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David McKinlay Trust at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VISON HOUSE$30,000
HOPE CENTRAL$30,000
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN$25,000
SAMBICA$25,000
STR YOUTH MINISTRIES$25,000
ROUTE 21$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $465k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%NEW HORIZONS MINISTRIES: $40k → 9%NEW HORIZONS MINISTRIES: $30k → 9%NEW HORIZONS MINISTRIES: $30k → 9%NEW HORIZONS MINISTRIES: $20k → 9%NEW HORIZONS MINISTRIES: $20k → 9%VISON HOUSE: $30k → 9%VISON HOUSE: $30k → 9%VISON HOUSE: $25k → 9%VISON HOUSE: $25k → 9%VISON HOUSE: $25k → 9%VISON HOUSE: $20k → 9%VISON HOUSE: $20k → 9%VISON HOUSE: $20k → 9%YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE: $25k → 9%ROUTE 21: $25k → 9%YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE: $25k → 9%YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE: $15k → 9%YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE: $15k → 9%YOUTH CARE: $10k → 9%YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE: $15k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 15 repeat orgs$67k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against -8% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
3

Total granted

$1.3M
$42k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
-8%

Still filing today

60%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureRecreation & SportsReligionCommunity ImprovementOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • HOPECENTRAL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $251k · revenue +306%
  • VH
    VISION HOUSE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $195k · revenue +98%
  • SB
    Sammamish Bible Camp Association Inc
    7× · 2017–2024 · $155k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIEND OF THE CHILDREN
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • RA
    RAINIR AVENUE CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $12k
  • Y
    YOUTHCARE
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -8%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Covenant House Washington Dc

Covenant house washington, dc ("chw") provides shelter, crisis care, community services, and outreach services to youth in the washington dc area.

Human Services
2
Youth Empowerment Shelter

To provide youth in crisis a place of physical and emotional safety while assisting them to build positive relationships and develop their individual potentials.

Youth Development
3
Young Women's Christian Association of Bellingham

YWCA Bellingham is part of a national network of programs with the shared mission of eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, and freedom for all.

Human Services
4
Hope 4 Youth

To provide pathways to end youth homelessness.

Youth Development
5
Community Care

To provide quality community-based services that are timely and effective in promoting the health and well being of individuals and their families.

Human Services
6
Covenant House Georgia Inc

Covenant house georgia provides shelters, protects and advocates on behalf of homeless, trafficked, runaway and sexually exploited youth.

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7
Eastside Church of Christ Inc

Our church mission is to provide a welcoming and inclusive spiritual home forindividuals and families to grow in their faith.

Religion
8
Youth Crisis Center Inc

The mission of YCC is to build a healthier community by empowering young people and families to rise above adversity.

Human Services
9
Vision for Youth

To train and encourage youth workers and students for effective global ministry

Religion
10
Nexus Youth and Families

Restoring hope, building futures, and strengthening our communities through programs with youth, young adults and families. we support the behavioral health of at-risk and in-crisis youth across the greater south king county area. we take…

Human Services
11
Covenant House Texas

Covenant house texas shelters, protects, and advocates on behalf of homeless, trafficked, and sexually exploited youth.

Human Services
12
Royal Family Kids Camp-Issaquah

Support foster children through positive camp experiences

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youthcare; the most unlike its peers is Route 21. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 19 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VISION HOUSE: $195,000 · Human ServicesVISION HOUSENEW HORIZONS MINISTRIES: $140,000 · Human ServicesNEW HORIZONS MINISTRIESTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871): $95,000 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION …ROUTE 21: $25,000 · Human ServicesROUTE 21+1 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesFREND OF THE CHILDREN: $70,000 · OtherFREND OF THE CHILDRENWONDERLAND: $50,000 · OtherWONDERLANDSTR YOUTH MINISTRIES: $50,000 · OtherSTR YOUTH MINISTRIESUNION GOSPEL MISSION: $45,000 · OtherUNION GOSPEL MISSIONFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $45,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE CHILDRENFRIEND OF THE CHILDREN: $20,000 · OtherFRIEND OF THE CHILDRENRAINIR AVENUE CHURCH: $11,835 · OtherHOPECENTRAL: $250,900 · HealthHOPECENTRALFRIENDS OF YOUTH: $35,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF YOUTHSammamish Bible Camp Association Inc: $155,000 · Recreation & SportsSammamish Bi…CRISTA Ministries: $75,000 · ReligionSanctuary Art Center: $34,000 · Arts & CultureNorthwest Girl Choir: $20,000 · Arts & CultureFAMILYWORKS: $40,000 · Community Improvement
Human Services$465,000Other$291,835Health$285,900Recreation & Sports$155,000Religion$75,000Arts & Culture$54,000Community Improvement$40,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds HOPECENTRAL ↗
  • Who funds VISION HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds Sammamish Bible Camp Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds NEW HORIZONS MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871) ↗
  • Who funds CRISTA Ministries ↗
  • Who funds FAMILYWORKS ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF YOUTH ↗
  • Who funds Sanctuary Art Center ↗
  • Who funds ROUTE 21 ↗
  • Who funds Northwest Girl Choir ↗
  • Who funds YOUTHCARE ↗

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 FoundationThe Norcliffe Foundat…M J Murdock Charitabl…Mightycause Charitabl…Medina FoundationUnited Way of King Co…Puget Sound Energy Fo…Natl Christian Charit…The Blackbaud Giving …American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization David McKinlay Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David McKinlay Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to David McKinlay Trust?

    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.

    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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