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The McWethy Foundation at a glance

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The McWethy Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$579k
Granted FY2025still arriving
45
Grants FY2025still arriving
17
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% 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
02FY2025 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k19 grants · $65k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $415k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$10,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$8.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CATO INSTITUTE$50,000
TURNING POINT USA$50,000
AMERICAN TRANSPARENCY$30,000
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE$25,000
THE MACKINAC CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY$25,000
THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION$25,000
MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER$25,000
THE HEARTLAND INSTITUTE$25,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$20,000
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$20,000
YOUNG AMERICA'S FOUNDATION$20,000
SEMPER FI AND AMERICA'S FUND$20,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$20,000
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FDN$15,000
HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS$15,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ELDERDAY CENTER: $3k → 8%THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER: $3k → 15%HONOR FLIGHT CHICAGO: $10k → 14%Honor Flight Chicago: $10k → 14%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

IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
RI
CA
MO
KY
VA
AZ
TN
NC
DC
OK
GA
TX
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 51 repeat orgs$379k to everyone else

51 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
35

Total granted

$1.8M
$309k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

47%
6%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’24’25
HealthPublic BenefitEducationHuman ServicesInternationalReligionOther
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

  • TP
    TURNING POINT USA INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $75k · revenue +36%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $35k · revenue +10%
  • FO
    FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $25k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • CC
    CORNELL COLLEGE-SCIENCE FACILITY
    one grant, 2021 · $55k
  • WA
    WHEATON ACADEMY
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -12%
  • SJ
    ST. JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSP
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
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
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
3
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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4
Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education
5
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
6
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
7
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
8
National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health
9
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
10
The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit
11
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
12
Salem Health Hospitals & Clinics

To support salem health, salem health west valley and related organizations.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

39 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. 39 of the 104 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/39
Grantees still filing
19/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CORNELL COLLEGE: $136,500 · OtherCORNELL COLLEGEILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE: $95,000 · OtherILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTEMEDIA RESEARCH CENTER: $88,000 · OtherMEDIA RESEARCH CENTERTHE HEARTLAND INSTITUTE: $85,000 · OtherTHE HEARTLAND INSTITUTETHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $85,000 · OtherTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATIONTURNING POINT USA INC: $75,000 · OtherCORNELL COLLEGE-SCIENCE FACILITY: $55,000 · Other+73 more: $792,750 · Other+73 moreCATO INSTITUTE: $60,000 · Public BenefitCATO INSTITUTETHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE F…ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE: $50,000 · Public BenefitILLINOIS POLIC…MACKINAC CENTER: $50,000 · Public BenefitMACKINAC CENTE…THE HEARTLAND INSTITUTE: $50,000 · Public BenefitTHE HEARTLAND …BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $10,000 · Public Benefit+1 more: $5,000 · Public BenefitAMERICAN TRANSPARENCY: $60,000 · EducationAMERICAN T…WHEATON ACADEMY: $50,000 · EducationWHEATON AC…HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $35,000 · EducationHILLSDALE …STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SI…FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationFOLDS OF H…+1 more: $5,000 · EducationSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $35,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $35,000 · HealthPULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthRonald McDonald House Global: $20,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 · HealthTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $10,000 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $5,000 · Health+1 more: $4,000 · HealthSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $80,000 · ReligionMEDIA RESEARCH CENTER: $50,000 · Arts & CultureHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $25,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$1,412,250Public Benefit$275,000Education$200,000Health$139,000Religion$80,000Arts & Culture$50,000Housing & Shelter$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $80,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN TRANSPARENCY: $60,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMACKINAC CENTER: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HEARTLAND INSTITUTE: $50,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMEDIA RESEARCH CENTER: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWHEATON ACADEMY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTATE POLICY NETWORK: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRonald McDonald House Global: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHonor Flight Chicago Corp: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUSAGA UNITED STATES ADAPTIVE GOLF ALLIANCE: $10,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DUPAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEASTER SEALS DUPAGE & THE FOX VALLEY REGION: $4,000 over 2y, 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 SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
  • Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN TRANSPARENCY ↗
  • Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds MACKINAC CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE HEARTLAND INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds WHEATON ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
  • Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
  • Who funds STATE POLICY NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds PULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Ronald McDonald House Global ↗
  • Who funds Honor Flight Chicago Corp ↗

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…The Dupage Community …Baird Foundation IncRaymond James Charita…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Renaissance Charitabl…Natl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…The Pfizer Foundation…Morgan Stanley Global…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The McWethy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The McWethy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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 104 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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