· Private foundation
Robert McLean Foundation Tr
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $249k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $264k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STANDARDBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION | $146,000 |
| ANIMAL NATION | $66,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND ANIMAL HEALTH | $52,200 |
| OCEAN ALLIANCE | $46,000 |
| NEW FREEDOM FARM | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS OF KAREN INC | $24,000 |
| THE POUND ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY OF MONTCLAIR | $23,000 |
| MT PLEASANT ANIMAL SHELTER | $22,500 |
| ELEVENTH HOUR RESCUE | $20,000 |
| PUTNAM COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| WARRIOR RANCH FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| TEAM MOBILE FELINE UNIT | $12,000 |
| RMMS FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| PET RESCUE | $12,000 |
| RIP MEDICAL DEBT | $12,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
21 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k 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
- NENew England Animal Health Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $294k · revenue +263% · 100% of their budget
- OAOcean Alliance Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $219k · revenue +82%
- FOFRIENDS OF KAREN INC5× · 2020–2024 · $99k · revenue +21%
Funded once
BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONALgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $35k · revenue +128%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $20k
- ARAntler Ridge Wildlife Sanctuaryone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -116%
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.
Operate true "no-kill" animal sanctuary which provides rehabilitation to abused or abandoned domestic and factory farm animals on its 120 acre preserve.
The organization is an animal rescue and sanctuary that provides quality life to the animals who need it the most.
Animal rescue and adoption.
Animal shelter for the protection and care of abused and neglected animals.
The animal haven's misson is to provide a temporary, safe, caring and humane refuge for homeless dogs and cats and place these animals in quality adoptive homes.
Sanctuary for abused or abandoned animals
Dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation, and release of orphaned, injured and displaced wildlife. wildlife rescue rescues and cares for all wildlife, including native and nonnative species believing all animals are deserving of care,…
A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.
Rescue of abused or abandoned animals
ANIMAL RESCUE and adoption of animals
Our mission is to rescue, rehabilitate and provide safe haven for abandoned, abused and neglected companion and farm animals and promote humane education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pet Rescue Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is New England Animal Health Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 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 STANDARDBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds New England Animal Health Inc ↗
- Who funds Ocean Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL NATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF KAREN INC ↗
- Who funds MT PLEASANT ANIMAL SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds POUND ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY OF MONTCLAIR INC ↗
- Who funds PUTNAM COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC ↗
- Who funds New Freedom Farm Inc ↗
- Who funds HORSES HEALING HUMANS INC ↗
- Who funds THE 11TH HOUR ANIMAL RESCUE INC T/A ELEVENTH HOUR ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds THE WOMAN'S CLUB OF UPPER MONTCLAIR ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR RANCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PET RESCUE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Antler Ridge Wildlife Sanctuary ↗
- Who funds THE LAND CONSERVANCY OF NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds BOBBI AND THE STRAYS 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: American Express Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Robert McLean Foundation Tr 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The 11TH Hour Animal Rescue Inc T/a Eleventh Hour Animal Rescue — 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.