Wisconsin · Private foundation
Andrew and Joan McKenna 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.
- $3.3M
- Granted FY2023
- 7
- Grants FY2023
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Andrew and Joan McKenna Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Andrew and Joan McKenna Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $3M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2023
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $2,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 28
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 1
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Andrew and Joan McKenna Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 7 | $3.3M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $1.0M | 42% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $929k | 58% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $799k | 63% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $19k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 28 | $577k | 61% |
| FY2017 | 16 | $379k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry | $1,075,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago | $512,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Clearbrook | $347,600 | 4 | 0% |
| Northwestern University | $284,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Big Shoulders Fund | $230,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Loyola Academy | $156,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Catholic Church Extension Society of US of Amer | $150,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Leo High School | $125,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The Chicago Academy of Sciences | $100,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Window to the World Communications Inc | $55,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 45 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Andrew and Joan McKenna Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: The Canning Foundation · Patrick G and Shirley W Ryan Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · James and Catherine Denny Foundation · Hobsonlucas Family Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · J Christopher and Anne N Reyes Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Andrew and Joan McKenna Foundation with peer funders
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About Andrew and Joan McKenna Foundation
- How much does Andrew and Joan McKenna Foundation give?
- Andrew and Joan McKenna Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $3,265,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 28 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Andrew and Joan McKenna Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (50%), Religion (20%), Science & Tech (7%).
- Who are Andrew and Joan McKenna Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry ($1.1M), Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ($512k), Clearbrook ($348k).
- Does Andrew and Joan McKenna Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Andrew and Joan McKenna 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 Andrew and Joan McKenna Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Canning Foundation, Patrick G and Shirley W Ryan Foundation, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc.
- Where is Andrew and Joan McKenna Foundation based?
- Andrew and Joan McKenna Foundation is based in WI.
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