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McLIN FAMILY FOUNDATION at a glance

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McLIN FAMILY FOUNDATION

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$260k
Granted FY2024still arriving
37
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$15k
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 2024.

Education$272kHuman Services$227kHealth$199kYouth Development$78kFood & Nutrition$51kCommunity Improvement$40kAnimals$40kArts & Culture$35kOther$0
02FY2024 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k29 grants · $165k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $95k
$7,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$361k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Las Trampas$15,000
Coachella Valley Rescue Mission$15,000
South County Youth Coalition$15,000
Care Ring$10,000
Bighorn Behind a Miracle$10,000
The College Preparatory School$10,000
Bay Area Crisis Nursery$10,000
Pink Ribbon Good$10,000
Claremont McKenna College - Womens Golf$7,500
There With Care$7,500
Joybound People and Pets$7,500
Culinary Angels$7,500
Vistability$7,500
Make it Better Agents$7,500
Lafayette Library and Learning Ctr$7,500
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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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $159k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 37% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Brides Across America: $1k → 10%Canine Companions for Independence: $1k → 9%Lighthouse for the Blind: $1k → 10%Frost Valley YMCA: $2k → 16%Cruces Creatives: $1k → 23%One Simple Wish: $5k → 11%Comfort Cases: $1k → 8%Extra-Ordinary Birthdays: $1k → 11%Las Trampas: $15k → 9%Canine Companions for Independence: $1k → 9%Taking the Reins: $1k → 14%Las Trampas: $10k → 9%Las Trampas: $5k → 9%Las Trampas: $5k → 9%Little Miracles Inc: $3k → 10%Little Miracles Inc: $1k → 10%Las Trampas: $1k → 9%Las Trampas: $1k → 9%Las Trampas: $1k → 9%Coachella Valley Rescue Mission: $15k → 11%Coachella Valley Rescue Mission: $10k → 11%Coachella Valley Rescue Mission: $10k → 11%Las Trampas: $300 → 9%Coachella Valley Rescue Mission: $3k → 11%Coachella Valley Rescue Mission: $2k → 11%Coachella Valley Rescue Mission: $2k → 11%Coachella Valley Rescue Mission: $1k → 11%Coachella Valley Rescue Mission: $1k → 11%Meals on Wheels-Diablo Region: $8k → 9%Meals on Wheels-Diablo Region: $5k → 9%Meals on Wheels-Diablo Region: $2k → 9%Meals on Wheels-Diablo Region: $2k → 9%Set to Thrive: $3k → 9%Set to Thrive: $1k → 9%Xenophon Therapeutic Riding Center: $3k → 9%Xenophon Therapeutic Riding Center: $1k → 9%Xenophon Therapeutic Riding Center: $1k → 9%Vestia: $5k → 9%Vestia: $3k → 9%Vestia: $3k → 9%Vestia: $3k → 9%Vistability: $8k → 9%Vistability: $5k → 9%Vistability: $5k → 9%Vistability: $3k → 9%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

ME
VT
WA
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
SD
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
NC
DC
TX
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$847k · 70 repeat orgs$211k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

70 repeat relationships: 35 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

70
93

Total granted

$847k
$199k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+33%

Still filing today

63%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationAnimalsPublic BenefitArts & 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

  • CV
    COACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $44k · revenue +140%
  • LT
    Las Trampas School Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $38k · revenue +80%
  • TC
    THE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL
    5× · 2020–2024 · $27k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • SU
    Stanford University Dept 34478
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • SU
    Stanford University Engineering
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • UH
    UCSF Helen Diller Fam Compre Cancer
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
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
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
2
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
3
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
4
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
5
Sacramento Region Community Foundation

The Sacramento Region Community Foundation leads, serves, and inspires enduring philanthropy for a just and vibrant Sacramento region.

Philanthropy
6
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.

Philanthropy
7
California Life Sciences Association

Clsa advances californias world-leading life sciences innovation ecosystem by advocating for effective national, state and local public policies and supporting entrepreneurs and life sciences businesses.

Community Improvement
8
San Francisco Casa

San Francisco CASA transforms the lives of children and youth traumatized and displaced in the foster care and related systems by providing one consistent, caring volunteer advocate, trained to address each childs needs in the court and…

Civil Rights
9
California Dental Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.

Science & Tech
10
SFMade Inc

Our mission is to help manufacturers thrive, innovate, and create good jobs, for a more diverse and sustainable Bay Area.

Community Improvement
11
San Francisco Film Society

SFFILM is a nonprofit organization whose mission ensures independent voices in film are welcomed, heard, and given the resources to thrive. SFFILM connects and inspires audiences, students and teachers, and filmmakers through our film…

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12
Pasadena Community Foundation

Pasadena Community Foundation builds and preserves permanently endowed charitable funds, provides grants and assistance to nurture and strengthen community organizations, serves donors to meet their philanthropic goals and promotes and…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Big League Impact 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

