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The McCourt Foundation Inc

Striving to help cure neurological diseases, while empowering communities to build a healthier world.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$230k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$1.8MRecreation & Sports$55k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $337,938, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,356,424 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,018,486 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $99k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $230k
$35,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL$230,000
BRIGHAM & WOMENS HOSPITAL$35,000
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER$35,000
THE BOSTON HOME$15,513
MASSACHUSETTS MECFS & FM ASSOCIATION$13,262
THE LEAD OUT FOUNDATION$9,163
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE LEAD OUT FOUNDATION: $21k → 8%BRIGHAM & WOMENS HOSPITAL: $15k → 8%SPINA BIFIDA ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW ENGLAND: $26k → 11%Brigham and Womens Health Care: $100k → 16%CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $35k → 14%Spina Bifida Association of America: $28k → 7%THE LEAD OUT FOUNDATION: $18k → 8%SPINAL BIFIDA ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW ENGLAND: $13k → 11%Brigham and Womens Health Care: $100k → 16%CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $10k → 14%Spina Bifida Association of America: $27k → 7%THE LEAD OUT FOUNDATION: $9k → 8%BRIGHAM AND WOMENS HEALTH CARE: $50k → 16%CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $10k → 14%BRIGHAM & WOMENS HOSPITAL: $25k → 16%CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $10k → 14%BRIGHAM & WOMENS HOSPITAL: $10k → 16%BRIGHAM & WOMENS HOSPITAL: $35k → 16%BRIGHAM & WOMENS HOSPITAL: $25k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $230k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $165k → 16%Massachusetts General Hospital: $150k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $150k → 16%Massachusetts General Hospital: $150k → 16%JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER: $12k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $115k → 16%Joslin Diabetes Center Inc: $8k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $100k → 16%Joslin Diabetes Center Inc: $5k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $75k → 16%THE BOSTON HOME: $16k → 16%THE BOSTON HOME: $11k → 16%THE BOSTON HOME: $9k → 16%SCHOLAR ATHLETES: $30k → 16%SCHOLAR ATHLETES: $25k → 16%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.
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 10 repeat orgs$48k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
2

Total granted

$1.8M
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+28%

Still filing today

60%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k went to new ones.

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

  • MG
    MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED & AFFILIATES GROUP RETURN
    4× · 2020–2023 · $75k · revenue +62%
  • CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
    4× · 2021–2024 · $65k · revenue +31%
  • SB
    SPINA BIFIDA ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
    2× · 2017–2018 · $55k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • MG
    MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2024 · $35k
  • MM
    MASSACHUSETTS ME-CFS & FM ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $13k
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
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
2
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc

Tertiary care academic medical center

Health
3
Beth Israel Lahey Health Inc

Beth israel lahey health inc.'s mission is to support its affiliates and their healthcare missions, to improve the health of patients, their families and the communities served. as a network its purpose is to create healthier communities…

Health
4
Mass General Brigham Incorporated

Patient care, teaching, research and serving the community.

Health
5
Rhode Island Hospital

As a founding hospital in the brown university health system, rih is committed to its mission: delivering health with care.

Health
6
Joslin Clinic Inc

The primary mission of joslin diabetes center (jdc) and joslin clinic (jc) is to provide the highest quality specialty medical care to patients with diabetes and diabetes related conditions and to engage in research focused on advancing…

Health
7
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary

THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…

Health
8
Medical Care of Boston Management Corp

Medical care of boston management corp d/b/a beth israel lahey health primary care a/k/a affiliated physicians group (apg) is a network of community based physicians affiliated with beth israel lahey health (bilh) and its hospitals…

Health
9
Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Needham

The mission of the beth israel deaconess hospital - needham, inc. (bidn or hospital) is to improve the health of the communities it serves by providing high quality, personalized health care with compassion, dignity and respect for patient…

Health
10
Seacoast Affiliated Group Practice Inc

Seacoast affiliated group practice (sagp) is a network of community-based physicians affiliated with beth israel lahey health and providing care in conjunction with and in the communities served by anna jaques hospital (ajh or hospital).…

Health
11
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
12
Massachusetts E-Health Collaborative
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spina Bifida Association of America; the most unlike its peers is Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. 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

9 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. 9 of the 12 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $1,135,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $250,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDSCHOLAR ATHLETES INC: $55,458 · Other+3 more: $96,320 · Other+3 moreMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED & AFFILIATES GROUP RETURN: $75,000 · HealthMASS GENERAL BRIGH…CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $65,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDIC…SPINA BIFIDA ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $55,175 · HealthSPINA BIFIDA ASSOC…SPINA BIFIDA ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW ENGLAND: $39,392 · HealthSPINA BIFIDA ASSOC…THE BOSTON HOME INC: $35,155 · HealthTHE BOSTON HOME IN…JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC: $25,721 · HealthJOSLIN DIABETES CE…
Other$1,536,778Health$295,443

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 budgetMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED & AFFILIATES GROUP RETURN: $75,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $65,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOLAR ATHLETES INC: $55,458 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSPINA BIFIDA ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $55,175 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSPINA BIFIDA ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW ENGLAND: $39,392 over 2y, 13% of budgetTHE BOSTON HOME INC: $35,155 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC: $25,721 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS ME-CFS & FM ASSOCIATION INC: $13,262 over 1y, 20% 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.

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.

Paypal Charitable Giv…The Bank of America C…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Paypal Charitable Giving FundDC9.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · 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 McCourt Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The McCourt Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 45%
  • The Boston Home Inc: 45% of income from government
  • Joslin Diabetes Center Inc: 35% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
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How do I get to The McCourt Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The McCourt Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 12 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 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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