Ohio · Private foundation
George & Margaret McLane Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.6M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 38
- Grants FY2024
- 44
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 39%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 44
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $5.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 39% of the organizations George & Margaret McLane Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $243k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 38 | $1.6M | 24% |
| FY2023 | 44 | $1.0M | 39% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $658k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 33 | $604k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $686k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 42 | $624k | 40% |
| FY2018 | 38 | $536k | 68% |
| FY2017 | 21 | $498k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Franklin City Schools | $1,104,219 | 8 | n/a |
| Cincinnati Memorial Hall Society | $323,307 | 8 | 28% |
| Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra | $264,500 | 8 | 0% |
| The Greater Cincinnati Television Educational Foundation | $215,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Elementz | $190,000 | 8 | 10% |
| Coverd Greater Cincinnati | $186,200 | 5 | 5% |
| The Mercantile Library | $163,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Optim-All Services | $150,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Behringer Crawford Museum | $141,000 | 7 | 6% |
| Level Up Cincinnati | $105,000 | 3 | 11% |
Show all 77 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 41 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
George & Margaret McLane Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 60 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: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Ed & Joann Hubert Family Foundation Inc · Louise Taft Semple Foundation · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Millstone Fund · Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts · Andrew Jergens Foundation
How this is measured
Compare George & Margaret McLane Foundation with peer funders
About George & Margaret McLane Foundation
- How much does George & Margaret McLane Foundation give?
- George & Margaret McLane Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $1,555,750 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 44 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does George & Margaret McLane Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (31%), Arts & Culture (30%), Health (14%).
- Who are George & Margaret McLane Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Franklin City Schools ($1.1M), Cincinnati Memorial Hall Society ($323k), Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra ($265k).
- Does George & Margaret McLane Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does George & Margaret McLane Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as George & Margaret McLane Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation, John a Schroth Family Char Tr.
- Where is George & Margaret McLane Foundation based?
- George & Margaret McLane Foundation is based in OH.
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