Pennsylvania · Private foundation
The McLelland 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.
- $1.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $750,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 24
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $15M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations The McLelland Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 | 24 | $1.6M | 13% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $1.0M | 5% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $790k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $3.1M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $963k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $885k | 13% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $865k | 55% |
| FY2017 | 13 | $570k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community Volunteers in Medicine | $1,952,607 | 7 | 5% |
| Pennsylvania Home of the Sparrow | $530,000 | 8 | 9% |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | $500,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Community Partnership School | $305,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Take Stock in Children in Nassau County Inc | $285,000 | 8 | 9% |
| University of Michigan | $250,000 | 1 | 39% |
| Philabundance | $215,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Chester County Food Bank | $215,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Kipp Philadelphia Charter School | $170,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Michigan State University | $160,000 | 3 | n/a |
Show all 23 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The McLelland Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 20 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · The Philadelphia Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Sandra & Arnold Chase Family Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
How this is measured
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About The McLelland Family Foundation
- How much does The McLelland Family Foundation give?
- The McLelland Family Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $1,636,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The McLelland Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (58%), Education (16%), Housing & Shelter (6%).
- Who are The McLelland Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Community Volunteers in Medicine ($2.0M), Pennsylvania Home of the Sparrow ($530k), Regents of the University of Michigan ($500k).
- Does The McLelland Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The McLelland 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 McLelland Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc, Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, The Philadelphia Foundation.
- Where is The McLelland Family Foundation based?
- The McLelland Family Foundation is based in PA.
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