· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRONXWORKS INC | $5,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| THE MARFAN FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| BRIDGEHAMPTON CHAMBER MUSIC ASSOCIATES INC | $5,000 |
| NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND INC | $2,500 |
| MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL | $2,500 |
| HUMAN RIGHTS FIRST | $2,500 |
| CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER INC | $2,500 |
| PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY | $2,500 |
| PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| FRIENDS OF THE LEGAL RESOURCES CENTRE OF SOUTH AFR | $2,500 |
| 122 EAST 66TH STREET FOUNDATION INC | $2,500 |
| PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM INC | $2,500 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC | $2,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 24%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
30 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 9 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- BCBRIDGEHAMPTON CHAMBER MUSIC ASSOCIATES INC8× · 2018–2025 · $25k · revenue +22%
BRONXWORKS INC8× · 2017–2025 · $22k · revenue +128%- TCThe Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $21k · revenue +130%
Funded once
- IRInternational Rescue Committee INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +80%
- SASOUTHERN AFRICA LEGAL SERVICES FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $2k
- TRTHE RAPTOR TRUSTgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +35%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lawyers Alliance for New York and the most unlike its peers is National Geographic Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 42 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE MARFAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEHAMPTON CHAMBER MUSIC ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds BRONXWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds LAKESIDE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LAWYERS ALLIANCE FOR NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds THE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds 122 EAST 66TH STREET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LEGAL RESOURCES CENTRE OF SOUTH AFRICA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds The Frick Collection ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds FAMILY LEGAL CARE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT SPEECH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds ELEANOR WHITMORE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS FIRST ↗
- Who funds SHARE THE HARVEST FARM INC FKA FOOD PANTRY FARM INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds PBS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds WNET ↗
- Who funds MADOO CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The McLean Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.