· Private foundation
William T & Ann D McCormick Educational and Charitable 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of WILLIAM T & ANN D MCCORMICK EDUCATIONAL AND CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM | $50,000 |
| ST FRANCIS XAVIER CHURCH | $15,400 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $10,000 |
| NCH MEDICAL DIPLOMATS COUNCIL | $7,500 |
| GREAT LAKES CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $5,000 |
| ST WILLIAM CHURCH | $4,900 |
| CATHOLIC FAITH APPEAL-DIOCESE OF VENICE | $2,500 |
| CROOKED TREE ARTS CENTER | $2,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF COLLIER COUNTY | $2,000 |
| ST CHARLES BORROMEO CATHOLIC ACADEMY | $1,000 |
| MCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| CROSS CATHOLIC OUTREACH | $1,000 |
| NORTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN | $650 |
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, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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.
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 +14% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 3 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
Cornell University6× · 2019–2025 · $42k · revenue +50%- UWUNITED WAY OF COLLIER AND THE KEYS INC6× · 2019–2025 · $7k · revenue +66%
- LTLittle Traverse Conservancy Inc4× · 2018–2024 · $4k · revenue +145%
Funded once
- NCNORTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +283%
- CCCHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN INCone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +14%
JUDICIAL WATCH INCone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
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.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
Cooperatively empowering credit unions to increase financial well-being by supporting community enrichment, financial education, and credit union development initiatives
The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes by conducting or supporting activites exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the…
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
Mclaren health care, through its subsidiaries, will be the best value in health care as defined by quality outcomes and cost.
The mission of the michigan science center is to inspire curious minds of all ages to discover, explore and appreciate science, technology, engineering and math in a creative, dynamic learning environment.
Provide professional services for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer and infectious disease and related conditions.
Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
Our mission is to help people to live longer, healthier lives with dignity, and to use all of our resources to give them everything they expect and deserve in comprehensive cardiovascular care for their families and themselves.
The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Mnm Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 68 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
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 NCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds Great Lakes Center for the Arts ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF COLLIER AND THE KEYS INC ↗
- Who funds MCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Little Traverse Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds BAY HARBOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDERS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Char-Em United Way Inc ↗
- Who funds NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF VENICE INC ↗
- Who funds TIP OF THE MITT WATERSHED COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN 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.
Open a dossier: Frey Foundation · Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community Foundation · Charlevoix County Community Foundation · Verne G and Judith a Istock Foundation · Dte Energy Foundation · Fabiano Foundation · The Offield Family Foundation · Collier Community Foundation Inc · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · William a Fisher II Family Foundation · Mps 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 T & Ann D McCormick Educational and Charitable 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Naples Botanical Garden Inc — 3% of income from government
- Christ Child Society of Naples Inc — 3% 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.