· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SNP FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS OF LESS THAN 500 PAID TO EACH GROUP | $4,975 |
| LUCY'S HEARTH | $1,000 |
| SOUTHCOAST HEALTH AT HOME VNA | $1,000 |
| A SAFE PLACE INC | $750 |
| TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| SALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY | $500 |
| HARVEY FOUNDATION INC | $500 |
| FAIRHAVEN HIGH SCHOOL HALL OF FAME | $500 |
| NANTUCKET ATHENEUM | $500 |
| TAPS | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–23, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NBNEW BEDFORD STAR KIDS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM5× · 2018–2023 · $13k · revenue +179%
- LHLUCY'S HEARTH6× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +42%
- SHSANKATY HEAD FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2023 · $5k · revenue +122%
Funded once
- SKSTAR KIDS SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2021 · $4k
- CFCATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF SE MASSone grant, 2024 · $3k
- MCMACLEAN CHILDREN'S FUND - NB VOCone grant, 2018 · $3k
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.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To protect, preserve and interpret the martime heritage of the lower Merrimack Valley region and how it relates to American History
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
The purpose of the corporation is to act as a not-for-profit organization with a primary mission of promoting the health of nantucket islands harbor and its marine ecosystem. the corporation will work with the nantucket department of…
The nantucket historical association preserves and interprets the history of nantucket through its programs, collections, and properties, in order to promote the island's significance and foster an appreciation of it among all audiences.
The alliance to protect nantucket sound is a 501(c)(3) non-profit environmental organization dedicated to the permanent preservation of nantucket sound, the historic body of water that lies between cape cod, martha's vineyard, and…
South shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
South shore hospital's primary exempt purpose is to provide health care services to the community including surgical, medical and other treatment of the sick and injured. south shore health system has an overarching mission for every…
New england legal foundation (nelf) is the leading non-profit public interest law firm in the region addressing policy and constitutional concerns related to free enterprise. its mission is promoting public discourse on the proper role of…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
North shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…
How this is measured
29 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. 29 of the 73 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 NEW BEDFORD STAR KIDS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds LUCY'S HEARTH ↗
- Who funds SANKATY HEAD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET ATHENEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Newport Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET LIGHTHOUSE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds EB RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE HARBORSAVE THE BAY INC ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT COUNTY REGIONAL YMCA ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds A SAFE PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds New Bedford Port Society ↗
- Who funds CASHMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Community Nurse Inc ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Maclean Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Maclean Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- A Safe Place Inc: 45% of income from government
- New Bedford Port Society: 41% of income from government
- Southcoast Community Foundation Inc: 10% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc: 4% of income from government
- New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center Inc: 3% of income from government
- Community Boating Center Inc: 1% of income from government
- South Florida Pbs Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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