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McLean Community Foundation
The MCLEAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION operates exclusively to promote local philanthropy and advance civic, educational and social interests for the benefit of the residents of the mclean planning district.
- $168k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $128k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $8,462
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $43,728
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 9
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.7M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations McLean Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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 | 11 | $128k | 45% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $123k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $109k | 56% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $81k | 44% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $85k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $94k | 57% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $27k | 67% |
| FY2017 | 5 | $76k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| McLean Volunteer Fire Dept Inc | $135,773 | 5 | 14% |
| The Women's Center | $50,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Capital Hospice | $47,550 | 4 | 0% |
| The Fairfax County Park Foundation Inc | $46,845 | 3 | 2% |
| The Friends of Pleasant Grove | $37,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Lewinsville Retirement Residence Inc | $31,812 | 3 | 0% |
| Virginia Congress of Parents and Teachers | $30,000 | 2 | 44% |
| Immanuel Presbyterian Church | $26,200 | 2 | n/a |
| The Arc of Northern Virginia | $25,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Bethany House of Northern Virginia Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 5% |
Show all 32 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
McLean Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: The Jv Schiro Zavela Foundation · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Matthew Korn and Cynthia Miller Family Foundation Inc · United Way of the National Capital Area · The Narang Foundation co Dawn Dale · The Harvey S Lowe Jr and Susan Hitchcock-Lowe Foundation · Heart Sing · Mars Hq Regional Foundation · Community Foundation for Loudoun and Northern Fauquier Counties · Rochester Area Community Foundation
How this is measured
About McLean Community Foundation
- How much does McLean Community Foundation give?
- McLean Community Foundation reported 11 itemized grants totaling $128,240, out of $168,413 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does McLean Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (21%), Health (18%), Arts & Culture (15%).
- Who are McLean Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: McLean Volunteer Fire Dept Inc ($136k), The Women's Center ($50k), Capital Hospice ($48k).
- Does McLean Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as McLean Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Jv Schiro Zavela Foundation, The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc, Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company.
- Where is McLean Community Foundation based?
- McLean Community Foundation is based in VA.
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