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McKinney Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$612k
Granted FY2025still arriving
36
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$2.0MEducation$213kHuman Services$203kCommunity Improvement$171kYouth Development$169kRecreation & Sports$113kHealth$101kInternational$95kOther$0
02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k30 grants · $532k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITY THEATRE COMPANY INC$50,000
PITTSBURGH YOUTH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA$35,100
SQUONK OPERA INC$25,000
IMANI CHRISTIAN ACADEMY$25,000
THE PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST$25,000
MEADVILLE COMMUNITY THEATRE$22,000
OPEN FIELD$20,000
CONCORDIA LUTHERAN MINISTRIES FOUNDATION$20,000
PITTSBURGH MUSICAL THEATER$20,000
UNION PROJECT$20,000
PITTSBURGH SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK$20,000
RANKIN CHRISTIAN CENTER$20,000
NEW HAZLETT CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING$20,000
BAREBONES PRODUCTIONS INC$20,000
MATTRESS FACTORY$20,000
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 (FY20–25, $338k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Mhy Family Services: $13k → 9%YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATI: $18k → 11%HUMAN SERVICES CENTER: $1k → 13%Casa of Greene County Inc: $15k → 13%Waypoint: $20k → 7%WAYPOINT YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $6k → 10%FAMILY GUIDANCE INC: $20k → 9%DONT STOP DREAMING: $8k → 9%JEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING: $7k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICE: $3k → 11%Rainbow Kitchen Community Services: $25k → 11%Catholic Youth Assoc of Pittsburgh: $15k → 11%NORTHERN AREA MULTI SERVICE CENTER: $14k → 11%City of Asylum Pittsburgh: $20k → 11%CITY OF ASYLUM PITTSBURGH: $15k → 11%BRADLEY CENTER: $10k → 11%NEW SUN RISING: $15k → 11%NEW SUN RISING: $13k → 11%LATINO COMMUNITY CENTER: $14k → 11%Outreach Teen & Family Services: $23k → 11%The Western Pennsylvania Diaper Bank: $15k → 11%AMACHI PITTSBURGH: $15k → 11%RANKIN CHRISTIAN CENTER: $20k → 11%RANKIN CHRISTIAN CENTER: $15k → 11%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

NH
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DC
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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.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.9M · 48 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

48 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
96

Total granted

$1.9M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+12%

Still filing today

88%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $337k 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
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsOther

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

  • TM
    THE MATTRESS FACTORY LTD
    4× · 2020–2025 · $125k · revenue +20%
  • TC
    The City Theatre Company Inc
    4× · 2020–2025 · $95k · revenue +8%
  • PM
    PITTSBURGH MUSICAL THEATER
    3× · 2021–2025 · $65k · revenue +106%

Funded once

  • PC
    Pittsburgh Community Broadcasting Corpor
    one grant, 2020 · $40k
  • UI
    URBAN IMPACT
    one grant, 2022 · $30k
  • VT
    Variety the Childrens Charity
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -1%

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.

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Pittsburgh Festival Opera

Pittsburgh festival opera presents innovative opera for imaginative audiences. pittsburgh festival opera is pittsburgh's modern music drama company and, as such, focuses on creating new works, on reinterpreting older works in new ways, on…

Arts & Culture
2
Pittsburgh International Classic Theatre

Challenging, educating and entertaining pittsburgh audiences by providing high quality theatre at reasonable prices, while focusing on irish, english and classical works.

Arts & Culture
3
Allentown Public Theatre

Allentown Public Theatre is dedicated to empowering our diverse communities through the performing arts. We expand opportunities for cultural participation and education in theatre, and create works that address contemporary issues.

Arts & Culture
4
Pittsburgh Entertainment Project

To create a vibrant, responsible, and sustainable film and digital media sector in southwestern pennsylvania.

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5
Pittsburgh Community Broadcasting Corporation

To create and distribute trusted content, build connections and strengthen our community through public media.

Arts & Culture
6
Bradford Creative and Performing Arts Center Inc

Provide quality, diverse arts programming to impact our communities and enrich people's lives in the twin tiers

Arts & Culture
7
Gettysburg Community Theatre Inc

To inspire creativity and confidence, promote cultural enrichment, and instill a love of the theatre arts in people of all ages and abilities through quality education and performance.

