· Private foundation
William H & Ella W McMahan Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $59k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FREED-HARDEMAN UNIVERSITY | $31,400 |
| CRIEVE HALL CHURCH OF CHRIST | $17,400 |
| MT DORA CHILDREN'S HOME | $10,000 |
| FAITH FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER | $5,000 |
| SYCAMORE VIEW CHURCH OF CHRIST | $4,750 |
| BRIDGE MINISTRY | $3,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| ST JOSEPH'S INDIAN SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| THE THOMAS MORE SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| GLOBAL CHRISTIAN RELIEF | $1,000 |
| PRAGER U | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICE DEFENSE | $750 |
| REVELATION MEDIA | $100 |
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 (FY17–22, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +42% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FUFREED-HARDEMAN UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $167k · revenue +51%
- TMTHOMAS MORE SOCIETY6× · 2018–2024 · $57k · revenue +105%
- LULIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY4× · 2017–2020 · $27k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- DTDINO TZANETOS ATHENS (GREECE) CHURCH OF CHRISTone grant, 2020 · $18k
- SCSYCAMORE CHURCH OF CHRISTone grant, 2017 · $13k
- SCSOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES-USA INCone grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue -36%
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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As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
American press institute acts as a scout on the frontier of technology and audience behavior to identify where change is occurring and helps news organizations learn how to implement and scale that change successfully so they have a…
We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
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The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
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How this is measured
36 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. 36 of the 63 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 FREED-HARDEMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THOMAS MORE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds United American Patriots Inc ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds FAITH FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICE DEFENSE INC ↗
- Who funds SOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES-USA INC ↗
- Who funds DAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS UNION ↗
- Who funds FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CORNERSTONE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Care Net ↗
- Who funds PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS ↗
- Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOME INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN LIBERTY ↗
- Who funds THE BLAKEFORD AT GREEN HILLS ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF COMPASSION ↗
- Who funds United States Justice Foundation ↗
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: Servant Foundation · Ebs Foundation · Farrell Family Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Christian Heritage Foundation Attn Michael a Kulp · Irving Rothlein Foundation · H & R Peters Family Foundation · John P & Kathryn G Evans Foundation · Quaker City Foundation · Donors Trust Inc · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization William H & Ella W McMahan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William H & Ella W McMahan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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