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McFarlane Foundation Inc at a glance

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McFarlane Foundation Inc

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.

$43k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$203kHealth$24kHuman Services$11kCivil Rights$5kInternational$3kFood & Nutrition$1kArts & Culture$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$262k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA$20,000
DONORS CHOOSE$7,617
PATH TO COLLEGE$6,000
TERMEER FOUNDATION$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI$2,000
THE GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK$1,054
STETSON UNIVERSITY$1,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TERMEER FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%THE GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK: $1k → 16%THE BISHOP'S SCHOOL: $7k → 11%FRACTURED ATLAS: $500 → 9%DONORS CHOOSE: $8k → 17%THE JUST SOCIETY: $5k → 14%CLARA'S SECRET SANTA: $1k → 11%STETSON UNIVERSITY: $1k → 12%SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS: $1k → 13%PARKINSONS'S FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%SAVE THE CHILDREN: $250 → 9%DAVIS PHINNEY FOUNDATION: $500 → 12%KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA FOUNDATION: $3k → 15%MONA FOUNDATION: $2k → 9%THE BISHOP'S SCHOOL: $7k → 11%DONORS CHOOSE: $4k → 17%FORGOTTEN SOLDIERS OUTREACH INC: $4k → 11%SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS: $1k → 13%DOLPHINS CANCER CHALLENGE: $486 → 15%MONA FOUNDATION: $500 → 9%THE BISHOP'S SCHOOL: $3k → 11%NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $5k → 17%PATH TO COLLEGE: $6k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: $2k → 15%RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $5k → 11%PATH TO COLLEGE: $3k → 11%THE BISHOP'S SCHOOL: $1k → 11%PATH TO COLLEGE: $3k → 11%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

WA
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
DC
FL
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$204k · 7 repeat orgs$44k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
14

Total granted

$204k
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-22%
+11%

Still filing today

57%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesInternationalArts & CultureOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $150k
  • BS
    BISHOP SCHOOL
    4× · 2017–2020 · $18k
  • PT
    PATH TO COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $12k · revenue -57%

Funded once

  • DA
    DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • TJ
    THE JUST SOCIETY
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -18%
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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
National Science and Technology Medals Foundation Inc

The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…

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3
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
4
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
5
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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6
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
7
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
8
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
9
The Poptech Institute

Poptech's mission is to accelerate the positive impact of world-changing people, projects and ideas. founded in 1996 by bob metcalfe (inventor, ethernet) and john sculley (apple, pepsi), poptech originally provided a forum to critically…

Education
10
The Trustees of the Smith College

Smith college educates women of promise for lives of distinction and purpose. a college of and for the world, smith college links the power of the liberal arts to excellence in research and scholarship, developing leaders for society's…

Education
11
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
12
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Parkinson's Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is University of Miami. 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

18 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. 18 of the 25 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
7/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA: $149,510 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDABISHOP SCHOOL: $17,500 · OtherBISHOP SCHOOL+8 more: $23,554 · Other+8 morePATH TO COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $12,124 · EducationPATH TO COLLEGE …DONORSCHOOSEORG: $11,280 · EducationDONORSCHOOSEORGKAPPA KAPPA GAMMA FOUNDATION: $9,500 · EducationKAPPA KAPPA GAMM…University of Miami: $2,000 · EducationUniversity of Mi…+1 more: $1,000 · EducationNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $5,000 · HealthPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · HealthTHE TERMEER INSTITUTE INC: $5,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $2,060 · HealthTHE JED FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Health+1 more: $486 · HealthMONA FOUNDATION: $2,250 · PhilanthropyFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $500 · Arts & CultureBACK ON MY FEET: $250 · Human ServicesSave The Children Federation Inc: $250 · International
Other$190,564Education$35,904Health$18,546Philanthropy$2,250Arts & Culture$500Human Services$250International$250

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 budgetPATH TO COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $12,124 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $11,280 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKAPPA KAPPA GAMMA FOUNDATION: $9,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TERMEER INSTITUTE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFORGOTTEN SOLDIER OUTREACH INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $2,060 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $1,054 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JED FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTETSON UNIVERSITY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDAVIS PHINNEY FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOLPHINS CYCLING CHALLENGE INC: $486 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBACK ON MY FEET: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $250 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.

Gs Donor Advised Phil…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY12.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 McFarlane Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McFarlane Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Stetson University Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 25 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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