Arts & Culture
8
Chamber Music Pittsburgh

To present world class chamber music ensembles and soloists, promising emerging artists, and innovative programs; and to foster an appreciation for chamber music in the pittsburgh community by offering educational programs and experiences.

Arts & Culture
9
Philadelphia Contemporary

We connect the people and places of philadelphia through art and partnership. the organization is a free-standing platform that endeavors to show forward-thinking, high-quality contemporary visual and performance art in the city. the…

Human Services
10
Center Stage Associates Inc

See schedule o.inspired by our home city, baltimore center stage acts as a cultural catalyst for all communities to access theater in every form and engage in compelling conversations. programming: capture the collective imagination and…

Arts & Culture
11
Association for Public Art

The association for public art (apa, formerly the fairmount park art association) commissions, preserves, interprets and promotes public art in philadelphia. dedicated to creating a museum without walls that informs, engages and inspires…

Arts & Culture
12
Village Theater Company

Village theater company/dba the lindsay theater and cultural center, carries its nonprofit mission of strengthening cultural, educational and entertainment opportunities, working to make these opportunities accessible to suburban…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pittsburgh Cultural Trust and the most unlike its peers is Mary S Biesecker Public Libary. 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 backsteadyFaith-Based K-12 SchoolsFaith-Based Senior Care & C…Professional & Community As…Regional Healthcare SystemsDiverse Community Support O…Family Charitable Foundatio…Public LibrariesPittsburgh Regional Develop…Community Arts Organizations
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 31 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%4%<5yr13%5%5–10yr20%23%10–20yr21%23%20–35yr15%28%35–55yr14%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%2%<5yr13%4%5–10yr20%24%10–20yr21%27%20–35yr15%27%35–55yr14%15%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.7%1/145
the rest of the field
9%
3,087/33,271

