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Lalitta Nash McKaig Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$686k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$686,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$686,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 32
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$13M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Lalitta Nash McKaig Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
EducationOther
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
FY20231$686k0%
FY20221$652k0%
FY20211$462k100%
FY202032$514k13%
FY201928$503k14%
FY201824$467k33%
FY201716$457kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$5.0MOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
West Virginia University Foundation Inc$246,45040%
University of Pittsburgh$155,00040%
Waynesburg University$122,22540%
Shenandoah University$46,10040%
Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit$39,25030%
Liberty University Inc$36,90030%
Fairmont State Foundation Inc$34,25040%
Mount Aloysius College$33,12520%
Saint Francis University$30,40030%
Hood College$27,50040%
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All grantees of Lalitta Nash McKaig Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
West Virginia University Foundation Inc$246,45040%
University of Pittsburgh$155,00040%
Waynesburg University$122,22540%
Shenandoah University$46,10040%
Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit$39,25030%
Liberty University Inc$36,90030%
Fairmont State Foundation Inc$34,25040%
Mount Aloysius College$33,12520%
Saint Francis University$30,40030%
Hood College$27,50040%
McDaniel College Inc$24,50020%
Grove City College$22,50040%
Johns Hopkins University$6,25010%
Appalachian Bible College Inc$3,50010%

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.9M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lalitta Nash McKaig Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWest Virginia University Foundation Inc: $246,450 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Pittsburgh: $155,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWaynesburg University: $122,225 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetShenandoah University: $46,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDuquesne University of the Holy Spirit: $39,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLiberty University Inc: $36,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFairmont State Foundation Inc: $34,250 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMount Aloysius College: $33,125 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSaint Francis University: $30,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHood College: $27,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMcDaniel College Inc: $24,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGrove City College: $22,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJohns Hopkins University: $6,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAppalachian Bible College Inc: $3,500 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 14.

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.

Renaissance Charitabl…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Renaissance Charitable Foundation IncIN12× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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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About Lalitta Nash McKaig Foundation

How much does Lalitta Nash McKaig Foundation give?
Lalitta Nash McKaig Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $686,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 32 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Lalitta Nash McKaig Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Education (89%).
Who are Lalitta Nash McKaig Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: West Virginia University Foundation Inc ($246k), University of Pittsburgh ($155k), Waynesburg University ($122k).
Does Lalitta Nash McKaig Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Lalitta Nash McKaig Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Lalitta Nash McKaig Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Lalitta Nash McKaig Foundation based?
Lalitta Nash McKaig Foundation is based in PA.

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 33 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $633k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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