Delaware · Private foundation
McKiernan Family 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.
- $10k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of McKiernan Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The American Ireland Fund (Dba The Ireland Funds America/The Ireland Funds), not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 3
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $18k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations McKiernan Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 4 | $200k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $125k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $125k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $80k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $296k | 67% |
| FY2017 | 3 | $110k | n/a |
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trustees of Boston College | $525,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Bellarmine College Preparatory | $50,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Bps Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Southern Methodist University | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lung Cancer Research Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($325k), not named here.
About McKiernan Family Foundation
- How much does McKiernan Family Foundation give?
- McKiernan Family Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $10,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does McKiernan Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (63%), International (19%), Community Improvement (9%).
- Who are McKiernan Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Trustees of Boston College ($525k), Bellarmine College Preparatory ($50k), Bps Foundation ($25k).
- Does McKiernan Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does McKiernan Family 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.
- Where is McKiernan Family Foundation based?
- McKiernan Family Foundation is based in DE.
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