· Private foundation
The McCarty Cheney Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $608k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC | $208,000 |
| MISSIONARY MINISTRIES | $200,000 |
| BIG DOG RANCH RESCUE | $100,000 |
| HOPEWELL MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH | $50,000 |
| MORSELIFE HEALTH SYSTEM | $50,000 |
| LOVE-A-BULL | $13,000 |
| INDIE INSTITUTE FINAL FRONTIER RESCUE PROJECT | $10,000 |
| STRENGTH FOR STRAYS CORP | $6,000 |
| CELEBRITIES FOR CHARITIES INC | $6,000 |
| THOMPSON PARK CONSERVANCY INC | $5,000 |
| BAYSIDE COMMUNITY CHURCH | $5,000 |
| KERRVILLE PETS ALIVE | $5,000 |
| AUSTIN WILDLIFE RESCUE | $5,000 |
| AUSTIN PETS ALIVE | $5,000 |
| GULF GATE LODGE NO 608 LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE | $3,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 +111% since the first grant, against +42% for those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 8 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $94k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HHHELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC7× · 2019–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +61%
- MMMissionary Ministries Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +195% · 95% of their budget
- BDBIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC6× · 2019–2025 · $725k · revenue +162%
Funded once
- SISEAGULL INDUSTRIES FOR THE DISABLED INCone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -100%
- LHLITTLE HILL FOUNDATION FOR THE REHABILITATION OF ALCOHOLICS INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue +42%
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +83%
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.
The organization's mission is to rescue and save the lives of dogs of all ages, breeds, sizes, and conditions that have suffered from neglect, cruelty, abandonment, or overpopulation in high-kill animal shelters.
We have a no-kill mission to save the lives of homeless cats and dogs abandoned and/or placed in kill shelters, while also providing life-saving programs and services to keep pets and their people together. through outreach, education and…
Let love live's mission is to rescue, rehabilitate, and rehome animals in need, ensuring they receive the love, care, and respect they deserve.
The mission of take paws rescue is to meet the moral obligation to protect and save the lives of pets in need of rescue in louisiana. take paws rescue enacts this mission by pulling pets from rural and high kill shelters and preparing them…
The organization is a no-kill animal shelter. its mission is to rescue and provide a safe haven and quality care for homeless, abandoned, sick or injured animals until appropriate adoption placement can be made.
At apollo's pals sanctuary rehabilitation and adoption inc., we are driven by the enduring love and gentle spirit of our namesake, apollo a faithful companion who brought unwavering comfort and joy to our family. in his honor, we dedicate…
The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.
The mission of rescue life is to save the lives of wild, farm, and domestic animals which include horses, pigs, donkeys, llamas, zebras, alpacas,and dogs. the mission includes providing care, shelter, and adoption services. rescue life…
Our mission is to rescue and re-home abandoned, abused, sick, and injured animals from the street and animals on death row in our local high-kill shelters.
The mission of San Antonio Pets Alive! is to save every adoptable dog and cat in danger of being killed at the City of San Antonio Shelter.
To rescue abandoned, neglected and traumatized animals and find these animals their furever homes.
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 31 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
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 HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Missionary Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds BIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds VISITING NURSE HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SUDAN NATION BLDRS ↗
- Who funds MORSELIFE HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds SEAGULL INDUSTRIES FOR THE DISABLED INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE HILL FOUNDATION FOR THE REHABILITATION OF ALCOHOLICS INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds LOVE-A-BULL INC ↗
- Who funds Gulf Gate Lodge NO 608 Loyal Order of Moose ↗
- Who funds KERRVILLE PETS ALIVE ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THOMPSON PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Austin Wildlife Rescue ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY IN ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds STAND UP FOR PITS FOUNDATION 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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The McCarty Cheney Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The McCarty Cheney Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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