· Private foundation
The McMaster Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of The McMaster Family Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The McMaster Family Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 19 organizations, $52k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k30 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $26k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| First Congregational Church of Ridgefield | $16,250 |
| CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURC AMONG THE OAKS | $10,000 |
| THE MIT ALUMNI FUND | $5,000 |
| Pie In The Sky Community Alliance | $2,500 |
| HELP OUR MILITARY HEROES | $2,000 |
| National Psorisis Foundation | $1,500 |
| EPISCOPAL RELIEF & DEVELOPMENT | $1,000 |
| BETTY GRIFFIN HOUSE | $1,000 |
| THE CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT AND EDUCATION | $1,000 |
| HOME AGAIN ST JOHNS | $1,000 |
| EVELYN C PEELER CHILDRENS HOLIDAY GIFT FUND | $500 |
| REGIONAL HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE CENTER | $500 |
| ALPHA OMEGA MIRICLE HOME | $500 |
| LEARN TO READ OF ST JOHNS COUNTY | $500 |
| HOME INC | $500 |
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 (FY17–23, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +27% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
47 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2023, 22 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2023, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- PIPie in the Sky Community Alliance Inc7× · 2017–2023 · $12k · revenue +265%
- NFNEWPORT FESTIVALS FOUNDATION INC5× · 2018–2022 · $5k · revenue +60%
- HAHome Again St Johns Inc7× · 2017–2023 · $4k · revenue +318%
Funded once
- CCCHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPALone grant, 2022 · $11k
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +39%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $1k
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.
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To provide healthcare services.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Connecticut Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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 35 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 72 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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds Help Our Military Heroes Inc ↗
- Who funds Pie in the Sky Community Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PSORIASIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT FESTIVALS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HISLIGHT INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Home Again St Johns Inc ↗
- Who funds The Center For Empowerment And Education Inc ↗
- Who funds PEGASUS THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC ↗
- Who funds EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds KEELER TAVERN ↗
- Who funds ANNS PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds St Francis House ↗
- Who funds Housatonic Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds Alpha-Omega Miracle Home Inc ↗
- Who funds LEARN TO READ OF ST JOHNS CO INC ↗
- Who funds Ridgefield Operation for Animal Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds RIDGEFIELD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT ↗
- Who funds HOME INC ↗
- Who funds St Gerard Campus ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PKU ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
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: Ridgefield Thrift Shop Inc · The Goldstone Family Foundation · Taylor-Zemo Foundation Inc · Patrick Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Moeller William E & Mary E Chartiable Trust · Ward Elizabeth Robbins Charitable Tr · United Way of St Johns County Inc · Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation Inc C/O Joel E Sammet & Co LLP · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 McMaster Family Foundation Inc 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.
- Alpha-Omega Miracle Home Inc — 46% of income from government
- Rides for Ridgefield Inc — 39% of income from government
- Home Again St Johns Inc — 0% 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.