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The McCormick Family Foundation at a glance

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The McCormick Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$620k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$195k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$2.6MSocial Science$491kArts & Culture$229kFood & Nutrition$126kPhilanthropy$120kHealth$95kReligion$55kEnvironment$51kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $168k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $444k
$25,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN HISTORY$195,040
MARIST COLLEGE$144,696
NICKLAUS CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION$53,850
HOLY CHILD ACADEMY$50,000
ISLAND HARVEST FOOD$35,000
SMILE FARMS$30,000
MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION$25,000
FERST READERS$25,000
ROUNDABOUT THEATER COMPANY$12,600
THE ORCHESTRA OF ST LUKE'S GALA$10,000
FITMONEY$10,000
NEW EYES FOR THE NEEDY$10,000
THE READING TEAM$10,000
MOUNT VERNON LADIES ASSOCIATION$5,000
SANDS POINT GOLF FUND$3,000
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 (FY18–24, $188k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 8%OPERATION HEALING FORCES: $5k → 12%FERST READERS: $25k → 11%FERST READERS: $25k → 11%FERST READERS: $25k → 11%FERST READERS: $10k → 11%ISLAND HARVEST: $30k → 6%ISLAND HARVEST: $25k → 6%ISLAND HARVEST: $20k → 6%ISLAND HARVEST: $10k → 6%ISLAND HARVEST: $3k → 6%THE READING TEAM: $10k → 17%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

NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
TN
GA
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.4M · 16 repeat orgs$542k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
12

Total granted

$3.4M
$255k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+25%

Still filing today

56%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $287k 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 ServicesYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyEmploymentArts & CultureOther
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

  • MU
    MARIST UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +52%
  • MT
    MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $120k · revenue +64%
  • IH
    ISLAND HARVEST LTD
    5× · 2019–2023 · $88k · revenue +91%

Funded once

  • FO
    Friends of the Environment
    one grant, 2022 · $51k
  • SC
    Sanford C Bernstein Co LLC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • SO
    Sister of the Holy Child at Old Wes
    one grant, 2020 · $33k
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.

1
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
2
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
3
Open New York Education Inc

Open new york education, inc. supports public education, awareness, and engagement around housing issues to help build a movement for a more abundant and inclusive new york.

Housing & Shelter
4
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
5
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
6
University of New Haven

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…

Education
7
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
9
Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education
10
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
11
The Mount Sinai Hospital

Mount sinai is committed to the advancement of the art and science of medicine through clinical excellence. the central mission consists of high-quality patient care and teaching conducted in an atmosphere of social concern and scholarly…

Health
12
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Smile Farms Inc; the most unlike its peers is Roundabout Theatre Company Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 36 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
12/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MARIST UNIVERSITY: $1,976,351 · EducationMARIST UNIVERSITYTHE GILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN HISTORY: $195,040 · EducationTHE GILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN HISTORY+2 more: $41,000 · EducationGilder Lehrman Institute of America: $491,159 · OtherGilder Lehrman Institute of AmericaREAD TO LEAD INC: $311,000 · OtherREAD TO LEAD INCSISTERS OF THE HOLY CHILD JESUS AT OLD WESTBURY NEW YORK INC: $120,000 · OtherSISTERS OF THE HOLY CHILD JESUS AT O…Friends of the Environment: $51,000 · OtherSanford C Bernstein Co LLC: $50,000 · Other+16 more: $270,550 · Other+16 moreISLAND HARVEST LTD: $87,500 · Human ServicesFERST READERS INC: $85,000 · Human ServicesREADING TEAM INC: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $120,000 · PhilanthropyNicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation: $53,850 · PhilanthropySMILE FARMS INC: $44,524 · EmploymentAARON JUDGE ALL RISE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP HORSEABILITY INC: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC: $18,900 · Arts & CultureTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $12,900 · Membership Benefit
Education$2,212,391Other$1,293,709Human Services$187,500Philanthropy$173,850Employment$44,524Youth Development$26,000Arts & Culture$18,900Membership Benefit$12,900

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 budgetMARIST UNIVERSITY: $1,976,351 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetREAD TO LEAD INC: $311,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetTHE GILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN HISTORY: $195,040 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $120,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetISLAND HARVEST LTD: $87,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFERST READERS INC: $85,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetNicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation: $53,850 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSMILE FARMS INC: $44,524 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCANTERBURY SCHOOL INC: $31,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAARON JUDGE ALL RISE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetFITMONEY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC: $18,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $12,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBelmont University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Eyes for the Needy Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetREADING TEAM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetOPERATION HEALING FORCES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSANDS POINT GOLF FUND INC: $3,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetCAMP HORSEABILITY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 MARIST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds READ TO LEAD INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN HISTORY ↗
  • Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ISLAND HARVEST LTD ↗
  • Who funds FERST READERS INC ↗
  • Who funds Nicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation ↗
  • Who funds SMILE FARMS INC ↗
  • Who funds CANTERBURY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds AARON JUDGE ALL RISE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FITMONEY INC ↗
  • Who funds ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds Belmont University ↗
  • Who funds New Eyes for the Needy Inc ↗
  • Who funds READING TEAM INC ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION HEALING FORCES INC ↗
  • Who funds SANDS POINT GOLF FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMP HORSEABILITY 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.

Jewish Communal FundCharities Aid Foundat…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY11.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    5get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 36 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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