· Private foundation
The McConnell Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k83 grants · $301k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $507k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $876k
- $250k+13 grants · $10.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $3,462,391 |
| Turtle Bay Exploration Park | $1,588,581 |
| Shasta Regional Community Foundation | $1,094,994 |
| Shasta College Foundation | $617,000 |
| Siskiyou County Job Council | $500,000 |
| Shasta County Office of Education | $453,000 |
| Natural Resource Conflict Transformation Center - Nepal (NRCTC) | $403,000 |
| Shasta Living Streets | $350,926 |
| College OPTIONS Inc | $350,000 |
| Viva Downtown Redding | $340,779 |
| The Asia Foundation | $300,000 |
| California State Grange Foundation | $250,000 |
| Mahila Shakti Bikash Kendra Nepal (MSBKN) | $250,000 |
| California State University Chico | $150,831 |
| Advance Redding | $150,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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 7% of The McConnell Foundation’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, 92% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 88% — 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 +28% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
201 repeat relationships — 92 still active in FY2024, 109 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $927k 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
- SCSHASTA COLLEGE FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $6.5M · revenue +818% · 27% of their budget
- COCOLLEGE OPTIONS INC7× · 2017–2024 · $4.6M · revenue +626% · 85% of their budget
- SLSHASTA LAND TRUST7× · 2017–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +980%
Funded once
- B7Block 7 Retail Investors LLCone grant, 2021 · $3.8M
- MMMayers Memorial Hospital Districtone grant, 2019 · $1.0M
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $500k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Northern California and the most unlike its peers is Acorn Community Enterprises. 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 30 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
221 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. 221 of the 391 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 TURTLE BAY EXPLORATION PARK ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NORTH STATE ↗
- Who funds SHASTA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OPTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds SHASTA LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds HILL COUNTRY COMMUNITY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds SHASTA COUNTY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE ASIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VIVA DOWNTOWN REDDING ↗
- Who funds SHASTA WOMEN'S REFUGE INC DBA ONE SAFE PLACE ↗
- Who funds SHASTA LIVING STREETS ↗
- Who funds REDDING FASHION ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds California Mobility Fund ↗
- Who funds MERCY FOUNDATION NORTH ↗
- Who funds Siskiyou County Job Council ↗
- Who funds SHASTA COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SHASTA TRAIL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATUREBRIDGE ↗
- Who funds REDDING TRAIL ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Indian Cultural Organization ↗
- Who funds California State Grange Foundation ↗
- Who funds Advance Redding ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
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: Community Foundation of the North State · Dignity Health · Ralphs Prather Ranch Foundation · United Way of Northern California · North Valley Community Foundation · California Foundation for Stronger Communities · The California Endowment · The Ford Family Foundation · The Maurice & Marianne Johannessen Found · Humboldt Area Foundation · California Physicians' Service Fdn Dba Blue Shield of California Fdn · Marin Community 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 McConnell 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Raphael House of Portland — 10% of income from government
- American Whitewater — 5% of income from government
- Pacific University — 2% of income from government
- Willamette University — 1% of income from government
- University of Portland — 1% of income from government
- Berklee College of Music Inc — 1% of income from government
- Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.