· Private foundation
McClelland 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, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $4k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $112k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATNL WILDLIFE REFUGE ASSOCIATN | $150,000 |
| HURON MOUNTAIN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| NATL PARKS OF LAKE SUPERIOR FOUNDN | $30,000 |
| LAND CONSERVATION ASSISTANCE NET | $20,000 |
| ADIRONDACK FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| GROTON SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| THE MASTERS SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| CARE USA | $11,767 |
| FOCUS HOPE | $4,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 81% 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue -6% since the first grant, against -39% for those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NPNATIONAL PARKS OF LAKE SUPERIOR FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $110k · revenue +223%
- MSMASTERS SCHOOL5× · 2021–2025 · $85k · revenue +30%
- FFOCUSHOPE5× · 2021–2025 · $16k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- KOKNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITIES INCone grant, 2022 · $29k · revenue -39%
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.
The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
The glacier national park conservancy works to preserve and protect glacier national park for future generations.
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
To permanently protect and improve natural environments in Mid-Michigan by leading and inspiring actions that conserve vital habitats and waterways for the benefit of our entire community.
To engage the united states and its citizens in the work of african parks and to promote access to american experience and expertise in the african parks actiities by 1) raising funds for specific projects, activities, training, equipment…
To protect wisconsin's lands, waters, and wildlife by providing funding, leading partnerships, and connecting all people with nature.
The natural areas conservancy champions urban natural areas in new york city and across the nation through innovative research, partnerships, and advocacy. we increase the health and resilience of urban forests and wetlands, catalyze…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
The minnesota land trust protects and restores minnesota's most vital natural lands in order to provide wildlife habitat, clean water, outdoor experiences and scenic beauty for generations to come.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 11 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 Huron Mountain Wildlife Foundation ↗
- Who funds ADIRONDACK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARKS OF LAKE SUPERIOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Land Conservation Assistance Network ↗
- Who funds MASTERS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds GROTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds FOCUSHOPE ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization McClelland Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McClelland Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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