Alabama · Private foundation
McWane Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $567k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $14,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $125,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 36
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $21M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations McWane 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; $93k 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 | 21 | $567k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $434k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $2.0M | 33% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $2.0M | 39% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $738k | 48% |
| FY2020 | 36 | $4.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| McWane Science Center | $5,500,000 | 3 | 37% |
| A G Gaston Boys and Girls Club | $650,000 | 4 | 18% |
| Mahaska County YMCA | $250,000 | 1 | 2% |
| YMCA | $200,000 | 1 | 18% |
| Glenwood Inc | $200,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Freshwater Land Trust | $195,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Birmingham Education Foundation | $140,000 | 3 | 5% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Vulcan Park Foundation | $114,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Innovation Depot Inc | $99,999 | 3 | 3% |
Show all 45 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
McWane Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 42 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Protective Life Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Altecstyslinger Foundation · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · The Joseph S Bruno Charitable Foundation · The Maynard Nexsen Foundation · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · The Hugh Kaul Foundation · Robert R Meyer Foundation
How this is measured
About McWane Foundation
- How much does McWane Foundation give?
- McWane Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $567,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 36 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does McWane Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Science & Tech (58%), Education (10%), Youth Development (7%).
- Who are McWane Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: McWane Science Center ($5.5M), A G Gaston Boys and Girls Club ($650k), Mahaska County YMCA ($250k).
- Does McWane Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does McWane Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as McWane Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Protective Life Foundation, The Daniel Foundation of Alabama, Alabama Power Foundation Inc.
- Where is McWane Foundation based?
- McWane Foundation is based in AL.
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