· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY | $2,000 |
| SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND | $2,000 |
| THE 1162 FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| DR GARY BURNSTEIN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC | $2,000 |
| WISE READERS TO LEADERS | $2,000 |
| ST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $1,500 |
| ST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $1,500 |
| CHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ORANGE COAST | $1,000 |
| SHARE OURSELVES | $1,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 18% of The McShane Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TBTHE BEATING THE ODDS FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $73k · revenue +25%
- 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%
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.
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…
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 17 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 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 THE 1162 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WISE READERS TO LEADERS ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds DR GARY BURNSTEIN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The McShane Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The McShane Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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