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The McLean Family Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$124kArts & Culture$106kHealth$67kCrime & Legal$22kHuman Services$22kInternational$19kCivil Rights$15kScience & Tech$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500
Median grant
10
States reached
$128k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BRONXWORKS INC$5,000
THE MARFAN FOUNDATION INC$5,000
BRIDGEHAMPTON CHAMBER MUSIC ASSOCIATES INC$5,000
YALE UNIVERSITY$5,000
PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM INC$2,500
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY$2,500
CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER INC$2,500
PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY$2,500
COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC$2,500
TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE$2,500
NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND INC$2,500
FRIENDS OF THE LEGAL RESOURCES CENTRE OF SOUTH AFR$2,500
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY$2,500
HUMAN RIGHTS FIRST$2,500
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC$2,500
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ELEANOR WHITMORE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER INC: $1k → 7%LEGAL INFORMATION FOR FAMILIES TODAY: $1k → 20%BRONXWORKS INC: $5k → 28%ELEANOR WHITMORE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER INC: $1k → 7%LEGAL INFORMATION FOR FAMILIES TODAY: $1k → 20%BRONXWORKS INC: $5k → 28%ELEANOR WHITMORE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER INC: $1k → 7%BRONXWORKS INC: $3k → 28%BRONXWORKS INC: $3k → 28%BRONXWORKS INC: $2k → 28%BRONXWORKS INC: $2k → 28%BRONXWORKS INC: $2k → 28%BRONXWORKS INC: $1k → 28%FAMILY LEGAL CARE INC: $1k → 17%FAMILY LEGAL CARE INC: $1k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $2k → 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

NH
WA
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
DC
AL
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$363k · 30 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
3

Total granted

$363k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+80%

Still filing today

87%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesInternationalCivil RightsHealthOther
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

  • BC
    BRIDGEHAMPTON CHAMBER MUSIC ASSOCIATES INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $25k · revenue +22%
  • BRONXWORKS INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $22k · revenue +128%
  • TC
    The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Inc
    8× · 2018–2025 · $21k · revenue +130%

Funded once

  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +80%
  • SA
    SOUTHERN AFRICA LEGAL SERVICES FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
  • TR
    THE RAPTOR TRUSTgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +35%
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
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
2
American Museum of Natural History

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."

Arts & Culture
3
The Pierpont Morgan Library

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.

Education
4
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
5
New York University

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.

Education
6
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
7
Manhattan School of Music

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…

Arts & Culture
8
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

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).

Arts & Culture
9
New York Genome Center Inc

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.

Health
10
Public Media Nj Inc

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

Arts & Culture
11
New York Botanical Garden

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…

Environment
12
Fordham University

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lawyers Alliance for New York; 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.
04the grantee network

37 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. 37 of the 42 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
21/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE MARFAN FOUNDATION INC: $52,500 · OtherTHE MARFAN FOUNDATION INCYALE UNIVERSITY: $35,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYTRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITYYALE UNIVERSITY: $15,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYLAWYERS ALLIANCE FOR NEW YORK: $11,000 · OtherLAWYERS ALLIANCE FOR NEW YORKCAMPBELL HALL -EPISCOPAL-: $10,000 · OtherCAMPBELL HALL -EPISCOPAL-+9 more: $21,750 · Other+9 moreBRIDGEHAMPTON CHAMBER MUSIC ASSOCIATES INC: $25,150 · Arts & CultureBRIDGEHAMPTON CHAMBER MUSIC A…The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Inc: $21,000 · Arts & CultureThe Chamber Music Society of …THE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INCNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $13,750 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIOTHE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM INC: $11,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM INC122 EAST 66TH STREET FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 · Arts & Culture122 EAST 66TH STREET FOUNDATI…+3 more: $5,000 · Arts & CulturePHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY: $14,500 · EducationPHILLIPS EXET…LAKESIDE SCHOOL: $12,000 · EducationLAKESIDE SCHO…THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $12,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES …NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $3,500 · EducationNATIONAL GEOG…ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $3,000 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL …The Trustees of Princeton University: $2,500 · EducationBRONXWORKS INC: $22,000 · Human ServicesBRONXWORK…FAMILY LEGAL CARE INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY LE…ELEANOR WHITMORE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesELEANOR W…COVENANT HOUSE: $2,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT …COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $12,500 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE LEGAL RESOURCES CENTRE OF SOUTH AFRICA: $6,500 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $5,000 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS FIRST: $2,500 · InternationalTHE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $4,500 · HealthTHE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL: $4,000 · HealthAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Civil RightsNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $2,500 · Civil Rights
Other$165,250Arts & Culture$101,900Education$47,500Human Services$31,000International$26,500Health$8,500Civil Rights$7,500

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 budgetTHE MARFAN FOUNDATION INC: $52,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetBRIDGEHAMPTON CHAMBER MUSIC ASSOCIATES INC: $25,150 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetBRONXWORKS INC: $22,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Inc: $21,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INC: $15,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY: $14,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $13,750 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $12,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLAKESIDE SCHOOL: $12,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $12,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLAWYERS ALLIANCE FOR NEW YORK: $11,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM INC: $11,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budget122 EAST 66TH STREET FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE LEGAL RESOURCES CENTRE OF SOUTH AFRICA: $6,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Frick Collection: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY LEGAL CARE INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUMMIT SPEECH SCHOOL: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetELEANOR WHITMORE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE THE HARVEST FARM INC FKA FOOD PANTRY FARM INCORPORATED: $2,250 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPBS FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWNET: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMADOO CONSERVANCY INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RAPTOR TRUST: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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 New York Communit…Jewish Communal FundThe Goldman Sachs Cha…J & Ar FoundationNational Philanthropi…The Ayco Charitable F…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
The New York Community TrustNY15× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 McLean Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The McLean Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 42 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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