How much does The Stephanie and Carter McClelland Foundation give?

The Stephanie and Carter McClelland Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $3,811,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Stephanie and Carter McClelland Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (83%), Arts & Culture (14%), Recreation & Sports (1%).

Who are The Stephanie and Carter McClelland Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Juilliard School ($6.5M), Echoing Green Inc ($4.2M), National Theatre in America Inc ($1.6M).

Does The Stephanie and Carter McClelland Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Stephanie and Carter McClelland 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 Stephanie and Carter McClelland Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, The San Francisco Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust.

Where is The Stephanie and Carter McClelland Foundation based?

The Stephanie and Carter McClelland Foundation is based in NY.

The Stephanie and Carter McClelland Foundation

The Stephanie and Carter McClelland Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Stephanie and Carter McClelland 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.

$3.8M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$1.3M

Largest

01What it funds

0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$14MArts & Culture$2.5MRecreation & Sports$225kHealth$114kPhilanthropy$110kPublic Benefit$20kInternational$10kCivil Rights$10kOther$0

02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k1 grant · $5k
$10k–50k2 grants · $56k
$250k+4 grants · $3.8M

$500,000

Median grant

States reached

$598k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
THE JUILLIARD SCHOOL	$1,250,000
ECHOING GREEN FOUNDATION	$1,000,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT SERVCES	$1,000,000
AMERICAN ASSOCIATES OF THE NATIONAL THEATRE INC	$500,000
NATIONAL THEATRE IN AMERICA INC	$31,000
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY	$25,000
BEDFORD PLAYHOUSE	$5,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$13M · 15 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$13M

$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%

+33%

Still filing today

60%

42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationHealthCivil RightsRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

JS
JUILLIARD SCHOOL
8× · 2017–2025 · $6.5M · revenue +64%
EG
ECHOING GREEN INC
8× · 2017–2025 · $4.2M · revenue +107%
NT
NATIONAL THEATRE IN AMERICA INC
7× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +317%

Funded once

TS
THE STEPHANIE AND CARTER MCCLELLAND FOUNDATION
one grant, 2023 · $500k
J
JUILLIARD
one grant, 2023 · $200k
SC
STANFORD CENTER ON PHILANTHROPY AND CIVIL SOCIETY
one grant, 2019 · $110k

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.

04Its field

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.

New York City Center Inc

The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…

Arts & Culture

The American Theatre Guild

The american theatre guild is dedicated to providing the experience of live theatre to foster passion, inspire creativity and empower youth within our communities.

Arts & Culture

The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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Delterra Inc

Redesign human systems for the good of people and the planet by developing innovative, scalable solutions.

Environment

Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Inc

Accelerating science through its mission to cure, prevent or manage all diseases by the end of the 21st century.

Health

Vital Strategies Inc

Our mission is to work in partnership to reimagine evidence-based, locally driven policies and practices to advance public health.

International

International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International

Behavioral Ideas Lab Inc

Ideas42 uses behavioral science - the science of human behavior - to improve lives, build better systems, and drive social change. we work across mutually reinforcing issue areas including: promoting access to quality post-secondary…

Social Science

Open New York Education Inc

Open new york education, inc. supports public education, awareness, and engagement around housing issues to help build a movement for a more abundant and inclusive new york.

Housing & Shelter

The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit

Los Angeles Opera Company

To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Accelerate Change Inc; the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 49 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

24/25

Grantees still filing

18/25

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$14,436,000Arts & Culture$1,676,500Other$1,077,439Recreation & Sports$225,000Health$74,620Civil Rights$20,000Philanthropy$8,319

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.

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 Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY12.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The San Francisco Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Stephanie and Carter McClelland Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Stephanie and Carter McClelland Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

6report 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, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home