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McKinley Family Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$177k
Granted FY2018
19
Grants FY2018
6
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

51% of McKinley Family Foundation’s FY2021 grant dollars went to The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year McKinley Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 12 organizations, $177k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

12
’18
7
’19
3
’21

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2021.

Science & Tech$173kEducation$140kArts & Culture$70kPhilanthropy$24kPublic Safety & Disaster$21kSocial Science$20kRecreation & Sports$5kCommunity Improvement$5kOther$0
02FY2018 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k12 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $94k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HARVARD UNIVERSITY$50,000
SAN FRANCISCO FILM SOCIETY$30,000
THE ASPEN INSTITUTE$20,000
SONOMA FIREFIGHTERS VOLUNTEER ASSOCIATION$12,000
SAN FRANCISCO DAY SCHOOL$12,000
CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES$10,000
KAHUMANA$10,000
Individual grant recipient$8,000
826 VALENCIA ENDOWMENT$5,000
SONOMA COUNTY VINTNERS FOUNDATION$5,000
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS$5,000
BENTLEY SCHOOL$2,500
SAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL$2,500
PEER HEALTH EXCHANGE$1,250
LONE MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S CENTER$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–19, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LONE MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $1k → 10%LONE MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $1k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
CA
CO
DC
HI
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$162k · 6 repeat orgs$83k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call). Read against FY2018, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
17

Total granted

$162k
$83k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+50%

Still filing today

100%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’21
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’21
EducationArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterSocial ScienceCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SF
    San Francisco Film Society
    3× · 2018–2021 · $68k · revenue +33%
  • SAN FRANCISCO DAY SCHOOL
    3× · 2018–2021 · $44k · revenue +56%
  • CA
    CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    2× · 2018–2019 · $23k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +231%
  • Cornell Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $14k · revenue +50%
  • K
    KAHUMANA
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.

Education
3
The San Francisco School

A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.

—
4
San Francisco Girls' School

To educate and inspire girls to become innovators and leaders in stem.

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5
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
6
San Francisco Friends School

At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…

Education
7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
8
Claremont Graduate University

Claremont Graduate University prepares individuals to be leaders for positive change in the world. Unique in its transdisciplinary approach, the University is dedicated to the creation, dissemination, and application of new knowledge and…

Education
9
Harvey Mudd College

HMC seeks to educate engineers, scientists, and mathematicians well versed in all of these areas and in the humanities, social sciences and the arts so that they may assume leadership in their fields with a clear understanding of the…

Education
10
Sonoma Charter School

Sonoma charter school seeks to achieve academic excellence through engaged learning in a setting that involves students, teachers, and parents.

Education
11
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
12
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Francisco University High School; the most unlike its peers is Sonoma Botanical Garden. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 25 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
15/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

President and Fellows of Harvard College: $170,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard CollegeTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITYSAN FRANCISCO DAY SCHOOL: $44,000 · EducationSAN FRANCISCO DAY SCHOOLCornell University: $13,505 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationSan Francisco Film Society: $67,500 · OtherSan Francisco Film SocietyKAHUMANA: $10,000 · OtherKAHUMANAIndividual grant recipient: $8,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSTANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS: $5,000 · Other826 VALENCIA ENDOWMENT: $5,000 · Other+10 more: $14,500 · Other+10 moreCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $22,500 · Arts & CultureSONOMA VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION: $21,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $20,000 · Social ScienceSONOMA COUNTY VINTNERS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Community ImprovementNorthwestern University: $4,000 · Recreation & Sports
Education$282,505Other$110,000Arts & Culture$22,500Public Safety & Disaster$21,000Social Science$20,000Community Improvement$5,000Recreation & Sports$4,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $170,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Film Society: $67,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO DAY SCHOOL: $44,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $22,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSONOMA VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION: $21,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $13,505 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBENTLEY SCHOOL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSonoma Botanical Garden: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Marin Community Found…The San Francisco Fou…Sonoma County Communi…Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…
Marin Community FoundationCA15.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Sonoma County Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization McKinley Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McKinley Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home