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The Tidal W 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.

$75k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$31k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20232025.

International$93kFood & Nutrition$21kCivil Rights$15kPublic Benefit$13kSocial Science$7kHousing & Shelter$5kCrime & Legal$4kArts & Culture$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
$1,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$743k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Institute of World Politics$31,000
Heroes of Mountain Home Fed$14,000
Institute for the American Future$7,000
Victims of Communism Fund$6,500
Purple Heart Homes$5,000
Defense Forum Foundation$3,000
Leadership Institute$2,000
National Legal and Policy Center$1,500
Int'l Fellowship of Christains Jews$1,000
Center for Advanced Studies CAST$1,000
American Foreign Policy Council$1,000
Individual grant recipient$700
Turning Point USA$500
St Judes Children's Hospital$500
ASPCA$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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 88% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%Center for Advanced Studies CAST: $1k → 14%Tunnels to Tower Federation: $500 → 11%Victims of Communism Fund: $7k → 14%Univ So Florida-USF: $1k → 13%Heroes of Mountain Home Fed: $14k → 19%Purple Heart Homes: $5k → 9%MacArthur Society: $2k → 8%Hunter Willis Avaiation Program: $500 → 11%Institute for the American Future: $7k → 4%National Legal and Policy Center: $2k → 4%St Veronica's Church: $1k → 6%Leadership Institute: $2k → 7%Tunnels to Tower Federation: $250 → 11%Victims of Communism Fund: $5k → 14%Heroes of Mountain Home Fed: $4k → 19%National Legal and Policy Center: $2k → 4%Defense Forum Foundation: $4k → 6%Leadership Institute: $1k → 7%Victims of Communism Fund: $3k → 14%Heroes of Mountain Home Fed: $3k → 19%St Veronica's Church: $500 → 6%Leadership Institute: $1k → 7%Institute of World Politics: $39k → 14%Defense Forum Foundation: $3k → 6%St Judes Children's Hospital: $500 → 7%American Foreign Policy Council: $1k → 14%St Judes Children's Hospital: $500 → 7%Institute of World Politics: $31k → 14%St Judes Children's Hospital: $250 → 7%American Foreign Policy Council: $1k → 14%Institute of World Politics: $20k → 14%American Foreign Policy Council: $500 → 14%The Daily Caller: $700 → 14%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.

Which US states your grants reach

NY
CA
CO
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DC
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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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$142k · 9 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
5

Total granted

$142k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

44%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
InternationalCrime & LegalPublic BenefitAnimalsOther

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

  • TI
    THE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS
    3× · 2023–2025 · $90k · revenue -11%
  • HO
    Heroes of Mountain Home Fed
    3× · 2023–2025 · $21k
  • VO
    Victims of Communism Fund
    3× · 2023–2025 · $15k

Funded once

  • MS
    MacArthur Society
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
  • VI
    Virgin Islands Archery Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $2k
  • US
    Univ So Florida-USF
    one grant, 2024 · $1k

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.

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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
2
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
3
National Institute for Public Policy Inc

The institute works as a public education organization that focuses on a wide spectrum of rapidly evolving foreign policy and international issues.

4
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
5
Institute for New Global Politics Inc

The Institute for New Global Politics is a California-based educational nonprofit corporation organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes. It is an independent and nonpartisan thinktank dedicated to educating the general…

International
6
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
7
Partnership for Public Service Inc

Making our government work better is a daunting task, and we are a small organization seeking to transform a government that employs millions of civilians and manages trillions of dollars in taxpayer revenue needed to protect public…

Employment
8
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.

9
The Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis Inc

The institute performs research which has a three-fold purpose: to examine issues of u.s. foreign policy, formulate policy options and programs for submission to u.s. government agencies and dissemination to the public, and to train…

10
American Press Institute Inc

American press institute acts as a scout on the frontier of technology and audience behavior to identify where change is occurring and helps news organizations learn how to implement and scale that change successfully so they have a…

Arts & Culture
11
The National Foundation for American Policy Inc

The national foundation for american policy is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to public policy research on trade, immigration, and other issues of national importance. the organization seeks to expand the debate over the…

Public Benefit
12
United States Public Policy Council

To engage in research, education and public awareness campaigns relating to the national security, intelligence and foreign and national policy of the United States of America, and freedom in America and the World. Also to engage in those…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Legal and Policy Center and the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 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

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 22 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS — $90,000 · InternationalTHE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS+1 more — $2,500 · InternationalHeroes of Mountain Home Fed — $20,500 · OtherHeroes of Mountain Home FedVictims of Communism Fund — $14,500 · OtherVictims of Communism FundThe Defense Forum Foundation Inc — $7,000 · OtherThe Defense Forum Foundation IncInstitute for the American Future — $7,000 · OtherInstitute for the American Future+12 more — $12,700 · Other+12 morePURPLE HEART HOMES INC — $5,000 · Public BenefitLeadership Institute — $4,000 · Public BenefitNATIONAL LEGAL AND POLICY CENTER — $3,500 · Crime & LegalTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $500 · Animals
International$92,500Other$61,700Public Benefit$9,000Crime & Legal$3,500Animals$500

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 budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS — $90,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetThe Defense Forum Foundation Inc — $7,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLeadership Institute — $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL LEGAL AND POLICY CENTER — $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY COUNCIL — $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN STUDIES CENTER — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds THE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS
  • Who funds The Defense Forum Foundation Inc
  • Who funds PURPLE HEART HOMES INC
  • Who funds Leadership Institute
  • Who funds NATIONAL LEGAL AND POLICY CENTER
  • Who funds AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY COUNCIL
  • Who funds AMERICAN STUDIES CENTER
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
  • Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC

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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA9.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Tidal W 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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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%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 · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 22 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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