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The McGrath Family 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.

$3.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$1.4M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Animals$4.2MRecreation & Sports$3.9MHealth$3.6MEducation$2.5MFood & Nutrition$457kEnvironment$252kHuman Services$139kInternational$124kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $201k
  • $250k+3 grants · $2.8M
$200,930
Median grant
2
States reached
$52M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UC SAN DIEGO HEALTH$1,446,461
UC SAN DIEGO HEALTH$1,056,786
ST MADELEINE SOPHIE'S CENTER$251,002
SAN DIEGO RIVER PARK FOUNDATION$200,930
ST MADELEINE SOPHIE'S CENTER$12,820
GROSSMONT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$10,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$2,500
NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER$1,000
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 (FY20–23, $96k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PEACE HOUSE: $51k → 5%PEACE HOUSE: $20k → 5%MCGRATH FAMILY YMCA: $25k → 11%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.

Which US states your grants reach

NY
NJ
CA
UT
DC
HI
LA
GA
FL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 10% of The McGrath Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 48% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 39% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The McGrath Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.6M · 31 repeat orgs$6.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.

31 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
22

Total granted

$8.6M
$4.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+34%

Still filing today

81%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.5M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsHealthRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • NA
    NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER
    5× · 2020–2024 · $3.4M · revenue +84%
  • SM
    St Madeleine Sophies Center Inc
    4× · 2020–2024 · $847k · revenue +28%
  • CF
    Center for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc
    3× · 2020–2022 · $640k · revenue +112%

Funded once

  • US
    UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $2.5M · revenue +33%
  • HW
    Humane World for Animals Internationalgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $778k · revenue +48%
  • GI
    GREENPEACE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $251k · revenue +10%

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
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for Monterey County

The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…

Animals
2
The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.

Animals
3
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
4
Friends of the Palm SpringsAnimal Shelter

We are dedicated to building a community responsible for pet stewardship and humane treatment of animals.

Animals
5
Sante Dor Foundation

Sante DOr is a no-kill animal adoption center serving the Los Angeles community, predominantly staffed by volunteers.

Animals
6
California Animal Rescue and Education Sanctuary Inc

C.A.R.E.S.MISSION STATEMENT*Rescue, foster and find good homes for abandoned and homeless domestic and farm animals.*Spay/neuter abandoned and homeless cats and dogs, as well as help low income families with same.*Conduct TNR+ programs to…

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7
The California Wildlife Center

The california wildlife center (cwc) takes responsibility for the protection of all native wildlife through rehabilitiation, education and conservation. as the los angeles area's premier wildlife medical care and rehabilitation facility,…

Health
8
World Vets

To improve the health & well-being of animals through veterinary aid, response, training, research & local capacity building worldwide. We provide services to companion animals, horses, street dogs, livestock and marine animals including…

Animals
9
Spot

SPOT Saving Pets One at a Time is a leading San Diego County all-volunteer rescue organization whose main focus is to save dogs and cats in shelters who are at risk of euthanization and to help other dogs and cats in need as well. In…

Animals
10
Spay-Neuter Assistance Program Inc

To prevent the suffering and death of companion animals and to enrich the human-animal bond by providing excellent, accessible, and affordable spay/neuter and veterinary care.

Animals
11
Saving Saluda Strays
Animals
12
The Humane Society of Austin & Travis County Inc

The austin humane society (ahs) offers comprehensive, humane, life-saving animal services, transforming the lives of animals and those who love them. because we believe homeless animals deserve a chance to thrive in a loving environment,…

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Farm Sanctuary Inc and the most unlike its peers is Saving America's Mustangs. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsDevelopmental Disabilities …Women & Girls Leadership De…Equine Therapy ProgramsLocal Food System Organizat…Health Access Advocacy and …Environmental Conservation …Animal Rescue and Shelter
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%27%10–20yr16%39%20–35yr13%15%35–55yr16%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%66%20–35yr13%4%35–55yr16%18%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/48
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,517

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.

