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David McKinlay Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$160k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2024
7
Organizations funded FY2023
14%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 11
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$2.4M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 14% of the organizations David McKinlay Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesOther
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
FY2024still arriving6$160k17%
FY20237$160k14%
FY20225$136k20%
FY20217$155k14%
FY202010$197k0%
FY20199$195k11%
FY201811$187k36%
FY201710$177kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Youth Development$482kHousing & Shelter$345kHealth$251kHuman Services$120kReligion$75kArts & Culture$54kFood & Nutrition$40k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Hopecentral$250,90085%
Vision House$195,00081%
Sammamish Bible Camp Association Inc$155,00071%
New Horizons Ministries$140,00052%
The Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Seattle (6871)$95,00050%
CRISTA Ministries$75,00030%
Familyworks$40,00041%
Friends of Youth$35,00040%
Sanctuary Art Center$34,00032%
Route 21$25,00016%
Show all 12 grantees
All grantees of David McKinlay Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Hopecentral$250,90085%
Vision House$195,00081%
Sammamish Bible Camp Association Inc$155,00071%
New Horizons Ministries$140,00052%
The Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Seattle (6871)$95,00050%
CRISTA Ministries$75,00030%
Familyworks$40,00041%
Friends of Youth$35,00040%
Sanctuary Art Center$34,00032%
Route 21$25,00016%
Northwest Girl Choir$20,00021%
Youthcare$10,00010%

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($292k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget David McKinlay Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHopecentral: $250,900 over 8y, 5.0% of budgetVision House: $195,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetSammamish Bible Camp Association Inc: $155,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetNew Horizons Ministries: $140,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetThe Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Seattle (6871): $95,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCRISTA Ministries: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFamilyworks: $40,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetFriends of Youth: $35,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSanctuary Art Center: $34,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetRoute 21: $25,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetNorthwest Girl Choir: $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetYouthcare: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 12.

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.

Seattle FoundationWA20.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Medina Foundation · United Way of King County · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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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Find your warmest path to David McKinlay Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About David McKinlay Trust

How much does David McKinlay Trust give?
David McKinlay Trust reported 6 grants totaling $160,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does David McKinlay Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (35%), Housing & Shelter (25%), Health (18%).
Who are David McKinlay Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Hopecentral ($251k), Vision House ($195k), Sammamish Bible Camp Association Inc ($155k).
Does David McKinlay Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does David McKinlay Trust 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 David McKinlay Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, The Norcliffe Foundation, M J Murdock Charitable Trust.
Where is David McKinlay Trust based?
David McKinlay Trust is based in WA.

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 19 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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