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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.

$349k
Granted FY2025still arriving
43
Grants FY2025still arriving
15
States reached
$34k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.7MAnimals$271kHealth$218kArts & Culture$133kFood & Nutrition$119kEnvironment$79kReligion$78kEmployment$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k28 grants · $90k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $259k
$5,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
BARRINGTON HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
ST EDWARDS CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
WAKE TECH FOUNDATION$10,000
LAKE GENEVA COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION$10,000
COLBY COLLEGE$10,000
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 (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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%FOSTER LOVE INCORPORATION: $2k → 6%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $1k → 17%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

ME
NH
IL
WI
MI
NY
OR
IA
OH
PA
CA
CO
NE
MO
WV
VA
MD
NM
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
GA
TX
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.9M · 83 repeat orgs$90k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

83
26

Total granted

$2.9M
$53k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+40%

Still filing today

49%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthAnimalsEnvironmentInternationalOther
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
    LINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $226k · revenue +30%
  • CC
    CENTRAL COLLEGE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $156k · revenue +7%
  • WAKE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $116k · revenue +170%

Funded once

  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    one grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue +1%
  • TG
    THE GOLDEN FIRE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue -59%
  • GS
    GOLDEN SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $6k · 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
Furman University

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.

Education
2
Augustana College

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…

Education
3
United States Naval Institute

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.

—
4
University of New Haven

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…

Education
5
Golden Gate University

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…

Education
6
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
7
Indiana University Foundation

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…

Education
8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
9
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
10
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
11
The Uc Davis Foundation

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

Education
12
The George Washington University

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Aspen Institute Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

61 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/61
Grantees still filing
45/61
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $243,500 · OtherEVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATIONELGIN HIGH SCHOOL: $210,230 · OtherELGIN HIGH SCHOOLGOLDEN HIGH SCHOOL: $160,100 · OtherGOLDEN HIGH SCHOOLLEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA: $94,477 · OtherLEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMABARRINGTON HIGH SCHOOL: $87,500 · OtherNOURISHING HOPE: $72,925 · OtherFEDERAL HOCKING HIGH SCHOOL: $58,000 · Other+72 more: $774,712 · Other+72 moreCENTRAL COLLEGE: $156,000 · EducationCENTRAL COLLEGEWAKE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $116,150 · EducationWAKE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COL…The President and Trustees of Colby College: $84,000 · EducationThe President and Trustees o…ROANOKE COLLEGE: $65,000 · EducationROANOKE COLLEGEUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $45,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUND…UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $44,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDAT…CHICAGO HOPE ACADEMY: $40,000 · EducationCHICAGO HOPE ACADEMYWest Central Valley Scholarships: $38,750 · EducationU-46 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $30,300 · EducationWARRIOR-SCHOLAR PROJECT FOUNDATION: $27,250 · Education+11 more: $95,850 · Education+11 moreLINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $226,185 · AnimalsLINCOLN P…PAWS INC: $34,000 · AnimalsPAWS INC+1 more: $1,250 · AnimalsPROTECT OUR WINTERS: $62,723 · EnvironmentHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $44,000 · Environment+1 more: $2,000 · EnvironmentUNITED CAMPUS MINISTRY INC: $77,500 · ReligionBear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation: $35,500 · HealthCHRIS KLUG FOUNDATION: $7,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,000 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $1,750 · HealthFIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $27,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: $4,750 · Arts & CultureSociety for American Archaeology: $4,500 · Arts & CultureTHE CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $4,000 · Arts & CultureLatinos Progresando: $3,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,701,444Education$742,300Animals$261,435Environment$108,723Religion$77,500Health$46,250Arts & Culture$43,750

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLINCOLN PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $226,185 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL COLLEGE: $156,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $116,150 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetThe President and Trustees of Colby College: $84,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED CAMPUS MINISTRY INC: $77,500 over 6y, 11% of budgetNOURISHING HOPE: $72,925 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetROANOKE COLLEGE: $65,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPROTECT OUR WINTERS: $62,723 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetOpportunities Industrialization Center Inc: $49,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $44,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $44,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetAccess Living of Metropolitan Chicago: $40,350 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCHICAGO HOPE ACADEMY: $40,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWest Central Valley Scholarships: $38,750 over 8y, 38% of budgetBear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation: $35,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetPAWS INC: $34,000 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetU-46 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $30,300 over 1y, 22% of budgetILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE: $28,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWARRIOR-SCHOLAR PROJECT FOUNDATION: $27,250 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetFIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $27,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION: $22,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LATIN SCHOOL OF CHICAGO: $21,700 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $21,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE GENEVA COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetGOLDEN BACKPACK PROGRAM INC: $18,190 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetVIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $18,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA OF ILLINOIS: $15,100 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetALPINE INITIATIVES: $12,000 over 8y, 9.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $10,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $9,300 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL ADVANCEMENT INC dba THE DA VINCI SCHOOL: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHRIS KLUG FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHE JEFFERSON FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $6,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GOLDEN FIRE FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetGOLDEN SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $5,900 over 1y, 14% of budgetBRIAN DUENSING FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: $4,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC: $4,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSociety for American Archaeology: $4,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLatinos Progresando: $3,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACCESS FUND: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

John D and Catherine …The Chicago Community…Elizabeth McGeachin M…Tully Family Foundati…Gs Donor Advised Phil…AbbVie FoundationMorgan Stanley Global…Baird Foundation IncThe Bank of America C…The Blackbaud Giving …National Philanthropi…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…
John D and Catherine T Macarthur FoundationIL14× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 McKee Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McKee Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to McKee Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to McKee 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 116 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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