05the grantee network

45 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. 45 of the 56 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/45
Grantees still filing
38/45
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UC SAN DIEGO HEALTH — $2,503,247 · OtherUC SAN DIEGO HEALTHSt Madeleine Sophies Center Inc — $846,858 · OtherSt Madeleine Sophies Center IncGREENPEACE INC — $250,805 · OtherGREENPEACE INCCENTER FOR A HUMANE ECONOMY — $205,642 · Other+17 more — $498,865 · Other+17 moreNATIONAL ABILITY CENTER — $3,362,794 · Recreation & SportsNATIONAL ABILITY CENTERThe San Diego River Park Foundation — $522,048 · Recreation & SportsThe San Diego River Park Fou…+1 more — $1,000 · Recreation & SportsHumane World for Animals International — $778,209 · AnimalsHumane World for Animals In…Center for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc — $640,094 · AnimalsCenter for Orangutan & Chim…CHIMP HAVEN INC — $580,539 · AnimalsCHIMP HAVEN INCPROJECT CHIMPS — $505,976 · AnimalsPROJECT CHIMPSBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $305,230 · AnimalsBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETYSOUTH FLORIDA WILDLIFE CENTER INC — $297,804 · AnimalsSOUTH FLORIDA WILDLIFE CENT…SAVE THE CHIMPS INC — $172,064 · Animals+16 more — $471,726 · Animals+16 moreUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION — $2,505,904 · EducationUC SAN DIEGO FOUND…+1 more — $2,000 · EducationTHE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC — $457,177 · Food & NutritionBLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS — $101,055 · HealthPhysicians Committee for Responsible Med — $63,222 · HealthNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION — $25,000 · HealthSharp Healthcare Foundation — $15,000 · HealthGrossmont Hospital Foundation — $10,000 · HealthJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC — $123,716 · International
Other$4,305,417Recreation & Sports$3,885,842Animals$3,751,642Education$2,507,904Food & Nutrition$457,177Health$214,277International$123,716

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 budgetNATIONAL ABILITY CENTER — $3,362,794 over 5y, 19% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION — $2,505,904 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSt Madeleine Sophies Center Inc — $846,858 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetHumane World for Animals International — $778,209 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetCenter for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc — $640,094 over 3y, 8.2% of budgetCHIMP HAVEN INC — $580,539 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetThe San Diego River Park Foundation — $522,048 over 3y, 10% of budgetPROJECT CHIMPS — $505,976 over 4y, 7.7% of budgetTHE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC — $457,177 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $305,230 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA WILDLIFE CENTER INC — $297,804 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetGREENPEACE INC — $250,805 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSAVE THE CHIMPS INC — $172,064 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC — $123,716 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetLIONS TIGERS AND BEARS — $117,150 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc — $102,618 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS — $101,055 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetMERCY FOR ANIMALS INC — $81,148 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPeace House Inc — $71,148 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetAsia Wild — $70,310 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetPhysicians Committee for Responsible Med — $63,222 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetEAST COUNTY ANIMAL RESCUE — $28,000 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF EAST CO INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHORSES OF TIR NA NOG — $20,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetSharp Healthcare Foundation — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFARM SANCTUARY INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTRAY CAT ALLIANCE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNAIOP SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetGrossmont Hospital Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREYHOUND ADOPTION CENTER — $9,500 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF CATS INC — $6,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFERAL CAT COALITION — $4,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFriends of Humane Services in Tijuana — $2,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetANIMAL RECOVERY MISSION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetARM SANCTUARY INC — $2,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSPAY-NEUTER ACTION PROJECT — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAVING AMERICA'S MUSTANGS — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADVOCATS INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCALIFORNIA WOLF CENTER — $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF COAST WALK TRAIL INC — $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSAN DIEGO SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY — $69 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.

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.

Laurie C McGrath Foun…Sempra FoundationJewish Community Foun…Walter J & Betty C Za…Thornton S Jr and Kat…Rancho Santa Fe Found…David C Copley Founda…The San Diego Foundat…Paul and Lea Levine F…The Cushman FoundationThe Conrad Prebys Fou…The Intuit Foundation
Laurie C McGrath FoundationCA41.2× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Laurie C McGrath Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · Paul and Lea Levine Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · The Intuit 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 McGrath 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    5get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The McGrath Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The McGrath 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.

    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 56 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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