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Daniel James McCarthy Memorial Fund Inc

Daniel James McCarthy Memorial Fund Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $507,268 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($354,800). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$401k
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$507k
Net assets
$117k
5/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 23%
01What it does

What Daniel James McCarthy Memorial Fund Inc does

Mission

Provide young people with experiences to explore, create and discover their happiest, healthist, selves through inclusive community programmming, social-emotional experiences and supportive resources.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provide young people with experiences to explore, create and discover their happiest, healthiest selves through inclusive community programming, social-emotional experiences and supportive resources.

    $394,179 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $394,179.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($115k) Expenses 100 ($124k) Net assets 100 ($140k)2018 Revenue 81 ($93k) Expenses 79 ($99k) Net assets 96 ($134k)2019 Revenue 90 ($103k) Expenses 83 ($103k) Net assets 96 ($134k)2020 Revenue 94 ($108k) Expenses 79 ($98k) Net assets 103 ($144k)2021 Revenue 94 ($108k) Expenses 99 ($123k) Net assets 92 ($129k)2023 Revenue 767 ($882k) Expenses 265 ($329k) Net assets 525 ($733k)2024 Revenue 184 ($212k) Expenses 515 ($640k) Net assets 218 ($304k)2025 Revenue 349 ($401k) Expenses 474 ($588k) Net assets 84 ($117k)
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Revenue (349)Expenses (474)Net assets (84)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $989k to $619k (−37%).

$140k
$134k
$134k
$144k
$129k
$789k
$989k
$619k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

94% of Daniel James McCarthy Memorial Fund Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (73% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,446 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$9k
’17
−$6k
’18
$141
’19
$10k
’20
−$15k
’21
$554k
’23
−$428k
’24
−$187k
’25
2.2
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Kathryn Gorczyca

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed87767787
Joined·+0+0+0+2·+2+1
No longer listed·1011·12
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $1k → $199k.

6 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 88% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of Daniel James McCarthy Memorial Fund Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

Daniel James McCarthy Memorial Fund Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

88% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Daniel James McCarthy Memorial Fund Inc.

70%
largest funder
83%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 92% · 2019 94% · 2020 100% · 2021 95% · 2022 73% · 2023 82% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

88% of Daniel James McCarthy Memorial Fund Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $59k that is directly attributable, 81% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.

NY
MA
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’20
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’22
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $448k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Daniel James McCarthy Memorial Fund Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 850 unclassified nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−47% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.2mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)17% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 850 unclassified nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like Daniel James McCarthy Memorial Fund Inc

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

67% of spending goes to programs.

Program 67%Management 18%Fundraising 15%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

47%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

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Questions and answers

Who funds Daniel James McCarthy Memorial Fund Inc?
Daniel James McCarthy Memorial Fund Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $507,268 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($354,800). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Daniel James McCarthy Memorial Fund Inc have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $507,268 in grants to Daniel James McCarthy Memorial Fund Inc, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Daniel James McCarthy Memorial Fund Inc?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $354,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Daniel James McCarthy Memorial Fund Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 12 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing