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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $128,240 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $168,413 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $40,173 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $89k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MCLEAN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC | $43,728 |
| VIRGINIA CONGRESS OF PARENTS AND TEACHERS AKA LEMON ROAD ELEM PTA | $15,000 |
| LUTHERAN CHURCH OF THE REDEEMER | $10,500 |
| SHAKESPEARE OPERA THEATRE INC | $10,000 |
| NORTHERN VIRGINIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION (CHILDREN'S SCIENCE CENTER) | $10,000 |
| LEWINSVILLE RETIREMENT RESIDENCE INC | $8,462 |
| MCLEAN CREW CLUB INC | $6,800 |
| CAPITAL CARING HEALTH | $6,400 |
| SAFESPOT OF FAIRFAX | $6,250 |
| FIRST STAGE INC | $5,600 |
| MCLEAN TREES FOUNDATION | $5,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $112k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 5%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- MVMCLEAN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC5× · 2017–2025 · $136k · revenue +205%
- TWThe Women's Center2× · 2021–2023 · $50k · revenue +4%
- TFTHE FAIRFAX COUNTY PARK FOUNDATION INC3× · 2017–2024 · $47k · revenue +562%
Funded once
- TAThe Arc of Northern Virginiagraduatedone grant, 2023 · $26k · revenue +34%
- BHBETHANY HOUSE OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +38%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE COMMUNITY CENTERone grant, 2020 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To establish an effective, long-term and resilient political infrastructure that advocates for and delivers public policy victories which reflect the values held in common by our members.
Parent teacher association
VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.
VCDC delivers vital financial resources and support while collaborating with local organizations dedicated to social impact, ensuring the creation of affordable homes in vibrant neighborhoods where everyone can thrive.
To promote the welfare of children in home, school, church, and community
The PTA's mission is to make every child's potential a reality by engaging and empowering families and communities to advocate for all children. As the MacArthur Elementary PTA, we provide support and services to students, teachers and…
Virginia community action partnership (vacap) is the statewide membership association for virginia's thirty-one non-profit and public community action agencies. vacaps mission is to build the capacity and competencies of virginias…
The mission of Good Shepherd Episcopal School is to inspire each child to achieve academic excellence within a diverse, nurturing community that builds character and fosters respect for one another and our shared environment, locally and…
The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.
Working within the faith community to educate and mobilize citizen to create systemic social change for low income Virginians.
AIA Virginia is the voice of the architecture profession in the Commonwealth of Virginia dedicated to serving its members, advancing their value, and improving the quality of the built environment.
Education, assistance and training relating to individuals with disabilities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bethany House of Northern Virginia Inc and the most unlike its peers is Traveling Players Ensemble Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 33 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MCLEAN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC ↗
- Who funds The Women's Center ↗
- Who funds Capital Hospice ↗
- Who funds THE FAIRFAX COUNTY PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Lewinsville Retirement Residence Inc ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA CONGRESS OF PARENTS AND TEACHERS ↗
- Who funds The Arc of Northern Virginia ↗
- Who funds BETHANY HOUSE OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds TRAVELING PLAYERS ENSEMBLE INC ↗
- Who funds STROKE COMEBACK CENTER ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds 1ST STAGE INC ↗
- Who funds Virginia Congress of Parents and Chester brook Elementary PTA ↗
- Who funds SHARE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE SAFE CHILDREN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Navy Marine Coast Guard Residence Foundation ↗
- Who funds Virginia Congress of Parents and Teachers ↗
- Who funds Virginia Congress of Parents and Teachers ↗
- Who funds MCLEAN PROJECT FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CAPITAL TREATMENT AND RECOVERY ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN VIRGINIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPIRIT OPEN EQUESTRIAN PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Fairfax Library Foundation ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA CONGRESS OF PARENTS AND TEACHERS ↗
- Who funds LANGLEY RESIDENTIAL SUPPORT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MCLEAN CREW CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds FALLS CHURCH-MCLEAN CHILDRENS CENTER INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization McLean Community Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Capital Hospice — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.