· Private foundation
Katherine Mabis McKenna Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +5%
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
70 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. 70 of the 105 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 LATROBE AREA HOSPITAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIGONIER VALLEY YOUNG MENS CHRISTIA ASSOCIATION ↗
- 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 ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Katherine Mabis McKenna Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Katherine Mabis McKenna Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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