How much does The McWethy Foundation give?

The McWethy Foundation reported 45 grants totaling $579,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 33 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.

What does The McWethy Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (19%), Education (10%), Health (9%).

Who are The McWethy Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Samaritan's Purse ($80k), Turning Point USA Inc ($75k), Cato Institute ($60k).

Does The McWethy Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 94% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The McWethy Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The McWethy Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, The Dupage Community Foundation, Baird Foundation Inc.

Where is The McWethy Foundation based?

The McWethy Foundation is based in TX.

Foundation Dossiers

Texas · Private foundation

The McWethy Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$579k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 45
Grants FY2025: 32
Organizations funded FY2024: 94%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $10,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $50,000
Organizations funded a year: 28 to 33; FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 17
Total assets, FY2025: $8.3M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 94% of the organizations The McWethy Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 97% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $487k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Public BenefitHealthEducationReligionArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	43	$557k	35%
FY2024	32	$502k	94%
FY2021	28	$368k	21%
FY2020	33	$369k	64%
FY2019	29	$344k	n/a

94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Public Benefit$646kEducation$345kHealth$297kArts & Culture$230kHuman Services$158kInternational$88kCivil Rights$79kSocial Science$65kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Samaritan's Purse	$80,000	2	0%
Turning Point USA Inc	$75,000	2	0%
Cato Institute	$60,000	2	0%
American Transparency	$60,000	2	1%
The Heritage Foundation	$50,000	2	0%
Illinois Policy Institute	$50,000	2	0%
Mackinac Center	$50,000	2	0%
The Heartland Institute	$50,000	2	1%
Media Research Center	$50,000	2	0%
Wheaton Academy	$50,000	1	0%

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All grantees of The McWethy Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Samaritan's Purse	$80,000	2	0%
Turning Point USA Inc	$75,000	2	0%
Cato Institute	$60,000	2	0%
American Transparency	$60,000	2	1%
The Heritage Foundation	$50,000	2	0%
Illinois Policy Institute	$50,000	2	0%
Mackinac Center	$50,000	2	0%
The Heartland Institute	$50,000	2	1%
Media Research Center	$50,000	2	0%
Wheaton Academy	$50,000	1	0%
Semper Fi & America's Fund	$35,000	2	0%
Young America's Foundation	$35,000	2	0%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc	$35,000	2	0%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation	$25,000	2	0%
Folds of Honor Foundation	$25,000	2	0%
Homes for Our Troops Inc	$25,000	2	0%
State Policy Network	$20,000	2	0%
Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation	$20,000	2	0%
Ronald McDonald House Global	$20,000	2	0%
Honor Flight Chicago Corp	$20,000	2	1%
Barry Goldwater Institute for Public Policy Research	$10,000	2	0%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Spring Creek Horses Help Foundation	$10,000	2	n/a
Smile Train Inc	$10,000	2	0%
The Shriners' Hospital for Children	$10,000	1	0%
Usaga United States Adaptive Golf Alliance	$10,000	2	1%
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc	$10,000	2	0%
Prager University Foundation	$5,000	1	0%
Judicial Watch Inc	$5,000	1	n/a
Shriners Hospitals for Children	$5,000	1	0%
Easter Seals Dupage & the Fox Valley Region	$4,000	2	0%
Kids Alive International Inc	$2,500	1	n/a
Wayside Cross Ministries	$2,500	1	n/a
Pine Cove Inc	$2,500	1	n/a
Elderday Center	$2,500	1	n/a
Team Rubicon Inc	$2,500	1	n/a
K9s for Warriors Inc	$2,500	1	n/a
Hope International	$2,500	1	n/a
Therapeutic Equestrian Center	$2,500	1	n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 62 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The McWethy Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 29.

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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.

The Chicago Community TrustIL17× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · The Dupage Community Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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.

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About The McWethy Foundation

How much does The McWethy Foundation give?: The McWethy Foundation reported 45 grants totaling $579,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 33 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does The McWethy Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (19%), Education (10%), Health (9%).
Who are The McWethy Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Samaritan's Purse ($80k), Turning Point USA Inc ($75k), Cato Institute ($60k).
Does The McWethy Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 94% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The McWethy Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The McWethy Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, The Dupage Community Foundation, Baird Foundation Inc.
Where is The McWethy Foundation based?: The McWethy Foundation is based in TX.