Connecticut · Private foundation
The McInerney Family Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $6.1M
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 40
- Grants FY2026
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 55%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $1,390,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 29
- FY2019 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 10
- Total assets, FY2026
- $4.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 55% of the organizations The McInerney Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 40 | $6.1M | 43% |
| FY2025 | 29 | $3.9M | 55% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $4.5M | 80% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $783k | 60% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $60k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $95k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $49k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $84k | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Foundations in Education Inc | $3,935,940 | 6 | 20% |
| Domus Kids Inc | $3,064,000 | 5 | 11% |
| St Johns Bread & Life Program Inc | $1,801,000 | 4 | 12% |
| Invest in Education Foundation Inc | $1,000,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Bridgeport Rescue Mission Inc | $432,940 | 3 | 3% |
| Little Sisters of the Assumption Family Health Service Inc | $425,000 | 2 | 9% |
| New York Pops Inc | $325,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Friends of Amani US Inc | $300,000 | 2 | 17% |
| Read to Grow Inc | $257,500 | 8 | 4% |
| St John's University New York | $235,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 51 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The McInerney Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 34 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Arts · Newman's Own Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Inner-City Foundation for Charity & Education Inc · Ernest and Joan Trefz Foundation · The John and Ethel Kashulon Foundation · The Near and Far Association Inc · Peoples United Community Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund
How this is measured
About The McInerney Family Foundation
- How much does The McInerney Family Foundation give?
- The McInerney Family Foundation reported 40 grants totaling $6,103,111 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 29 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
- What does The McInerney Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (44%), Food & Nutrition (20%), Youth Development (20%).
- Who are The McInerney Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: Foundations in Education Inc ($3.9M), Domus Kids Inc ($3.1M), St Johns Bread & Life Program Inc ($1.8M).
- Does The McInerney Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 55% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The McInerney 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 McInerney Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc, The Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Arts, Newman's Own Foundation.
- Where is The McInerney Family Foundation based?
- The McInerney Family Foundation is based in CT.
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