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Mackin 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $172k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $580k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The West End School | $120,000 |
| Centre College | $100,000 |
| Catholic Charities Foundation | $100,000 |
| Catholic Charities | $60,000 |
| Harbor House | $50,000 |
| Meredith Dunn School | $50,000 |
| Waterfront Development Corp | $50,000 |
| Big Brother Big Sisters of Kentuckiana | $50,000 |
| Saint Xavier High School | $45,000 |
| Educational Justice Foundation | $30,000 |
| The Backside Learning Center | $26,500 |
| Cabbage Patch Settlement House | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Nativity Academy | $20,000 |
| UP for Women & Children | $5,500 |
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 (FY21–24, $106k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +42% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 12 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $251k 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
- WEWest End School Inc4× · 2020–2024 · $330k · revenue +193%
- SUSPALDING UNIVERSITY INC3× · 2020–2022 · $300k · revenue +4%
- BUBELLARMINE UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED3× · 2020–2023 · $185k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $70k · revenue +189%
- LHLINCOLN HERITAGE COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +30%
- BBBig Brothers Big Sistersone grant, 2023 · $50k
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.
Louisville collegiate school inspires academic excellence, extraordinary character and global citizenship.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Lake forest academy strives to embody in its practices - and to cultivate in its students -excellence of character, scholarship, citizenship, and responsibility.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Concord academy is a community animated by love of learning, diverse and striving for equity, with common trust as our foundation. honoring each individual, we challenge and expand our understanding of ourselves and the world through…
See schedule o.founded in 1866, carleton college is a private, coeducational liberal arts college of 2,007 students located in the historic river town of northfield, minnesota. nationally recognized as the nation's top college for…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Steadfast in jesus christ as revealed in the holy scriptures, concordia university chicago promotes academic rigor in its liberal arts and professional programs; grounds students in objective truth, integrity, and excellence; and practices…
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
The kentucky college of art and design opens the door to a creative and productive life through an undergraduate education in the contemporary arts.
York college prepares graduates for fulfilling, productive, and purposeful lives by providing high quality programs of study supported by relevant real-world experiences. continued on schedule o.as a rich and diverse community of educators…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cabbage Patch Settlement House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Floyd Service Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 52 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 59 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 CENTRE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds West End School Inc ↗
- Who funds SPALDING UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds BELLARMINE UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF COVINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds MEREDITH-DUNN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF KENTUCKIANA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIVITY ACADEMY AT SAINT BONIFACE ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds 21ST CENTURY PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BACKSIDE LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HARBOR HOUSE OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN HERITAGE COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MARYHURST INC ↗
- Who funds WATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS CANCER ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE PORCINIFARMER CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FLOYD SERVICE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds American Junior Golf Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Uniting Partners for Women and Children ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · Kosair Charities Committee Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Republic Bank Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable 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 Mackin 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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