF PEABODY$20,000
FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND$10,000
PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN$10,000
NORTHEAST ARC$8,500
ST ADELAIDE'S PARISH CHURCH$7,500
SALEM HOSPITAL$5,000
PEABODY INSTITUTE LIBRARY$5,000
LAHEY HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER$5,000
Individual grant recipient$4,143
JPS FUND INC$3,000
PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM$2,500
MERRIMACK FUND$2,500
CITIZENS INN$2,500
NRFOODPANTRYORG$1,016
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $57k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN: $12k → 10%PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 10%PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 10%PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 10%PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 10%PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN: $6k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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NY
MA
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TN
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$697k · 23 repeat orgs$31k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
15

Total granted

$697k
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+58%

Still filing today

43%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • CH
    CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $169k · revenue +208%
  • TF
    THE FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $103k · revenue +38%
  • PATHWAYS FOR CHILDRENINC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $57k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • ME
    MCCARTHY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL - PLAYGROUND
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • BI
    BETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +58%
  • BF
    BOURQUE FAMILY FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +36%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
2
Northeast Hospital Corporation

Centering on a concept and continuum of care that embraces the health, well-being and dignity of each patient, regardless of their ability to pay, northeast hospital corporation (nhc) has four facilities, beverly hospital, addison gilbert…

Health
3
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc

Tertiary care academic medical center

Health
4
Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Plymouth Inc

The mission of the beth israel deaconess hospital-plymouth, inc. (bid-plymouth or hospital) is to improve the health and well-being of its patients and communities by providing a full continuum of healthcare services with excellence and…

Health
5
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary

THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…

Health
6
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
7
Mass General Brigham Incorporated

Patient care, teaching, research and serving the community.

Health
8
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
9
Winchester Hospital

The mission of winchester hospital is "to care. to heal. to excel." this ethos provides each and every staff member with clear expectations, promoting teamwork and respect while ensuring safety, quality and empathy for patients. winchester…

Health
10
Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Milton

The mission of the beth israel deaconess hospital-milton, inc. (bid-milton or hospital) is to provide safe, high-quality, community-based health care and access to tertiary care in close collaboration with its sister hospital, beth israel…

Health
11
Joslin Clinic Inc

To provide the highest quality specialty medical care to patients with diabetes and diabetes related conditions and to search for a cure.

Health
12
Joslin Diabetes Center Inc

Our mission is to prevent, treat, and cure diabetes. our vision is a world free of diabetes and its complications.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. 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

17 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 46 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
11/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CITY OF PEABODY (FOR SCHOLARSHIPS) — $60,000 · OtherCITY OF PEABODY (FOR SCHOLARSHIPS)CITY OF PEABODY — $60,000 · OtherCITY OF PEABODYNORTHEAST ARC INC — $48,500 · OtherNORTHEAST ARC INCPEABODY INSTITUTE LIBRARY — $35,050 · OtherPEABODY INSTITUTE LIBRARYST ADELAIDE'S PARISH CHURCH — $30,050 · OtherST ADELAIDE'S PARISH CHURCHSALEM HOSPITAL — $20,000 · OtherSALEM HOSPITALLAHEY HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER — $15,050 · OtherST ADELAIDE'S CHURCH — $15,000 · Other+27 more — $67,394 · Other+27 moreCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC — $168,500 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATIO…THE FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC — $103,000 · EducationTHE FRANCIS OUIM…MERRIMACK COLLEGE — $4,200 · EducationPATHWAYS FOR CHILDRENINC — $57,000 · Human ServicesPEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureCITIZENS INN INC — $13,500 · Housing & ShelterBETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH INC — $5,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $3,530 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $1,000 · HealthNEUROFIBROMATOSIS NETWORK — $500 · Health+1 more — $250 · Health
Other$351,044Youth Development$168,500Education$107,200Human Services$57,000Arts & Culture$20,000Housing & Shelter$13,500Health$10,280

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC — $168,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC — $103,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetPATHWAYS FOR CHILDRENINC — $57,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHEAST ARC INC — $48,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC — $20,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCITIZENS INN INC — $13,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOURQUE FAMILY FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMERRIMACK COLLEGE — $4,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITABLE BUREAU OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $3,530 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEUROFIBROMATOSIS NETWORK — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCare Dimensions Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOUDOUN FIRST RESPONDERS FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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 CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds THE FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC
  • Who funds PATHWAYS FOR CHILDRENINC
  • Who funds NORTHEAST ARC INC
  • Who funds PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC
  • Who funds CITIZENS INN INC
  • Who funds BETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH INC
  • Who funds BOURQUE FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds MERRIMACK COLLEGE
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITABLE BUREAU OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON INC
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 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.

Salem Five Charitable Foundation IncMA15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Family Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 14%
  • Pathways for Childreninc86% of income from government
  • Northeast Arc Inc73% of income from government
  • Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc46% of income from government
  • Citizens Inn Inc18% of income from government
  • Care Dimensions Inc14% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc7% of income from government
  • Peabody Essex Museum Inc3% of income from government
  • Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc1% of income from government
  • Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc1% of income from government
  • Merrimack College1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 46 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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