New York · Private foundation
McLain Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $68k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $6,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 35
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $459k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations McLain Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 10 | $68k | 70% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $63k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $64k | 78% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $60k | 3% |
| FY2021 | 35 | $65k | 23% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $60k | 13% |
| FY2019 | 35 | $58k | 9% |
| FY2018 | 34 | $59k | 12% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Holy Family Communications | $101,251 | 8 | 1% |
| Roswell Park Alliance Foundation | $51,000 | 9 | 0% |
| United States Fund for Unicef | $18,125 | 3 | 0% |
| Friends of the World Food Program Inc | $16,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Children's Hospital of Buffalo Foundation | $12,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Autism Services Inc | $11,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Oxfam-America Inc | $11,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Word of Life Church Buffalo | $8,500 | 3 | n/a |
| The Salvation Army | $7,500 | 6 | n/a |
| Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc | $6,500 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 42 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($222k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget McLain Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · The John R Oishei Foundation · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · Children's Foundation of Erie County Inc · James H Cummings Foundation Inc · The Saperston Family Foundation · The Osc Charitable Foundation · Cullen Foundation · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc · Clement and Karen Arrison Family Charitable Foundation · The Hunt Charitable Foundation Inc · Red Top Foundation
How this is measured
About McLain Foundation
- How much does McLain Foundation give?
- McLain Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $68,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 35 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does McLain Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (36%), Religion (23%), International (11%).
- Who are McLain Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Holy Family Communications ($101k), Roswell Park Alliance Foundation ($51k), United States Fund for Unicef ($18k).
- Does McLain Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does McLain Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as McLain Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc, The John R Oishei Foundation, The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation.
- Where is McLain Foundation based?
- McLain Foundation is based in NY.
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