· Private foundation
McKenna Philip M Fdn
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $483k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $325k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLAREMONT INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC | $85,000 |
| PACIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC PO | $80,000 |
| INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE | $60,000 |
| ETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER | $40,000 |
| AMERICAN ENTERPRIES INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC | $30,000 |
| ALLEGHENY INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY | $30,000 |
| REALCLEAR FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| TAX FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| HUDSON INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES & ALUMNI | $20,000 |
| NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOLARS | $20,000 |
| MERCATUS CENTER GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR FREE ENTERPRISE EDUCATION | $20,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 66% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
33 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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
- TCTHE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY6× · 2020–2025 · $500k · revenue +112%
- ISINTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $420k · revenue +45%
- EAETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $230k · revenue +190%
Funded once
- SVSAINT VINCENT COLLEGE CENTER FORone grant, 2021 · $43k
- LVLATROBE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENTone grant, 2021 · $10k
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 american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
Competitive enterprise institute (cei) is a non-profit public policy organization dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government. we believe that consumers are best helped not by government regulation but by being…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
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…
To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
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.
A national non partisan public policy forum to illuminate issues of public policy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ethics and Public Policy Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression Inc. 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 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) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 39 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 THE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY ↗
- Who funds INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT VINCENT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds REAL CLEAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHENY INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY ↗
- Who funds TAX FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOLARS INC ↗
- Who funds Hudson Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR FREE ENTERPRISE EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES AND ALUMNI ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds Institute for Humane Studies ↗
- Who funds GROVE CITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR FAIR TREATMENT INC ↗
- Who funds LATROBE CMTY REVITALIZATION PGMINC ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE FAIRNESS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LATROBE-GLSD PARKS & RECREATION COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds OPEN DISCOURSE COALITION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN MAIN STREET INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds LOYALHANNA WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE LATROBE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE ↗
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: Donors Trust Inc · Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated · Allegheny Foundation · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · The Dunn Foundation · Katherine Mabis McKenna Foundation · The Searle Freedom Trust · Adolph Coors Foundation · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Philip M Fdn 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.