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The Mary Gaylord McClean Foundation (Formerly Mary Gaylord Foundation) at a glance

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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.

$405k
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$617kAnimals$561kEducation$381kPublic Safety & Disaster$205kHuman Services$166kFood & Nutrition$154kRecreation & Sports$141kPublic Benefit$92kOther$0
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $336k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN RED CROSS$50,000
Individual grant recipient$48,000
GREEN HILL THERAPY$30,000
COACH STONE NONPROFIT FOUNDATION INC$25,000
WOODY WILLIAMS FOUNDATION$25,000
OPERATION CARE INC$20,000
SADDLEBRED RESCUE INC$20,000
HORSESENSING INC$20,000
FIELDSTONE FARM FOUNDATION INC$20,000
THE HEART THAT GIVES FOUNDATION$18,000
AMERICAN SADDLEBRED MUSEUM$10,000
CASA OF THE RIVER REGION$10,000
FOUNDING SONS MC INC$10,000
KENTUCKY HORSE PARK FOUNDATION$10,000
THERAPEUTIC RIDING INCORPORATED OF LOUISVILLE$10,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%RIDIN' HIGH INC: $6k → 15%AWAKE MINISTRIES: $20k → 15%AWAKE MINISTRIES: $10k → 15%OPERATION CARE INC: $30k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 14%OPERATION CARE INC: $20k → 9%RED CROSS: $50k → 14%STIRRUPS 'N STRIDES THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC: $5k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $35k → 14%STIRRUPS 'N STRIDES THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC: $5k → 16%OPERATION CARE: $20k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25k → 14%OPERATION CARE INC: $10k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $20k → 14%OPERATION CARE: $10k → 9%AWAKE MINISTRIES: $10k → 9%OPERATION CARE INC: $10k → 9%CORPUS CHRISTI CLASSICAL ACADEMY: $35k → 9%CORPUS CHRISTI CLASSICAL ACADEMY: $30k → 9%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

IL
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
NJ
CA
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 50 repeat orgs$585k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
30

Total granted

$2.2M
$530k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+31%

Still filing today

82%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthAnimalsHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionArts & CultureOther
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

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    6× · 2018–2024 · $205k · revenue +9%
  • OC
    OPERATION CARE INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $100k · revenue +90%
  • SR
    Saddlebred Rescue Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $90k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • OV
    Ohio Valley Educational Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue +31%
  • SC
    SHELBY COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -58%
  • CC
    CORPUS CHRISTI ACADEMY
    one grant, 2020 · $35k
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

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.

1
Impact Horse- Connecting Humans and Horses
Animals
2
Great Results Equine Assisted Therapies
Health
3
Happy Trails Horse Rescue

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…

Animals
4
Howey Horse Haven Inc

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…

Animals
5
Veteran Equine Therapy Stables
Public Benefit
6
New Hope Farm Inc

Rescue and sanctuary for horses, donkeys, and mules.

—
7
Hooves of My Heart Equine Rescue Ltd
Animals
8
2nd Chance Ranch and Rescue

Sanctuary for abused or abandoned animals

Animals
9
Colorado Horse Rescue

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.

Animals
10
Horse Hugs
—
11
Healing Hearts Hooves and Paws Rescue

rescue rehab retraining and rehoming for homeless and neglected equine and canine

Animals
12
Healing Strides of Virginia

To promote wellness for people with personal challenges who can benefit from equine-assisted activities and therapies in a safe and supportive environment.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kentucky Humane Society - Animal Rescue; 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.
04the grantee network

