How much does Greg D and Melanie S McFarland Foundation give?

Greg D and Melanie S McFarland Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $301,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Greg D and Melanie S McFarland Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (23%), Health (19%), Education (13%).

Who are Greg D and Melanie S McFarland Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($450k), The Rescue Mission ($130k), Mavuno ($130k).

Does Greg D and Melanie S McFarland Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Greg D and Melanie S McFarland Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Greg D and Melanie S McFarland Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Blackbaud Giving Fund, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, Network for Good.

Where is Greg D and Melanie S McFarland Foundation based?

Greg D and Melanie S McFarland Foundation is based in WA.

Greg D and Melanie S McFarland Foundation

Greg D and Melanie S McFarland Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Greg D and Melanie S McFarland Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$301k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$50k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Public Safety & Disaster$450kHealth$386kEducation$261kInternational$201kHousing & Shelter$154kCommunity Improvement$130kPhilanthropy$118kFood & Nutrition$91kOther$0

02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k11 grants · $44k
$10k–50k11 grants · $208k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$463k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS	$50,000
MYRIAD USA	$35,000
MULTICARE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH	$30,000
TACOMA RESCUE MISSION	$30,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AM	$20,000
EMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA	$20,000
DUCKS UNLIMITED	$15,000
GREATER LAKES MENTAL HEALTH	$15,000
GOSPEL RESCUE MISSION TUCSON	$12,500
UNICEF	$10,000
MARY BRIDGE CHILDRENS FOUNDATION	$10,000
UNITED WAY OF PIERCE COUNTY	$10,000
BONNER COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM	$7,500
RAINIER SCHOLARS	$5,000
PANHANDLE ALLIANCE FOR ED	$5,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.8M · 27 repeat orgs$45k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.8M

$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%

+101%

Still filing today

67%

56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationHealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureHousing & ShelterInternationalOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

AN
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
9× · 2017–2025 · $450k · revenue +46%
TR
THE RESCUE MISSION
9× · 2017–2025 · $130k · revenue +159%
CG
CLEAR GLOBAL INC
6× · 2017–2022 · $120k · revenue +137%

Funded once

MU
MAUI UNITED WAYgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +188%
MB
MARY BRIDGE CHILDRENS FOU
one grant, 2018 · $8k
EF
EMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF
one grant, 2018 · $5k

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment

Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health

The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit

United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee

Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.

Recreation & Sports

Good Samaritan Foundation

Partnering for healing and a healthy future through philanthropy.

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Multicare South King Health Foundation

Partnering for healing and a healthy future through philanthropy.

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United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education

University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Multicare Foundations; the most unlike its peers is Mavuno. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 38 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

25/27

Grantees still filing

23/27

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$622,750Human Services$450,000Health$277,500Education$192,500International$181,000Housing & Shelter$154,000Philanthropy$118,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

The Blackbaud Giving FundSC9.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Greg D and Melanie S McFarland Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Greg D and Melanie S McFarland Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home