Texas · Private foundation
The McClane Brown Family 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.
- $100k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 37
- Grants FY2025
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 31 to 46
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations The McClane Brown Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 37 | $100k | 38% |
| FY2024 | 31 | $81k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 37 | $61k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 40 | $100k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 45 | $96k | 24% |
| FY2020 | 46 | $49k | 17% |
| FY2019 | 39 | $51k | 23% |
| FY2018 | 32 | $58k | 16% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Pauls Episcopal Church | $195,600 | 9 | n/a |
| Festival on the Brazos | $132,734 | 8 | 12% |
| Vanguard College Preparatory School | $87,075 | 9 | 1% |
| Vanguard Foundation | $30,000 | 3 | 32% |
| McLennan Community College Foundation Attn Christopher Qualls | $22,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Camp Allen Camp & Conference Center | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Student Mobilization Inc | $10,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Oak Grove Christian Ministries | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Caritas of Waco | $9,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Mission Waco Mission World Inc | $6,500 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 48 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($65k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The McClane Brown Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 33 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Margaret Cb & S Spencer N Brown Foundation Inc · Waco Foundation · Cooper Foundation · Bernard & Audre Rapoport Foundation · Clifton Foundation · The Fentress Foundation · Baylor University · Fm and Gloria Young Family Foundation · United Way of Waco-McLennan County · Hobbs Foundation · Bowen Family Foundation · The Moody Foundation
How this is measured
Compare The McClane Brown Family Foundation with peer funders
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About The McClane Brown Family Foundation
- How much does The McClane Brown Family Foundation give?
- The McClane Brown Family Foundation reported 37 grants totaling $100,370 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 46 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The McClane Brown Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (35%), Arts & Culture (24%), Education (20%).
- Who are The McClane Brown Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: St Pauls Episcopal Church ($196k), Festival on the Brazos ($133k), Vanguard College Preparatory School ($87k).
- Does The McClane Brown Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The McClane Brown Family 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 McClane Brown Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Margaret Cb & S Spencer N Brown Foundation Inc, Waco Foundation, Cooper Foundation.
- Where is The McClane Brown Family Foundation based?
- The McClane Brown Family Foundation is based in TX.
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