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The McCarty Cheney Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$671k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2025
10
Organizations funded FY2024
40%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$6,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$208,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 11
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$3.6M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 40% of the organizations The McCarty Cheney Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k 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 ServicesHealthReligionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving15$671k53%
FY202410$721k40%
FY20235$432k0%
FY202210$745k40%
FY20216$585k33%
FY20208$708k25%
FY201911$578kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Religion$2.1MAnimals$626kHealth$593kInternational$310kEducation$100kScience & Tech$8kPhilanthropy$5kMembership Benefit$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
NJ
CA
VA
NC
AL
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Helping Hands Ministries Inc$1,297,78771%
Missionary Ministries Inc$1,105,000795%
Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc$725,00062%
Visiting Nurse Health System Inc$413,91031%
South Sudan Nation Bldrs$285,000456%
Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church$150,0004n/a
Marion Military Institute$75,0003n/a
Morselife Health System Inc$50,00010%
Seagull Industries for the Disabled Inc$50,00012%
Little Hill Foundation for the Rehabilitation of Alcoholics Inc$35,00010%
Show all 23 grantees
All grantees of The McCarty Cheney Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Helping Hands Ministries Inc$1,297,78771%
Missionary Ministries Inc$1,105,000795%
Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc$725,00062%
Visiting Nurse Health System Inc$413,91031%
South Sudan Nation Bldrs$285,000456%
Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church$150,0004n/a
Marion Military Institute$75,0003n/a
Morselife Health System Inc$50,00010%
Seagull Industries for the Disabled Inc$50,00012%
Little Hill Foundation for the Rehabilitation of Alcoholics Inc$35,00010%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$25,00010%
Samaritan's Purse$25,00010%
Love-A-Bull Inc$13,0001n/a
Gulf Gate Lodge NO 608 Loyal Order of Moose$8,00021%
Strength for Strays Corp$6,0001n/a
Kerrville Pets Alive$5,0001n/a
Austin Pets Alive Inc$5,0001n/a
Thompson Park Conservancy Inc$5,0001n/a
Bayside Community Church Inc$5,0001n/a
Austin Wildlife Rescue$5,0001n/a
Habitat for Humanity in Atlanta Inc$3,00010%
Church of the Palms-Presbyterian Church-$2,0001n/a
Stand Up for Pits Foundation Inc$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($146k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The McCarty Cheney Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 13 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHelping Hands Ministries Inc: $1,297,787 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetMissionary Ministries Inc: $1,105,000 over 7y, 95% of budgetBig Dog Ranch Rescue Inc: $725,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetVisiting Nurse Health System Inc: $413,910 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSouth Sudan Nation Bldrs: $285,000 over 4y, 56% of budgetMorselife Health System Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSeagull Industries for the Disabled Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetLittle Hill Foundation for the Rehabilitation of Alcoholics Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGulf Gate Lodge NO 608 Loyal Order of Moose: $8,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetHabitat for Humanity in Atlanta Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStand Up for Pits Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About The McCarty Cheney Foundation Inc

How much does The McCarty Cheney Foundation Inc give?
The McCarty Cheney Foundation Inc reported 15 grants totaling $671,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 11 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does The McCarty Cheney Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (56%), Animals (17%), Health (16%).
Who are The McCarty Cheney Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Helping Hands Ministries Inc ($1.3M), Missionary Ministries Inc ($1.1M), Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc ($725k).
Does The McCarty Cheney Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The McCarty Cheney Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The McCarty Cheney Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The McCarty Cheney Foundation Inc based?
The McCarty Cheney Foundation Inc is based in TX.

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 31 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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