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Mary Mcclellan Foundation Inc

Greenwich, NY · EIN 14-1729561. Reported 49 grants totalling $754,128 to 26 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$12,500median grant
$754,128granted, 2021-2024
26organizations funded
62%of grantees funded again the next year
$3,466,447assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Mary Mcclellan Foundation Inc did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $12,500. Half of everything it gave fell between $3,700 and $20,000; the smallest was $150 and the largest $71,035. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
1 grant
$1,000 - $5,000
12 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
5 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
26 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
2 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
3 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Cambridge Valley Rescue SquadCambridge, NY$219,021442024
Glens Falls HospitalGlens Falls, NY$72,035432024
Town of Hoosick Rescue Squad IncHoosick Falls, NY$60,000442024
Easton Greenwich Rescue SquadGreenwich, NY$55,995332024
Battenkill Community ServicesGreenwich, NY$50,000332023
Salem Rescue SquadSalem, NY$45,830332024
Parsons Family and ChildAlbany, NY$40,000112023
Southern Vermont Medical CenterBennington, VT$25,000212024
Center for Nursing and RehabilitationHoosick Falls, NY$24,449222022
Greenwich First RespondersGreenwich, NY$23,000222023
Hudson Headwaters Health NetworkQueensbury, NY$20,000112023
Parsons Family and Child CenterAlbany, NY$20,000112021
Rsvp ProgramQueensbury, NY$20,000222023
Historic Salem Courthouse Preservation Association IncSalem, NY$15,660442024
Parent to Parent of NySchenectady, NY$13,654112021
Adirondack Samaritan Counselling CenterHudson Falls, NY$13,600112024
Cossayuna Volunteer Fire DepartmentCossayuna, NY$10,000112023
Southern Adirondack Health InitiativeGlens Falls, NY$5,000112023
Washington County Fairgrounds IncGreenwich, NY$5,000112021
White Creek Fire CompanyEagle Bridge, NY$4,234222024
Tri-County United Way Rsvp ProgramQueensbury, NY$3,000112024
Family Service Association of Glens FallsGlens Falls, NY$2,500112024
Cambridge Valley Athletic Ass'nCambridge, NY$2,000112024
Greenwich Committee for YouthGreenwich, NY$2,000112024
Greenwich Free LibraryGreenwich, NY$2,000112023
Grassland Bird TrustFort Edward, NY$150112023

11 of 26 (42%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 62%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 32 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Health Care
13 grants
Public Safety & Disaster Relief
8 grants
Human Services
5 grants
Arts & Culture
4 grants
Environment
1 grant
Education
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20218$154,584$17,500
202210$222,248$20,000
202316$230,861$10,000
202415$146,435$10,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 97% of this one's giving went to organizations in New York. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

New York
$729K
Vermont
$25K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $12,500. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in New York.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Mary Mcclellan Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 90, Greenwich, NY, 12834. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 14-1729561 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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