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The Dunvegan Foundation of the Clan McLeod USA Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$43k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$118kEducation$92kPhilanthropy$21kEnvironment$7kReligion$5kCivil Rights$4kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$444k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
US Piping Foundation$5,000
Mill Prong Preservation Inc$5,000
Clan MacLeod Society USA$3,345
Individual grant recipient$3,000
College of Wooster$3,000
St Thomas Episcopal School$3,000
Scottish Society of Wilmington$2,500
Federation of US Teachers and Adju$2,500
Scottish-American Cultural Society$2,000
Lyon College$2,000
St Andrews University$2,000
Scottish Partnership for Arts Educ$2,000
Old Dominion University$2,000
Clan MacLeod Heritage Trust$1,655
Individual grant recipient$1,500
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.

US giving: 90% of grant dollars ($244k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 10% that went abroad ($28k) is mapped below.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 48% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%US Piping Foundation: $5k → 10%FEDERATION OF US TEACHERS &: $3k → 14%ST THOMAS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $7k → 16%Clan MacLeod Society USA: $3k → 12%SCOTTISH SOCIETY OF WILMINGTON: $5k → 9%Mill Prong Preservation Inc: $5k → 10%Highland Echoes: $2k → 12%St Andrews University: $2k → 24%College of Wooster: $4k → 10%Scottish-American Cultural Soc of O: $4k → 17%Slighe nan Gaidheal: $4k → 9%US Piping Foundation: $5k → 10%Federation of US Teachers Adjudicat: $3k → 14%St Thomas Episcopal School: $3k → 16%Clan MacLeod Society USA: $3k → 12%Scottish Society of Wilmington: $5k → 9%HIGHLAND ECHOES: $2k → 12%St Andrews University: $2k → 24%College of Wooster: $3k → 10%SCOTTISH-AMERICAN CULTURAL SOCIETY: $2k → 17%Slighe nan Gaidheal: $4k → 9%US PIPING FOUNDATION: $4k → 10%FEDERATION OF UNITED STATES TEACHER: $3k → 14%St Thomas Episcopal School: $3k → 16%CLAN MACLEOD USA: $2k → 12%SCOTTISH SOCIETY OF WILMINGTON: $3k → 9%ST ANDREWS UNIVERSITY: $2k → 24%COLLEGE OF WOOSTER: $3k → 10%Scottish-American Cultural Society: $2k → 17%SLIGHE NAN GAIDHEAL: $3k → 9%THE UNITED STATES PIPING FOUNDATION: $4k → 10%Federation of US Teachers and Adju: $3k → 14%ST THOMAS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $3k → 16%Clan MacLeod Society: $2k → 12%Scottish Society of Wilmington: $3k → 9%ST ANDREWS UNIVERSITY: $2k → 24%College of Wooster: $3k → 10%Scottish-American Cultural Society: $2k → 17%Slighe nan Gaidheal: $3k → 9%US PIPING FOUNDATION: $4k → 10%Federation of US Teachers and Adju: $3k → 14%St Andrews University: $2k → 24%COLLEGE OF WOOSTER: $3k → 10%SCOTTISH-AMERICAN CULTURAL SOCIETY: $2k → 17%SLIGHE NAN GAIDHEAL: $2k → 9%THE UNITED STATES PIPING FOUNDATION: $4k → 10%FEDERATION OF US TEACHERS &: $2k → 14%US Piping Foundation: $4k → 10%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

WA
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
AR
NC
GA
TX

Beyond the US: 10% of all-years giving ($28k)

2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
United Kingdom$19k · 15 grants
Australia$9k · 2 grants
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$246k · 31 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

31 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
7

Total granted

$246k
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+10%

Still filing today

16%
14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationOther
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

  • THE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER
    7× · 2017–2024 · $19k · revenue +17%
  • LC
    LYON COLLEGE
    7× · 2017–2024 · $14k · revenue +90%
  • SA
    ST ANDREWS UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2017–2024 · $14k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • CM
    CLAN MACLEOD SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • SC
    Scottish-American Cultural Soc of O
    one grant, 2020 · $4k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $4k
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
04the grantee network

6 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 6 of the 39 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
6/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST THOMAS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $22,000 · OtherST THOMAS EPISCOPAL SCHOOLUS Piping Foundation: $21,000 · OtherUS Piping FoundationIndividual grant recipient: $18,750 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSCOTTISH SOCIETY OF WILMINGTON: $16,000 · OtherSCOTTISH SOCIETY OF WILMINGTONOld Dominion University: $14,000 · OtherOld Dominion UniversityST ANDREWS UNIVERSITY: $14,000 · OtherST ANDREWS UNIVERSITYClan MacLeod Heritage Trust: $11,585 · OtherScottish-American Cultural Society: $8,000 · OtherClan MacLeod Society USA: $7,845 · Other+25 more: $89,335 · Other+25 moreTHE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER: $19,000 · EducationTHE COLLEGE O…LYON COLLEGE: $14,000 · EducationLYON COLLEGEELLEN PAYNE ODOM GENEALOGY LIBRARY INC: $7,000 · Arts & CultureScottish Cultural Outreach Foundation: $6,600 · Arts & CultureCaledonian Society of Arizona: $2,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$222,515Education$33,000Arts & Culture$15,600

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 budgetTHE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER: $19,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLYON COLLEGE: $14,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetST ANDREWS UNIVERSITY: $14,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetELLEN PAYNE ODOM GENEALOGY LIBRARY INC: $7,000 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetScottish Cultural Outreach Foundation: $6,600 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetCaledonian Society of Arizona: $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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 THE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER ↗
  • Who funds LYON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds ST ANDREWS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ELLEN PAYNE ODOM GENEALOGY LIBRARY INC ↗
  • Who funds Scottish Cultural Outreach Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Caledonian Society of Arizona ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 The Dunvegan Foundation of the Clan McLeod USA Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dunvegan Foundation of the Clan McLeod USA Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report 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.
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    Find your warmest path to The Dunvegan Foundation of the Clan McLeod USA Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 39 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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