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MCKENNA FOUNDATION actively provides services to enhance the health and well-being of the greater new barunfels community, serving as a partner and resource to others who share our goals-now and for future generations.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
41
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$213k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$8.8MHuman Services$3.7MHousing & Shelter$1.8MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.4MFood & Nutrition$1.2MCrime & Legal$913kRecreation & Sports$633kEducation$348kOther$0
02FY2024 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $443k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.1M
$22,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$84M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MCKENNA HEALTH MANAGEMENT$212,606
HILL COUNTRY MHDD CENTERS$120,000
NB HOUSING PARTNERS$120,000
SALVATION ARMY OF COMAL COUNT$85,000
SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK$81,900
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS$75,000
CRRC OF CANYON LAKE$73,000
NEW BRAUNFELS YOUTH COLLAB$67,745
COMAL COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS$65,300
NEW BRAUNFELS CHRISTIAN MINIS$65,000
CONNECTIONS INDIVIDUAL & FAMI$65,000
RECOVERYWERKS$50,000
COMAL COUNTY FAMILY VIOLENCE$50,000
HELPING HANDS FOOD PANTRY$43,000
RIVER CITY ADVOCACY & COUNSEL$40,648
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SJRC: $450k → 7%ST JUDES RANCH FOR CHILDREN TEXAS REGION: $40k → 7%COMAL IDD CENTER: $300k → 10%1HOPE FOR KIDS: $15k → 16%1HOPE FOR KIDS: $10k → 16%SJRC: $20k → 7%PROJECT 1027 INC: $10k → 16%PROJECT 1027 INC: $8k → 16%SAN ANTONIO NONPROFIT COUNCIL: $29k → 16%SAN ANTONIO NONPROFIT COUNCIL: $28k → 16%SAN ANTONIO NONPROFIT COUNCIL: $18k → 16%THE NONPROFIT COUNCIL: $10k → 16%ANY BABY CAN: $70k → 10%ANY BABY CAN: $66k → 10%COMAL COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS: $65k → 10%ANY BABY CAN: $61k → 10%CHOSEN: $60k → 10%ANY BABY CAN: $60k → 10%ANY BABY CAN: $60k → 10%ANY BABY CAN: $55k → 10%COMAL COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS: $50k → 10%ANY BABY CAN: $50k → 10%COMAL COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS: $50k → 10%CHOSEN: $50k → 10%CHOSEN: $45k → 10%CHOSEN: $44k → 10%FAMILY LIFE CENTER OF NEW BRA: $40k → 10%FAMILY LIFE CENTER OF NEW BRA: $40k → 10%CHOSEN: $39k → 10%FAMILY LIFE CENTER OF NEW BRAUNFELS: $35k → 10%FAMILY LIFE CENTER OF NEW BRAUNFELS: $35k → 10%COMAL COUNTY SENIOR CITIZEN'S FOUNDATION: $35k → 10%FAMILY LIFE CENTER OF NEW BRA: $35k → 10%FAMILY LIFE CENTER OF NEW BRAUNFELS: $35k → 10%CHOSEN: $33k → 10%ANY BABY CAN: $31k → 10%COMAL COUNTY SENIOR CITIZEN'S FOUNDATION: $30k → 10%COMAL COUNTY SENIOR CITIZEN'S FOUNDATION: $30k → 10%FAMILY LIFE CENTER OF NEW BRAUNFELS: $25k → 10%FAMILY LIFE CENTER OF NEW BRAUNFELS: $25k → 10%CHOSEN: $25k → 10%HOPE HOSPICE: $20k → 10%HOPE HOSPICE: $20k → 10%HOPE HOSPICE: $20k → 10%ROCK HAUS FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%NEW BRAUNFELS ANGELS: $15k → 10%COMAL COUNTY SENIOR CITIZEN'S FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%CHOSEN: $10k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 9% of McKenna Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 92% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

McKenna Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$18M · 47 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +60% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

