· Private foundation
John Luther McLean & Isabelle Gray McLean Trust
Its FY2022 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: 92% of JOHN LUTHER MCLEAN & ISABELLE GRAY MCLEAN TRUST’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 · FY2022
- Under $10k21 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $190k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF ROBESON | $105,000 |
| VARIOUS | $84,550 |
| EMPTY STOCKING FUND | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS | $7,500 |
| CAPE FEAR COUNCIL BSA | $6,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $5,250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| RCC FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $4,000 |
| JESSIE HELMS CENTER FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| BOYS & GIRLS HOME OF NC | $3,500 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $3,500 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $3,500 |
| SRMC FOUNDATION | $2,700 |
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 (FY17–22, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
30 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2022, 6 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches6× · 2017–2022 · $25k · revenue +46%
- TJTHE JESSE HELMS CENTER FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2022 · $21k · revenue +65%
- TVTHE VITAL GROUND FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2022 · $15k · revenue +150%
Funded once
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.
Providing primary health care and professional counseling services to all indviduals who need it.
The mission of the reformed church ministries to the aging, the regional synod of the mid-atlantics ("rch"), is "committed to the compassionate care of our elders in a spiritual environment". our commission and priority is to serve the…
Rescuing dogs from kill shelters in North Carolina
The organization seeks to provide the highest quality of care in ministry to the diverse needs of louisiana's children and families by offering a variety of holistic services which promote personal growth and wholesome family life. the…
The mission of historic charleston foundation is to advocate for a future for charleston that honors and protects its people, places, culture, and community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Team Rubicon Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rcc Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 30 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 RCC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS HOMES OF NC INC ↗
- Who funds THE JESSE HELMS CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE VITAL GROUND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LUMBERTON CHRISTIAN CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEASTERN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds UMAR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE PRESBYTERIAN FOUNDATION OF COLUMBUS INDIANA ↗
- Who funds ROBESON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON 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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 John Luther McLean & Isabelle Gray McLean Trust 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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