Florida · Private foundation
Cathleen McFarlane Foundation Inc
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.
- $1.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 42
- Grants FY2025
- 37
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $199,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 32 to 42
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $34M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations Cathleen McFarlane Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $234k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 42 | $1.8M | 33% |
| FY2024 | 37 | $1.7M | 30% |
| FY2023 | 42 | $1.5M | 24% |
| FY2022 | 37 | $2.1M | 24% |
| FY2021 | 37 | $2.0M | 16% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $1.4M | 63% |
| FY2019 | 33 | $1.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Place of Hope Inc | $1,161,626 | 7 | 2% |
| Project Lift Inc | $1,117,000 | 7 | 11% |
| Hanley Foundation | $880,000 | 7 | 73% |
| The Lord's Place Inc | $655,010 | 6 | 1% |
| Adopt a Family Inc | $635,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Student Aces Inc | $408,261 | 6 | 8% |
| Wounded Veterans Relief Fund Inc | $398,500 | 6 | 5% |
| Center for Child Counseling Inc | $362,628 | 5 | 2% |
| El Sol Jupiters Neighborhood Resource Center Inc | $249,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc | $165,000 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 64 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Cathleen McFarlane Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 52 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · Quantum Foundation Inc · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation · United Way of Palm Beach County Inc · Leslie L Alexander Foundation Inc · The Mary Alice Fortin Foundation · The Jim Moran Foundation Inc · Ibis Charities Foundation Inc · The Chamber of Nonprofit Health and Human Agencies in Palm Beach County Inc · Children's Healthcare Charity Inc · Allegany Franciscan Ministries Inc
How this is measured
About Cathleen McFarlane Foundation Inc
- How much does Cathleen McFarlane Foundation Inc give?
- Cathleen McFarlane Foundation Inc reported 42 grants totaling $1,759,217 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 42 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Cathleen McFarlane Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (40%), Housing & Shelter (11%), Youth Development (11%).
- Who are Cathleen McFarlane Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Place of Hope Inc ($1.2M), Project Lift Inc ($1.1M), Hanley Foundation ($880k).
- Does Cathleen McFarlane Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cathleen McFarlane Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Cathleen McFarlane Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc, Quantum Foundation Inc, The Batchelor Foundation Inc.
- Where is Cathleen McFarlane Foundation Inc based?
- Cathleen McFarlane Foundation Inc is based in FL.
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