Delaware · Private foundation
The McLean 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.
- $79k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 24
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $128k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations The McLean Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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 | 32 | $79k | 28% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $60k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $42k | 16% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $42k | 5% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $41k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $25k | 18% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $38k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $37k | 41% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Marfan Foundation Inc | $52,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Yale University | $35,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Bridgehampton Chamber Music Associates Inc | $25,150 | 8 | 0% |
| Bronxworks Inc | $22,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Inc | $21,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Parrish Art Museum Inc | $15,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Yale University | $15,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Phillips Exeter Academy | $14,500 | 8 | 0% |
| New York Public Radio | $13,750 | 9 | 0% |
| Council on Foreign Relations Inc | $12,500 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 40 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($22k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The McLean 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.
Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · J & Ar Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About The McLean Family Foundation
- How much does The McLean Family Foundation give?
- The McLean Family Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $78,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The McLean Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (32%), Arts & Culture (27%), Health (17%).
- Who are The McLean Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Marfan Foundation Inc ($53k), Yale University ($35k), Bridgehampton Chamber Music Associates Inc ($25k).
- Does The McLean Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The McLean 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 McLean Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The New York Community Trust, Jewish Communal Fund, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is The McLean Family Foundation based?
- The McLean Family Foundation is based in DE.
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