· Private foundation
The Maclean Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of The Maclean Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Community Foundation Of Louisville Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year The Maclean Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $36k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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 |
|---|---|
| THE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE | $6,000 |
| THE HEALING PLACE | $6,000 |
| DREAMS WITH WINGS | $6,000 |
| PAWS WITH PURPOSE | $6,000 |
| THE CENTER FOR WOMEN & FAMILIES | $6,000 |
| FAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE | $6,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $111k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +47% since the first grant, against +40% for those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down. Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- THTHE HEALING PLACE INC7× · 2017–2024 · $28k · revenue +14%
- TCTHE CENTER FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC5× · 2020–2024 · $27k · revenue +47%
- PWPAWS WITH PURPOSE INC5× · 2018–2024 · $22k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- DTDARE TO CARE INCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +16%
THE AMERICAN CHESTNUT FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +40%- WEWest End School Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +46%
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.
Our mission is to break the cycle of addiction and trauma for women, children, and families.
Abilitypath housing advances affordable, accessible housing projects that promote independence and inclusive communities for adults with developmental disabilities. through partnerships and innovative program designs, abilitypath housing…
Mission: together we advance the quality of life for people with disabilities. vision: people of all abilities thrive in the world. values: impact- generate solutions that make a difference. choice - create opportunities for people to lead…
Empower people with special needs to achieve their full potential through innovative, inclusive programs and community partnerships.
The neighborhood reinvestment corporation (d.b.a neighborworks america) is a congressionally chartered public non-profit corporation that creates opportunities for people to live in affordable homes, improve their lives, and strengthen…
Goodwill's mission is to help people with disabilities or other disadvantages achieve and maintain employment to gain a better quality of life.
Opportunities, inc. of jefferson county provides services for individuals for the purpose of maximizing their success and enhancing their abilities to be independent, contributing members of the community.
Day spring provides a path forward for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities through services that cultivate hope, belonging, and community.we envision every person being valued and having a path forward regardless of…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
We partner with children and adults with disabilities and their families so they may live more meaningful, healthy, and independent lives in their homes and communities.
To empower individuals with disabilities and their families to lead fulfilled and productive lives. harbor house empowers individuals through employment, education, and community building opportunities.
How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 52 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 THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HEALING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PAWS WITH PURPOSE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds DREAMS WITH WINGS INC ↗
- Who funds APPLE PATCH COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds DARE TO CARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN CHESTNUT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds West End School Inc ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds FRONTIER NURSING SERVICE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF OLDHAM COUNTY ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF KENTUCKIANA INC ↗
- Who funds St Elizabeth Catholic Charities Inc ↗
- Who funds HOSPARUS INC HOSPARUS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds WAYSIDE CHRISTIAN MISSION ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Republic Bank Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Norton Healthcare Inc · Kosair Charities Committee Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Maclean Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Maclean Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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