California · Private foundation
The McCown Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $36k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $12,981
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 15
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $275k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The McCown Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 8 | $24k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $15k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $26k | 83% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $12k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $28k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Synapse School | $37,981 | 3 | 0% |
| Central Asia Institute | $11,968 | 2 | 0% |
| Six Seconds | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Outward Bound California | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Stroke Onward Inc | $6,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The American Himalayan Foundation | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Sutter Bay Medical Foundation | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Sequoia Hospital Foundation | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Blue Mountain Center | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 17 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Synapse School | $37,981 | 3 | 0% |
| Central Asia Institute | $11,968 | 2 | 0% |
| Six Seconds | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Outward Bound California | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Stroke Onward Inc | $6,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The American Himalayan Foundation | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Sutter Bay Medical Foundation | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Sequoia Hospital Foundation | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Blue Mountain Center | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Kqed Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sierra Club Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Ehama Institute | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mateo Lodge Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sweetwater Spectrum Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Marion Institute Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Peninsula Open Space Trust | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($6k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The McCown Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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.
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How this is measured
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About The McCown Family Foundation
- How much does The McCown Family Foundation give?
- The McCown Family Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $35,981 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 15 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The McCown Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (54%), Health (16%), International (15%).
- Who are The McCown Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Synapse School ($38k), Central Asia Institute ($12k), Six Seconds ($10k).
- Does The McCown Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The McCown Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The McCown Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marin Community Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
- Where is The McCown Family Foundation based?
- The McCown Family Foundation is based in CA.
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