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McCloughan Family Foundation at a glance

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McCloughan Family 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.

$10k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Human Services$6kFood & Nutrition$4kInternational$3kEnvironment$3kHealth$2kAnimals$2kHousing & Shelter$2kCrime & Legal$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$209k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ONE SPIRIT$2,000
SECOND HARVEST NORTHERN LAKES$2,000
MIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE$2,000
WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER$1,000
HAMILTON HABITAT$1,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FOUNDATION$500
CHIK WAUK MUSEUM AND NATURE CENTER$500
NATURE CONCERVANCY$500
VIOLENCE PREVENTION CENTER$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%VIOLENCE PREVENTION CENTER: $500 → 9%VIOLENCE PREVENTION CENTER: $500 → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
MA
SD
CT
CA
VA
AL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$20k · 8 repeat orgs$4k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
4

Total granted

$20k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+0%
+20%

Still filing today

63%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Human ServicesCrime & LegalEnvironmentInternationalHousing & ShelterAnimalsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • OS
    ONE SPIRIT
    3× · 2022–2024 · $5k · revenue +0%
  • ME
    MIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $3k · revenue +424%
  • WR
    WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER OF MINNESOTA
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2k · revenue +0%

Funded once

  • SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +20%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
  • SP
    SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +7%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc

We safeguard the earth: its people, its plants and animals, and (see schedule o) the natural systems on which all life depends. we work to restore the integrity of the elements that sustain life - air, land, and water - to defend…

Environment
2
Superior Bio-Conservancy Inc

The superior bio-conservancy is an ambitious plan to protect and restore the biological integrity and hydrology of the great lakes region and the laurentian forest province throughout minnesota, wisconsin and michigan.

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3
Intertribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council
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4
Heartlands Conservancy

The mission of heartlands conservancy is to empower and colaborate with the people of southern illinois to advance and protect the health of our distinctive communities and nationally significant natural and cultural resources.

Environment
5
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
6
Washington Forest Law Center

Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.

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7
Southwest Environmental Center

To promote and protect Wildlife

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8
Cook Waterfowl Foundation
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9
Midwest Environmental Advocates Inc

Midwest environmental advocates is a nonprofit law center that combines the power of law with the resolve of communities facing environmental injustice to secure and protect the rights of all people to healthy water, land, and air.

Crime & Legal
10
Cascadia Wildlands

Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…

Environment
11
Western Rivers Conservancy

Western rivers conservancy's mission is to protect outstanding river ecosystems in the western united states. continued on schedule o.we acquire land to conserve critical habitat, provide public access for compatible use and enjoyment, and…

Environment
12
Nd Natural Resources Conservation Trust

To promote the conservation of natural resources in the state of north dakota

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southern Poverty Law Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hamilton Habitat Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SECOND HARVEST NORTHERN LAKES: $4,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST NORTHERN LAKESTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $2,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYPLANNED PARENTHOOD FOUNDATION: $2,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD FOUNDATIONCHIK WAUK MUSEUM AND NATURE CENTER: $1,000 · OtherCHIK WAUK MUSEUM AND NATURE CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $1,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientONE SPIRIT: $5,000 · Human ServicesONE SPIRITViolence Prevention Center: $1,000 · Human ServicesViolence Prevention CenterMIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $3,000 · InternationalMIDDLE EAST C…HAMILTON HABITAT INC: $2,000 · Housing & ShelterWILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER OF MINNESOTA: $2,000 · AnimalsSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $1,000 · Crime & LegalFRIENDS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER: $500 · Environment
Other$10,000Human Services$6,000International$3,000Housing & Shelter$2,000Animals$2,000Crime & Legal$2,000Environment$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetONE SPIRIT: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAMILTON HABITAT INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER OF MINNESOTA: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetViolence Prevention Center: $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA9.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization McCloughan Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McCloughan Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to McCloughan Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to McCloughan Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 13 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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