· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTNERS | $10,000 |
| LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE | $9,000 |
| THE CHELSEA SPOTLIGHT | $7,000 |
| TASHA TUDOR SOCIETY | $7,000 |
| LOWER COLUMBIA SCHOOL GARDENS | $5,000 |
| SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON SYMPHONY | $2,500 |
| COLUMBIA THEATRE FOR PERFORMING ARTS | $2,500 |
| LOWER COLUMBIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| PEACEHEALTH ST JOHN HOSPICAL FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE | $1,000 |
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, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE6× · 2018–2024 · $47k · revenue +30%- CHCommunity Health Partners5× · 2017–2024 · $28k · revenue +51%
- LLLongview Library Foundation3× · 2017–2021 · $19k · revenue +638%
Funded once
- HMHAYSTACK MOUNTAIN SCHOOL OF ARTSone grant, 2017 · $18k
- LNLOST NATION THEATER INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -16%
- LPLONGVIEW PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
Protecting our shrub-steppe and connecting people to this vanishing landscape.
Portland Public Library is a welcoming cultural center that brings people together and connects them with trusted resources, ideas, experiences, and information. We build a stronger community by inspiring learning, creativity, and…
To enliven and expand the understanding of craft and the museum experience for all.
Artist Trust supports the livelihoods of artists working in all disciplines to create a more vibrant and equitable Washington State.
The coos county historical society exists to enhance the intellectual, creative and civic life of coos county and the surrounding area, by facilitating awareness of its history.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
Discover Your Northwest promotes the discovery of northwest public lands, enriches the experience of visitors and builds community stewardship of these special places today and for generations to come.
The museum of northwest art collects, preserves, interprets and exhibits art created in the pacific northwest, supports artists, and strives to integrate art into the lives of all people. the museum is free and open to the public seven…
To create a legacy of abundant open space, native habitat, and natural resources on Lummi Island by inspiring people to protect and care for the island's farms, forests, wetlands, and shorelines forever.
Natural History Institute is organized to provide leadership and resources for a revitalized practice of natural history that integrates art, science, and humanities to promote the health and well-being of humans and the rest of the…
Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.
United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Olympic Land Trust and the most unlike its peers is Community Health Partners. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
24 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. 24 of the 46 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 AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Community Health Partners ↗
- Who funds Longview Library Foundation ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds LOST NATION THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH OLYMPIC LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Youth and Family Link ↗
- Who funds LOWER COLUMBIA SCHOOL GARDENS ↗
- Who funds LOWER COLUMBIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA THEATRE ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE MOLOKAI ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PILCHUCK GLASS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Native American Heritage Association ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY DISTRICT SERVICE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds Haystack Mountain School of Crafts ↗
- Who funds ANNIE WRIGHT SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds FISH of Cowlitz County ↗
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: 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
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 M McClelland Sr Charitable Foundation 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.
- American Antiquarian Society — 7% of income from government
- Lewis & Clark College — 2% of income from government
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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