55 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. 55 of the 84 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/55
Grantees still filing
37/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN SADDLEBRED MUSEUM: $220,000 · OtherAMERICAN SADDLEBRED MUSEUMIndividual grant recipient: $181,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFIELDSTONE FARM FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 · OtherFIELDSTONE FARM FOUNDATION INCCORPUS CHRISTI ACADEMY: $35,000 · OtherKENTUCKY HORSE PARK FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 · OtherKENTUCKY HORSE PARK FOUNDATION INCCASA OF THE RIVER REGION: $60,000 · OtherCASA OF THE RIVER REGIONTEEN RECOVERY SOLUTIONS INC: $50,000 · Other+36 more: $318,150 · Other+36 moreGreen Hill Therapy Inc: $205,000 · HealthGreen Hill Therapy IncMILESTONES INC: $87,500 · HealthMILESTONES INCHORSESENSING INC: $80,000 · HealthHORSESENSING INCUPSIDE THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $71,400 · HealthUPSIDE THERAPEUTIC RID…VICTORY FARM INC: $40,000 · HealthVICTORY FARM INCPEOPLE & ANIMAL LEARNING SERVICES: $20,000 · HealthNATIONAL ACADEMY CHAMPIONSHIP INC: $20,000 · Health+7 more: $14,885 · HealthAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $205,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National…OPERATION CARE INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesOPERATION CARE IN…CORPUS CHRISTI INC: $65,000 · Human ServicesCORPUS CHRISTI IN…OPEN DOOR OF HOPE INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesOPEN DOOR OF HOPE…+4 more: $19,600 · Human ServicesSaddlebred Rescue Inc: $90,000 · AnimalsSaddlebred Re…KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE: $56,000 · AnimalsKENTUCKY HUMA…SHELBY COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $50,000 · AnimalsSHELBY COUNTY…THE SANCTUARY AT BLACK HORSE MANOR INC: $30,000 · AnimalsTHE SANCTUARY…TYSONS CHANCE ANIMAL FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · AnimalsTYSONS CHANCE…KENTUCKY EQUINE HUMANE CENTER INC: $20,000 · AnimalsKENTUCKY EQUI…AMERICAN HACKNEY HORSE SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 · Animals+6 more: $31,750 · Animals+6 moreOhio Valley Educational Foundation Inc: $250,000 · EducationOhio Valley…UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY …WOODY WILLIAMS FOUNDATION INC: $92,000 · Public BenefitVETERANS RURAL OUTREACH KY INC: $20,000 · Public BenefitTHE HEART THAT GIVES FOUNDATION: $88,500 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $490 · Food & Nutrition
Other$984,150Health$538,785Human Services$429,600Animals$320,250Education$280,000Public Benefit$112,000Food & Nutrition$88,990

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 budgetGreen Hill Therapy Inc: $205,000 over 7y, 4.6% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $205,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION CARE INC: $100,000 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetWOODY WILLIAMS FOUNDATION INC: $92,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetSaddlebred Rescue Inc: $90,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetTHE HEART THAT GIVES FOUNDATION: $88,500 over 6y, 13% of budgetMILESTONES INC: $87,500 over 5y, 6.4% of budgetHORSESENSING INC: $80,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetUPSIDE THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $71,400 over 2y, 57% of budgetCORPUS CHRISTI INC: $65,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetCASA OF THE RIVER REGION: $60,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetKENTUCKY HORSE PARK FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetKENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE: $56,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTEEN RECOVERY SOLUTIONS INC: $50,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetSHELBY COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetVICTORY FARM INC: $40,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetOPEN DOOR OF HOPE INC: $40,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHELBYVILLE HORSE SHOW: $30,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetTHE SANCTUARY AT BLACK HORSE MANOR INC: $30,000 over 3y, 100% of budgetTYSONS CHANCE ANIMAL FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 7.9% of budgetCENTRAL KENTUCKY RIDING FOR HOPE INC: $25,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetKENTUCKY EQUINE HUMANE CENTER INC: $20,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetPEOPLE & ANIMAL LEARNING SERVICES: $20,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetVETERANS RURAL OUTREACH KY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY CHAMPIONSHIP INC: $20,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetFRANKLIN PERFORMING ARTS COMPANY INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN HACKNEY HORSE SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 3y, 17% of budgetDREAMSCAPE: $10,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEXUS EQUINE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSTIRRUPS N STRIDES THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC: $10,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetOKLAHOMA HUMANE SOCIETY: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOKLAHOMA HALL OF FAME: $7,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRIDIN HIGH INC: $6,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetUNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMarion Therapeutic Riding Association Inc: $5,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF KENTUCKIANA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWEDNESDAYS CHILD INC: $3,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $2,350 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetQUINCY HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKENTUCKY 4H FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 ↗

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.

The Community Foundat…Honorable Order of Ke…Cralle Foundation IncThe Whas Crusade for …The Community Foundat…Rusty Rabbit Foundati…Misdee Wrigley and Ja…Kosair Charities Comm…El and Thelma Gaylord…The King's Daughters …Blue Grass Community …Sanda Hills Equine Ce…
The Community Foundation of Louisville IncKY35.3× affinity16 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Mary Gaylord McClean Foundation (Formerly Mary Gaylord Foundation) funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mary Gaylord McClean Foundation (Formerly Mary Gaylord Foundation). Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 20%
  • Franklin Performing Arts Company Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Marion Therapeutic Riding Association Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 Mary Gaylord McClean Foundation (Formerly Mary Gaylord Foundation) 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 84 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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