Vermont · Private foundation
McKenzie Family Charitable Trust
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.
- $1.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 4%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $22,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $205,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 24
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $30M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 4% of the organizations McKenzie Family Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 22 | $876k | 5% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $854k | 4% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $759k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $789k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $668k | 26% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $599k | 17% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $721k | 13% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $560k | 13% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yellow Barn Inc | $1,286,600 | 9 | 19% |
| The Epiphany School Inc | $680,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Vermont Jazz Center Inc | $645,000 | 9 | 23% |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $490,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Boys and Girls Club of Brattleboro Inc | $260,000 | 9 | 7% |
| A Far Cry Inc | $220,000 | 7 | 6% |
| Boston Philharmonic Orchestra Corporation | $130,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Charles River Conservancy Inc | $125,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Sarasa Inc | $112,500 | 7 | 29% |
| Next Stage Arts Project Inc | $112,500 | 9 | 5% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
McKenzie Family Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Windham Foundation Inc · Thomas Thompson Trust · The Vermont Community Foundation · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Vermont Council on the Arts Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Sorg-Vogt Charitable Foundation Trust 3844 · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Edwin S Webster Foundation · George W Mergens Foundation · Turrell Fund · Rsf Social Finance Inc
How this is measured
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About McKenzie Family Charitable Trust
- How much does McKenzie Family Charitable Trust give?
- McKenzie Family Charitable Trust reported 23 grants totaling $1,030,723 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does McKenzie Family Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (40%), Education (28%), Health (18%).
- Who are McKenzie Family Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Yellow Barn Inc ($1.3M), The Epiphany School Inc ($680k), Vermont Jazz Center Inc ($645k).
- Does McKenzie Family Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does McKenzie Family Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as McKenzie Family Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Windham Foundation Inc, Thomas Thompson Trust, The Vermont Community Foundation.
- Where is McKenzie Family Charitable Trust based?
- McKenzie Family Charitable Trust is based in VT.
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