47 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
14

Total granted

$18M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+25%

Still filing today

91%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k 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
Human ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterEducationCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • MH
    MCKENNA HEALTH MANAGEMENT
    8× · 2017–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +0% · 29% of their budget
  • CI
    CONNECTIONS INDIVIDUAL AND FAMILY SERVICES INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +38%
  • NB
    NEW BRAUNFELS CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • HC
    HIS CENTREgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $750k · revenue +29% · 45% of their budget
  • NB
    NEW BRAUNFELS PROFESSIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS CHARITIES ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $79k · revenue +117%
  • TF
    THE FOUNDATION OF THE BULVERDE AREA RURAL LIBRARY DISTRICT
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -97%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Central Texas Children's Home

To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.

Human Services
2
Guadalupe County Children's Advocacy Center

To advocate for and provide services to children and families when there are allegations of abuse and neglect throughout the investigation,prosecution, treatment, and prevention of child abuse, and to reduce the trauma to childrent with…

Crime & Legal
3
Bluebonnet Childrens Center

To protect and enhance the quality of life for abused and neglected children in Medina, Real and Uvalde Counties of Texas.

Crime & Legal
4
Behavioral Health Solutions of South Texas

To develop and implement effective age-appropriate, consumer-driven, evidence-based services to prevent and reduce substance use and strengthen mental wellness across the southernmost Texas communities.

Human Services
5
Texas Community Counseling

When care is within reach, lives change. Texas Community Counseling is a faith-based nonprofit committed to bringing hope and healing through mental health care to the communities that need it the most. We empower individuals to heal,…

Human Services
6
Novelty Behavioral Health

Our mission is to provide Accessible and Affordable Holistic-Based mental-health care to the communities we serve without without regard to their background or insurance status in a caring environment.

Health
7
Ft Bend County Child Advocates Inc

Fort Bend County Child Advocates, Inc. provides a voice, heals the hurt and breaks the cycle of abuse and neglect for children in Fort Bend County.

Civil Rights
8
Fredericksburg Community Health Center

The mission of the Good Samaritan Center is to provide a safe, Christ- Centered environment that gives our patients quality, coordinated and affordable healthcare.

Health
9
Casa of South Texas Inc

Child Advocacy

Human Services
10
Community Action Corporation of South Texas

To continuously improve the lives of South Texans by providing high quality health care, education, housing and economic opportunities to reduce poverty through services and partnerships.

Human Services
11
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Hidalgo Count

To provide services for the protection of abused and neglected children that are in the custody of the State of Texas.

Civil Rights
12
Comal County Child Welfare Board

Provide support to foster children and at risk families in Comal County Texas. Provide emergency support to victims of child abuse.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters of South Texas Inc and the most unlike its peers is Spring Branch Tennis Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%4%<5yr17%12%5–10yr19%33%10–20yr15%24%20–35yr10%26%35–55yr15%2%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%2%<5yr17%6%5–10yr19%23%10–20yr15%42%20–35yr10%23%35–55yr15%4%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/63
the rest of the field
15%
1,256/8,581

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.

05the grantee network

51 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. 51 of the 65 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.

