· Private foundation
Katherine Mabis McKenna Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $83k
- $10k–50k37 grants · $765k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+5 grants · $2.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SETON HILL UNIVERSITY | $1,000,000 |
| WESTMORELAND COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC | $367,500 |
| WESTMORELAND CULTURAL TRUST | $361,000 |
| WESTMORELAND LAND TRUST | $260,000 |
| LIGONIER VALLEY YMCA | $250,000 |
| ADELPHOI INC | $195,000 |
| WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY | $150,000 |
| WESTMORELAND CULTURAL TRUST | $120,000 |
| WESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART | $115,000 |
| LATROBE COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION PROGRAM INC | $103,500 |
| FOOD21 OF PENNSYLVANIA | $95,000 |
| LATROBE COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION PROGRAM INC | $93,000 |
| PENNSYLVANIA PARKS & FORESTS FOUNDATION | $91,400 |
| LATROBE COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION PROGRAM INC | $80,000 |
| WESTMORELAND CULTURAL TRUST | $75,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $700k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
64 repeat relationships — 47 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $649k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
SETON HILL UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2024 · $2.9M · revenue +21%- WCWESTMORELAND CULTURAL TRUST4× · 2020–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +333%
- LCLATROBE CMTY REVITALIZATION PGMINC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +106% · 52% of their budget
Funded once
- LALATROBE AREA HOSPITAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION EXCELA HEALTHone grant, 2021 · $1.1M
- LVLIGONIER VOLUNTEER HOSE CO #1 OF LIGONIER PAone grant, 2022 · $600k · revenue -85% · 37% of their budget
- PCPHIPPS CONSERVATORY AND BOTANICAL GARDENS INCone grant, 2020 · $600k · revenue +15%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To protect the quality & beauty of the wissahickon creek & to enhance life in the watershed.
The westmoreland conservancy is an accredited non-profit land trust located in murrysville about 20 miles east of pittsburgh in westmoreland county. the organization was founded in 1991, and has always been run by community volunteers. the…
Tourism development organization dedicated to expanding the tourism economy across allegheny county.
Promote civic, commercial, recreational, historical, environmental and general interest in the ligonier valley of westmoreland county pennsylvania
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
Founded in 1995 to coordinate the completion of the great allegheny passage, a 150-mile non-motorized path connecting pittsburgh and cumberland, maryland, the great allegheny passage conservancy promotes the great allegheny passage and…
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
As a designated national and state heritage area, susquehanna heritage corporation works to raise awareness and appreciation of the cultural and economic value of the susquehanna riverlands, and preserve, enhance and celebrate the area's…
The western pennsylvania golf association's purpose is to promote and advance interest in the true spirit of the game of golf through western pennsylvania.
To strengthen ecomonic prosperity within montgomery county, pennsylvania, by raising its visibility as a tourism destination for leisure and convention markets. the people of the valley forge tourism and covention board work each day to…
To protect, preserve, and promote the scenic resources of southwestern pennsylvania.
See schedule othe allegheny conference on community development (accd) and affiliates - the greater pittsburgh chamber of commerce (chamber), the pennsylvania economy league of greater pittsburgh(pelgp) and the pittsburgh regional alliance…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gettysburg Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Tubmill Trout Club Unlimited. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
70 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 70 of the 105 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SETON HILL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WESTMORELAND CULTURAL TRUST ↗
- Who funds LATROBE CMTY REVITALIZATION PGMINC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE LATROBE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds LIGONIER VOLUNTEER HOSE CO #1 OF LIGONIER PA ↗
- Who funds PHIPPS CONSERVATORY AND BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD21 OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds LIGONIER VALLEY YOUNG MENS CHRISTIA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LATROBE AREA HOSPITAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Westmoreland Land Trust ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds WESTMORELAND COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT VINCENT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL TRAIL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FORT LIGONIER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Bucknell University ↗
- Who funds LOYALHANNA WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHENY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds WESTMORELAND COUNTY BLIND ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WESTMORELAND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LATROBE AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds VALLEY YOUTH NETWORK ↗
- Who funds VALLEY SCHOOL OF LIGONIER ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA PARKS AND FORESTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LATROBE ART CENTER INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Eqt Foundation · Allegheny Foundation · Laurel Highlands · Eden Hall Foundation · The Jack Buncher Foundation · Robertshaw Charitable Foundation · Rk Mellon Family Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · The Grable Foundation · The Heinz Endowments
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Katherine Mabis McKenna Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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