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McKetta 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.

$133k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$218kHealth$73kEnvironment$29kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kHuman Services$24kAnimals$22kInternational$14kFood & Nutrition$14kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k25 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$1,500
Median grant
11
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
St Johns College$75,000
Trine University$10,000
ShelterBox USA$6,000
Friends of the Austin State Supported Living Center$5,000
Santa Fe Animal Shelter$5,000
World Central Kitchen Inc$5,000
Comfort Zone Camp$3,000
National Network of Abortion Funds$1,500
Northwest Immigrant Rights Project$1,500
Electronic Frontier Foundation$1,500
The Salish Sea School$1,500
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$1,500
Full Circle Grief Center$1,500
WNYC$1,500
Central Mission at Central Presbyterian Church$1,500
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Parent Trust for Washington Children: $750 → 9%Helpline House: $1k → 10%Full Circle Grief Center: $2k → 6%Ethiopian Community Development Council: $2k → 7%M4K Richmond Inc: $2k → 7%Comfort Zone Camp: $3k → 9%Helpline House: $1k → 10%Full Circle Grief Center: $2k → 6%M4K Richmond: $1k → 7%Comfort Zone Camp: $1k → 9%Parent Trust for WA Children: $250 → 9%Full Circle Grief Center: $1k → 6%M4K Richmond Inc: $1k → 7%Comfort Zone Camp: $1k → 9%Helpline House: $750 → 10%Full Circle Grief Center: $1k → 6%YouthCare: $750 → 9%YouthCare: $250 → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
ID
MN
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MO
VA
NM
DC
AL
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$230k · 37 repeat orgs$233k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

37 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
48

Total granted

$230k
$140k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+18%

Still filing today

81%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $93k 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
EnvironmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationInternationalAnimalsOther

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

  • TU
    Trine University
    4× · 2020–2025 · $46k · revenue +106%
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $24k · revenue +167%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $8k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • TM
    Trine - McKetta Department of Chemi
    one grant, 2021 · $31k
  • AV
    AUSTIN VOICES FOR EDUCATION & YOUTH
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +18%
  • FO
    Friends of the Austin State
    one grant, 2020 · $13k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
National Association of Clean Water Agencies

Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.

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2
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
3
Wildearth Guardians

Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.

Unclassified
4
Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide

Educational & charitable. to provide legal and scientific information to public interest attorneys and scientists in numerous countries.

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5
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
6
Wildlife Conservation Network Inc

Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.

Animals
7
Amazon Watch Inc

To protect the rainforest and advance the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with Indigenous communities in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability, and the preservation of the Amazon Basin's…

Environment
8
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
9
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
10
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
11
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
12
Washington Wild

Washington wild protects and restores wild lands and waters in washington state through advocacy, education and civic engagement.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Immigrant Rights Project and the most unlike its peers is The Salish Sea School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAnimal Rescue and ShelterChristian Youth CampsPregnancy Support ServicesCommunity Arts CentersIndependent K-12 SchoolsYouth Development ServicesChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Domestic Violence ServicesPolicy Research and AdvocacyFood Banks and PantriesEnvironmental Conservation …Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr13%38%35–55yr16%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr16%14%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr16%53%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/62
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,503

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.

