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The McConnell Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$12M
Granted FY2024still arriving
129
Grants FY2024still arriving
17
States reached
$3.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$26MEducation$18MCommunity Improvement$10MPhilanthropy$9.4MEnvironment$7.4MPublic Benefit$4.3MHousing & Shelter$3.8MHuman Services$3.6MOther$0
02FY2024 · 129 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k83 grants · $301k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $507k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $876k
  • $250k+13 grants · $10.0M
$7,450
Median grant
17
States reached
$435M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Wakami Foundation: $150 → 5%Marin Ventures: $1k → 8%California-Hawaii Elks Major Project Inc: $2k → 19%Wounded Warrior Project Inc: $300 → 14%Hope Healing Restoration And New Beginnings: $2k → 6%Tri County Community Network: $5k → 14%California-Hawaii Elks Major Project Inc: $525 → 19%Wounded Warrior Project Inc: $75 → 14%Tri County Community Network: $500 → 14%Happy Camp Community Action Inc: $34k → 16%California-Hawaii Elks Major Project Inc: $450 → 19%California-Hawaii Elks Major Project Inc: $75 → 19%Raphael House of Portland: $4k → 12%Human Response Network: $5k → 17%Raphael House of Portland: $1k → 12%Happy Camp Community Action Inc: $750 → 16%Raphael House of Portland: $750 → 12%Local Indians For Education: $9k → 14%Happy Camp Community Action Inc: $750 → 16%Local Indians For Education: $7k → 14%Local Indians For Education: $750 → 14%Happy Camp Community Center: $300 → 16%Local Indians For Education: $500 → 14%Local Indians For Education: $500 → 14%Acorn Community Enterprises: $2k → 14%Siskiyou Family YMCA: $200k → 16%Hope Hospice Inc: $750 → 10%Local Indians For Education: $500 → 14%Acorn Community Enterprises: $2k → 14%Hope Hospice Inc: $750 → 10%Siskiyou Family YMCA: $3k → 16%Local Indians For Education: $375 → 14%Acorn Community Enterprises: $2k → 14%Siskiyou Community Resource Collaborative: $750 → 16%Acorn Community Enterprises: $2k → 14%Camp Kesem National: $450 → 14%Shasta County Young Mens Christian Association: $1.4M → 14%Shasta County Young Men's Christian Association: $201k → 14%Shasta County Young Men's Christian Association: $101k → 14%Shasta County Young Men's Christian Association: $73k → 14%Shasta County Young Men's Christian Association: $42k → 14%Shasta County Young Men's Christian Association: $34k → 14%Youth Violence Prevention Council of Shasta County: $600 → 14%Youth Violence Prevention Council of Shasta County: $150 → 14%Dignity Health-Connected Living: $3k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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NC
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DC
HI
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AL
GA
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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of The McConnell Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 92% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 88%.

The McConnell Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 8.4% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$75M · 201 repeat orgs$8.0M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

201
149

Total granted

$75M
$7.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+23%

Still filing today

50%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $927k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentInternationalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SC
    SHASTA COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $6.5M · revenue +818% · 27% of their budget
  • CO
    COLLEGE OPTIONS INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $4.6M · revenue +626% · 85% of their budget
  • SL
    SHASTA LAND TRUST
    7× · 2017–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +980%

Funded once

  • B7
    Block 7 Retail Investors LLC
    one grant, 2021 · $3.8M
  • MM
    Mayers Memorial Hospital District
    one grant, 2019 · $1.0M
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $500k
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.

04Its field

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.

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Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
2
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
3
Save the Redwoods League

Save the redwoods league protects and restores redwood forests and connects people with their peace and beauty so these wonders of the natural world flourish.

Environment
4
Parks California

As california state parks' statutory non-profit partner, we have a clear mission - to help strengthen parks and inspire all people to experience these extraordinary places.

Environment
5
Tuolumne River Preservation Trust dba Yosemite Rivers Alliance

At Yosemite Rivers Alliance, we unite conservation and community to protect and restore the three rivers that ?ow through the Yosemite Regionthe Tuolumne, Stanislaus, and Merced.

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6
The Sierra Fund

The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.

Environment
7
Chile-California Council

The Chile-California Council is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to developing and promoting joint endeavors and cooperative relations between Chile and California, as well as individuals, legal entities and other institutions in…

International
8
California Wildlife Foundation

The foundation works with diverse groups representing many interests to acquire and restore critical wildlife habitat and protecting species

Animals
9
University of Redlands

We welcome, educate, and empower a diverse community of learners for lives of meaning, impact, and joy.

Education
10
Sempervirens Fund

To ensure coast redwood forests in the santa cruz mountains thrive for generations to come. since 1900, sempervirens has protected more than 36,000 acres. learn more about our mission, vision, and strategic plan through 2030 at:…

Environment
11
Northern California Regional Land Trust

The purpose of the organization is to monitor, manage, and preserve conservation easements it stewards in northern california. the organization acquires conservation easements in land exhibiting important natural features to protect and…

Environment
12
San Jose State University Research Foundation

As an integral member of the san jose state university community, the san jose state university research foundation provides an entrepreneurial framework through which local, state and federal agencies, businesses and private foundations…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Northern California; 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.
05the grantee network

221 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. 221 of the 391 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
45
Early backer (in before they grew)
209/221
Grantees still filing
126/221
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $12,656,290 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBlock 7 Retail Investors LLC: $3,762,438 · OtherBlock 7 Retail Investors LLCMahila Shakti Bikash Kendra Nepal (MSBKN): $2,635,076 · OtherMahila Shakti Bikash Kendra Nepal (MSBKN)NATURAL RESOURCE CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION CENTER - NEPAL (NRCTC): $2,214,200 · OtherNATURAL RESOURCE CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION CENTER - N…THE ASIA FOUNDATION: $1,780,000 · OtherHILL COUNTRY COMMUNITY CLINIC: $2,013,125 · Other+139 more: $16,292,483 · Other+139 moreTURTLE BAY EXPLORATION PARK: $19,339,941 · Arts & CultureTURTLE BAY EXPLORATION P…California Mobility Fund: $744,173 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $144,139 · Arts & CultureSHASTA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $6,459,633 · EducationSHASTA COLLEGE…COLLEGE OPTIONS INC: $4,641,000 · EducationCOLLEGE OPTION…+16 more: $803,028 · Education+16 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NORTH STATE: $8,522,016 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY F…+5 more: $485,765 · Philanthropy+5 moreSHASTA COUNTY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $1,843,015 · Human ServicesSHASTA WOMEN'S REFUGE INC DBA ONE SAFE PLACE: $1,290,490 · Human ServicesSISKIYOU FAMILY YMCA INC: $203,000 · Human Services+6 more: $76,826 · Human ServicesSHASTA LAND TRUST: $2,323,933 · EnvironmentNATUREBRIDGE: $414,831 · EnvironmentORE-CAL RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT AREA COUNCIL: $185,000 · Environment+7 more: $293,750 · EnvironmentVIVA DOWNTOWN REDDING: $1,312,133 · Community ImprovementSHASTA LIVING STREETS: $1,112,385 · Community ImprovementAdvance Redding: $245,000 · Community Improvement+2 more: $36,105 · Community Improvement
Other$41,353,612Arts & Culture$20,228,253Education$11,903,661Philanthropy$9,007,781Human Services$3,413,331Environment$3,217,514Community Improvement$2,705,623

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTURTLE BAY EXPLORATION PARK: $19,339,941 over 8y, 69% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NORTH STATE: $8,522,016 over 8y, 19% of budgetSHASTA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $6,459,633 over 8y, 27% of budgetCOLLEGE OPTIONS INC: $4,641,000 over 7y, 85% of budgetSHASTA LAND TRUST: $2,323,933 over 7y, 9.6% of budgetHILL COUNTRY COMMUNITY CLINIC: $2,013,125 over 3y, 12% of budgetSHASTA COUNTY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $1,843,015 over 6y, 44% of budgetTHE ASIA FOUNDATION: $1,780,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetVIVA DOWNTOWN REDDING: $1,312,133 over 8y, 95% of budgetSHASTA WOMEN'S REFUGE INC DBA ONE SAFE PLACE: $1,290,490 over 8y, 55% of budgetSHASTA LIVING STREETS: $1,112,385 over 3y, 65% of budgetREDDING FASHION ALLIANCE INC: $898,165 over 7y, 77% of budgetCalifornia Mobility Fund: $744,173 over 5y, 23% of budgetMERCY FOUNDATION NORTH: $506,300 over 8y, 5.0% of budgetSiskiyou County Job Council: $500,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetSHASTA COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL: $460,275 over 7y, 44% of budgetMOUNT SHASTA TRAIL ASSOCIATION INC: $420,000 over 4y, 41% of budgetNATUREBRIDGE: $414,831 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetREDDING TRAIL ALLIANCE INC: $306,650 over 5y, 69% of budgetIndian Cultural Organization: $250,300 over 2y, 47% of budgetCalifornia State Grange Foundation: $250,000 over 1y, 55% of budgetAdvance Redding: $245,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: $244,040 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetTHE HENRY L STIMSON CENTER: $240,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTHE WATERSHED RESEARCH & TRAINING CENTER: $225,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetNORTHERN VALLEY CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICE INC: $210,151 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetSISKIYOU FAMILY YMCA INC: $203,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetORE-CAL RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT AREA COUNCIL: $185,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetForward Redding Foundation: $157,250 over 4y, 35% of budgetNORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $111,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIVE2ASIA: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE INTERMOUNTAIN LIBRARIES INCORPORATED: $100,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetINT'L UNION FOR CONSERVATION OF NATURE & NATURAL RESOURCES - US: $100,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMSI US: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMOUNTAIN VALLEYS HEALTH CENTERS: $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSHASTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $81,188 over 7y, 9.3% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPRING RIVERS FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetCHILDREN'S LEGACY CENTER: $58,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetHAVEN HUMANE SOCIETY: $56,536 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetGreat Northern Services: $55,061 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetJPR FOUNDATION INC: $48,573 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetNEPAL YOUTH FOUNDATION: $48,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetNATIONAL UNIVERSITY: $47,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSierra Business Council: $47,050 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND: $45,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEMPIRE HOTEL EHARC INC DBA EMPIRE RECOVERY CENTER: $44,793 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetART FROM THE ASHES INC: $44,626 over 1y, 49% of budget
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 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 ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Dignity HealthRalphs Prather Ranch …United Way of Norther…North Valley Communit…California Foundation…The California Endowm…The Ford Family Found…The Maurice & Mariann…Humboldt Area Foundat…California Physicians…Marin Community Found…
Community Foundation of the North StateCA97.9× affinity47 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The McConnell Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The McConnell Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
48report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 391 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
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