9
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/51
Grantees still filing
44/51
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MCKENNA HEALTH MANAGEMENT — $3,086,633 · HealthMCKENNA HEALTH MANAGEMENTNEW BRAUNFELS CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES — $1,127,819 · HealthNEW BRAUNFELS CHRISTIAN MINISTRIESRIVER CITY ADVOCACY — $844,803 · HealthRIVER CITY ADVOCACYHIS CENTRE — $750,000 · HealthHIS CENTRERECOVERYWERKS — $679,325 · HealthRECOVERYWERKSFriends of Santa Rosa Foundation — $296,852 · Health+5 more — $167,500 · HealthHILL COUNTRY COMMUNITY MHMR CENTER — $1,300,242 · OtherHILL COUNTRY COMMUNITY MHMR CENTE…SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK — $944,690 · OtherSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANKTHE SALVATION ARMY — $796,578 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTL COMAL COUNTY — $438,281 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTL COMAL C…COMAL COUNTY FAMILY VIOLENCE SHELTER — $412,253 · OtherCOMAL COUNTY FAMILY VIOLENCE SHEL…CASA of Central Texas Inc — $347,015 · OtherCASA of Central Texas IncCANINE CLASSMATES — $250,672 · Other+24 more — $1,395,572 · Other+24 moreCONNECTIONS INDIVIDUAL AND FAMILY SERVICES INC — $1,241,602 · Human ServicesCONNECTIONS INDIVIDUAL…SJRC TEXAS INC — $510,000 · Human ServicesSJRC TEXAS INCANY BABY CAN OF SAN ANTONIO INC — $452,000 · Human ServicesANY BABY CAN OF SAN AN…COMAL IDD — $315,000 · Human ServicesCOMAL IDDTHE ABBA FUND INC — $305,925 · Human ServicesTHE ABBA FUND INCCOMAL COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS FOUNDATION — $275,300 · Human ServicesCOMAL COUNTY SENIOR CI…FAMILY LIFE CENTER OF NEW BRAUNFELS — $270,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY LIFE CENTER OF …FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER NEW BRAUNFELS — $181,582 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ACTION INC OF CENTRAL TEXAS — $143,000 · Human Services+5 more — $209,800 · Human Services+5 moreCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS INC — $982,776 · Community ImprovementNEW BRAUNFELS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $255,175 · Community ImprovementCRRC OF CANYON LAKE INC — $466,950 · Recreation & SportsBULVERDE SENIOR CENTER — $191,500 · Recreation & SportsKinetic Kids Inc — $66,000 · Recreation & SportsSPRING BRANCH TENNIS ASSOCIATION — $55,000 · Recreation & SportsNB HOUSING PARTNERS — $566,265 · Housing & ShelterTEXAS RAMP PROJECT — $70,000 · Housing & ShelterCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF COMAL COUN — $359,875 · Crime & Legal
Health$6,952,932Other$5,885,303Human Services$3,904,209Community Improvement$1,237,951Recreation & Sports$779,450Housing & Shelter$636,265Crime & Legal$359,875

