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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $86k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $104k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SIMAMA INTERNATIONAL | $25,000 |
| SAINT MARY'S CATHOLIC CHURCH | $24,007 |
| BROOME ST ACADEMY | $15,000 |
| HOLY CROSS HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| XAVIER MISSION | $10,000 |
| XAVIER HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| SPIRIT OF THE LORD INTERNATIONAL MISSION | $8,000 |
| MORRIS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $7,500 |
| CHRIST HOUSE | $7,000 |
| READ ALLIANCE | $6,000 |
| HOPEWORKS OF CAMDEN | $5,000 |
| CHRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| MARINE CORPS COORDINATING COUNCIL OF KENTUCKY | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–22, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +26% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- H'HOPEWORKS 'N CAMDEN INC6× · 2020–2025 · $43k · revenue +275%
- CHChrist House6× · 2020–2025 · $26k · revenue +1%
- XMXAVIER MISSION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $22k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $5k
- KBKINO BORDER INITIATIVE INCone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +22%
- SFSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUNDone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +14%
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.
We, st. joseph's medical and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. st. joseph's medical is a member of st. joseph's health and trinity health.
We, st. joseph's physician health and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education
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. samaritan hospital is a member of st. peter's health partners and…
As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
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.
St. Mary's Center for Women and Children (SMC), a multi-service organization supporting women, children, and families, believes shelter is not enough to erase the devastation of cyclical poverty and homelessness.Grounded in social justice,…
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Paterson Habitat for Humanity Inc Subsidiary and the most unlike its peers is Spirit of the Lord International Mission. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
23 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. 23 of the 70 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 HOPEWORKS 'N CAMDEN INC ↗
- Who funds SIMAMA INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Christ House ↗
- Who funds XAVIER MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds MORRIS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds Spirit of the Lord International Mission ↗
- Who funds READ ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds MARINE CORPS COORDINATING COUNCIL- KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS COUNSELING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY NEW YORK HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF MORRIS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds KINO BORDER INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds PATERSON HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC SUBSIDIARY ↗
- Who funds Carmen Pampa Fund ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds Portuguese Water Dog 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.
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
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 McEwen Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Family Promise of Morris County Inc — 17% 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.
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