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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 FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$44k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Public Safety & Disaster$157kHealth$131kArts & Culture$110kEducation$89kHuman Services$68kRecreation & Sports$64kReligion$37kHousing & Shelter$32kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $128,240, the rows itemized in this filing. The $168,413 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $40,173 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $89k
$8,462
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
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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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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 5%SPIRIT OPEN EQUESTRIAN PROGRAM INC: $10k → 6%LANGLEY RESIDENTIAL SUPPORT SERVICES INC: $7k → 6%SAFESPOT OF FAIRFAX: $6k → 6%SAFESPOT OF FARIFAX: $5k → 6%BETHANY HOUSE OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC: $25k → 6%NAVY MARINE COAST GUARD RESIDENCE FOUNDATION: $6k → 6%NAVY MARINE COAST GUARD RESIDENCE FOUNDATION: $5k → 6%CAPITAL CARING HEALTH: $20k → 6%CAPITAL CARING HEALTH: $15k → 6%CAPITAL CARING HEALTH: $6k → 6%CAPITAL CARING HEALTH: $6k → 6%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.
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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$494k · 13 repeat orgs$229k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
14

Total granted

$494k
$186k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
0%

Still filing today

85%
93%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthPublic Safety & DisasterCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • MV
    MCLEAN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC
    5× · 2017–2025 · $136k · revenue +140%
  • TW
    The Women's Center
    2× · 2021–2023 · $50k · revenue +4%
  • TF
    THE FAIRFAX COUNTY PARK FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2017–2024 · $47k · revenue +562%

Funded once

  • TA
    The Arc of Northern Virginiagraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $26k · revenue +34%
  • BH
    BETHANY HOUSE OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +38%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE COMMUNITY CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
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
Virginia Coalition for Progressive Values

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.

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2
Virginia Congress of Parents and Teachers Lcta Pta

Parent teacher association

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3
Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities

VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.

Civil Rights
4
Virginia Community Development Corp

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.

Housing & Shelter
5
Virginia Congress of Parents & Teachers

To promote the welfare of children in home, school, church, and community

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6
Virginia Congress of Parents and Teachers Douglas MacArthur Elementary School Pta

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…

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7
Virginia Community Action Partnership Inc

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…

Human Services
8
Good Shepherd Episcopal School

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…

Education
9
Voices for Virginia's Children

The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.

Civil Rights
10
Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy

Working within the faith community to educate and mobilize citizen to create systemic social change for low income Virginians.

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11
Aia Virginia

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.

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12
Endependence Center of Northern Va

Education, assistance and training relating to individuals with disabilities.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bethany House of Northern Virginia Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
16/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Women's Center: $50,000 · OtherThe Women's CenterTHE FRIENDS OF PLEASANT GROVE: $37,500 · OtherTHE FRIENDS OF PLEASANT GROVEVIRGINIA CONGRESS OF PARENTS AND TEACHERS: $30,000 · OtherVIRGINIA CONGRESS OF PARENTS AND TEACHERSIMMANUEL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $26,200 · OtherIMMANUEL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHThe Arc of Northern Virginia: $25,500 · OtherThe Arc of Northern VirginiaFRIENDS OF THE COMMUNITY CENTER: $25,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE COMMUNITY CENTERVirginia Congress of Parents and Chester brook Elementary PTA: $15,000 · OtherSHARE INCORPORATED: $15,000 · OtherLUTHERAN CHURCH OF THE REDEEMER: $10,500 · OtherVirginia Congress of Parents and Teachers: $10,148 · Other+7 more: $55,950 · Other+7 moreMCLEAN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC: $135,773 · Public Safety & DisasterMCLEAN VOLUNTEER FIRE D…NETWORK FOR GOOD: $21,000 · Public Safety & DisasterNETWORK FOR GOODCapital Hospice: $47,550 · Human ServicesCapital HospiceBETHANY HOUSE OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesBETHANY HOUSE OF …THE SAFE CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $11,650 · Human ServicesTHE SAFE CHILDREN…Navy Marine Coast Guard Residence Foundation: $11,430 · Human ServicesNavy Marine Coast…SPIRIT OPEN EQUESTRIAN PROGRAM INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesSPIRIT OPEN EQUES…LANGLEY RESIDENTIAL SUPPORT SERVICES INC: $6,800 · Human ServicesLANGLEY RESIDENTI…TRAVELING PLAYERS ENSEMBLE INC: $23,940 · Arts & CultureTRAVELING…1ST STAGE INC: $18,395 · Arts & Culture1ST STAGE…MCLEAN PROJECT FOR THE ARTS: $10,000 · Arts & CultureMCLEAN PR…NORTHERN VIRGINIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHERN …THE FAIRFAX COUNTY PARK FOUNDATION INC: $46,845 · Community ImprovementSTROKE COMEBACK CENTER: $23,242 · HealthNATIONAL CAPITAL TREATMENT AND RECOVERY: $10,000 · HealthLewinsville Retirement Residence Inc: $31,812 · Housing & Shelter
Other$300,798Public Safety & Disaster$156,773Human Services$112,430Arts & Culture$62,335Community Improvement$46,845Health$33,242Housing & Shelter$31,812

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMCLEAN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC: $135,773 over 5y, 14% of budgetThe Women's Center: $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCapital Hospice: $47,550 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FAIRFAX COUNTY PARK FOUNDATION INC: $46,845 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetLewinsville Retirement Residence Inc: $31,812 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetVIRGINIA CONGRESS OF PARENTS AND TEACHERS: $30,000 over 2y, 44% of budgetThe Arc of Northern Virginia: $25,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBETHANY HOUSE OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetTRAVELING PLAYERS ENSEMBLE INC: $23,940 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetSTROKE COMEBACK CENTER: $23,242 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $21,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget1ST STAGE INC: $18,395 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetVirginia Congress of Parents and Chester brook Elementary PTA: $15,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetSHARE INCORPORATED: $15,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHE SAFE CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $11,650 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNavy Marine Coast Guard Residence Foundation: $11,430 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVirginia Congress of Parents and Teachers: $10,148 over 1y, 25% of budgetVirginia Congress of Parents and Teachers: $10,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetMCLEAN PROJECT FOR THE ARTS: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNORTHERN VIRGINIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSPIRIT OPEN EQUESTRIAN PROGRAM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetFairfax Library Foundation: $9,390 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMCLEAN CREW CLUB INC: $6,800 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetLANGLEY RESIDENTIAL SUPPORT SERVICES INC: $6,800 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFALLS CHURCH-MCLEAN CHILDRENS CENTER INC: $5,260 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

The Jv Schiro Zavela …The Community Foundat…Philip L Graham Fund …Dominion Energy Chari…The Matthew Korn and …United Way of the Nat…The Narang Foundation…The Harvey S Lowe Jr …Heart SingMars Hq Regional Foun…Community Foundation …Rochester Area Commun…
The Jv Schiro Zavela FoundationVA26.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Capital Hospice: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 33 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 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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