North Carolina · Private foundation
Thomas R & Elizabeth E McLean Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $21,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $458,001
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 22
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $26M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations Thomas R & Elizabeth E McLean Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $253k 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 | 20 | $1.5M | 10% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $1.2M | 12% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $994k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $1.2M | 5% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $1.3M | 32% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $1.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Methodist University Inc | $1,211,001 | 4 | 1% |
| Cape Fear Valley Medical Foundation | $849,999 | 3 | 22% |
| Airborne and Special Operations Museum Foundation | $700,000 | 4 | 25% |
| Cape Fear Botanical Garden | $570,001 | 5 | 7% |
| Fayetteville Technical Community College Foundation Inc | $505,400 | 5 | 13% |
| Fayetteville State University Foundation | $500,000 | 2 | 8% |
| Cape Fear Regional Theatre at Fayetteville Inc | $325,001 | 6 | 3% |
| Child Advocacy Center Inc | $303,000 | 5 | 12% |
| Fayetteville Area Operation Inasmuch | $219,941 | 6 | 12% |
| Cool Spring Downtown District Inc | $200,000 | 5 | 9% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($812k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Thomas R & Elizabeth E McLean Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 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: Cumberland Community Foundation Inc · Riddle Family Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Florence Rogers Charitable Trust · Youth Growth Stock Trust · Carolyn Riddle Armstrong Family Foundation · Sharlene R Williams Family Foundation · Jp Riddle Charitable Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Anonymous Trust U/A Dated 2-4-2008 · Duke Energy Foundation · David & Elisabeth Nimocks Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Thomas R & Elizabeth E McLean Foundation Inc
- How much does Thomas R & Elizabeth E McLean Foundation Inc give?
- Thomas R & Elizabeth E McLean Foundation Inc reported 21 grants totaling $1,488,403 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 22 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Thomas R & Elizabeth E McLean Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (30%), Education (29%), Health (13%).
- Who are Thomas R & Elizabeth E McLean Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Methodist University Inc ($1.2M), Cape Fear Valley Medical Foundation ($850k), Airborne and Special Operations Museum Foundation ($700k).
- Does Thomas R & Elizabeth E McLean Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Thomas R & Elizabeth E McLean Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Thomas R & Elizabeth E McLean Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Cumberland Community Foundation Inc, Riddle Family Foundation, The Cannon Foundation Inc.
- Where is Thomas R & Elizabeth E McLean Foundation Inc based?
- Thomas R & Elizabeth E McLean Foundation Inc is based in NC.
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