New Jersey · Private foundation
Robert McLean Foundation Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $629k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $16,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $111,600
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 23
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations Robert McLean Foundation Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 26 | $629k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $538k | 30% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $407k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $342k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $301k | 19% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $529k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standardbred Retirement Foundation Inc | $682,000 | 6 | 7% |
| New England Animal Health Inc | $405,800 | 6 | 100% |
| Ocean Alliance Inc | $277,500 | 6 | 5% |
| Animal Nation Inc | $208,000 | 6 | 16% |
| Friends of Karen Inc | $123,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Pound Animal Welfare Society of Montclair Inc | $106,000 | 4 | 32% |
| Mt Pleasant Animal Shelter Inc | $104,500 | 5 | 3% |
| The Seeing Eye Inc | $80,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Putnam County Humane Society Inc | $73,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Paws for Life K9 Rescue | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 25 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($288k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Robert McLean Foundation Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 20 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: 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
How this is measured
About Robert McLean Foundation Trust
- How much does Robert McLean Foundation Trust give?
- Robert McLean Foundation Trust reported 26 grants totaling $628,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 23 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Robert McLean Foundation Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (83%), Health (8%), Human Services (2%).
- Who are Robert McLean Foundation Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Standardbred Retirement Foundation Inc ($682k), New England Animal Health Inc ($406k), Ocean Alliance Inc ($278k).
- Does Robert McLean Foundation Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Robert McLean Foundation Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Robert McLean Foundation Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Express Foundation, The Pfizer Foundation Inc, Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc.
- Where is Robert McLean Foundation Trust based?
- Robert McLean Foundation Trust is based in NJ.
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