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The McLean 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.

$503k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$503k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Philanthropy$875kHealth$79kReligion$74kEducation$20kPublic Benefit$15kFood & Nutrition$15kHuman Services$12kCivil Rights$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$502,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Naples Children & Education Foundation$502,500
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%Guiding Eyes for the Blind: $2k → 9%Guiding Eyes for the Blind: $2k → 9%Guiding Eyes for the Blind: $2k → 9%Guiding Eyes for the Blind: $2k → 9%The Chicago Lighthouse: $2k → 14%Guiding Eyes For The Blind: $2k → 9%The Chicago Lighthouse: $2k → 14%Guiding Eyes for the Blind: $2k → 9%The Chicago Lighthouse: $2k → 14%The Chicago Lighthouse: $2k → 14%The Chicago Lighthouse: $2k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.0M · 17 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
6

Total granted

$1.0M
$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+31%

Still filing today

76%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
HealthPublic BenefitHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterArts & CultureOther

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

  • NC
    NAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $873k · revenue +52%
  • AL
    AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2019–2023 · $23k · revenue +5%
  • AN
    AMVETS NATIONAL SERVICE FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2022 · $12k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • DM
    DANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +31%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +23%
  • AF
    Avow Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +73%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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.

2
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
3
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

4
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
5
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…

6
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
7
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
8
Banner Alzheimer's Foundation

Established in 2006, the banner alzheimer's foundation (baf) secures and stewards charitable gifts to advance the mission of banner alzheimer's institute (bai), including groundbreaking research initiatives and pioneering prevention…

Health
9
National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.

10
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
11
National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health
12
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is American Lung Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number27%0%<5yr16%10%5–10yr20%5%10–20yr15%19%20–35yr9%29%35–55yr12%38%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value27%0%<5yr16%1%5–10yr20%79%10–20yr15%4%20–35yr9%6%35–55yr12%9%55yr+

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/21
the rest of the field
17%
17,089/103,023

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.

04the grantee network

19 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 24 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
15/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC — $872,500 · PhilanthropyNAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INCGUIDEPOSTS FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 · OtherDANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $20,000 · OtherYoung America's Foundation — $8,000 · OtherTHE NAVIGATORS — $4,000 · OtherYoung American's Foundation — $4,000 · OtherAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY — $9,000 · OtherMEDIA RESEARCH CENTER — $3,000 · Other+4 more — $7,000 · OtherAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION — $23,000 · HealthARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC — $23,000 · HealthPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA — $8,000 · HealthAvow Foundation Inc — $3,000 · HealthThe Moody Bible Institute of Chicago — $35,000 · EducationAMVETS NATIONAL SERVICE FOUNDATION — $12,000 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $5,000 · Public BenefitGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC — $12,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED — $10,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $5,000 · Human ServicesFOOD FOR THE POOR INC — $12,500 · International
Philanthropy$872,500Other$85,000Health$57,000Education$35,000Public Benefit$27,000Human Services$27,000International$12,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC — $872,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetThe Moody Bible Institute of Chicago — $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION — $23,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC — $23,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC — $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMVETS NATIONAL SERVICE FOUNDATION — $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC — $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED — $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY — $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA — $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYoung America's Foundation — $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAvow Foundation Inc — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDIA RESEARCH CENTER — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

American Endowment FoundationOH11× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Food for the Poor Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

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How do I get to The McLean Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The McLean Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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