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The McFamily Charitable Foundation at a glance

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The McFamily Charitable 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.

$14k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Education$118kReligion$25kArts & Culture$16kHealth$11kAnimals$2kPhilanthropy$1kFood & Nutrition$1kHuman Services$1k
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$92k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SCORE MINISTRIES$3,750
WESTMINSTER COLLEGE$2,500
BAY HARBOR CHURCH$1,000
CITY ACADEMY$1,000
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$1,000
TEEN CHALLENGE OF ST LOUIS$1,000
ST LOUIS ZOO$1,000
THE MANNA FOOD PROJECT$1,000
GREAT LAKES CENTER FOR THE ARTS$1,000
CHRIST CHILD SOC OF NO MICH$1,000
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 (FY24–24, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TEEN CHALLENGE OF ST LOUIS: $1k → 9%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

WI
MI
CA
CO
MO
WV
TN
NC
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$167k · 17 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
8

Total granted

$167k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+116%

Still filing today

71%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
EducationPhilanthropyHealthReligionArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther
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

  • WC
    WESTMINSTER COLLEGE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $70k · revenue +5%
  • WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $22k · revenue +76%
  • CA
    CITY ACADEMY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $19k · revenue +97%

Funded once

  • WC
    WEIDENBAUM CENTER WASH U
    one grant, 2019 · $2k
  • CF
    CCVI-CTR FOR THE VISUALLY IMP
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
  • TC
    The Colson Center for Christian Worldviewgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +116%
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
Marquette University

As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.

Education
2
Thomas Jefferson School

Thomas jefferson school engages its students in the education necessary to live as responsible citizens of the world. through the strongest possible college-prepatory program and within a nurturing community, students develop a…

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3
Webster University

Founded in 1915, webster is a private non-profit and global university that is committed to delivering high-quality learning experiences that transform students for global citizenship and individual excellence.

Education
4
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
5
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
6
Teach St Louis

Founded In 2018, Teach St. Louis (formerly St. Louis Teacher Residency) launched to improve teacher quality and retention in St. Louis, a city where 40% of new teachers exit the classroom in their first three years. Teach St. Louis…

Education
7
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
8
John Carroll University

As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…

Education
9
Loyola University

Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…

Education
10
Minneapolis College of Art and Design

Mcad provides a transformative education within a community of support for creative students of all backgrounds to work, collaborate, and lead with confidence in a dynamic, interconnected world.

Education
11
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
12
Minnesota Institute for Talented Youth

Mity's mission is to inspire and challenge intellectually curious students to pursue their passions within a diverse, inclusive community and empower them by building skills and relationships for lifelong success.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc; the most unlike its peers is Score Ministries. 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 27 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
13/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WESTMINSTER COLLEGE: $69,500 · EducationWESTMINSTER COLLEGEWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $22,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITYCITY ACADEMY INC: $18,500 · EducationCITY ACADEMY INC+2 more: $4,500 · EducationCHRIST CHILD SOC OF NO MICH: $6,167 · OtherCHRIST CHILD S…BAY HARBOR CHURCH: $3,100 · OtherBAY HARBOR CHU…UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA-CHAPEL HILL: $3,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF …MCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $2,000 · OtherMCLAREN NORTHE…ST LOUIS ZOO: $2,000 · OtherST LOUIS ZOOVARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ST LOUIS: $2,000 · OtherVARIETY THE CH…WEIDENBAUM CENTER WASH U: $1,500 · OtherWEIDENBAUM CEN…CCVI-CTR FOR THE VISUALLY IMP: $1,000 · OtherTHE MANNA FOOD PROJECT INC DBA - THE MANNA FOOD PROJECT: $1,000 · Other+1 more: $500 · OtherSCORE MINISTRIES: $13,750 · ReligionSCORE MIN…The Colson Center for Christian Worldview: $1,000 · ReligionThe Colso…BAY HARBOR FOUNDATION: $10,900 · PhilanthropySwim Across America Inc: $500 · PhilanthropyVARIETY-THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF THE UNITED STATES: $500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $444 · PhilanthropyKANAWHA VALLEY FELLOWSHIP HOME INC: $3,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $1,500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $250 · HealthGreat Lakes Center for the Arts: $4,200 · Arts & CultureJourney 21 Inc: $1,000 · Housing & ShelterTEEN CHALLENGE OF ST LOUIS INC: $1,000 · Human Services
Education$114,500Other$22,267Religion$14,750Philanthropy$12,344Health$4,750Arts & Culture$4,200Housing & Shelter$1,000Human Services$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWESTMINSTER COLLEGE: $69,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $22,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCITY ACADEMY INC: $18,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSCORE MINISTRIES: $13,750 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetBAY HARBOR FOUNDATION: $10,900 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetGreat Lakes Center for the Arts: $4,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMary Institute and St Louis Country Day School: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKANAWHA VALLEY FELLOWSHIP HOME INC: $3,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetVARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ST LOUIS: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLadue Education Foundation: $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MANNA FOOD PROJECT INC DBA - THE MANNA FOOD PROJECT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Colson Center for Christian Worldview: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJourney 21 Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSwim Across America Inc: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $444 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

DotopiaEdward Jones Foundati…The Blackbaud Giving …American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…The Pfizer Foundation…Morgan Stanley Global…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…
DotopiaMN13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dotopia · Edward Jones Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 McFamily Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The McFamily Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 27 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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