04the grantee network

59 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. 59 of the 96 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/59
Grantees still filing
35/59
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ST STEPHENS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL — $35,000 · OtherST STEPHENS EPISCOPAL SCHOOLTrine - McKetta Department of Chemi — $30,600 · OtherTrine - McKetta Department of ChemiFriends of the Austin State Supported Living Center — $15,000 · OtherFriends of the Austin State Supported Living Cent…Friends of the Austin State — $12,500 · OtherFriends of the Austin StateUniv of Texas ChE Department — $10,250 · OtherTrine University McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering — $10,000 · OtherTrine University McKetta — $10,000 · Other+55 more — $80,000 · Other+55 moreST JOHN'S COLLEGE — $75,000 · EducationST JOHN'S COLLEGETrine University — $46,250 · EducationTrine University+3 more — $6,250 · EducationWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $23,500 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $7,500 · International+2 more — $1,500 · InternationalNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS LILITH FUND — $6,500 · EnvironmentTHE SALISH SEA SCHOOL — $5,500 · EnvironmentUNCOMPAHGRE WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP A COLORADO NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $3,500 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $3,500 · EnvironmentGOODPOWER EDUCATION FUND INC — $2,500 · EnvironmentNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC — $1,500 · EnvironmentSOUND WATER STEWARDS OF ISLAND COUNTY — $1,500 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR CARBON REMOVAL — $1,000 · EnvironmentNORTHWEST ABORTION ACCESS FUND — $1,000 · EnvironmentSANTA FE BOTANICAL GARDEN — $1,000 · EnvironmentSHELTERBOX USA INC — $6,000 · Human ServicesCOMFORT ZONE CAMP INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesFULL CIRCLE GRIEF CENTER — $5,000 · Human ServicesM4K RICHMOND INC — $3,500 · Human ServicesHELPLINE HOUSE — $2,750 · Human ServicesETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY DEV COUNCIL INC — $1,500 · Human ServicesPARENT TRUST FOR WASHINGTON CHILDREN — $1,000 · Human ServicesYOUTHCARE — $1,000 · Human ServicesAUSTIN VOICES FOR EDUCATION & YOUTH — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentMEOW MEOW FOUNDATION — $3,500 · Youth DevelopmentOcean Blue Project Inc — $1,500 · Youth DevelopmentSANTA FE ANIMAL SHELTER AND HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $15,000 · AnimalsAustin Wildlife Rescue — $2,500 · AnimalsTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY — $2,000 · AnimalsSPOKANIMAL CARE — $1,500 · Animals
Other$203,350Education$127,500International$32,500Environment$27,500Human Services$25,750Youth Development$25,000Animals$21,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetST JOHN'S COLLEGE — $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTrine University — $46,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $23,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN VOICES FOR EDUCATION & YOUTH — $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSANTA FE ANIMAL SHELTER AND HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $7,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS LILITH FUND — $6,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetElectronic Frontier Foundation Inc — $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SALISH SEA SCHOOL — $5,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSTORY STORY NIGHT INC — $5,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetCOMFORT ZONE CAMP INC — $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFULL CIRCLE GRIEF CENTER — $5,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetM4K RICHMOND INC — $3,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUNCOMPAHGRE WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP A COLORADO NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $3,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetA Well-Fed World — $3,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF TRAVIS COUNTY — $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEOW MEOW FOUNDATION — $3,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOME WORKS - THVP — $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHELPLINE HOUSE — $2,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS TRIBUNE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOODPOWER EDUCATION FUND INC — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAustin Wildlife Rescue — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Court Appointed Special Advocate Association — $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPOKANIMAL CARE — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY DEV COUNCIL INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOcean Blue Project Inc — $1,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDAVE THOMAS FOUNDATION FOR ADOPTION — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WHALE MUSEUM — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE — $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR CARBON REMOVAL — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOJOURNERS' ALLIANCE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST ABORTION ACCESS FUND — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD PEDIATRICS — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARENT TRUST FOR WASHINGTON CHILDREN — $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA FE BOTANICAL GARDEN — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTHCARE — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Cultural ConservancySacred Land Foundation — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBAINBRIDGE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Seattle FoundationReal Progress Foundat…Mightycause Charitabl…Puget Sound Energy Fo…The Bessemer Giving F…The Norcliffe Foundat…Austin Community Foun…ImpactassetsincMorgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Edward Jones Foundati…Greater Houston Commu…
Seattle FoundationWA17.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Real Progress Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Norcliffe Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Edward Jones Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation

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 McKetta Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • St John's College — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 96 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines