· Private foundation
The McCormack 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PHOEBE FOUNDATION | $5,701 |
| ALBANY MUSEUM OF ART | $5,000 |
| FLINT RIVERQUARIUM | $5,000 |
| THEATRE ALBANY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| LIBERTY HOUSE OF ALBANY | $2,500 |
| THRONOTEESKA HERITAGE CENTER | $2,500 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF HISTORIC GEORGIA | $2,500 |
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 (FY18–20, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 28%, 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.
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.
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.
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 +32% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 4 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, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- PFPHOEBE FOUNDATION INC4× · 2017–2024 · $42k · revenue +132%
CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY6× · 2017–2022 · $15k · revenue +42%- FRFLINT RIVERQUARIUM INC3× · 2017–2024 · $9k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2018 · $3k
- GMGEORGIA MUSEUM OF ARTone grant, 2018 · $1k
- FIFOODSHARE INCone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +25%
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.
The mission of the university at albany foundation is to encourage, receive, accept, hold, invest, and manage money and property of every description, and the disbursement thereof for the promotion, development and advancement of the…
The foundation's specific purpose is to solicit, receive, and maintain gifts of money and property, and to make decisions on the distributions of such money and property, to support albany general hospital and health svcs in the general…
Albany general hospital (agh) achieves its mission of improving the health and well being of the community through its medical and surgical hospital and healthcare clinics providing outpatient care services at several area locations. agh…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
An academic health sciences system whose responsibilities are to provide a broad range of patient services to the people of eastern new york and western new england.
Theathensareahumanesocietyrescuesandprotectscompanionanimalsby providing for their wellbeing, uniting them with loving homes,and advocating for a compassionate society.
Higher education: Albany Law School is an institution of higher education that provides instructional and educational activities singularly focused on the study of law. Completion of the programs by students culminates in the awarding of…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Bringing people together who care deeply about athens, georgia and surrounding areas and who seek to improve the quality of life and economic well-being of all people in our community through gifts and involvement. committed to connecting…
We, st. peter's health partners and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. founded in community-based legacies of compassionate healing, we…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The alliance for aging research is the leading nonprofit organization dedicated to changing the narrative to achieve healthy aging and equitable access to care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Athfest Inc dba Athfest Educates and the most unlike its peers is Darton Health Professions Foundatio. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 36 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
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 THE ALBANY MUSEUM OF ART INCORPORA ↗
- Who funds PHOEBE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Albany State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FLINT RIVERQUARIUM INC ↗
- Who funds THEATRE ALBANY ↗
- Who funds Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance ↗
- Who funds DARTON HEALTH PROFESSIONS FOUNDATIO ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Historic Georgia Inc ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY HOUSE OF ALBANY INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FUEL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ATHENS AREA HOMELESS SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds OUR CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds ATHFEST INC dba ATHFEST EDUCATES ↗
- Who funds ATHENS WELLNESS CLINIC 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.
Open a dossier: Fisher-Crum Foundation · W B Haley Foundation 4655000132 · Carlton Foundation · Athens Area Community Foundation Inc · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 McCormack 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.
- Operation Fuel Incorporated — 51% 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.