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The Robert McCormack Family Charitable

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$886k
Granted FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$150k
Largest
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 2024.

Arts & Culture$525kHealth$457kEducation$432kEnvironment$318kCommunity Improvement$293kScience & Tech$138kPhilanthropy$92kRecreation & Sports$91kOther$0
02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $230k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $625k
$10,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOTCHKISS SCHOOL$150,000
NAVAL SEAL FOUNDATION$150,000
EVERGLADES FOUNDATION$125,000
HOOVER INSTITUTION$50,000
PTA OF LILLIE DEVEREAUX BLAKE SCHOOL$50,000
BMQR NYYC AMERICAN MAGIC (NEW YORK YACHT$50,000
HOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST$50,000
NAVAL INSTITUTE FOUNDATION$37,500
WORLD FORUM AGI 2024$27,000
NY YC FOUNDATION (NEW YORK YACHT CLUB$25,000
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL DGV$25,000
SHIRLEY RYAN ABILITY LAB$25,000
WESTERLY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$10,000
REDDING LAND TRUST INC$10,000
HSS FOUNDATION (HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL$10,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY24–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 50% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL DGV: $25k → 16%THE METROPOLITAN CLUB: $5k → 17%HOOVER INSTITUTION: $50k → 14%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY: $2k → 10%MALTZ JUPITER THEATRE INC: $7k → 11%EVERGLADES FOUNDATION: $125k → 15%GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INSTITUTE: $10k → 19%HOTCHKISS SCHOOL: $150k → 9%UNC COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE: $10k → 13%WESTERLY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%NAVAL WAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%RHODE ISLAND PBS FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%SHIRLEY RYAN ABILITY LAB: $25k → 14%KENT PLACE SCHOOL: $10k → 10%NAVAL SEAL FOUNDATION: $150k → 10%NAVAL INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $38k → 6%HSS FOUNDATION (HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL: $10k → 17%HOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST: $50k → 10%JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%WEEKAPAUG FOUNDATION CONSERVATION: $10k → 7%PTA OF LILLIE DEVEREAUX BLAKE SCHOOL: $50k → 17%CHRIST MEMORIAL CHAPEL: $6k → 10%FAU WILKES HONOR COLLEGE (FLORIDA: $5k → 11%WATCH HILL CONSERVANCY: $4k → 7%BMQR NYYC AMERICAN MAGIC (NEW YORK YACHT: $50k → 17%BANNER LAKE CLUB: $600 → 10%WORLD FORUM AGI 2024: $27k → 11%WEEKAPAUG CHAPEL SOCIETY: $1k → 7%NY YC FOUNDATION (NEW YORK YACHT CLUB: $25k → 17%WESTERLY LIBRARY & WILCOX PARK: $500 → 7%WESTERLY ARMORY RESTORATION: $200 → 7%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
NY
MA
NJ
CT
RI
VA
MD
NC
DC
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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 32 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

32 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
48

Total granted

$1.6M
$344k

Still filing today

0%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $836k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentPhilanthropyHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • MG
    Massachusetts General Hospital
    4× · 2019–2022 · $375k
  • AE
    American Enterprise Institute
    4× · 2019–2023 · $200k
  • HS
    Hobe Sound Community Chest
    4× · 2020–2023 · $175k

Funded once

  • UO
    U of C Booth School of Business
    one grant, 2021 · $60k
  • FM
    Field Museum
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • TU
    The United Theatre
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
Us Naval Academy Foundation Inc

To support, promote, and advance the mission of the naval academy.

Education
4
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
5
Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech
6
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
7
North Shore Health System Medical Faculty Group Practice

North shore health system medical faculty group practice (the corporation) functions as an extension of the northwell health hospitals by bringing medical care to community settings, providing care to medicare, medicaid, and other…

Health
8
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
9
The Institute for Law and Strategy

This institute, unlike many institutions concerned with law and public affairs, will not devote itself to advocacy or lobbying, to litigation, or to holding large-scale public events. rather, it will focus on collaboration with established…

Civil Rights
10
Harvard Club of Washington Dc

To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.

Education
11
Mount Sinai Medical Center of Florida Inc

To provide high quality health care to our diverse community enhanced through teaching, research, charity care and financial responsibility.

Health
12
Great Harbor Yacht Club Foundation Inc

The purpose of the corporation is to act as a not-for-profit organization with a primary mission of promoting the health of nantucket islands harbor and its marine ecosystem. the corporation will work with the nantucket department of…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Naval Institute Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. 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 111 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
11/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Massachusetts General Hospital: $375,000 · OtherMassachusetts General HospitalAmerican Enterprise Institute: $200,000 · OtherAmerican Enterprise InstituteHobe Sound Community Chest: $175,000 · OtherHobe Sound Community ChestEverglades Foundation: $127,200 · OtherEverglades FoundationNaval Institute Foundation: $125,000 · OtherNaval Institute FoundationPTA of Lillie Devereaux Blake School: $100,000 · OtherChicago Booth Annual Fund: $87,500 · Other+87 more: $1,023,950 · Other+87 moreTHE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL: $150,000 · EducationNAVAL WAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationKENT PLACE SCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · Arts & CultureMALTZ JUPITER THEATRE INC: $7,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $1,200 · Arts & CultureTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 · EnvironmentRedding Land Trust Inc: $10,000 · Environment+1 more: $3,500 · EnvironmentHOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $10,000 · PhilanthropyRehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $25,000 · HealthTHE WESTERLY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · HealthGOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INSTITUTE: $10,000 · Civil RightsBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY: $1,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BANNER LAKE CLUB INC: $600 · Youth Development
Other$2,213,650Education$170,000Arts & Culture$158,200Environment$138,500Philanthropy$60,000Health$35,000Civil Rights$10,000Youth Development$2,100

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 budgetTHE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE NAVAL INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $37,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAVAL WAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WESTERLY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetKENT PLACE SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRedding Land Trust Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMALTZ JUPITER THEATRE INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE METROPOLITAN CLUB INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WATCH HILL CONSERVANCY: $3,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN STATE MEDIA GROUP: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BANNER LAKE CLUB INC: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERLY ARMORY RESTORATION INC: $200 over 1y, 0.1% 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 THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NAVAL INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds NAVAL WAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INSTITUTE ↗

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.

Amica Companies FoundationRI12.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amica Companies Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Robert McCormack Family Charitable funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robert McCormack Family Charitable. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Boys & Girls Club of Martin County: 2% of income from government
  • The Banner Lake Club Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
3report 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 111 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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