Massachusetts · Private foundation
The McCance 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.
- $7.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 156
- Grants FY2024
- 162
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,000,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 147 to 164
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 22
- Total assets, FY2024
- $91M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations The McCance Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $459k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 154 | $7.1M | 19% |
| FY2023 | 162 | $5.4M | 25% |
| FY2022 | 147 | $6.5M | 24% |
| FY2021 | 164 | $6.2M | 29% |
| FY2020 | 163 | $5.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | $2,518,602 | 4 | 0% |
| National Education Opportunity Network Inc | $2,001,903 | 4 | 19% |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $1,006,450 | 1 | 0% |
| Ceres Inc | $900,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Henry L Ferguson Museum | $793,700 | 5 | 19% |
| Khan Academy Inc | $700,000 | 5 | 0% |
| New Profit Inc | $700,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Lift Inc | $650,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Island Health Project Inc | $617,000 | 5 | 14% |
| Forest Trends Association | $550,000 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 261 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 55 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The McCance Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: The Willinphila Foundation · The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation Inc · The Fairfield Foundation · The Long Stems Foundation Inc · The Sooner Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · The Duke of Omnium Fund · The Frederic C Hamilton Family Foundation · Ederic Foundation Inc · The Spofford Foundation Inc · W L Lyons Brown Jr Charitable Foundation · The Schmidt Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About The McCance Foundation
- How much does The McCance Foundation give?
- The McCance Foundation reported 156 grants totaling $7,142,208 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 147 and 164 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The McCance Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (22%), Environment (21%), Education (21%).
- Who are The McCance Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated ($2.5M), National Education Opportunity Network Inc ($2.0M), Mass General Brigham Incorporated ($1.0M).
- Does The McCance Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The McCance 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 McCance Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Willinphila Foundation, The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation Inc, The Fairfield Foundation.
- Where is The McCance Foundation based?
- The McCance Foundation is based in MA.
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