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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.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $125k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $480k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE | $750,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $250,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $75,000 |
| HOME OF THE SPARROW | $55,000 |
| TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN OF NASSAU COUNTY | $50,000 |
| CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| PHILABUNDANCE | $50,000 |
| MANNA ON MAIN ST | $50,000 |
| YMCA OF GREATER BRANDYWINE | $25,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NASSAU COUNTY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| PLAYWORKS | $20,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PHILA | $20,000 |
| THE DIAPER BANK OF CONNECTICUT | $10,000 |
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, $468k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +73% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $270k 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
- CVCOMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE7× · 2019–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +124%
- PHPENNSYLVANIA HOME OF THE SPARROW8× · 2017–2025 · $530k · revenue +106%
- CPCOMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP SCHOOL7× · 2019–2025 · $305k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- UTUNIFIED THEATREone grant, 2017 · $30k
GIRLS WHO CODE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue +27%- IIDAAYone grant, 2020 · $13k
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.
With over 20 years of experience and over 30,000 scholarships awarded, csfp provides philadelphia children with eight-year, needs-based scholarships to attend safe, quality, k-8th grade schools. continued on schedule o.supporting…
The mission of the connecticut foodshare is to deliver an informed and equitable response to hunger by mobilizing community partners, volunteers, and supporters.
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…
Ccp organizes, inspires, and equips a community of funders to learn, collaborate, and lead together for sustained impact and social change in connecticut.
Connecticut public broadcasting, inc. will inform, educate and inspire the people of connecticut, connecting and empowering the people of ct through outstanding journalism, storytelling, education and experiences, to make our state a more…
We engage a diverse community of learners in a collaborative educational experience, preparing them for college success and a lifetime of meaningful engagement with the broader world.
We serve as a champion for addressing the root causes of hunger, delivering neighbor-centric solutions, and fostering collaborative partnerships across all sectors of society for New Jersey.
Excellence community schools prepares young people in new york city and stamford to compete for admission to and succeed in top public, private and parochial high schools by cultivating their intellectual, artistic, social, emotional, and…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Who Code Inc and the most unlike its peers is University of Michigan. 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 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 36 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 COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA HOME OF THE SPARROW ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN IN NASSAU COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds KIPP PHILADELPHIA CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NASSAU COUNTY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds J WOOD PLATT CADDIE SCHOLARSHIP TRUST ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF GREATER BRANDYWINE ↗
- Who funds THE FIRST TEE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA INC ↗
- Who funds THE DIAPER BANK OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds She Leads Justice Inc ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY HOME INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE VILLAGE FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST ↗
- Who funds GIRLS WHO CODE INC ↗
- Who funds SANCTUARY FARM PHILA ↗
- Who funds THE ANA GRACE PROJECT 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: 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
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 McLelland 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Bridge Family Center Inc — 61% of income from government
- Journey Home Inc — 59% of income from government
- The Village for Families and Children — 50% of income from government
- The Diaper Bank of Connecticut Inc — 49% of income from government
- She Leads Justice Inc — 22% 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.
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