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The McCue Memorial Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$142k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What you fund
0185% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Food & Nutrition$273kEducation$256kArts & Culture$101kPhilanthropy$76kReligion$70kYouth Development$39kCommunity Improvement$19kHealth$345Other$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$133k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOLLIPOP FARMS$59,604
ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$34,210
GEVA THEATER$15,412
GEORGE EASTMAN MUSEUM$10,000
THE CENTER FOR YOUTH$10,000
THIRD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$7,800
BROCKPORT FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE CENTER FOR YOUTH: $10k → 14%THE CENTER FOR YOUTH: $5k → 14%PIRATE TOY FUND: $160 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$863k · 15 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
15

Total granted

$863k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+43%

Still filing today

33%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthOther

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

  • Rochester Institute of Technology
    8× · 2017–2025 · $250k · revenue +61%
  • The Center for Youth Services Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $15k · revenue +5%
  • TS
    THE SUSAN B ANTHONY HOUSE
    3× · 2019–2022 · $9k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • CT
    CHRIST THE KING CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $4k
  • SJ
    ST JOHN OF ROCHESTER CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
  • TL
    THE LYRIC THEATRE
    one grant, 2019 · $1k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Ctam Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing

We direct collaborative marketing and communications initiatives so our members can achieve greater success by working together, and ultimately better serve the millions of people they engage every day.

2
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
3
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
4
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
5
The Frick Collection

The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.

6
American Museum of the Moving Image

See schedule omuseum of the moving image (momi) is the only museum in the u.s. that explores the central technology of the present moment.screens are all around us. we use them to educate, entertain, and communicate. the moving…

Arts & Culture
7
Carnegie Institute

To preserve and expand the resources of art and science as agents of personal growth and social advancement in pittsburgh and beyond.

Arts & Culture
8
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
9
The Trustees of the New York Society Library

The new york society library was founded in 1754 by the new york society, a civic-minded group formed in the belief that the availability of books would help the city of new york to prosper.

10
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
11
The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations

The mission of the new york public library is to inspire lifelong learning, advance knowledge, and strengthen our communities.

Education
12
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Little Theatre Film Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Library. 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

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 30 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LOLLIPOP FARMS — $272,615 · OtherLOLLIPOP FARMSBROCKPORT FOUNDATION — $75,500 · OtherBROCKPORT FOUNDATIONGEVA THEATER — $70,829 · OtherGEVA THEATERTHIRD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $64,447 · OtherTHIRD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHBOY SCOUTS — $24,445 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $20,200 · Other+16 more — $59,297 · Other+16 moreRochester Institute of Technology — $250,169 · EducationRochester Institute of Technolog…+1 more — $590 · EducationGEORGE EASTMAN MUSEUM — $20,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $350 · Arts & CultureThe Center for Youth Services Inc — $15,000 · Human Services+1 more — $160 · Human ServicesAmerican Heart Association Inc — $100 · HealthCAROLINAEAST FOUNDATION — $30 · Health
Other$587,333Education$250,759Arts & Culture$20,350Human Services$15,160Health$130

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRochester Institute of Technology — $250,169 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGE EASTMAN MUSEUM — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Committee of 200 — $19,093 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetThe Center for Youth Services Inc — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SUSAN B ANTHONY HOUSE — $8,700 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetRochester Childfirst Network — $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY — $590 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LITTLE THEATRE FILM SOCIETY INC — $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPIRATE TOY FUND INC — $160 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAROLINAEAST FOUNDATION — $30 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Rochester Institute of Technology
  • Who funds GEORGE EASTMAN MUSEUM
  • Who funds The Committee of 200
  • Who funds The Center for Youth Services Inc
  • Who funds THE SUSAN B ANTHONY HOUSE
  • Who funds Rochester Childfirst Network
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY
  • Who funds THE LITTLE THEATRE FILM SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds PIRATE TOY FUND INC
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc
  • Who funds CAROLINAEAST FOUNDATION

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.

Rochester Area Community FoundationNY21.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rochester Area Community Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · William & Sheila Konar Foundation · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · Esl Charitable Foundation · Thomas F Judson Jr & Elisabeth W Judson Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 McCue Memorial 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The McCue Memorial Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The McCue Memorial Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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