Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Maclean Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $16k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 58%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 19
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $10k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 58% of the organizations The Maclean Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 48% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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 | 12 | $16k | 58% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $17k | 58% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $21k | 45% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $18k | 53% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $19k | 62% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $25k | 58% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $21k | 58% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $31k | 92% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Bedford Star Kids Scholarship Program | $13,425 | 5 | 1% |
| Lucy's Hearth | $6,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Sankaty Head Foundation Inc | $5,250 | 6 | 0% |
| Nantucket Atheneum Inc | $3,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Newport Hospital Foundation | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Nantucket Lighthouse School Inc | $2,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Eb Research Partnership Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Semper Fi & America's Fund | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Save the Harborsave the Bay Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Newport County Regional YMCA | $1,750 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($130k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Maclean Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · The Carney Family Charitable Foundation · Southcoast Community Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Enable Hope Foundation · Thomas a Rodgers Jr Family Foundation · Nantucket Golf Club Foundation Inc · Alvord Family Foundation · The Ludes Family Foundation · William E Schrafft and Bertha E Schrafft Charitable Trust · Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc · Island Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About The Maclean Charitable Foundation
- How much does The Maclean Charitable Foundation give?
- The Maclean Charitable Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $16,225 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Maclean Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (43%), Education (14%), Health (9%).
- Who are The Maclean Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: New Bedford Star Kids Scholarship Program ($13k), Lucy's Hearth ($6k), Sankaty Head Foundation Inc ($5k).
- Does The Maclean Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 58% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Maclean Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Maclean Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc, The Carney Family Charitable Foundation, Southcoast Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Maclean Charitable Foundation based?
- The Maclean Charitable Foundation is based in MA.
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