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The McLain Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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The McLain Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$54k
Granted FY2023
19
Grants FY2023
8
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2023.

Education$613kReligion$160kHealth$126kFood & Nutrition$64kRecreation & Sports$31kArts & Culture$31kAnimals$26kHuman Services$10kOther$0
02FY2023 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k18 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
$1,300
Median grant
8
States reached
$443k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TIGERS UNLIMITED AUBURN UNIVERSITY$11,490
SPOLETO FESTIVAL$8,500
GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART$7,500
AUBURN UNIVERSITY$6,250
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY$5,000
PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF CHARLESTON$2,073
OAK HILL SCHOOL$1,961
VARIOUS$1,755
CALVERT SCHOOL$1,500
BROOKGREEN GARDENS$1,300
ULMAN FOUNDATION$1,000
SALVATION ARMY$1,000
DARDEN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS$1,000
TUNNEL TO TOWER FOUNDATION$1,000
MONTANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES: $20k → 13%COVENANT HOUSE: $100 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
WI
NY
IN
OH
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
AL
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$665k · 24 repeat orgs$435k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2023, 15 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
51

Total granted

$665k
$409k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+30%

Still filing today

71%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • Vanderbilt University
    5× · 2018–2023 · $24k · revenue +65%
  • CA
    CAROLINA ART ASSOCIATION DBA GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART
    3× · 2021–2023 · $10k · revenue +62%
  • OH
    OAK HILL SCHOOL
    5× · 2018–2023 · $6k · revenue +99%

Funded once

  • AU
    AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $150k · revenue +99%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • FP
    FLORIDA PROTON THERAPY INSTITUTE INC
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +9%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
2
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
5
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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6
Asco Association

Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…

Community Improvement
7
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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8
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
9
American Society of Clinical Oncology Inc

See schedule o:asco is a professional oncology society committed to conquering cancer through research, education, and promotion of the highest quality patient care.

Health
10
Morehouse School of Medicine

Leading the creation and advancement of health equity we exist to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities, increase the diversity of the health professional and scientific workforce, and address primary health care…

Education
11
Musc Strategic Ventures

To promote and support the educational, medical, scientific, and research purposes of the medical university of south carolina "musc", and university medical associates of the medical university of south carolina "uma", including their…

Health
12
American Astronomical Society

The american astronomical society (aas), established in 1899, is the major organization of professional astronomers in north america. the basic objective of the aas is to promote the advancement of astronomy and closely related branches of…

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Georgia Inc; the most unlike its peers is Movember Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

46 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. 46 of the 86 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/46
Grantees still filing
36/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AUBURN UNIVERSITY: $346,850 · OtherAUBURN UNIVERSITYPEACHTREE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $115,025 · OtherPEACHTREE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA: $66,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDAORCHARD: $60,103 · OtherORCHARDUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA: $50,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDAUNIVERSITY OF: $34,000 · Other+51 more: $115,220 · Other+51 moreAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $150,100 · EducationAUBURN UNIVERSITY …Vanderbilt University: $24,100 · EducationVanderbilt Univers…+3 more: $7,250 · EducationFLORIDA PROTON THERAPY INSTITUTE INC: $50,000 · HealthNO LONGER BOUND INC: $20,000 · Health+8 more: $5,006 · HealthCAROLINA ART ASSOCIATION DBA GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART: $9,650 · Arts & CultureSPOLETO FESTIVAL USA INC: $8,500 · Arts & CultureCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART: $2,160 · Arts & CultureATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $1,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $700 · Arts & CultureHELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC: $20,000 · Human Services+1 more: $100 · Human ServicesTIGERS UNLIMITED FOUNDATION: $7,312 · PhilanthropyEagle Mount: $1,000 · PhilanthropyANTIQUES & GARDEN SHOW OF NASHVILLE INC: $600 · Philanthropy+1 more: $25 · PhilanthropySUMMERHILL COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $4,970 · Youth Development+1 more: $100 · Youth Development
Other$787,198Education$181,450Health$75,006Arts & Culture$22,010Human Services$20,100Philanthropy$8,937Youth Development$5,070

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $150,100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFLORIDA PROTON THERAPY INSTITUTE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVanderbilt University: $24,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNO LONGER BOUND INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCAROLINA ART ASSOCIATION DBA GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART: $9,650 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSPOLETO FESTIVAL USA INC: $8,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTIGERS UNLIMITED FOUNDATION: $7,312 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOAK HILL SCHOOL: $6,211 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCALVERT SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $5,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSUMMERHILL COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $4,970 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetThe Preservation Society of Charleston Inc: $4,073 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBARNABAS INTERNATIONAL: $3,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART: $2,160 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $1,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHEPHERD CENTER INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKGREEN GARDENS: $1,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROAD SAFE AMERICA: $1,050 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetULMAN FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEagle Mount: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALPHA OMICRON PI FOUNDATION: $900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTIQUES & GARDEN SHOW OF NASHVILLE INC: $600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetATLANTA BALLET INC: $550 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBucknell University: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRENCH HERITAGE SOCIETY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SANDY SPRINGS SOCIETY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGood Friends: $350 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJunior League of Atlanta Inc: $285 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOVEMBER FOUNDATION: $256 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING HANDS OF GEORGETOWN INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $206 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFORWARD ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD FRIENDS INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GEORGIA INC: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA PROTON THERAPY INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
  • Who funds HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds NO LONGER BOUND INC ↗
  • Who funds CAROLINA ART ASSOCIATION DBA GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA INC ↗
  • Who funds TIGERS UNLIMITED FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OAK HILL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds CALVERT SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds SUMMERHILL COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds The Preservation Society of Charleston Inc ↗
  • Who funds BARNABAS INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds CHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
  • Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds BROOKGREEN GARDENS ↗
  • Who funds ROAD SAFE AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds ULMAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Eagle Mount ↗

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.

The Community Foundat…Assurant FoundationThe Sartain Lanier Fa…The Ayco Charitable F…Raymond James Charita…Publix Super Markets …Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…Ibm International Fou…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…
The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA17.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Assurant Foundation · The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Ibm International Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The McLain Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The McLain Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • The Maryland Food Bank Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 86 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home