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The McEwen Family 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.

$190k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
31
Grants FY2025
23
Organizations funded FY2024
30%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
22 to 36
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
10
Total assets, FY2025
$291k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 30% of the organizations The McEwen Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Housing & ShelterEducationHealthPhilanthropyPublic BenefitAnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving31$190k32%
FY202423$92k30%
FY202322$102k23%
FY202228$118k25%
FY202126$125k19%
FY202036$175kn/a
86% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$258kEducation$184kHousing & Shelter$130kInternational$48kYouth Development$45kHealth$20kPublic Safety & Disaster$11kPublic Benefit$9kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
WA
MT
MN
WI
NY
MA
SD
PA
NJ
CA
NE
KY
VA
AZ
NM
NC
DC
MS
AL
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Hopeworks 'N Camden Inc$43,00060%
Christian Brothers Conference - Washington DC$30,0003n/a
Simama International$30,00021%
Christ House$26,00060%
Holy Cross High School of Bayside$25,0004n/a
Xavier Mission Inc$22,00051%
Morris Habitat for Humanity Inc$21,50050%
Spirit of the Lord International Mission$20,50052%
Read Alliance Inc$11,00050%
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital$10,0001n/a
Show all 28 grantees
All grantees of The McEwen Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Hopeworks 'N Camden Inc$43,00060%
Christian Brothers Conference - Washington DC$30,0003n/a
Simama International$30,00021%
Christ House$26,00060%
Holy Cross High School of Bayside$25,0004n/a
Xavier Mission Inc$22,00051%
Morris Habitat for Humanity Inc$21,50050%
Spirit of the Lord International Mission$20,50052%
Read Alliance Inc$11,00050%
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital$10,0001n/a
Marine Corps Coordinating Council- Kentucky Inc$8,0002n/a
Pathways Counseling Center Inc$7,00041%
Cristo Rey New York High School$5,00010%
Family Promise of Morris County Inc$5,00030%
Kino Border Initiative Inc$5,00010%
Carmen Pampa Fund$4,00013%
Paterson Habitat for Humanity Inc Subsidiary$4,00020%
Semper Fi & America's Fund$3,00010%
St Christopher's Inn Inc$2,00010%
St Josephs Indian School$2,0002n/a
Portuguese Water Dog Foundation$2,00021%
The Ctc Academy Inc$2,00010%
Villanova University$1,00010%
St Labre Indian School$1,0001n/a
Father Flanagan's Boys' Home$1,00010%
St Joseph Social Service Center$1,00010%
St Francis Mission$1,00010%
Red Cloud Indian School$1,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($507k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The McEwen Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHopeworks 'N Camden Inc: $43,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSimama International: $30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetChrist House: $26,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetXavier Mission Inc: $22,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetMorris Habitat for Humanity Inc: $21,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSpirit of the Lord International Mission: $20,500 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetRead Alliance Inc: $11,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPathways Counseling Center Inc: $7,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCristo Rey New York High School: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFamily Promise of Morris County Inc: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKino Border Initiative Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCarmen Pampa Fund: $4,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetPaterson Habitat for Humanity Inc Subsidiary: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSemper Fi & America's Fund: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Christopher's Inn Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPortuguese Water Dog Foundation: $2,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetThe Ctc Academy Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVillanova University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Joseph Social Service Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSt Francis Mission: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 21.

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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.

Columbia Bank FoundationNJ19.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Columbia Bank Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Pseg Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Investors Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust

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.

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How do I get to The McEwen Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The McEwen Family 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.

About The McEwen Family Foundation

How much does The McEwen Family Foundation give?
The McEwen Family Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $189,707 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 36 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does The McEwen Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (32%), Education (23%), Housing & Shelter (16%).
Who are The McEwen Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Hopeworks 'N Camden Inc ($43k), Christian Brothers Conference - Washington DC ($30k), Simama International ($30k).
Does The McEwen Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The McEwen Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The McEwen Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Columbia Bank Foundation, The Hyde and Watson Foundation, Pseg Foundation Inc.
Where is The McEwen Family Foundation based?
The McEwen Family Foundation is based in NY.

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 70 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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