· Private foundation
McKinley Educational Initiative
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $51k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $195k
- $250k+1 grant · $745k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $745,000 |
| METROED FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| JOHN JAY CENTER FOR LEARNING | $70,000 |
| THE PORTLAND FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| LEADERSHIP KAUAI | $25,000 |
| ASPIRE ARIZONA FOUNDATION | $15,550 |
| KOKO - FIVE MOUNTAINS HAWAII INC | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Purdue Research Foundation5× · 2020–2024 · $3.7M · revenue +28%- JJJOHN JAY CENTER FOR LEARNING INC5× · 2020–2024 · $502k · revenue +1% · 39% of their budget
- LKLeadership Kauai4× · 2021–2024 · $85k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- TOTRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2019 · $190k
- JCJAY COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INCone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -62%
- PRPAYSON ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $15k
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.
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.
The mission of Kipuka Kuleana Inc. is to perpetuate ahupuaa (traditional Hawaiian land division) based natural resource management & connection to place through protection and care of cultural landscapes and family lands. Kipuka Kuleana…
To be the patient-centered healthcare home that is accessible for all and be the center for healthcare learning excellence in East Hawaii.
Our mission is to protect, perpetuate, and enhance the cultural and natural landscape of the kiholo bay area through collaborative management and active community stewardship.
The kohala center is an independent community-based center for research, conservation, and education.
The Center is a culturally sensitive, community-based unit which provides comprehensive healthcare services - including medical, dental, and behavioral services primarily to residents in the Koolauloa region of Oahu, Hawaii.
The mission of kakoooiwi is to advance the cultural, spiritual and traditional practices of the native hawaiian.
To preserve the immediate and long-term health and wellbeing of lahaina's diverse communities and precious natural resources.
Improve the quality of life for the people of Hawaii by promoting excellence in hospice, end of life care, palliative care, and early advanced care planning.
The mission of the corporation shall be to work with partners to protect and restore native ecosystems and watersheds, to improve the quality and quantity of freshwater resources to perpetuate hawaiian cultural resources and practices, to…
To improve the health and well-being of our community.
To provide "culturally-minded evidenced-based behavioral health care that is responsive to the needs of the medically underserved, predominantly native hawaiian, and rural communities. the organization provides behavioral health services…
The mission of kuakini foundation is to improve the health status of the community by: providing comprehensive health care services and programs at reasonable cost; continuously improving the quality of health care services and programs;…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 16 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Purdue Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds JOHN JAY CENTER FOR LEARNING INC ↗
- Who funds Leadership Kauai ↗
- Who funds ASPIRE ARIZONA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JAY COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds TIME OUT INC ↗
- Who funds FIVE MOUNTAINS HAWAII INC ↗
- Who funds Hale Mua Cultural Group ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization McKinley Educational Initiative funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McKinley Educational Initiative. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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