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McKenna Philip M Fdn at a glance

· Private foundation

McKenna Philip M Fdn

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$816k
Granted FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $483k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $325k
$20,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
REALCLEAR FOUNDATION$30,000
ALLEGHENY INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY$30,000
TAX FOUNDATION$25,000
HUDSON INSTITUTE$25,000
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOLARS$20,000
FOUNDATION FOR FREE ENTERPRISE EDUCATION$20,000
AMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES & ALUMNI$20,000
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$20,000
MERCATUS CENTER GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY$20,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 66% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE: $80k → 10%SAINT VINCENT COLLEGE: $95k → 10%COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC: $85k → 12%CLAREMONT INSTITUTE: $100k → 14%REALCLEAR FOUNDATION: $30k → 14%INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE: $80k → 10%SAINT VINCENT COLLEGE: $30k → 10%COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC: $85k → 12%CLAREMONT INSTITUTE: $80k → 14%TAX FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%REALCLEAR FOUNDATION: $30k → 14%INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE: $80k → 10%LATROBE-GLSD PARKS & RECREATION: $30k → 10%COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC: $85k → 12%CLAREMONT INSTITUTE: $80k → 14%TAX FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%REALCLEAR FOUNDATION: $30k → 14%INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE: $60k → 10%SAINT VINCENT COLLEGE CENTER FOR: $25k → 10%COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC: $85k → 12%CLAREMONT INSTITUTE: $80k → 14%TAX FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%REALCLEAR FOUNDATION: $30k → 14%INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE: $60k → 10%ST VINCENT COLLEGE: $25k → 10%COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC: $85k → 12%CLAREMONT INSTITUTE: $80k → 14%REALCLEAR FOUNDATION: $30k → 14%INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE: $60k → 10%COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC: $85k → 12%CLAREMONT INSTITUTE: $80k → 14%REALCLEAR FOUNDATION: $30k → 14%ALLEGHENY INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $30k → 11%ALLEGHENY INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $30k → 11%ALLEGHENY INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $30k → 11%ALLEGHENY INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $30k → 11%ETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER: $40k → 14%ALLEGHENY INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $30k → 11%ETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER: $40k → 14%ETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER: $40k → 14%ETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER: $40k → 14%ETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER: $40k → 14%AMERICAN ENTERPRIES INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC: $30k → 14%AMERICAN ENTERPRIES INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC: $30k → 14%AMERICAN ENTERPRIES INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC: $30k → 14%AMERICAN ENTERPRIES INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC: $30k → 14%AMERICAN ENTERPRIES INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC: $30k → 14%ETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER: $30k → 14%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

IL
MI
NY
OH
PA
CA
VA
DE
DC
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.5M · 33 repeat orgs$85k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
2

Total granted

$4.5M
$53k

Still filing today

70%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyPublic BenefitYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsOther
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

  • TC
    THE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $500k · revenue +112%
  • IS
    INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $420k · revenue +45%
  • EA
    ETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $230k · revenue +190%

Funded once

  • SV
    SAINT VINCENT COLLEGE CENTER FOR
    one grant, 2021 · $43k
  • LV
    LATROBE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
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
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

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…

Social Science
2
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc

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.

Public Benefit
3
Foreign Policy Research Institute

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…

International
4
Competitive Enterprise Institute

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…

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5
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
6
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

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…

Social Science
7
Open Markets Institute

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.

Education
8
Augustana College

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…

Education
9
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

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,…

International
10
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
11
United States Naval Institute

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.

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12
The American Assembly

A national non partisan public policy forum to illuminate issues of public policy.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ethics and Public Policy Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 39 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
20/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC: $510,000 · OtherCOMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION FOR PUBLICTHE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: $500,000 · OtherTHE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POL…PACIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC PO: $435,000 · OtherPACIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POAMERICAN ENTERPRIES INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC: $165,000 · OtherAMERICAN ENTERPRIES INSTITUTE FOR PUBLICMERCATUS CENTER GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY: $115,000 · OtherHudson Institute Inc: $115,000 · OtherInstitute for Humane Studies: $85,000 · OtherLINCOLN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC OPINION RESE: $84,000 · Other+12 more: $502,165 · Other+12 moreINTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC: $420,000 · EducationINTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INST…SAINT VINCENT COLLEGE: $182,727 · EducationSAINT VINCENT COLLEGEREAL CLEAR FOUNDATION: $180,000 · EducationREAL CLEAR FOUNDATIONNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOLARS INC: $115,000 · EducationNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHO…HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $115,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGEGROVE CITY COLLEGE: $75,000 · EducationGROVE CITY COLLEGEAMERICANS FOR FAIR TREATMENT INC: $60,000 · Education+2 more: $30,000 · EducationETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER INC: $230,000 · Public BenefitETHICS AN…TAX FOUNDATION: $145,000 · Public BenefitTAX FOUND…ALLEGHENY INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $170,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES AND ALUMNI: $95,000 · Arts & CultureCARNEGIE INSTITUTE: $40,000 · Arts & CultureFOUNDATION FOR FREE ENTERPRISE EDUCATION: $110,000 · Youth DevelopmentFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC: $105,000 · Civil RightsCAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER: $90,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $3,500 · Philanthropy
Other$2,511,165Education$1,177,727Public Benefit$375,000Arts & Culture$305,000Youth Development$110,000Civil Rights$105,000Philanthropy$93,500

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 budgetTHE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: $500,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetINTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC: $420,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER INC: $230,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetSAINT VINCENT COLLEGE: $182,727 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetREAL CLEAR FOUNDATION: $180,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetALLEGHENY INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $170,000 over 6y, 5.4% of budgetTAX FOUNDATION: $145,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOLARS INC: $115,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetHudson Institute Inc: $115,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $115,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR FREE ENTERPRISE EDUCATION: $110,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC: $105,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES AND ALUMNI: $95,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER: $90,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetInstitute for Humane Studies: $85,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGROVE CITY COLLEGE: $75,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICANS FOR FAIR TREATMENT INC: $60,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetLATROBE CMTY REVITALIZATION PGMINC: $55,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetCARNEGIE INSTITUTE: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FAIRNESS CENTER INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLATROBE-GLSD PARKS & RECREATION COMMISSION: $25,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetOPEN DISCOURSE COALITION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLOYALHANNA WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE LATROBE FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE: $1,500 over 2y, 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 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 AMERICAN MAIN STREET INITIATIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds OPEN DISCOURSE COALITION ↗
  • Who funds LOYALHANNA WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE LATROBE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE ↗

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 IncSarah Scaife Foundati…Allegheny FoundationBradley Impact Fund I…The Dunn FoundationKatherine Mabis McKen…The Searle Freedom Tr…Adolph Coors Foundati…The Lynde and Harry B…Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization McKenna Philip M Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McKenna Philip M Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 39 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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