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The McMaster Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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The McMaster Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$52k
Granted FY2023
32
Grants FY2023
9
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

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

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

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 2025.

Philanthropy$901kReligion$222kScience & Tech$37kHealth$25kPublic Benefit$18kHuman Services$13kFood & Nutrition$13kHousing & Shelter$11kOther$0
02FY2023 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k30 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $26k
$500
Median grant
9
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
HOME AGAIN ST JOHNS$1,000
BETTY GRIFFIN HOUSE$1,000
THE CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT AND EDUCATION$1,000
EPISCOPAL RELIEF & DEVELOPMENT$1,000
NATIONAL PKU ALLIANCE$500
THE KEELER TAVERN PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC$500
FRIENDS OF THE GTM RESERVE$500
ST FRANCIS HOUSING & CRISIS CENTER$500
St Nicholas Byzantine Catholic Church$500
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Pie In The Sky Community Alliance: $3k → 6%PIE IN THE SKY COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $3k → 6%EPISCOPAL RELIEF & DEVELOPMENT: $1k → 17%Pie In The Sky Community Alliance: $2k → 6%Episcopal Relief & Development: $500 → 17%Pie In The Sky Community Alliance: $1k → 6%Pie in the Sky: $1k → 6%Pie in the Sky: $1k → 6%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $500 → 9%GUIDNG EYES FOR THE BLIND: $500 → 9%HOME AGAIN ST JOHNS: $1k → 6%Ann's Place: $500 → 9%ANN'S PLACE: $500 → 9%ANNS PLACE: $500 → 9%Ann's Place: $200 → 9%Ann's Place: $200 → 9%Ann's Place: $200 → 9%Ann's Place: $200 → 9%HOME AGAIN ST JOHNS: $1k → 6%Home Again St Johns: $1k → 6%Home Again St Johns: $200 → 6%Home Again St Johns: $200 → 6%Home Again St Johns: $200 → 6%Home Again St Johns: $200 → 6%Rides for Ridgefield: $300 → 9%RIDES FOR RIDGEFIELD: $250 → 9%Rides for Ridgefield: $200 → 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

ME
NY
MA
OR
IA
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
VA
DE
NC
DC
FL
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$333k · 47 repeat orgs$31k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
17

Total granted

$333k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+10%

Still filing today

55%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureAnimalsRecreation & SportsEducationOther
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

  • PI
    Pie in the Sky Community Alliance Inc
    7× · 2017–2023 · $12k · revenue +265%
  • NF
    NEWPORT FESTIVALS FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2018–2022 · $5k · revenue +65%
  • TC
    The Center For Empowerment And Education Inc
    7× · 2017–2023 · $4k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • CC
    CHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL
    one grant, 2022 · $11k
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +39%
  • MD
    Mennonite Disaster Relief
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
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
The Connecticut Hospice Inc

In 1974 the connecticut hospice inc., a 501(c)(3) not for profit, founded america's hospice movement, almost 50 years later, we continue to set the national standard for home and inpatient hospice care and have become a leader in…

Human Services
2
Rhode Island Hospital

As a founding hospital in the Brown University Health system, RIH is committed to its mission: Delivering health with care.

Health
3
Ability Beyond Disability Inc

The mission of ability beyond is to discover, build, and celebrate the ability in all people. with approximately 1,100 full-time and part-time employees, ability beyond serves more than 3,000 individuals with disabilities each year.we…

Human Services
4
Als United Connecticut

The mission of the als united connecticut is to provide comprehensive support to improve quality of life for people with als and their families, while advocating for increased support and advancing innovative research for new treatments…

Health
5
Ability Beyond Disability

The mission of ability beyond is to discover, build, and celebrate the ability in all people. with approximately 1,100 full-time and part-time employees, ability beyond serves more than 3,000 individuals with disabilities each year.we…

Health
6
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
7
At Home in Greenwich Inc

Provides greenwich residents professional guidance to meet life's challenges and live confidently in their own homes as they grow old.

Human Services
8
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
9
Hospital for Special Care

Hospital for Special Care is a 236-Bed Rehabilitation and Chronic Disease hospital, serving patients in these primary areas: Inpatient and Outpatient Rehabilitation.

Health
10
Journey Home Inc

Journey home's mission is to ensure a home for all. we believe the most powerful way to do this is collectively - by working together with service providers, elected officials, businesses, and local communities to end homelessness in the…

Human Services
11
Greenwich Hospital

To provide healthcare services.

Health
12
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Connecticut Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 72 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
24/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $897,961 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUNDFirst Congregational Church of Ridgefield: $144,950 · OtherFirst Congregational Churc…Christ Church Serenata: $40,000 · OtherChrist Church SerenataTHE MIT ALUMNI FUND: $35,000 · OtherTHE MIT ALUMNI FUNDCHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL: $11,000 · OtherCHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURC AMONG THE OAKS: $10,000 · Other+49 more: $58,700 · Other+49 morePie in the Sky Community Alliance Inc: $12,025 · Human ServicesHome Again St Johns Inc: $3,800 · Human ServicesEPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT: $2,500 · Human ServicesANNS PLACE INC: $2,300 · Human ServicesGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,000 · Human Services+1 more: $750 · Human ServicesHelp Our Military Heroes Inc: $17,500 · Public BenefitNATIONAL PSORIASIS FOUNDATION: $8,000 · HealthNATIONAL PKU ALLIANCE INC: $1,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CONNECTICUT INC: $700 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $700 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association: $500 · Health+1 more: $100 · HealthNEWPORT FESTIVALS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureKEELER TAVERN: $2,350 · Arts & CultureHISLIGHT INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 · Religion
Community Improvement$897,961Other$299,650Human Services$23,375Public Benefit$17,500Health$11,000Arts & Culture$7,350Religion$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $897,961 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHelp Our Military Heroes Inc: $17,500 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetPie in the Sky Community Alliance Inc: $12,025 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetNATIONAL PSORIASIS FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNEWPORT FESTIVALS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHISLIGHT INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetThe Center For Empowerment And Education Inc: $3,800 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHome Again St Johns Inc: $3,800 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetPEGASUS THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKEELER TAVERN: $2,350 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetANNS PLACE INC: $2,300 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSt Francis House: $1,900 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHousatonic Habitat for Humanity: $1,850 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAlpha-Omega Miracle Home Inc: $1,650 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLEARN TO READ OF ST JOHNS CO INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetHOME INC: $1,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRidgefield Operation for Animal Rescue Inc: $1,300 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetRIDGEFIELD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $1,300 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSt Gerard Campus: $1,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PKU ALLIANCE INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIDES FOR RIDGEFIELD INC: $750 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CONNECTICUT INC: $700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA Inc: $650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS-ON-WHEELS INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ANDREW MCDONOUGH B FOUNDATION: $100 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.

  • 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 The Center For Empowerment And Education Inc ↗
  • Who funds Home Again St Johns 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 HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds Ridgefield Operation for Animal Rescue Inc ↗
  • Who funds RIDGEFIELD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT ↗
  • Who funds St Gerard Campus ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PKU ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗

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.

Ridgefield Thrift Sho…The Goldstone Family …Taylor-Zemo Foundatio…Patrick FoundationGe Aerospace Foundati…Moeller William E & M…Ward Elizabeth Robbin…United Way of St John…Anna-Maria and Stephe…The Pfizer Foundation…The Ayco Charitable F…The Bank of America C…
Ridgefield Thrift Shop IncCT17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 39%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 72 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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