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Mackenzie Family Foundation

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.

$5.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$2.0M
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$7.6MPhilanthropy$5.4MRecreation & Sports$1.4MEducation$1.0MInternational$700kPublic Safety & Disaster$250kCommunity Improvement$200kEmployment$120kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $125k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $650k
  • $250k+3 grants · $4.3M
$50,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$57M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDRENS HEALTH$2,000,000
GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION$2,000,000
LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDRENS HEALTH$250,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE$200,000
PGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC$150,000
EAT LEARN PLAY FOUNDATION$100,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE$100,000
WOMENS SPORTS FOUNDATION$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA DARDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION$50,000
EASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC$35,000
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA DARDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION$25,000
EAST PALO ALTO TENNIS AND TUTORING$25,000
SUMMER SEARCH$20,000
GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION$10,000
NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL$10,000
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 12% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDRENS HEALTH: $2.0M → 8%EAT LEARN PLAY FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%WOMENS SPORTS FOUNDATION: $50k → 17%WORLD GOLF FOUNDATION INC - THE FIRST TEE: $200k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL ARTS AND: $250k → 13%UNITED STATES SKI TEAM FOUNDATION: $250k → 5%TETON RAPTOR CENTER: $50k → 5%LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDRENS HEALTH: $2.0M → 8%EAT LEARN PLAY FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%WOMENS SPORTS FOUNDATION: $50k → 17%WORLD GOLF FOUNDATION INC - THE FIRST TEE: $200k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL ARTS AND: $200k → 13%LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDRENS HEALTH: $2.0M → 8%EAT LEARN PLAY FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%WOMENS SPORTS FOUNDATION: $50k → 17%PGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC: $500k → 6%GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $2.0M → 5%LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDRENS HEALTH: $250k → 8%EAT LEARN PLAY FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%WOMENS SPORTS FOUNDATION: $50k → 17%PGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC: $150k → 6%GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $300k → 5%LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDRENS HEALTH: $250k → 8%SUMMER SEARCH: $40k → 10%GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $100k → 5%LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDRENS HEALTH: $250k → 8%GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $100k → 5%LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDRENS HEALTH: $250k → 8%GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $100k → 5%LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDRENS HEALTH: $100k → 8%GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $100k → 5%EASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $54k → 8%GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $100k → 5%EASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $40k → 8%GLOBAL CITIZEN YEAR INCORPORATED: $300k → 10%GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $90k → 5%EASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $35k → 8%GLOBAL CITIZEN YEAR INCORPORATED: $200k → 10%SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1.3M → 8%GLOBAL CITIZEN YEAR INCORPORATED: $100k → 10%SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $400k → 8%GLOBAL CITIZEN YEAR INCORPORATED: $100k → 10%SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100k → 8%EAST PALO ALTO TENNIS AND TUTORING: $35k → 8%TETON COUNTY SEARCH & RESCUE FOUNDATION: $250k → 5%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $200k → 5%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $100k → 5%COMMUNITY CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $50k → 5%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
WY
CA
UT
VA
NC
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 10% of Mackenzie Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Mackenzie Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 17 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +68% since the first grant, against -33% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
5

Total granted

$14M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%
-33%

Still filing today

94%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Recreation & SportsEducationEnvironmentPhilanthropyHealthInternationalOther
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

  • LP
    LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH
    5× · 2020–2024 · $7.1M · revenue +8%
  • GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $2.9M · revenue +313%
  • PT
    PGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $800k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • MS
    MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER The Societ
    one grant, 2023 · $500k
  • US
    United States Ski Team Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +64%
  • TC
    Teton County Search & Rescue Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue -77%
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
Tahoe Community Foundation

The Foundation envisions a thriving community created through meaningful philanthropy, inclusive communication, and the willingness to explore possibilities together.

Education
2
Ussa Investment Fund

Operates exclusively to manage the investment of endowment gifts made for the benefit of supporting the development, training, and competition of elite national, international, and development athletes in skiing and snowboarding.

Recreation & Sports
3
The Sierra Fund

The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.

Environment
4
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
5
United States Skiing Foundation

United states skiing foundation is engaged in not-for-profit membership, competition, training, development, and educational activities related to amateur skiers and snowboarders who are, or aspire to become, members of the u.s. ski and…

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6
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
7
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
8
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
9
Truckee Trails Foundation Inc

The Truckee Trails Foundation (TTF) is working towards a system of trails and bikeways in and around Truckee, California that will connect people and places, reduce our community's dependence on automobiles, and improve our physical,…

Environment
10
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
11
North Dakota State University Foundation

Building enduring relationships that maximize advocacy and philanthropy to support North Dakota State University.

Education
12
Conservation Legacy

Conservation legacy engages future leaders who protect, restore, and enhance our nation's lands through community-based service.in 2024, conservation legacy engaged 2,524 participants who completed over 1.5 million service hours on public…

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Jackson Hole; the most unlike its peers is Grand Teton National Park Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 24 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)
21/21
Grantees still filing
14/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $7,100,000 · HealthLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTHGRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $2,930,000 · PhilanthropyGRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATIO…Silicon Valley Community Foundation: $1,750,000 · PhilanthropySilicon Valley Community FoundationEAT LEARN PLAY FOUNDATION: $400,000 · PhilanthropyEAT LEARN PLAY FOUNDATIONCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $300,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOL…PGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC: $800,000 · Recreation & SportsPGA TOUR …United States Ski Team Foundation: $250,000 · Recreation & SportsUnited St…Womens Sports Foundation: $200,000 · Recreation & SportsWomens Sp…EAST PALO ALTO TENNIS & TUTORING: $135,000 · Recreation & SportsEAST PALO…MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER The Societ: $500,000 · OtherMEMORIAL …WORLD GOLF FOUNDATION INC - THE FIRST TEE: $400,000 · OtherWORLD GOL…HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL: $100,000 · OtherHARVARD B…TETON RAPTOR CENTER: $75,000 · OtherTETON RAP…SUMMER SEARCH: $120,000 · OtherSUMMER SE…Community Center for the Arts: $70,000 · Other+4 more: $100,000 · Other+4 moreUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL H ARTS & SCIENCES FOUNDATION: $450,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA DARDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $300,000 · EducationEASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $129,416 · EducationTilting Futures Incorporated: $700,000 · InternationalTeton County Search & Rescue Foundation: $250,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Health$7,100,000Philanthropy$5,380,000Recreation & Sports$1,385,000Other$1,365,000Education$879,416International$700,000Public Safety & Disaster$250,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $7,100,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetGRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $2,930,000 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetSilicon Valley Community Foundation: $1,750,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC: $800,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetTilting Futures Incorporated: $700,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL H ARTS & SCIENCES FOUNDATION: $450,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetEAT LEARN PLAY FOUNDATION: $400,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA DARDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $300,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUnited States Ski Team Foundation: $250,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTeton County Search & Rescue Foundation: $250,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetWomens Sports Foundation: $200,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetEAST PALO ALTO TENNIS & TUTORING: $135,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetEASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $129,416 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSUMMER SEARCH: $120,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTETON RAPTOR CENTER: $75,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCommunity Center for the Arts: $70,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetNATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBig Sur Land Trust: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Doug Coombs Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% 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.

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.

Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Ayco Charitable F…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…The Goldman Sachs Cha…The McKnight Foundati…Silicon Valley Commun…Vanguard Charitable E…The Blackbaud Giving …Natl Christian Charit…American Endowment Fo…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY20.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The McKnight Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 Mackenzie Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Mackenzie Family Foundation 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 24 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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