California · Private foundation
The McCune Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 131
- Grants FY2025
- 74
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $60,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 55 to 74
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $37M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations The McCune Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $158k 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 | 77 | $1.3M | 34% |
| FY2024 | 74 | $1.1M | 31% |
| FY2023 | 69 | $1.0M | 36% |
| FY2022 | 63 | $803k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 63 | $761k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 58 | $872k | 31% |
| FY2019 | 55 | $749k | 40% |
| FY2018 | 56 | $781k | 43% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Future Leaders of America | $803,640 | 9 | 9% |
| Fund for Santa Barbara Inc | $568,250 | 9 | 3% |
| Mixteco Indigena Community Organizing Project | $410,137 | 9 | 2% |
| Just Communities Central Coast | $315,250 | 7 | 10% |
| Westminster Free Clinic | $270,000 | 8 | 3% |
| One Step A La Vez | $240,744 | 9 | 11% |
| California Lutheran University | $208,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Organizacion en California de Lideres Campesinas Inc | $154,820 | 7 | 3% |
| The Arc of Ventura County Inc | $152,500 | 8 | 0% |
| NEO Philanthropy Inc | $150,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 211 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The McCune Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 184 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: Fund for Santa Barbara Inc · Santa Barbara Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Ventura County Community Foundation · James S Bower Foundation · Towbes Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Latkin Charitable Foundation · Edwin and Jeanne Woods Family Foundation
How this is measured
About The McCune Foundation
- How much does The McCune Foundation give?
- The McCune Foundation reported 131 grants totaling $1,345,475 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 55 and 74 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The McCune Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (17%), Civil Rights (14%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are The McCune Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Future Leaders of America ($804k), Fund for Santa Barbara Inc ($568k), Mixteco Indigena Community Organizing Project ($410k).
- Does The McCune Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The McCune Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The McCune Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fund for Santa Barbara Inc, Santa Barbara Foundation, Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation.
- Where is The McCune Foundation based?
- The McCune Foundation is based in CA.
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