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McKee Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $90k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $259k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION | $34,000 |
| U-46 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $30,300 |
| OPPORTUNITIES INDUSTRIALIZATION CENTER | $24,600 |
| LINCOLN PARK ZOO | $23,927 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN FLINT | $20,000 |
| GOLDEN HIGH SCHOOL | $19,000 |
| LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA | $17,000 |
| CENTRAL COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| NOURISHING HOPE | $13,150 |
| GOLDEN HISTORY MUSEUM & PARK | $12,000 |
| COLBY COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| LAKE GENEVA COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| WAKE TECH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BARRINGTON HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| ST EDWARDS CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–22, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 41% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
83 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2025, 45 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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
- LPLINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY9× · 2017–2025 · $226k · revenue +30%
- CCCENTRAL COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $156k · revenue +7%
WAKE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $116k · revenue +170%
Funded once
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCone grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue +1%- TGTHE GOLDEN FIRE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue -56%
- GSGOLDEN SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue +77%
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.
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.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The Indiana University Foundation (IUF) maximizes private philanthropic support for Indiana University by fostering lifelong relationships with key stakeholders and providing advancement leadership and fundraising services for (Continued…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Aspen Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is U-46 Educational Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
61 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. 61 of the 116 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 LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WAKE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The President and Trustees of Colby College ↗
- Who funds UNITED CAMPUS MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds NOURISHING HOPE ↗
- Who funds ROANOKE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PROTECT OUR WINTERS ↗
- Who funds Opportunities Industrialization Center Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HOPE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds West Central Valley Scholarships ↗
- Who funds Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation ↗
- Who funds PAWS INC ↗
- Who funds U-46 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR-SCHOLAR PROJECT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LATIN SCHOOL OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds LAKE GENEVA COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Elizabeth McGeachin McKee Foundatio · Tully Family Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase 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 McKee Family Foundation 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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