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The Morris a and Clarisse B Mechanic Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$367k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
43
Grants FY2024
38
Organizations funded FY2023
11%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
36 to 39
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$6.2M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 11% of the organizations The Morris a and Clarisse B Mechanic Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving43$367k30%
FY202338$326k11%
FY202239$424k10%
FY202139$401k10%
FY202038$416k24%
FY201936$386kn/a
79% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$526kEducation$331kFood & Nutrition$195kHuman Services$195kHousing & Shelter$172kHealth$140kYouth Development$88kRecreation & Sports$50kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Morris a and Clarisse B Mechanic Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHarford County Public Library Foundation Inc: $120,000 over 5y, 31% of budgetThe Maryland School for the Blind: $90,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHome for the Aged of Little Sisters of the Poor: $60,000 over 6y, 64% of budgetProject Plase Inc: $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Baltimore Children's Museum Inc: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetChesapeake Shakespeare Company: $30,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHealth Care for the Homeless Inc: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBelieve in Tomorrow National Children's Foundation: $30,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetChesapeake Therapeutic Riding Inc: $26,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetSt Marys Outreach Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Annapolis & Anne Arundel: $24,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCenter Stage Associates Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBaltimore Healthy Start Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetInnovation Works Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBenevolent Baskets Inc: $17,000 over 4y, 45% of budgetMeals on Wheels of Central Marylandinc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetForest Park Senior Center Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetNexus-Woodbourne Family Healing: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity Susquehanna Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDayspring Programs Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBarrier-Free Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetHarmers Town Art Center Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWarrior Canine Connection Inc: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHope for All Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSeton Center Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMarian House Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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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 United Way of Central Maryland IncMD29.4× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The John J Leidy Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Sharebaby Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Nora Roberts Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Huethermcclelland Foundation Inc

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.

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About The Morris a and Clarisse B Mechanic Foundation Inc

How much does The Morris a and Clarisse B Mechanic Foundation Inc give?
The Morris a and Clarisse B Mechanic Foundation Inc reported 43 grants totaling $367,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 36 and 39 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does The Morris a and Clarisse B Mechanic Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (23%), Education (14%), Food & Nutrition (8%).
Who are The Morris a and Clarisse B Mechanic Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Harford County Public Library Foundation Inc ($120k), The Maryland School for the Blind ($90k), Home for the Aged of Little Sisters of the Poor ($60k).
Does The Morris a and Clarisse B Mechanic Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Morris a and Clarisse B Mechanic Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Morris a and Clarisse B Mechanic Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The United Way of Central Maryland Inc, Baltimore Community Foundation Inc, The John J Leidy Foundation Inc.
Where is The Morris a and Clarisse B Mechanic Foundation Inc based?
The Morris a and Clarisse B Mechanic Foundation Inc is based in MD.

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 70 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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