How much does McKenna Philip M Fdn give?

McKenna Philip M Fdn reported 32 grants totaling $815,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 31 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does McKenna Philip M Fdn fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (41%), Education (33%), Health (9%).

Who are McKenna Philip M Fdn's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship & Political Philosophy ($500k), Intercollegiate Studies Institute Inc ($420k), Ethics and Public Policy Center Inc ($230k).

Does McKenna Philip M Fdn fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does McKenna Philip M Fdn accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as McKenna Philip M Fdn?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donors Trust Inc, Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated, Allegheny Foundation.

Where is McKenna Philip M Fdn based?

McKenna Philip M Fdn is based in PA.

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Pennsylvania · Private foundation

McKenna Philip M Fdn

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$816k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 32
Grants FY2025: 29
Organizations funded FY2024: 7%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $20,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $100,000
Organizations funded a year: 27 to 31; FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 9
Total assets, FY2025: $17M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations McKenna Philip M Fdn funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureCrime & LegalRecreation & SportsOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	31	$796k	10%
FY2024	29	$734k	7%
FY2023	29	$734k	0%
FY2022	27	$736k	4%
FY2021	31	$902k	10%
FY2020	29	$662k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Public Benefit$1.9MEducation$1.6MHealth$435kCivil Rights$165kSocial Science$145kYouth Development$110kPhilanthropy$94kRecreation & Sports$93kOther$0

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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship & Political Philosophy	$500,000	6	1%
Intercollegiate Studies Institute Inc	$420,000	6	1%
Ethics and Public Policy Center Inc	$230,000	6	1%
Saint Vincent College	$182,727	2	0%
Real Clear Foundation	$180,000	6	1%
Allegheny Institute for Public Policy	$170,000	6	5%
Tax Foundation	$145,000	6	0%
National Association of Scholars Inc	$115,000	6	1%
Hudson Institute Inc	$115,000	5	0%
Foundation for Free Enterprise Education	$110,000	6	1%

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All grantees of McKenna Philip M Fdn by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship & Political Philosophy	$500,000	6	1%
Intercollegiate Studies Institute Inc	$420,000	6	1%
Ethics and Public Policy Center Inc	$230,000	6	1%
Saint Vincent College	$182,727	2	0%
Real Clear Foundation	$180,000	6	1%
Allegheny Institute for Public Policy	$170,000	6	5%
Tax Foundation	$145,000	6	0%
National Association of Scholars Inc	$115,000	6	1%
Hudson Institute Inc	$115,000	5	0%
Foundation for Free Enterprise Education	$110,000	6	1%
Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression Inc	$105,000	6	0%
American Council of Trustees and Alumni	$95,000	6	0%
Capital Research Center	$90,000	6	0%
Institute for Humane Studies	$85,000	6	0%
Grove City College	$75,000	6	0%
National Taxpayers Union Foundation	$70,000	5	1%
Americans for Fair Treatment Inc	$60,000	4	1%
Latrobe Cmty Revitalization Pgminc	$55,000	6	3%
Carnegie Institute	$40,000	4	0%
The Fairness Center Inc	$30,000	2	0%
Latrobe-Glsd Parks & Recreation Commission	$25,000	2	1%
American Main Street Initiative Inc	$15,000	1	n/a
Open Discourse Coalition	$15,000	1	1%
Latrobe Volunteer Fire Department	$10,000	1	n/a
Loyalhanna Watershed Association Inc	$6,000	6	0%
The Latrobe Foundation Inc	$2,000	1	0%
The Philanthropy Roundtable	$1,500	2	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget McKenna Philip M Fdn supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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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.

Donors Trust IncVA19.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About McKenna Philip M Fdn

How much does McKenna Philip M Fdn give?: McKenna Philip M Fdn reported 32 grants totaling $815,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 31 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does McKenna Philip M Fdn fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (41%), Education (33%), Health (9%).
Who are McKenna Philip M Fdn's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship & Political Philosophy ($500k), Intercollegiate Studies Institute Inc ($420k), Ethics and Public Policy Center Inc ($230k).
Does McKenna Philip M Fdn fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does McKenna Philip M Fdn accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as McKenna Philip M Fdn?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donors Trust Inc, Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated, Allegheny Foundation.
Where is McKenna Philip M Fdn based?: McKenna Philip M Fdn is based in PA.