93 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. 93 of the 168 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
89/93
Grantees still filing
74/93
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAVE LAFAYETTE: $38,000 · OtherSAVE LAFAYETTEClaremont McKenna College - Womens Golf: $30,500 · OtherClaremont McKenna College - Womens GolfChemical Biomolecular Engin Prtnrs: $25,000 · OtherBAY AREA CRISIS NURSERY: $25,000 · OtherBighorn Behind a Miracle: $24,500 · OtherStanford University Dept 34478: $20,000 · Other+106 more: $378,725 · Other+106 moreCOACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION: $44,000 · Human ServicesCOACHELLA VALLEY …Las Trampas School Inc: $38,300 · Human ServicesLas Trampas Schoo…VISTABILITY: $20,500 · Human ServicesVISTABILITYMEALS ON WHEELS DIABLO REGION: $16,500 · Human ServicesMEALS ON WHEELS D…VESTIA INC: $13,500 · Human ServicesVESTIA INC+14 more: $30,000 · Human Services+14 moreTHE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $27,000 · EducationTHE COLLEGE PRE…University of Illinois Foundation: $25,000 · EducationUniversity of I…Lafayette Partners in Education: $24,500 · EducationLafayette Partn…Read With Me Volunteer Programs: $16,500 · EducationRead With Me Vo…THE GIRLFRIEND FACTOR: $15,500 · EducationTHE GIRLFRIEND …THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $12,500 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TR…UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $12,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF W…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationDESERT SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Education+2 more: $3,600 · EducationTHE JACQUALYN PALCHAK CANCER FUND: $22,000 · HealthTHE JACQU…GABLE HEART BEATS FOUNDATION: $20,500 · HealthGABLE HEA…PINK RIBBON GOOD INC: $20,000 · HealthPINK RIBB…Care Ring Inc: $19,000 · HealthCare Ring…+7 more: $9,100 · Health+7 moreSOUTH COUNTY YOUTH COALITION: $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO: $22,500 · Youth DevelopmentCAMPAIGN ONE AT A TIME: $4,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentCulinary Angels: $12,500 · Food & NutritionFOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC: $9,000 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS OF ALAMEDA COUNTY: $5,500 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO: $5,000 · Food & NutritionCARING FOR MILITARY FAMILIES THE ELIZABETH DOLE FOUNDATION: $13,500 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $4,250 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $4,000 · Public BenefitTRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Public BenefitWreaths Across America: $2,500 · Public BenefitBLACK HORSE FORGE INC: $2,000 · Public Benefit+1 more: $1,000 · Public Benefit
Other$541,725Human Services$162,800Education$146,600Health$90,600Youth Development$72,500Food & Nutrition$32,000Public Benefit$30,250

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 budgetSOUTH COUNTY YOUTH COALITION: $45,000 over 6y, 8.5% of budgetCOACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION: $44,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLas Trampas School Inc: $38,300 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTHE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $27,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBAY AREA CRISIS NURSERY: $25,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLafayette Partners in Education: $24,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO: $22,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JACQUALYN PALCHAK CANCER FUND: $22,000 over 7y, 8.0% of budgetVISTABILITY: $20,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGABLE HEART BEATS FOUNDATION: $20,500 over 5y, 21% of budgetPINK RIBBON GOOD INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCare Ring Inc: $19,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRead With Me Volunteer Programs: $16,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS DIABLO REGION: $16,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GIRLFRIEND FACTOR: $15,500 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FIRST TEE: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCARING FOR MILITARY FAMILIES THE ELIZABETH DOLE FOUNDATION: $13,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVESTIA INC: $13,500 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetWinter Nights Family Shelter Inc: $12,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCulinary Angels: $12,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAchievement For All Children: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSan Ramon Library Foundation: $8,500 over 5y, 6.9% of budgetJoybound People and Pets FKA Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKQED INC: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF ALAMEDA COUNTY: $5,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetONE SIMPLE WISH INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDESERT SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLAFAYETTE POLICE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGENERATIONS IN JAZZ FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetBUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEGAL SERVICES FOR CHILDREN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetXENOPHON THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $4,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $4,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAMPAIGN ONE AT A TIME: $4,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetFieldHaven Feline Center: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLittle Miracles Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSET TO THRIVE: $3,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCONSERVATION SOCIETY OF CALIFORNIA: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLewa Wildlife Conservancy USA: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMoraga Education Foundation: $3,000 over 3y, 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.

  • Who funds SOUTH COUNTY YOUTH COALITION ↗
  • Who funds COACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds Las Trampas School Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds BAY AREA CRISIS NURSERY ↗
  • Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Lafayette Partners in Education ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
  • Who funds THE JACQUALYN PALCHAK CANCER FUND ↗
  • Who funds VISTABILITY ↗
  • Who funds GABLE HEART BEATS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PINK RIBBON GOOD INC ↗
  • Who funds Care Ring Inc ↗
  • Who funds Read With Me Volunteer Programs ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS DIABLO REGION ↗
  • Who funds THE GIRLFRIEND FACTOR ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FIRST TEE ↗
  • Who funds CARING FOR MILITARY FAMILIES THE ELIZABETH DOLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds VESTIA INC ↗
  • Who funds Winter Nights Family Shelter Inc ↗
  • Who funds Culinary Angels ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Achievement For All Children ↗

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.

Lowell Berry Foundati…East Bay Community Fo…Shell USA Company Fou…Jewish Community Fede…The Yelp FoundationSan Jose Mercury News…Marin Community Found…ImpactassetsincHeffernan Group Found…California Foundation…Barlow Family Foundat…Cheng's Foundation
Lowell Berry FoundationCA25.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lowell Berry Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Yelp Foundation · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc · Marin Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Heffernan Group Foundation · California Foundation for Stronger Communities · Barlow Family Foundation · Cheng's 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 McLIN FAMILY FOUNDATION funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McLIN FAMILY FOUNDATION. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Comfort Cases Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 168 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home