· Private foundation
Ken & Nancy McKee Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k27 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FREEMONT STREET NURSERY | $10,000 |
| WINCHESTER RESCUE MISSION | $5,550 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| BRIGHT FUTURES | $5,000 |
| LAUREL RIDGE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SPECIAL LOVE | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,341 |
| WATTS | $1,250 |
| WINCHESTER ELKS 867 | $1,212 |
| WINCHESTER MOOSE LODGE 1283 | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 21 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, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k 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
- WRWINCHESTER RESCUE MISSION2× · 2023–2024 · $11k · revenue +47%
- HFHIGHLAND FOOD PANTRY2× · 2023–2024 · $2k · revenue +15%
- TLTHE LAUREL CENTER INTERVENTION FOR DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE2× · 2023–2024 · $2k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- CHCONCERN HOTLINE INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +6%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $5k
- KCKATIE'S COMFORT HOUSEone grant, 2023 · $4k
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.
The fire department provides fire protection for the wintergreen community and portions of nelson and augusta counties in virginia.
To provide those in need with emergency food by working together with community members, leaders, and local businesses and organizations to gather, store, and distribute goods; to offer compassionate help as we respect the dignity of each…
Provide temporary overnight shelter and daytime warming center for adults operated during the winter months and transitional support services offereed throughout the year.
Community health care.
To deliver hot meals to homebound persons in need.
Provide emergency medical services through voluteer ambulance services
To serve the needs of individuals suffering from life-limiting illness as well as to serve the individuals caring for them. to place emphasis on comfort and quality of life while fulfilling the physical, psychological, social and spiritual…
Provide community aid with food and fuel assistance for households that are in need of these essentials
To serve residents of wellesley who are in need of supplemental food on a regular or emergency basis. wfp serves more than 200 families across a broad demographic spectrum. wfp provides food, frozen and refridgerated meat, cheese…
Emergency food pantry serving west end of monroe county and neighboring towns
Provide emergency human services
Providing food and goods to the needy in holliston,ma.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Laurel Center Intervention for Domestic & Sexual Violence and the most unlike its peers is Mike Greene Memorial Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 40 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 WINCHESTER RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds FREMONT STREET NURSERY ↗
- Who funds CONCERN HOTLINE INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHLAND FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds THE LAUREL CENTER INTERVENTION FOR DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds Cheers to Charity ↗
- Who funds MIKE GREENE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Wreaths Across America ↗
- Who funds WINCHESTER PARKS FOUNDATION 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: United Way of Northern Shenandoah Valley Inc · The Bank of Clarke County Foundation · American Woodmark Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of the Northern Shenandoah Valley · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Ken & Nancy McKee Foundation Inc 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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