· Private foundation
McClain Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROTARY CLUB OF PALATKA SUNRISE | $2,000 |
| ARC OF PUTNAM COUNTY | $1,750 |
| BREAD OF LIFE | $300 |
| PJSH CHEER BOOSTER CLUB | $100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 20%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $400 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RCROTARY CLUB OF PALATKA SUNRISE6× · 2019–2025 · $8k · revenue +6%
- TAThe ARC of Putnam County Inc5× · 2019–2025 · $4k · revenue +50%
- PCPUTNAM COUNTY FAIR AUTHORITY INC4× · 2019–2023 · $3k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- PCPUTNAM COUNTY CLERK OF COURTone grant, 2023 · $20k
- BBBABY BRAIN BUILDERS INCone grant, 2019 · $825
- TEThe Education Foundation of Putnam County Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $500 · revenue +831%
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.
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.
To promote the putnam county area as well as provide information on businesses in putnam county to other businesses and to the public.
The putnam county community foundation partners with those who give to enrich the quality of life and strengthen community for this and future generations.
Established to help sustain the mission of florida polytechnic university to educate students emphasizing science, technology, engineering and mathematics (stem) in an innovative, technology-rich, and interdisciplinary learning environment.
The organization's purpose is to eliminate poverty housing in putnam county, florida by constructing modest, but adequate, housing, and to assist lower income homeowners with critical and emergency home repairs.
Policemans Benevolent Association
Promote agriculture and industry in putnam county.
Advancement, promotion, improvement, encouragement and development of agriculture
To advance, encourage, and promote the industrial economic, commercial, and civic developments of putnam county by acting as the designated agency of putnam county for the industrial, commercial, distribution, and research development in…
The mission of putnam land conservancy, inc. (plc) is to conserve land and water for people and wildlife. the mission is accomplished by fee ownership, conservation easements or facilitatng public ownership of conservation lands. managmnt…
To advance florida gulf coast university and its students by promoting the institution, securing philanthropy to support the needs of the university, managing and administering assets with a long term perspective, and providing resources…
Serve as a focal point to raise funds for support programs and services to enhance the quality of life for all those affected by Parkinson disease in Central Florida and support research of new treatments for the symptoms and someday find…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 24 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF PALATKA SUNRISE ↗
- Who funds The ARC of Putnam County Inc ↗
- Who funds PUTNAM COUNTY FAIR AUTHORITY INC ↗
- Who funds PUTNAM FIRST CANCER FUND INC ↗
- Who funds The Education Foundation of Putnam County Inc ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CENTRAL FLORIDA HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds PUTNAM COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC ↗
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: Clay Electric Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization McClain Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McClain Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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