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The Ruby McCoy 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.

$71k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$169kHuman Services$163kPublic Safety & Disaster$85kPublic Benefit$76kFood & Nutrition$30kPhilanthropy$28kRecreation & Sports$20kCommunity Improvement$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$356k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FULL CIRLCE FOUNDATION$20,000
CARTIER'S COMFORT CENTER$10,000
GROSSE POINTE ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION$10,000
THE HELM AT BOLL LIFE CENTER$8,600
JAMIE DANIELS FOUNDATION$5,000
MIDWEST MINIATURE PINSCHER RESCUE$5,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$5,000
ST JOHN'S HOSPITAL GUILD$5,000
JT MESTDAGH FOUNDATION$2,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $140k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $10k → 21%MARTHA T BERRY FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%MICHIGAN CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC: $5k → 21%KIDS ON THE GO: $5k → 10%MICHIGAN CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC: $5k → 21%KIDS ON THE GO: $5k → 10%FULL CIRLCE FOUNDATION: $20k → 21%FULL CIRLCE FOUNDATION: $14k → 21%FULL CIRLCE FOUNDATION: $8k → 21%FULL CIRLCE FOUNDATION: $6k → 21%FULL CIRLCE FOUNDATION: $6k → 21%FULL CIRLCE FOUNDATION: $5k → 21%FULL CIRLCE FOUNDATION: $5k → 21%FULL CIRLCE FOUNDATION: $5k → 21%SERVICES FOR OLDER CITIZENS: $27k → 21%SERVICES FOR OLDER CITIZENS: $10k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — 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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$557k · 17 repeat orgs$71k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
9

Total granted

$557k
$61k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
0%

Still filing today

65%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyFood & NutritionEducationPublic BenefitOther

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

  • FC
    FULL CIRCLE FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $68k · revenue ×13
  • SF
    SERVICES FOR OLDER CITIZENS INC DBA THE HELM AT THE BOLL LIFE CENTER
    2× · 2017–2018 · $37k · revenue +55%
  • GC
    GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN
    3× · 2019–2023 · $30k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • LIFE REMODELED
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
  • POPE FRANCIS CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -1%
  • GP
    GROSSE POINTE PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $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.

1
Michigan First Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
2
The Gibson Family Foundation
Philanthropy
3
The Justin Gimelstob Children's Fund
Philanthropy
4
The Goss-Michael Foundation
Arts & Culture
5
Mittens for Detroit Inc

Collection of new unused mittens to be distributed to those in need in the detroit, michigan and other nearby underserved cities.

Human Services
6
Dte Beacon Park Foundation
Recreation & Sports
7
Glenview Mercury Family Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of Michigan

Providing patient support, community connections, education and advocacy.

Health
9
Gibson Gives Foundation Dba Gibson Gives
Philanthropy
10
Michigan Kindness Foundation

To reduce the impact of poverty and other economic hardship to individuals and families, generally within the detroit metropolitan area.

Philanthropy
11
Friends of Jacob

To provide support for families with autistic children in the state of michigan by issuing grants for financial support and hosting events for families to share their experiences and challenges associated with raising an autistic child.

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12
Mertz Gilmore Foundation
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Midwest Miniature Pinscher Rescue. 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

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
14/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE HELM AT BOLL LIFE CENTER — $95,100 · OtherTHE HELM AT BOLL LIFE CENTERTHE AMERICAN RED CROSS — $75,000 · OtherTHE AMERICAN RED CROSSGROSSE POINTE ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION — $50,500 · OtherGROSSE POINTE ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATIONST JOHN'S HOSPITAL GUILD — $45,000 · OtherST JOHN'S HOSPITAL GUILDJAMIE DANIELS FOUNDATION — $25,000 · OtherJAMIE DANIELS FOUNDATIONMIDWEST MINIATURE PINSCHER RESCUE — $15,000 · Other+9 more — $59,500 · Other+9 moreFULL CIRCLE FOUNDATION INC — $68,000 · Human ServicesFULL CIRCLE FOUNDATION IN…SERVICES FOR OLDER CITIZENS INC DBA THE HELM AT THE BOLL LIFE CENTER — $37,000 · Human ServicesSERVICES FOR OLDER CITIZE…POPE FRANCIS CENTER — $10,000 · Human ServicesPOPE FRANCIS CENTERKIDS ON THE GO — $10,000 · Human ServicesKIDS ON THE GOMICHIGAN CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesMICHIGAN CHILDREN'S LAW C…MARTHA T BERRY FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Human ServicesGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN — $30,000 · Food & NutritionTHE JT MESTDAGH FOUNDATION — $25,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GIBSON FOUNDATION GIBSON — $2,500 · PhilanthropyBRYSON AND BAKER BATT FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · Public BenefitLIFE REMODELED — $20,000 · Housing & ShelterDETROIT ATHLETIC CLUB FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Education
Other$365,100Human Services$140,000Food & Nutrition$30,000Philanthropy$27,500Public Benefit$25,000Housing & Shelter$20,000Education$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFULL CIRCLE FOUNDATION INC — $68,000 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetSERVICES FOR OLDER CITIZENS INC DBA THE HELM AT THE BOLL LIFE CENTER — $37,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBRYSON AND BAKER BATT FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetTHE JT MESTDAGH FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetLIFE REMODELED — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDETROIT ATHLETIC CLUB FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetMIDWEST MINIATURE PINSCHER RESCUE — $15,000 over 3y, 9.3% of budgetPOPE FRANCIS CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGROSSE POINTE PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetKIDS ON THE GO — $10,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetMICHIGAN CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOLY CROSS SERVICES INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GIBSON FOUNDATION GIBSON — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMICHIGAN PARKINSON FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

Community Foundation …Catholic Foundation o…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI21.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Catholic Foundation of Michigan · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organization The Ruby McCoy 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.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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