Funder Standing / The McConnell Foundation

The McConnell Foundation

CA · EIN 946102700 · 100M+ · data as of FY2024
Adds new grantees regularly

33 of 127 organizations The McConnell Foundation funded in FY2024 had not been funded in the prior 3 years.

Across all compared years the rate is 28.2%. Foundations of a similar size sit at 33.0%.

The numbers

New-grantee rate
28.2%
Pooled across compared years
Median grant
$7,450
Range $75 – $3,462,391
Repeat-dollar share
94.8%
Dollars to prior-year grantees
Accepts unsolicited
Yes
Inferred from the filing — see below
Match rate
100.0%
Grant lines resolved to an organization
Filing years used
5
Consecutive returns on file

Who they funded in FY2024

RecipientAmount
Redding City of$3,462,391
Turtle Bay Exploration Park$1,588,581
Shasta Regional Community Foundation$1,094,994
Shasta College Foundation$617,000
Siskiyou County Job Councilnew$500,000
Shasta County Office of Education$453,000
Natural Resource Conflict Transformation Center - Nepal (NRCTC)$403,000
Shasta Living Streets$350,926
College OPTIONS Inc$350,000
Viva Downtown Redding$340,779
The Asia Foundation$300,000
Mahila Shakti Bikash Kendra Nepal (MSBKN)$267,880
California State Grange Foundationnew$250,000
Advance Redding$211,250
California State University Chico$150,831
United Way of Northern California$103,140
Redding Fashion Alliance Incorporated$100,750
IUCN International Union for Conservation Of Nature & Natural Resources$100,000
Henry L Stimson Center$90,000
University of California Davis$68,418
Shasta College$51,621
California Polytechnic State University Humboldt$41,896
Shasta County Young Men's Christian Association$41,835
Mercy Foundation North$39,425
California State University Sacramento$37,329

Showing the 25 largest of 127 grants.

How to read this

Every US private foundation files Form 990-PF, and Part XV of that return itemises each grant it paid, with the recipient's name. Lining those lists up across filing years shows which organizations were funded for the first time.

That does work the application checkbox cannot. Whether a foundation says it accepts unsolicited proposals is self-reported and never audited. The grant ledger is behaviour.

What this page does not tell you. Whether your work fits what The McConnell Foundation funds — no tax return contains that. Whether anyone on your board already knows a trustee, which is how a great deal of foundation money actually moves. Or anything that has changed since the last filing, which runs twelve to twenty-four months behind.
Source. IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV line 3a (grants paid during the year), tax years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Excludes. Grants approved for future payment, which the return lists separately
Computed. 2026-08-03 · Next recompute. 2026-11-01
Distribution. GivingTuesday Data Lake mirror of the IRS e-file corpus

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