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The McShane Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $23k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BEATING THE ODDS FOUNDATION | $22,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| THIRD STREET ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN | $3,000 |
| WINDWOOD FARM HOME FOR CHILDREN INC | $2,500 |
| THE 1162 FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY | $2,000 |
| SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND | $2,000 |
| DR GARY BURNSTEIN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC | $2,000 |
| WISE READERS TO LEADERS | $2,000 |
| ST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $1,500 |
| ST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ORANGE COAST | $1,000 |
| CHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC | $1,000 |
| SHARE OURSELVES | $1,000 |
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 (FY24–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 60% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 18% of The McShane 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.
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.
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.
13 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- TBTHE BEATING THE ODDS FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $73k · revenue +42%
- WFWindwood Farm Home For Children Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $9k · revenue +29%
- SFSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND3× · 2023–2025 · $8k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- SJST JOHN CHRYSOSTOM EPISCOPAL SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $3k
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICAgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $500 · revenue +35%
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.
To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as caring, responsible, productive citizens.
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
To improve the quality of life for the diverse communities we serve providing affordable and comprehensive healthcare and education in a welcoming multi-cultural environment.
At the sacramento children's home, we are committed to opening doors to the future by maximizing the potential of children and families.
New alternatives, inc. is committed to providing abused and negelected youth with hope and opportunities through a comprehensive array of social, residential and mental health services that we provide in san diego and orange county.
Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.
Providing care, counsel, and coaching for children, teens, adults - and their families.
The organization provides primary medical, behavior health, and dental care to the population of san joaquin, and solano counties without regard to patients' ability to pay.
To transform lives and communities by providing an array of programs, all directed toward changing the lives of children in the foster care system aimed to prevent academic failure, drug abuse, teen pregnancy, sex trafficking,…
The gold foundation champions humanism in healthcare, which we define as clinically excellent care that is kind, safe, and trustworthy. this gold standard of care embraces all and targets barriers to such care. we empower experts,…
Provides primary care, oral health, and behavioral health care, including health education to the community without regard to the ability to pay for services.
To deliver the highest quality of health care with the focus on the underserved and low income population of el monte, pico rivera, pomona, van nuys, woodland hills and long beach ca. the goal is to create healthy and happy families by…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Share Our Selves Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Dr Gary Burnstein Community Health Clinic. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 17 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 THE BEATING THE ODDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Windwood Farm Home For Children Inc ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds CHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds DR GARY BURNSTEIN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC ↗
- Who funds WISE READERS TO LEADERS ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE 1162 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ORANGE COAST ↗
- Who funds THIRD STREET ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Share Our Selves Corporation ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
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: American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 McShane 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.
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.
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