· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| MANNA ON MAIN ST | $50,000 |
| TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN OF NASSAU COUNTY | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK | $50,000 |
| PHILABUNDANCE | $50,000 |
| YMCA OF GREATER BRANDYWINE | $25,000 |
| PLAYWORKS | $20,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NASSAU COUNTY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PHILA | $20,000 |
| SANCTUARY FARM PHILADELPHIA | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +73% since the first grant, against +27% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- IIDAAYone grant, 2020 · $13k
GIRLS WHO CODE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue +27%
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.
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.
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How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 36 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 THE VILLAGE FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY HOME INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
- 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The McLelland Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The McLelland Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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