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McDanel Land 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.

$102k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2024
5
Organizations funded FY2023
20%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 16
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$947k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 20% of the organizations McDanel Land Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
EnvironmentAnimalsOther
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 arriving8$102k25%
FY20235$86k20%
FY20227$71k29%
FY20215$126k20%
FY202012$79k25%
FY20195$46k40%
FY201810$75k50%
FY201716$96kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$605kAnimals$27kPublic Benefit$24kHuman Services$8kArts & Culture$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kHousing & Shelter$5kEducation$1k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
MT
WI
NY
OR
CA
AZ
SC
FL

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
Conservation Nw$164,00064%
Idaho Conservation League Inc$85,00071%
American Friends of Canadian Nature Inc$78,00053%
The Lands Council$25,00013%
Ferry County Rail Trail Partners$24,0002n/a
Washington Wild$22,00042%
The Vital Ground Foundation Inc$19,50020%
Selkirk Conservation Alliance$16,00028%
The Mountaineers$15,00010%
Forterra Nw$15,00010%
Show all 23 grantees

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($156k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget McDanel Land Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetConservation Nw: $164,000 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetIdaho Conservation League Inc: $85,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetAmerican Friends of Canadian Nature Inc: $78,000 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetThe Lands Council: $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetWashington Wild: $22,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetThe Vital Ground Foundation Inc: $19,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSelkirk Conservation Alliance: $16,000 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetThe Mountaineers: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetForterra Nw: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Digdeep Right to Water Project: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetXerces Society Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNorth Cascades Institute: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAldo Leopold Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUpstate Forever: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTeton Regional Land Trust Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Peregrine Fund Inc: $4,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSave Our Wild Salmon: $4,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMedic One Foundation: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSierra Club Foundation: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKeep Brevard Beautiful Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFlorida Wildlife Corridor Foundation Inc: $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 22.

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.

PatagoniaorgCA17× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Patagoniaorg · Seattle Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Hugh and Jane Ferguson Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment 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.

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How do I get to McDanel Land Foundation?

Find your warmest path to McDanel Land 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.

About McDanel Land Foundation

How much does McDanel Land Foundation give?
McDanel Land Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $102,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does McDanel Land Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (89%), Animals (4%), Public Benefit (4%).
Who are McDanel Land Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Conservation Nw ($164k), Idaho Conservation League Inc ($85k), American Friends of Canadian Nature Inc ($78k).
Does McDanel Land Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does McDanel Land 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 McDanel Land Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Patagoniaorg, Seattle Foundation, Mightycause Charitable Foundation.
Where is McDanel Land Foundation based?
McDanel Land 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 32 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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