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John M McClelland Sr Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$59k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2024
12
Organizations funded FY2023
58%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 12
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$1.0M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 58% of the organizations John M McClelland Sr Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 56% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentEducationCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving10$59k30%
FY202312$70k58%
FY20228$24k50%
FY202112$70k58%
FY20205$10k60%
FY201912$46k50%
FY201811$50k91%
FY20176$50kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$180kEducation$91kHealth$49kEnvironment$15kYouth Development$12kFood & Nutrition$11kHuman Services$8kCrime & Legal$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
WA
MT
MA
OR
VA
HI

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
American Antiquarian Society$76,00080%
Lewis & Clark College$47,00060%
Community Health Partners$28,00053%
Longview Library Foundation$18,750316%
Community Health Partners Inc$12,00030%
Lost Nation Theater Inc$10,0001n/a
North Olympic Land Trust$10,00011%
Chelsea Spotlight$7,0001n/a
Lower Columbia School Gardens$7,00031%
Youth and Family Link$7,00020%
Show all 29 grantees
All grantees of John M McClelland Sr Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
American Antiquarian Society$76,00080%
Lewis & Clark College$47,00060%
Community Health Partners$28,00053%
Longview Library Foundation$18,750316%
Community Health Partners Inc$12,00030%
Lost Nation Theater Inc$10,0001n/a
North Olympic Land Trust$10,00011%
Chelsea Spotlight$7,0001n/a
Lower Columbia School Gardens$7,00031%
Youth and Family Link$7,00020%
Tasha Tudor Society Inc$7,0001n/a
Lower Columbia College Foundation$6,50020%
Columbia Theatre Association for the Performing Arts$5,75021%
Native American Heritage Association$5,00010%
Pacific Northwest Ballet Association$5,00010%
Sustainable Molokai$5,00010%
Pilchuck Glass School$5,00010%
Molokai History Project$5,0001n/a
Friends of the Children$5,00010%
University District Service League$4,00010%
Washington State Historical Society$4,0001n/a
Southwest Washington Wind Symphony$3,7501n/a
Southwest Washington Symphony$3,50023%
FISH of Cowlitz County$2,00020%
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts$2,00010%
MOHAI Foundation$2,00011%
Annie Wright Schools$2,00010%
Community House on Broadway$1,87510%
Emergency Support Shelter$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($81k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget John M McClelland Sr Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Antiquarian Society: $76,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetLewis & Clark College: $47,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Health Partners: $28,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetLongview Library Foundation: $18,750 over 3y, 16% of budgetCommunity Health Partners Inc: $12,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNorth Olympic Land Trust: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLower Columbia School Gardens: $7,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetYouth and Family Link: $7,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLower Columbia College Foundation: $6,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetColumbia Theatre Association for the Performing Arts: $5,750 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNative American Heritage Association: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Northwest Ballet Association: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSustainable Molokai: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPilchuck Glass School: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of the Children: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity District Service League: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSouthwest Washington Symphony: $3,500 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetFISH of Cowlitz County: $2,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHaystack Mountain School of Crafts: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOHAI Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAnnie Wright Schools: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity House on Broadway: $1,875 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEmergency Support Shelter: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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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 Kirchner FoundationWA24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Kirchner Foundation · The Health Care Foundation · United Way of Cowlitz County · The Wollenberg Foundation · The Honorable Frank L & Arlene G Price Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Evans-Kelly Family Foundation · Evans Venture Foundation · The Firstenburg Foundation · Artsfund · Nippon Dynawave Foundation · Central National Gottesman 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.

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About John M McClelland Sr Charitable Foundation

How much does John M McClelland Sr Charitable Foundation give?
John M McClelland Sr Charitable Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $59,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 12 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does John M McClelland Sr Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (48%), Education (24%), Health (13%).
Who are John M McClelland Sr Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: American Antiquarian Society ($76k), Lewis & Clark College ($47k), Community Health Partners ($28k).
Does John M McClelland Sr Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 58% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does John M McClelland Sr Charitable Foundation 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 John M McClelland Sr Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Kirchner Foundation, The Health Care Foundation, United Way of Cowlitz County.
Where is John M McClelland Sr Charitable Foundation based?
John M McClelland Sr Charitable Foundation is based in WA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 46 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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