Tennessee · Private foundation
McKenzie Foundation D/B/A the McKenzie Foundation
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.
- $474k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 31
- Grants FY2025
- 37
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $60,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 37
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $16M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations McKenzie Foundation D/B/A the McKenzie Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $222k 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 | 31 | $474k | 42% |
| FY2024 | 37 | $727k | 35% |
| FY2023 | 36 | $567k | 53% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $585k | 52% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $810k | 52% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $709k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $495k | 58% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $501k | 89% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bonefish & Tarpon Trust Inc | $518,038 | 8 | 4% |
| United Way of Greater Chattanooga | $343,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Songbirds Foundation Inc | $216,577 | 9 | 17% |
| The Young Women's Leadership Academy Foundation Inc | $200,000 | 1 | 17% |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Chattanooga Inc | $173,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Metropolitan Ministries Inc | $154,500 | 6 | 2% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of the Ocoee Region | $130,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Chattanooga Area Food Bank Inc | $130,000 | 4 | 0% |
| University of Chattanooga Foundation Inc | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Enterprise Center Inc | $125,000 | 2 | 3% |
Show all 76 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 44 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
McKenzie Foundation D/B/A the McKenzie Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 62 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation · The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · Benwood Foundation Inc · Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc · Lyndhurst Foundation Inc · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · Robert L & Kathrina H Maclellan Founda Foundation · Tucker Foundation · The Howard Fund · Hamico Inc · Lillian L Colby Charitable Fdn Ia
How this is measured
Compare McKenzie Foundation D/B/A the McKenzie Foundation with peer funders
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to McKenzie Foundation D/B/A the McKenzie Foundation?
Find your warmest path to McKenzie Foundation D/B/A the McKenzie Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.
About McKenzie Foundation D/B/A the McKenzie Foundation
- How much does McKenzie Foundation D/B/A the McKenzie Foundation give?
- McKenzie Foundation D/B/A the McKenzie Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $474,300 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 37 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does McKenzie Foundation D/B/A the McKenzie Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (29%), Philanthropy (14%), Animals (10%).
- Who are McKenzie Foundation D/B/A the McKenzie Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Bonefish & Tarpon Trust Inc ($518k), United Way of Greater Chattanooga ($343k), Songbirds Foundation Inc ($217k).
- Does McKenzie Foundation D/B/A the McKenzie Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does McKenzie Foundation D/B/A the McKenzie Foundation 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 Foundation D/B/A the McKenzie Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation, Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation, The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc.
- Where is McKenzie Foundation D/B/A the McKenzie Foundation based?
- McKenzie Foundation D/B/A the McKenzie Foundation is based in TN.
Play a game based on McKenzie Foundation D/B/A the McKenzie’s filings →