· Private foundation
The McGrath-Spellman Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $262k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SETON HILL UNIVERSITY | $60,000 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $45,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME | $40,000 |
| CLUB 24 | $25,000 |
| COURAGE TO CAREGIVERS | $25,000 |
| ERNIES LAW FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ST ISABEL CATHOLIC CHURCH | $24,000 |
| JOSEPH'S HOME | $22,000 |
| ST DOMINIC'S CHURCH | $20,000 |
| FISH SANIBEL CAPTAVIA INC | $20,000 |
| OPEN DOORS ACADEMY | $16,000 |
| CLEVELAND FOUNDATION | $9,000 |
| YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED | $6,000 |
| GREAT LAKES THEATER FESTIVAL | $5,800 |
| NOURISHING HOPE | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against -6% for those funded once.
29 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CMCarnegie Mellon University5× · 2020–2024 · $275k · revenue +35%
- SHSETON HALL UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2024 · $116k · revenue +44%
- C2CLUB 24 INC2× · 2022–2024 · $50k · revenue +30% · 28% of their budget
Funded once
- MHMARY'S HOMEone grant, 2021 · $25k
- GCGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INCone grant, 2020 · $17k · revenue -6%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $16k
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.
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.
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…
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…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
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…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
La roche university advances learning informed by ethical and service-oriented values, reflecting its catholic heritage and the charism of the sisters of divine providence.
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…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
Otterbein University is an inclusive community dedicated to educating the whole person in the context of humane values. Our mission is to prepare graduates to think deeply and broadly, to engage locally and globally, and to advance their…
How this is measured
24 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. 24 of the 49 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
- Who funds SETON HALL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds CLUB 24 INC ↗
- Who funds COURAGE TO CAREGIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds JOSEPHS HOME ↗
- Who funds GREAT LAKES THEATER FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOORS INC ↗
- Who funds NOURISHING HOPE ↗
- Who funds YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED ↗
- Who funds Womankind Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PREGNANCY CLINICS INC ↗
- Who funds National Women's Health Network ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds LAUREL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Undies for Everyone ↗
- Who funds DING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · The O'Neill Brothers Foundation · Murphy Family Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation · Fred a Lennon Charitable Trust · Corinne L Dodero Foundation for the Arts and Sciences · The Lozick Family Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The McGrath-Spellman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The McGrath-Spellman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Seton Hall University: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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