Ohio · Private foundation
McKenna Family Fund
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.
- $183k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2025
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 37%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,200
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $130,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 30
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 37% of the organizations McKenna Family Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 28 | $183k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 30 | $74k | 37% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $24k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $30k | 16% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $256k | 48% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $125k | 35% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $131k | 24% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $131k | 10% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Western Reserve Land Conservancy | $522,850 | 7 | 1% |
| Hathaway Brown School | $55,150 | 5 | 0% |
| Playhouse Square Foundation | $25,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Providence House Inc | $20,050 | 9 | 0% |
| Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc | $18,975 | 9 | 0% |
| West Side Catholic Center | $18,350 | 9 | 0% |
| University School | $12,300 | 8 | 0% |
| Virginia Student Aid Foundation Inc | $11,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The First Tee of Cleveland | $9,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Ron Foley Foundation Inc | $8,200 | 3 | 2% |
Show all 50 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($214k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget McKenna Family Fund supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Select Equity Group Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · Sullivan Family Fund · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · Connor Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · The Lozick Family Foundation · The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · The O'Neill Brothers Foundation · The Helen F & Louis Stolier Family Foundation · The Abington Foundation
How this is measured
About McKenna Family Fund
- How much does McKenna Family Fund give?
- McKenna Family Fund reported 28 grants totaling $182,930 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does McKenna Family Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (57%), Education (19%), Human Services (5%).
- Who are McKenna Family Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Western Reserve Land Conservancy ($523k), Hathaway Brown School ($55k), Playhouse Square Foundation ($26k).
- Does McKenna Family Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does McKenna Family Fund 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 McKenna Family Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Select Equity Group Foundation, The Cleveland Foundation, Sullivan Family Fund.
- Where is McKenna Family Fund based?
- McKenna Family Fund is based in OH.
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