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McKamish 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.

$471k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2024
23
Organizations funded FY2023
30%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$150,000
Organizations funded a year
19 to 25
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$13M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 30% of the organizations McKamish Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k 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
Human ServicesHealthEducationReligionHousing & ShelterEmploymentOther
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
FY2024still arriving19$451k16%
FY202323$545k30%
FY202220$843k5%
FY202125$944k32%
FY202019$588k21%
FY201919$650k26%
FY201819$547k26%
FY201720$452kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.8MHealth$883kInternational$833kHuman Services$810kReligion$341kFood & Nutrition$193kYouth Development$65kEmployment$54kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
PA
MO
KY
VA
AZ
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Pittsburgh$1,500,00050%
Caring Hearts Ministry Inc$792,523727%
St Anthony School Programs$189,0003n/a
Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank$132,50060%
Light of Life Ministries Inc$94,00080%
The Children's Home of Pittsburgh$80,00021%
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Pgh$75,00040%
Family Guidance Inc$60,00062%
Cornerstone Television Inc$58,00070%
Mdrc$54,00050%
Show all 35 grantees
All grantees of McKamish Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Pittsburgh$1,500,00050%
Caring Hearts Ministry Inc$792,523727%
St Anthony School Programs$189,0003n/a
Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank$132,50060%
Light of Life Ministries Inc$94,00080%
The Children's Home of Pittsburgh$80,00021%
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Pgh$75,00040%
Family Guidance Inc$60,00062%
Cornerstone Television Inc$58,00070%
Mdrc$54,00050%
Crosspointe Church$47,0006n/a
Choices Pregnancy Services$40,00081%
The Residences at Wood Street$35,00012%
Food for the Hungry Inc$35,00070%
Allison Park Church of the Assemblies of God$32,5004n/a
Network of Hope Inc$21,00070%
Christian Counselors Collaborative$19,500312%
The Children's Institute of Pittsburgh$15,00030%
Locking Arms Men$12,00043%
Jeremiah's Place Pittsburgh Relief Nursery$11,00021%
Commission to Every Nation$10,00020%
Blood Cancer United Inc$10,00020%
City Reach Network Inc$10,0001n/a
Fox Families Care$7,00042%
Eden Christian Academy$5,00010%
Jonathans Forever Young Run$5,000112%
Mercy Chefs Inc$5,00010%
Sarah Heinz House Association$4,00020%
Monroeville Assembly of God$3,0001n/a
Good News Jail & Prison Ministry$2,5001n/a
Crossway Community Church$2,0001n/a
The Blessing Board$1,0001n/a
Industrial Arts Workshop Inc$1,00010%
Refuge for Women Inc$1,00010%
Stephens Hulksters Angel Fund$1,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

McKamish Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Pittsburgh: $1,500,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCaring Hearts Ministry Inc: $792,523 over 7y, 27% of budgetGreater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank: $132,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLight of Life Ministries Inc: $94,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetThe Children's Home of Pittsburgh: $80,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Diocese of Pgh: $75,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFamily Guidance Inc: $60,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetCornerstone Television Inc: $58,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMdrc: $54,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetChoices Pregnancy Services: $40,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetThe Residences at Wood Street: $35,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFood for the Hungry Inc: $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNetwork of Hope Inc: $21,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetChristian Counselors Collaborative: $19,500 over 3y, 12% of budgetThe Children's Institute of Pittsburgh: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLocking Arms Men: $12,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetJeremiah's Place Pittsburgh Relief Nursery: $11,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCommission to Every Nation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFox Families Care: $7,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetEden Christian Academy: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJonathans Forever Young Run: $5,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetMercy Chefs Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSarah Heinz House Association: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIndustrial Arts Workshop Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRefuge for Women Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 26.

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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.

The Pittsburgh FoundationPA32.8× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Hillman Family Foundations · Snee-Reinhardt Charitable Foundation · Aj and Sigismunda Palumbo Charitable Trust · The Grable Foundation · Eqt Foundation · John E & Sue M Jackson Irr · Massey Charitable Trust · McCune Foundation Pnc Bank Na · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc

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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How do I get to McKamish Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to McKamish 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.

About McKamish Family Foundation

How much does McKamish Family Foundation give?
McKamish Family Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $471,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does McKamish Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (36%), Health (17%), International (16%).
Who are McKamish Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of Pittsburgh ($1.5M), Caring Hearts Ministry Inc ($793k), St Anthony School Programs ($189k).
Does McKamish Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does McKamish Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as McKamish Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pittsburgh Foundation, The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Hillman Family Foundations.
Where is McKamish Family Foundation based?
McKamish Family 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 54 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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