· Private foundation
The Mary Gaylord McClean Foundation (Formerly Mary Gaylord Foundation)
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $336k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $48,000 |
| GREEN HILL THERAPY | $30,000 |
| WOODY WILLIAMS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| COACH STONE NONPROFIT FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| FIELDSTONE FARM FOUNDATION INC | $20,000 |
| OPERATION CARE INC | $20,000 |
| HORSESENSING INC | $20,000 |
| SADDLEBRED RESCUE INC | $20,000 |
| THE HEART THAT GIVES FOUNDATION | $18,000 |
| THERAPEUTIC RIDING INCORPORATED OF LOUISVILLE | $10,000 |
| TEEN RECOVERY SOLUTIONS | $10,000 |
| KENTUCKY HORSE PARK FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CASA OF THE RIVER REGION | $10,000 |
| FOUNDING SONS MC INC | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $426k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
50 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches6× · 2018–2024 · $205k · revenue +9%
- OCOPERATION CARE INC6× · 2019–2024 · $100k · revenue +90%
- WWWOODY WILLIAMS FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $92k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- OVOhio Valley Educational Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue +31%
- SCSHELBY COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INCone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -58%
- CCCORPUS CHRISTI ACADEMYone grant, 2020 · $35k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Happy Trails Horse Rescue, located in Bend, Oregon, is dedicated to the protection of horses and their quality of life, to be free from abuse, neglect, abandonment, slaughter, or early euthanasia without just cause. While we strive to…
Howey horse haven is a non-profit 501c3 organization dedicated to the rehabilitation of abandoned, abused, neglected and unwanted horses. they provide the proper nutrition, medical care, farrier, dental services and lots of love. they…
Rescue and sanctuary for horses, donkeys, and mules.
Sanctuary for abused or abandoned animals
Our mission is to build a better future for horses by continuously reimagining what's possible and creating a reality where safe solutions exist for every horse.
rescue rehab retraining and rehoming for homeless and neglected equine and canine
To promote wellness for people with personal challenges who can benefit from equine-assisted activities and therapies in a safe and supportive environment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kentucky Humane Society - Animal Rescue and the most unlike its peers is Ridin High Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
55 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 55 of the 84 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Ohio Valley Educational Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Green Hill Therapy Inc ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds OPERATION CARE INC ↗
- Who funds WOODY WILLIAMS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Saddlebred Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HEART THAT GIVES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MILESTONES INC ↗
- Who funds HORSESENSING INC ↗
- Who funds UPSIDE THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC ↗
- Who funds CORPUS CHRISTI INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF THE RIVER REGION ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY HORSE PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds TEEN RECOVERY SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds SHELBY COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds VICTORY FARM INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHELBYVILLE HORSE SHOW ↗
- Who funds THE SANCTUARY AT BLACK HORSE MANOR INC ↗
- Who funds TYSONS CHANCE ANIMAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL KENTUCKY RIDING FOR HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY EQUINE HUMANE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE & ANIMAL LEARNING SERVICES ↗
- Who funds VETERANS RURAL OUTREACH KY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ACADEMY CHAMPIONSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN PERFORMING ARTS COMPANY INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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 · Cralle Foundation Inc · The Whas Crusade for Children Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Rusty Rabbit Foundation · Misdee Wrigley and James Mather Miller Foundation Inc · Kosair Charities Committee Inc · El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · The King's Daughters and Sons Foundation of Kentucky Inc · Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Sanda Hills Equine Center Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Mary Gaylord McClean Foundation (Formerly Mary Gaylord Foundation) funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Franklin Performing Arts Company Inc — 20% of income from government
- Marion Therapeutic Riding Association Inc — 1% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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