· Private foundation
William G McGowan Charitable Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k169 grants · $650k
- $10k–50k62 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k64 grants · $4.9M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KING'S COLLEGE | $500,000 |
| THE LUZEME FUND | $250,000 |
| FOODLINK INC | $250,000 |
| WARREN VILLAGE INC | $150,000 |
| ALLIED SERVICES FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| COMMISSION ON ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY | $150,000 |
| BISHOP MIEGE HIGH SCHOOL | $140,000 |
| ROCKHURST HIGH SCHOOL | $130,000 |
| LITERACY KANSAS CITY | $130,000 |
| KING'S COLLEGE | $125,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE | $125,000 |
| VIBRANT HEALTH (TURNER HOUSE CLINIC INC) | $125,000 |
| BISHOP WARD HIGH SCHOOL | $125,000 |
| CROSSPURPOSE | $100,000 |
| ICSTARS | $100,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $4.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 12% of William G McGowan Charitable Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
180 repeat relationships — 122 still active in FY2025, 58 since wound down; 63 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- RURush University Medical Center4× · 2021–2024 · $5.8M · revenue +14%
- WVWARREN VILLAGE INC5× · 2021–2025 · $725k · revenue +113%
- COCOMMISSION ON ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY OF LUZERNE COUNTY5× · 2021–2025 · $724k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF PENNSLYVANIA WHARTON SCHOOL OF BUSINESSone grant, 2024 · $85k
- BEBAYAUD ENTERPRISES INCone grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue +17%
- FCFIDELITY CHARITABLE MANILLA FAMILY FUND ACCOUNT 1007739one grant, 2021 · $75k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Provides person-centered and inclusive services to children and adults with and without disabilities that includes securing employment, connecting to necessary supportive services, accessing housing and participating fully as contributing…
We partner with children and adults with disabilities and their families so they may live more meaningful, healthy, and independent lives in their homes and communities.
To strengthen youth and families while enhancing systems and communities.
Children's services
Our mission is to break the cycle of addiction and trauma for women, children, and families.
Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Moms Inc and the most unlike its peers is I Am Dom Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
279 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. 279 of the 378 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 Rush University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds SCRANTON AREA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds KING'S COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WARREN VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMISSION ON ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY OF LUZERNE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE LUZERNE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LITERACY KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds TURNER HOUSE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LINC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds INNER-CITY COMPUTER STARS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FOODLINK INC ↗
- Who funds SPIRITUS CHRISTI PRISON OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds NEW MOMS INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds CROSSPURPOSE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY KANSAS CITY SISTERS OF CHARI TY OF LEAVENWORTH HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JEFFCO ACTION CENTER INC THE ACTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Children's Agenda Inc ↗
- Who funds ALLIED SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY HOUSING LAKEFRONT ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Moses Taylor Foundation Inc · Allone Foundation · Allone Charities · The Luzerne Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Scranton Area Foundation Inc · The Tambur Family Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Health Forward Foundation · United Way of Wyoming Valley · Robert H Spitz Foundation · The Hawk Family 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 William G McGowan Charitable Fund 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.
- Newark Alliance Inc — 6% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
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.
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