· 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.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k34 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $79k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VANGUARD COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $29,000 |
| OAK GROVE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| CHILD LEGACY INTERNATIONAL | $2,500 |
| FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN | $2,500 |
| WACO SYMPHONY COUNCIL | $1,670 |
| MENTORING ALLIANCE-WACO | $1,000 |
| DUMBARTON HOUSE | $1,000 |
| METHODIST HOME | $1,000 |
| STUDENT MOBILIZATION | $1,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $1,000 |
| CARITAS OF WACO | $1,000 |
| NEIL-COCHRAN HOUSE MUSEUM | $750 |
| TEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $700 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA-TROOP 308 | $500 |
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 (FY17–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +59% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.
56 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FOFESTIVAL ON THE BRAZOS8× · 2017–2024 · $133k · revenue +59%
- VCVANGUARD COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $87k · revenue +78%
MCLENNAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ATTN CHRISTOPHER QUALLS6× · 2020–2025 · $23k · revenue +88%
Funded once
- CACamp Allen Camp & Conference Centerone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +23%
- WSWomens Symphony League of Austin Incorporatedgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +34%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $500
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.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
To achieve a brighter future for children, neighbors and communities by inspiring and cultivating healthy neighborhoods.
United way of waco-mclennan county strengthens the community by mobilizing resources to measurably improve lives.
To ensure that the student body experiences balanced intellectual, psychological, social and spiritual development, aimed at enabling them to become active productive members of society where they live and work.
The mission of houston christian university is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "jesus christ is lord."
For the benefit of texas a&m university - corpus christi
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
The mission of Abilene Christian School, Inc. is to equip students to excel academically, serve meaningfully, and walk faithfully with God.
Ywca corpus christi is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.
The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
How this is measured
37 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. 37 of the 83 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 FESTIVAL ON THE BRAZOS ↗
- Who funds VANGUARD COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds VANGUARD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MCLENNAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ATTN CHRISTOPHER QUALLS ↗
- Who funds Camp Allen Camp & Conference Center ↗
- Who funds Oak Grove Christian Ministries ↗
- Who funds CARITAS OF WACO ↗
- Who funds MISSION WACO MISSION WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION MINISTRIES OF WACO ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WACO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds TALITHA KOUM INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds WACO CIVIC THEATRE ↗
- Who funds Womens Symphony League of Austin Incorporated ↗
- Who funds Child Legacy International Inc ↗
- Who funds THE COVE - HEART OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC WACO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds HELPING HAND HOUSE ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The McClane Brown Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The McClane Brown Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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