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMCKENNA HEALTH MANAGEMENT — $3,086,633 over 8y, 29% of budgetCONNECTIONS INDIVIDUAL AND FAMILY SERVICES INC — $1,241,602 over 7y, 7.9% of budgetNEW BRAUNFELS CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES — $1,127,819 over 8y, 12% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS INC — $982,776 over 8y, 9.7% of budgetSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK — $944,690 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetRIVER CITY ADVOCACY — $844,803 over 7y, 20% of budgetHIS CENTRE — $750,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetRECOVERYWERKS — $679,325 over 8y, 63% of budgetNB HOUSING PARTNERS — $566,265 over 4y, 18% of budgetSJRC TEXAS INC — $510,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetCRRC OF CANYON LAKE INC — $466,950 over 7y, 12% of budgetANY BABY CAN OF SAN ANTONIO INC — $452,000 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTL COMAL COUNTY — $438,281 over 6y, 13% of budgetCOMAL COUNTY FAMILY VIOLENCE SHELTER — $412,253 over 7y, 4.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF COMAL COUN — $359,875 over 8y, 6.5% of budgetCASA of Central Texas Inc — $347,015 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetCOMAL IDD — $315,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetTHE ABBA FUND INC — $305,925 over 8y, 15% of budgetFriends of Santa Rosa Foundation — $296,852 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetCOMAL COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS FOUNDATION — $275,300 over 7y, 4.6% of budgetFAMILY LIFE CENTER OF NEW BRAUNFELS — $270,000 over 8y, 8.2% of budgetNEW BRAUNFELS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $255,175 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetCANINE CLASSMATES — $250,672 over 7y, 74% of budgetBULVERDE SENIOR CENTER — $191,500 over 8y, 6.4% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER NEW BRAUNFELS — $181,582 over 8y, 18% of budgetCENTRAL TEXAS ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION CENTER INC — $180,325 over 7y, 40% of budgetNew Braunfels Youth Collaborative — $167,745 over 2y, 28% of budgetSTEPS FOR LIFE — $166,351 over 8y, 31% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION INC OF CENTRAL TEXAS — $143,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH TEXAS INC — $125,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetBULVERDE FOOD PANTRY INC — $104,481 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetTHE NONPROFIT COUNCIL — $84,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetTEXAS RAMP PROJECT — $70,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetNEW BRAUNFELS 24 HOUR CLUB — $67,867 over 2y, 48% of budgetKinetic Kids Inc — $66,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetHOPE HOSPICE — $60,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBELIEVE IT FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION OF THE BULVERDE AREA RURAL LIBRARY DISTRICT — $50,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetProject MEND — $42,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetACACIA MEDICAL MISSION — $37,500 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetCANYON LAKE FIREEMS — $32,086 over 2y, 44% of budget1HOPE FOR KIDS INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTRANSFORMATIONS BY AUSTIN ANGELS — $22,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPROJECT 10 27 INC — $18,300 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetBULVERDE SPRING BRANCH PREGNANCY CARE CENTER INC — $17,500 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetMID-TEXAS SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTexas Suicide Prevention Collaborative — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBulverde Spring Branch Emergency Services — $9,875 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 MCKENNA HEALTH MANAGEMENT ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTIONS INDIVIDUAL AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW BRAUNFELS CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS INC ↗
  • Who funds SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds RIVER CITY ADVOCACY ↗
  • Who funds HIS CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds RECOVERYWERKS ↗
  • Who funds NB HOUSING PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds SJRC TEXAS INC ↗
  • Who funds CRRC OF CANYON LAKE INC ↗
  • Who funds ANY BABY CAN OF SAN ANTONIO INC ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTL COMAL COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds COMAL COUNTY FAMILY VIOLENCE SHELTER ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF COMAL COUN ↗
  • Who funds CASA of Central Texas Inc ↗
  • Who funds COMAL IDD ↗
  • Who funds THE ABBA FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Friends of Santa Rosa Foundation ↗
  • Who funds COMAL COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY LIFE CENTER OF NEW BRAUNFELS ↗
  • Who funds NEW BRAUNFELS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CANINE CLASSMATES ↗
  • Who funds BULVERDE SENIOR CENTER ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER NEW BRAUNFELS ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL TEXAS ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds New Braunfels Youth Collaborative ↗
  • Who funds STEPS FOR LIFE ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION INC OF CENTRAL TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH TEXAS INC ↗
  • Who funds BULVERDE FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NONPROFIT COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds NEW BRAUNFELS PROFESSIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS CHARITIES ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS RAMP PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds NEW BRAUNFELS 24 HOUR CLUB ↗
  • Who funds Kinetic Kids Inc ↗
  • Who funds HOPE HOSPICE ↗

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.

The Gvtc Foundation I…New Braunfels Area Co…United Way of Comal C…San Antonio Area Foun…Harvey E Najim Charit…Veramendi Charitable …John L Santikos Chari…Carl C Anderson Sr an…St Luke's Lutheran He…Methodist Healthcare …San Antonio Food BankIngram Family Foundat…
The Gvtc Foundation IncTX59.9× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Gvtc Foundation Inc · New Braunfels Area Community Foundation · United Way of Comal County · San Antonio Area Foundation · Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · Veramendi Charitable Foundation · John L Santikos Charitable Foundation · Carl C Anderson Sr and Marie Jo Anderson Charitable Foundation · St Luke's Lutheran Health Ministries Inc · Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas Inc · San Antonio Food Bank · Ingram Family 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 McKenna 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 65 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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