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THE PHILIP G McCARTHEY FAMILY FOUNDATION at a glance

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THE PHILIP G McCARTHEY FAMILY 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.

$65k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$89kHealth$29kArts & Culture$16kCrime & Legal$10kInternational$10kFood & Nutrition$8kAnimals$6kCivil Rights$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$883k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Rowland Hall St Mark's School$55,000
The Alta Club Building Foundation Inc$6,000
University of Utah$1,000
Utah's Hogle Zoo$1,000
Georgetown University$1,000
Jesuits West$500
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 (FY22–22, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Life Lifted Charities: $5k → 6%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.
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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$132k · 10 repeat orgs$51k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against -7% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
13

Total granted

$132k
$42k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
-7%

Still filing today

80%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalCrime & LegalOther
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

  • RH
    ROWLAND HALL-ST MARK'S SCHOOL
    3× · 2022–2025 · $70k · revenue +59%
  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2017–2025 · $11k · revenue +47%
  • SF
    SOBRIETY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2024 · $10k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • CF
    Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
    one grant, 2024 · $6k
  • EU
    EQUALITY UTAH
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -117%
  • LL
    Life Lifted Charities
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -94%
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
Utah World Trade Center

World trade center utah accelerates growth for utah companies through our global networks, programs, and services.

Community Improvement
2
BioUtah

BioUtah was created to elevate the stature and influence of Utahs life science community on the national and global stage. The organization serves Utahs medical device, biopharma, natural products and healthcare industries through…

Community Improvement
3
Utah Valley Chamber of Commerce

Stimulate local business establishment, growth, and development by facilitating business to business and business to community relationships throughout Utah County.

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4
One Utah Health Collaborative

The organization's purpose is focused on improving and advancing health care in utah to be more affordable, with better health outcomes by accelerating, enabling and promoting healthcare innovation.

Health
5
Southwest Utah Community Health Center

Making lives better in southwest utah by providing accessible, quality health care, regardless of financial, language, or cultural barriers.

Health
6
Utah Health Policy Project

To advance sustainable health care solutions for underserved utahns through better access, education, and public policy.

Health
7
Utah Humanities Council

Utah Humanities collaborates with libraries, museums, historical societies, schools, colleges, and cultural and civic groups; provides capacity-building opportunities for volunteers and professionals in the cultural sector; presents…

Arts & Culture
8
Urban Indian Center of Salt Lake

To serve The People by honoring Native cultures, strengthening health and wellness programs, and cultivating community. We envision all Native peoples living balanced, prosperous, and healthy lives in diverse communities for Seven…

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9
Utah Medical Association

The Utah Medical Association is a professional resource for member physicians providing educational opportunities and dissemination of medical knowledge and practices.

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10
University of Utah Foundation

Provide support to the University of Utah Growth Capital Partners Foundation in Charitable, Educational and Scientific purposes.

Philanthropy
11
Utah Donor Collaborative

Democracy Means Equality, Freedom & Justice: It means having a representative government. UDC is here to transform Utah politics and ensure that every voice counts.

—
12
Utah State Fair Corporation

The Utah State Fair Corporation was established to preserve Utah's heritage, meet tomorrow's future today, and showcase agriculture and innovative technology.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Equality Utah; the most unlike its peers is The Salt Lake City Police Foundation. 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

19 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. 19 of the 27 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
9/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROWLAND HALL-ST MARK'S SCHOOL: $70,176 · EducationROWLAND HALL-ST MARK'S SCHOOLGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $11,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYCORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY: $4,200 · EducationUTAH FOOD BANK: $7,500 · OtherUTAH FOOD BANKCystic Fibrosis Foundation: $5,500 · OtherCystic Fibrosis Foundatio…School of Rock Sandy: $3,000 · OtherSchool of Rock SandyALTA CLUB: $2,500 · OtherALTA CLUBDick Vitale Foundation: $2,500 · OtherDick Vitale FoundationCOUNTRY CLUB CARES FOUNDATION: $2,500 · OtherCOUNTRY CLUB CARES FOUNDA…CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF UTAH: $2,500 · OtherCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVIC…BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SALT LAKE: $2,000 · OtherJAMBO TANZANIA INC: $5,000 · OtherJAMBO TANZANIA INCHUMANE SOCIETY OF UTAH: $5,000 · OtherHUMANE SOCIETY OF UTAH+3 more: $2,500 · Other+3 moreSOBRIETY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthSOBRIETY FOU…Wasatch Homeless Health Care: $7,500 · HealthWasatch Home…AUTISM SPEAKS INC: $1,000 · HealthMaliheh Free Clinic: $1,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 · HealthTHE ALTA CLUB BUILDING FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ALTA …SALT LAKE ACTING COMPANY: $5,000 · Arts & CultureSALT LAKE…SPOKANE HOOPFEST ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureSPOKANE H…The Salt Lake City Police Foundation: $10,000 · Crime & LegalEQUALITY UTAH: $5,000 · Civil RightsLife Lifted Charities: $5,000 · Human Services
Education$85,376Other$40,500Health$20,500Arts & Culture$16,000Crime & Legal$10,000Civil Rights$5,000Human Services$5,000

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 budgetROWLAND HALL-ST MARK'S SCHOOL: $70,176 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOBRIETY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetThe Salt Lake City Police Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWasatch Homeless Health Care: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSALT LAKE ACTING COMPANY: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEQUALITY UTAH: $5,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetLife Lifted Charities: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetJAMBO TANZANIA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF UTAH: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPOKANE HOOPFEST ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY: $4,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALTA CLUB: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SALT LAKE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaliheh Free Clinic: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 over 1y, 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.

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.

McCarthey Family Foun…Sorenson Legacy Found…The Community Foundat…Semnani Family Founda…Lawrence & Janet Dee …Larry H Miller and Ga…George S and Dolores …The Diane and Sam Ste…John and Marcia Price…Herbert I & Elsa B Mi…Kanter Family Foundat…Hemingway Foundation
McCarthey Family FoundationUT22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: McCarthey Family Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Semnani Family Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · The Diane and Sam Stewart Family Foundation · John and Marcia Price Family Foundation · Herbert I & Elsa B Michael Foundation US Bank National Association · Kanter Family Foundation · Hemingway Foundation

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 PHILIP G McCARTHEY FAMILY FOUNDATION funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from THE PHILIP G McCARTHEY FAMILY FOUNDATION. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to THE PHILIP G McCARTHEY FAMILY FOUNDATION?

    Find your warmest path to THE PHILIP G McCARTHEY FAMILY FOUNDATION through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 27 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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