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McKay Family 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.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$1.4M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$4.7MPublic Benefit$595kHuman Services$313kInternational$103kCrime & Legal$52kFood & Nutrition$20kScience & Tech$13kArts & Culture$11kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.4M
$50,250
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLIMATE EMERGENCY FUND$1,383,514
JACOBIN FOUNDATION LTD$50,250
YELLOW DOT STUDIO INC$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $313k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HOMELESS HEALTH CARE LOS ANGELES: $5k → 14%HOMELESS HEALTH CARE LOS ANGELES: $5k → 14%HOMELESS HEALTH CARE LOS ANGELES: $3k → 14%JACOBIN FOUNDATION LTD: $100k → 20%SOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES ILLINOIS: $50k → 14%JACOBIN FOUNDATION LTD: $50k → 20%SOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES ILLINOIS: $50k → 14%JACOBIN FOUNDATION LTD: $50k → 20%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

IL
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
CO
KS
NC
DC
AL
GA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.6M · 9 repeat orgs$264k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +73% since the first grant, against -5% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
17

Total granted

$5.6M
$264k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+73%
-5%

Still filing today

89%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesCrime & LegalEducationSocial ScienceOther
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

  • CAPITAL & MAIN
    3× · 2020–2023 · $575k · revenue +73%
  • JF
    JACOBIN FOUNDATION LTD
    3× · 2022–2024 · $200k · revenue +2%
  • OF
    ONE FAMILY ILLINOIS
    2× · 2019–2020 · $100k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • RC
    RF CATALYTIC CAPITAL INC
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -32%
  • CM
    Climate Mobilization Project Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $45k · revenue -79%
  • Philabundance
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -5%
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
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
2
Climate Foundation

To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.

Science & Tech
3
Partnership for Policy Integrity

Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.

Environment
4
Climate Catalyst Inc

Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.

Environment
5
E3G Third Generation Environmentalism

E3g is a leading international not-for-profit think tank specialising in climate diplomacy harnessing expertise in the politics and economics of climate change.

Environment
6
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
7
Climate Breakthrough Inc

To launch breakthrough climate mitigation efforts by identifying, supporting, and unleashing innovative leaders with transformative strategies.

Human Services
8
Cdp North America Inc

Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…

Environment
9
Work on Climate

Supporting industry transformation towards climate-positive and make green careers transitions and driving the adoption of green workforce development practices broadly.

Environment
10
Climate Power

Climate power is working to ensure political, social, and economic progress on climate by winning the politics of climate.

Environment
11
Climate Imperative Foundation

Climate imperative foundation's mission is to employ science and economics to cut global carbon emissions to secure a better future for all.

Environment
12
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Capital & Main; the most unlike its peers is Denver Film Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 26 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
13/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CLIMATE EMERGENCY FUND: $4,595,000 · EnvironmentCLIMATE EMERGENCY FUND+3 more: $65,000 · EnvironmentCAPITAL & MAIN: $575,000 · Arts & CultureCAPITAL & MA…YELLOW DOT STUDIOS INC: $75,000 · Arts & CultureYELLOW DOT S…+2 more: $10,500 · Arts & CultureJACOBIN FOUNDATION LTD: $200,250 · Human ServicesONE FAMILY ILLINOIS: $100,000 · Human ServicesHomeless Health Care Los Angeles: $12,500 · Human ServicesRF CATALYTIC CAPITAL INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyJAIL GUITAR DOORS: $35,000 · Crime & LegalSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $2,000 · Crime & LegalIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherACTORS GANG PRISON PROJECT: $7,000 · OtherNATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL: $5,000 · OtherInternational Essential Tremor Foundation: $13,000 · OtherRepresentUs Education Fund: $10,000 · OtherPARTICIPATORY POLITICS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherE4E RELIEF LLC: $5,000 · OtherMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $3,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Other+1 more: $500 · OtherPhilabundance: $20,000 · Food & Nutrition
Environment$4,660,000Arts & Culture$660,500Human Services$312,750Philanthropy$100,000Crime & Legal$47,000Other$66,000Food & Nutrition$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCLIMATE EMERGENCY FUND: $4,595,000 over 3y, 41% of budgetCAPITAL & MAIN: $575,000 over 3y, 9.5% of budgetJACOBIN FOUNDATION LTD: $200,250 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetONE FAMILY ILLINOIS: $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRF CATALYTIC CAPITAL INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYELLOW DOT STUDIOS INC: $75,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetClimate Mobilization Project Inc: $45,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetJAIL GUITAR DOORS: $35,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetPhilabundance: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Essential Tremor Foundation: $13,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHomeless Health Care Los Angeles: $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER FILM SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSUNRISE MOVEMENT EDUCATION FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe River Project: $10,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetRepresentUs Education Fund: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARTICIPATORY POLITICS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetE4E RELIEF LLC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChild's Play Touring Theatre: $500 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

The Aileen Getty Foun…ImpactassetsincMorgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…Paypal Charitable Giv…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Aileen Getty FoundationNV13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Aileen Getty Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
4report 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.
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How do I get to McKay Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to McKay Family Foundation Inc 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 26 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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