How much did THE MCWATERS FAMILY FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 77% of THE MCWATERS FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k13 grants · $42k
$10k–50k2 grants · $56k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$541k

Total assets

Largest grants

MOSAIC CHURCH$40,000
DUCKS UNLIMITED$16,000
NORFOLK CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$7,100
RECOVERY FOR LIFE$5,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$5,000
TOGO NETWORK$5,000
ROCK THE OCEAN FOUNDATION$5,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTHEAST VIRGINIA$5,000
CHRIST CENTRAL CHURCH$4,200
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES$2,000
CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER OF TIDEWATER$1,000
VIRGINIA BEACH CASA$1,000
TRINITY CHURCH (1DIED4ALL)$1,000
FRIENDS OF PLEIN AIR$500
HOT SPRINGS BAPTIST CHURCH$250

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY19–23, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.4M · 38 repeat orgs$266k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +99% since the first grant, against +49% for the ones you funded once.

38 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.4M

$226k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+99%

+49%

Still filing today

42%

45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyReligionOther

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

TC
THE CHARITY BOWL FOOTBALL GAME
3× · 2017–2019 · $61k · revenue +87%
VB
VIRGINIA BEACH SPCA
3× · 2017–2019 · $30k · revenue +42%
FO
FRIENDS OF THE NORFOLK PUBLIC LIBRARY
4× · 2017–2022 · $18k · revenue +125%

Funded once

UJ
UNITED JEWISH FEDERATION OF TIDEWATERgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $18k · revenue +67%
VE
VIRGINIA EXPERIMENTAL FILM PROJECT
one grant, 2022 · $12k
CB
CHARLES BARKER CHAMPIONS FOR KIDS
one grant, 2021 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Rising Tide Ministries

Rising Tide Ministries helps people find their passion which leads to fulfilled lives, increased quality of life, increased earning potential in addition to offering eternal life through Jesus Christ. We offer a variety of job training…

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Christiana Faith Foundation

Health

Coastside Hope

Coastside hope is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit human service center incorporated in 1976 dedicated to providing emergency food, clothing, rental assistance/shelter and other safety net services to low income coastside residents. our mission is to…

Human Services

Virginia Commonwealth University Foundat

To support the educational,scientific & charitable activities of vcu.

Education

Norfolk Connecticut Childrens Foundation

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College of Charleston Foundation

To promote education, research, and development programs for the exclusive benefit of the college of charleston

Education

Island Breeze Ministries

Outreach via performances and conferences by the organization to share the gospel. to provide support for teachers who teach and train leaders to advance the gospel.

Unclassified

Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation's (CBF) mission is to Save the Bay. See Schedule O.

Environment

United Jewish Community of the Virginia

The ujc is organized for the purpose of uniting and supporting the local, national and international jewish community through the enrichment of their educational, cultural, religious and social lives.

Religion

Carilion Clinic Foundation

Our mission is to improve the health of the communities served by Carilion Clinic through fundraising, grants, and other activities to support patient care, community needs, medical research, and capital needs.

Health

The Timothy Foundation

Philanthropy

Rizing Tide Foundation

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tidewater Friends of Foster Care and the most unlike its peers is Crisis Pregnancy Center of Tidewater. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 38% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%1/51

the rest of the field

11%

5,477/50,417

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.

04the grantee network

46 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

43/46

Grantees still filing

37/46

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,369,869Health$92,800Recreation & Sports$65,500Arts & Culture$54,500Human Services$44,000Philanthropy$35,500Animals$30,000

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.

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.

United Way of South Hampton RoadsVA40.9× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of South Hampton Roads · Hampton Roads Community Foundation · The Charity Bowl Football Game · Sentara Health · The Southeast Virginia Community · Langley for Families - · The Blocker Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Chesapeake Bay Wine Classic Foundation · Beazley Foundation Incorporated · Miller Oil Foundation · Dollar Bank 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 organisation THE MCWATERS FAMILY 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~2 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.2× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 812509880 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 25% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The McWaters Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The McWaters Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE MCWATERS FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

46 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The McWaters Family Foundation?

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THE MCWATERS FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

46 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The McWaters Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph