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Armstrong-McKay 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.

$145k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2025
6
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 21
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$1.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Armstrong-McKay Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 45% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentEducationFood & NutritionArts & CultureHuman ServicesAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving7$145k57%
FY20246$67k50%
FY20234$40k50%
FY20226$63k50%
FY202110$45k40%
FY20203$34k67%
FY201919$160k16%
FY201821$127kn/a
91% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Animals$122kPhilanthropy$118kEnvironment$105kArts & Culture$103kReligion$66kFood & Nutrition$45kInternational$45kHealth$38kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
ID
IL
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
NM
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($279k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Armstrong-McKay Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 29 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetConemaugh Valley Conservancy Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetFriends of Hopital Albert Schweitzer Haiti: $45,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetGreater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWorldwomenwork: $30,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetThe Potomac Conservancy Inc: $24,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetUnited Way of Connecticut Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFractured Atlas Inc: $16,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTudor Place Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSanta Barbara Middle School: $12,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Wilderness Leadership Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSanta Barbara International Film Festival Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMountain Watershed Association Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSanta Barbara Channelkeeper Inc: $9,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNorth Country School Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Pittsburghmuskoka Foundation: $6,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetWqed Multimedia: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPropel Schools Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBeverly's Pgh: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCanyon Heroes: $2,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetThe Athenian School: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWildaid Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Neighborhood Academy: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Fessenden School: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew Sun Rising: $1,630 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSt Paul's School: $1,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLoyalhanna Watershed Association Inc: $1,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSun Mountain School Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSteel City Squash Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMetrosquash Nfp: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 29.

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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.

The Pittsburgh FoundationPA21.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Grable Foundation · Walton R Etal Trs Walton Fam Fnd-Agy · Community Foundation of Greater Johnstown · The Chicago Community Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Armstrong-McKay Foundation

How much does Armstrong-McKay Foundation give?
Armstrong-McKay Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $145,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Armstrong-McKay Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (17%), Philanthropy (16%), Environment (14%).
Who are Armstrong-McKay Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Conemaugh Valley Conservancy Inc ($50k), American Antiquarian Society ($50k), Friends of Hopital Albert Schweitzer Haiti ($45k).
Does Armstrong-McKay Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Armstrong-McKay 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 Armstrong-McKay Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pittsburgh Foundation, Hillman Family Foundations, Richard King Mellon Foundation.
Where is Armstrong-McKay Foundation based?
Armstrong-McKay Foundation is based in PA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 44 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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