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McKenna Family Fund at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$130k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$525kEducation$179kHuman Services$47kHealth$35kYouth Development$30kArts & Culture$29kFood & Nutrition$22kRecreation & Sports$18kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k26 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $17k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $130k
$1,200
Median grant
7
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WABUN FOUNDATION$130,000
HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL$17,000
UNIVERSITY SCHOOL$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA$5,000
WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY$2,500
PLAYHOUSE SQUARE FOUNDATION$1,500
ST MARTIN DE PORRES HIGH SCHOOL$1,500
HOLDEN FORESTS & GARDENS$1,500
CLEVELAND FOOD BANK$1,500
WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER$1,500
PROVIDENCE HOUSE$1,500
INTERVAL HOUSE$1,500
GARDEN CLUB OF CLEVELAND$1,230
THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA$1,200
DREAM$1,000
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 (FY17–25, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%INTERVAL HOUSE: $2k → 10%PARENT PROJECT MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY: $2k → 14%CHERISH THE CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%CHERISH THE CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $3k → 17%WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $3k → 17%WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $3k → 17%WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $2k → 17%WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $2k → 17%WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $2k → 17%WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $2k → 17%WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $2k → 17%WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $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

VT
NH
ID
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OH
CT
CA
UT
VA
MD
NM
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$929k · 35 repeat orgs$81k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

35 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
37

Total granted

$929k
$71k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+11%

Still filing today

66%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
EducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsEnvironmentOther
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

  • WR
    WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY
    7× · 2017–2025 · $523k · revenue +73%
  • HB
    HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL
    5× · 2017–2025 · $55k · revenue +48%
  • PS
    Playhouse Square Foundation
    9× · 2017–2025 · $26k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • SI
    ST IGNATIUS WELSCH ACADEMY
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • TF
    TWO FOUNDATION INC TWO CAFE & BOUTIQUE
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
  • WC
    WORLD CUP DREAMS FOUNDATION FKA SFI FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +841%
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
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
3
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
4
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
5
The City Club of Cleveland

The city club of cleveland's mission is to create conversations of consequence that help democracy thrive. we do this in pursuit of our vision of strong, informed individuals and communities that prize freedom of speech and civil, civic…

Education
6
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
7
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
8
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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9
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
10
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
11
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
12
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc; the most unlike its peers is Sun Valley Fire Department. 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

50 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. 50 of the 81 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/50
Grantees still filing
33/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $522,850 · EnvironmentWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY+2 more: $2,230 · EnvironmentWABUN FOUNDATION: $142,425 · OtherWABUN FOUNDATIONPROVIDENCE HOUSE INC: $20,050 · OtherPROVIDENCE HOUSE INCST IGNATIUS WELSCH ACADEMY: $15,000 · Other+46 more: $111,625 · Other+46 moreTrustees of Dartmouth College: $87,500 · EducationTrustees of Dartmo…HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL: $55,150 · EducationHATHAWAY BROWN SCH…UNIVERSITY SCHOOL: $12,300 · EducationUNIVERSITY SCHOOLVIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 · EducationVIRGINIA STUDENT A…Saint Martin de Porres High School: $7,300 · Education+4 more: $10,050 · Education+4 morePlayhouse Square Foundation: $25,500 · Arts & CultureThe Musical Arts Association: $2,700 · Arts & CultureHEIGHTS YOUTH THEATRE: $2,500 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN MURAL PROJECT INC: $1,475 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $1,500 · Arts & CultureRon Foley Foundation Inc: $8,200 · HealthHOPEWELL: $7,900 · HealthHOPE FOR HENRY FOUNDATION: $5,300 · HealthBRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION: $2,000 · HealthMEDICAL AID TO HAITI INC: $1,500 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,350 · Health+2 more: $750 · HealthWEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $18,350 · Human ServicesCHERISH THE CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $2,950 · Human ServicesINTERVAL HOUSE: $1,500 · Human ServicesTHE PARENT PROJECT FOR MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY RESEARCH INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $18,975 · Food & NutritionTAHOE FOOD HUB: $2,200 · Food & Nutrition
Environment$525,080Other$289,100Education$183,300Arts & Culture$33,675Health$27,000Human Services$24,300Food & Nutrition$21,175

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 budgetWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $522,850 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $87,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL: $55,150 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPlayhouse Square Foundation: $25,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE HOUSE INC: $20,050 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $18,975 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $18,350 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY SCHOOL: $12,300 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FIRST TEE OF CLEVELAND: $9,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetRon Foley Foundation Inc: $8,200 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetHOPEWELL: $7,900 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSaint Martin de Porres High School: $7,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $6,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LITERACY COOPERATIVE OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $5,700 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF TRUCKEE-TAHOE: $5,550 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE FOR HENRY FOUNDATION: $5,300 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTWO FOUNDATION INC TWO CAFE & BOUTIQUE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CUP DREAMS FOUNDATION FKA SFI FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetOPEN DOORS INC: $2,950 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHERISH THE CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $2,950 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetThe Musical Arts Association: $2,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHEIGHTS YOUTH THEATRE: $2,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CLEVELAND: $2,400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTAHOE FOOD HUB: $2,200 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GARDEN CLUB OF CLEVELAND: $1,730 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetEMMANUEL UNIVERSITY INC: $1,725 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEXT DOOR FOUNDATION INC: $1,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALI FORNEY CENTER INC: $1,575 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERVAL HOUSE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDICAL AID TO HAITI INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE PARENT PROJECT FOR MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY RESEARCH INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN MURAL PROJECT INC: $1,475 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $1,425 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTH CAROLINA: $1,375 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Hampshire Outright: $1,275 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetACHIEVE TAHOE: $1,225 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INC: $1,125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DEERWOOD FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSUN VALLEY FIRE DEPARTMENT: $1,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIFEACT: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLEVELAND BOTANICAL GARDEN: $500 over 1y, 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 WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
  • Who funds HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Playhouse Square Foundation ↗
  • Who funds PROVIDENCE HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FIRST TEE OF CLEVELAND ↗
  • Who funds Ron Foley Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds HOPEWELL ↗
  • Who funds Saint Martin de Porres High School ↗
  • Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds TAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE LITERACY COOPERATIVE OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF TRUCKEE-TAHOE ↗
  • Who funds HOPE FOR HENRY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TWO FOUNDATION INC TWO CAFE & BOUTIQUE ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CUP DREAMS FOUNDATION FKA SFI FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OPEN DOORS INC ↗
  • Who funds CHERISH THE CHILDREN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Musical Arts Association ↗
  • Who funds HEIGHTS YOUTH THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CLEVELAND ↗
  • Who funds TAHOE FOOD HUB ↗
  • Who funds BRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE GARDEN CLUB OF CLEVELAND ↗

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.

Select Equity Group F…The Cleveland Foundat…Sullivan Family FundThe Char and Chuck Fo…Connor FoundationThe Reinberger Founda…The Lozick Family Fou…The Kelvin & Eleanor …Higley Fund of the Cl…The O'Neill Brothers …The Helen F & Louis S…The Abington Foundati…
Select Equity Group FoundationNY43.5× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • American Mural Project Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

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 81 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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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home