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

138 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. 138 of the 167 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)
31
Early backer (in before they grew)
136/138
Grantees still filing
87/138
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE MATTRESS FACTORY LTD — $125,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MATTRESS FACTORY LTDThe City Theatre Company Inc — $95,000 · Arts & CultureThe City Theatre Company IncPITTSBURGH MUSICAL THEATER — $65,000 · Arts & CultureQUANTUM THEATRE INC — $63,794 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF HOPITAL ALBERT SCHWEITZER HAITI — $60,000 · Arts & Culture+58 more — $1,301,622 · Arts & Culture+58 moreNEW HAZLETT CENTER — $57,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $40,000 · OtherPittsburgh Community Broadcasting Corpor — $40,000 · OtherPOISE FOUNDATION — $55,000 · Other+56 more — $838,512 · Other+56 moreCITY OF ASYLUM — $35,000 · Human ServicesCITY OF AS…RANKIN CHRISTIAN CENTER — $35,000 · Human ServicesRANKIN CHR…NEW SUN RISING — $27,500 · Human ServicesNEW SUN RI…RAINBOW KITCHEN COMMUNITY SERVICES — $25,000 · Human ServicesRAINBOW KI…Outreach Teen and Family Services Inc — $23,122 · Human ServicesOutreach T…FAMILY GUIDANCE INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY GUI…WAYPOINT — $20,000 · Human ServicesWAYPOINTYWCA ALLENTOWN — $18,000 · Human ServicesWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA DIAPER BANK — $15,000 · Human ServicesGrowing Up Greene — $15,000 · Human ServicesAMACHI PITTSBURGH INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC YOUTH ASSOCIATION OF PITTSBURGH — $15,000 · Human ServicesNORTHERN AREA MULTI-SERVICE CENTER OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY INC — $13,780 · Human ServicesTHE LATINO COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $13,510 · Human ServicesMHY FAMILY SERVICES — $13,000 · Human Services+6 more — $34,520 · Human Services+6 moreUNION ENHANCEMENT FOUNDATION — $25,000 · EducationIMANI CHRISTIAN ACADEMY — $25,000 · EducationSEWICKLEY ACADEMY — $20,000 · EducationTHE LEARNING LAMP INC — $20,000 · EducationTHE CREATING LANDSCAPES LEARNING CENTER INC — $16,000 · EducationREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC — $15,000 · EducationALLIANCE FOR REFUGEE YOUTH SUPPORT AND EDUCATION — $15,000 · EducationDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT — $10,000 · EducationMOSAIC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $10,000 · EducationMARY S BIESECKER PUBLIC LIBARY — $7,500 · Education+1 more — $3,198 · EducationST MARGARET FOUNDATION — $20,000 · HealthCONCORDIA LUTHERAN MINISTRIESFOUNDATION — $20,000 · HealthADAGIO HEALTH INC — $20,000 · HealthCONCORDIA LUTHERAN MINISTRIES — $20,000 · HealthHOPE GROWS — $11,500 · HealthApraxia Kids — $7,500 · HealthUNION PROJECT — $60,000 · Community ImprovementTAG COMMUNITY VENTURES — $20,000 · Community ImprovementUPTOWN PARTNERS OF PITTSBURGH — $18,500 · Community ImprovementOPEN FIELD — $60,000 · InternationalWORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF PITTSBURGH — $15,000 · International
Arts & Culture$1,710,416Other$1,081,012Human Services$338,432Education$166,698Health$99,000Community Improvement$98,500International$75,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE MATTRESS FACTORY LTD — $125,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetThe City Theatre Company Inc — $95,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetPITTSBURGH MUSICAL THEATER — $65,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetQUANTUM THEATRE INC — $63,794 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetOPEN FIELD — $60,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetUNION PROJECT — $60,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF HOPITAL ALBERT SCHWEITZER HAITI — $60,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetPITTSBURGH PUBLIC THEATER CORPORATION — $55,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPOISE FOUNDATION — $55,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY ARTS CENTER OF CAMBRIA COUNTY — $54,388 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetCIVIC LIGHT OPERA ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH — $50,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFRONT PORCH THEATRICALS — $47,500 over 3y, 10% of budgetPITTSBURGH GLASS CENTER INC — $47,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetDREAMS OF HOPE — $45,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY THEATER PROJECT CORPORATION — $45,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetALUMNI THEATER COMPANY — $40,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetFILM PITTSBURGH — $37,700 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetPITTSBURGH YOUTH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA — $35,100 over 1y, 15% of budgetBREW HOUSE ARTS — $35,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetCITY OF ASYLUM — $35,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetLATIN AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION — $35,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBAREBONES PRODUCTIONS INC — $35,000 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetPITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST — $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRANKIN CHRISTIAN CENTER — $35,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOTTLEWORKS INC ETHNIC ARTS CENTER — $30,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetFine Art Miracles Inc — $30,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetBODIOGRAPHY CONTEMPORARY BALLET — $30,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetRADIANT HALL STUDIOS — $30,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetLittle Lake Theatre Company — $30,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetOFF THE WALL PRODUCTIONS — $28,770 over 2y, 8.6% of budget25 CARRICK AVE PROJECT — $27,500 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetNEW SUN RISING — $27,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetINDUSTRIAL ARTS WORKSHOP INC — $27,500 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetSQUONK OPERA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetVariety the Childrens Charity — $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetRAINBOW KITCHEN COMMUNITY SERVICES — $25,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetResonance Works — $25,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetUNION ENHANCEMENT FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetIMANI CHRISTIAN ACADEMY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetKIDSVOICE — $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetGREATER PITTSBURGH ARTS COUNCIL — $24,700 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPITTSBURGH THREE RIVERS MARATHON INC — $24,055 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUNIQUE PROJECTS INC — $24,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetATTACK THEATRE INC — $23,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetOutreach Teen and Family Services Inc — $23,122 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetSILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY — $22,500 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetFAMILY GUIDANCE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.7% 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.

The Heinz EndowmentsThe Pittsburgh Founda…Hillman Family Founda…The Grable FoundationOpportunity FoundationThe Fine FoundationRichard King Mellon F…Program to Aid Citize…Staunton Farm Foundat…The Buhl FoundationThe Jack Buncher Foun…The United Way of Sou…
The Heinz EndowmentsPA134.6× affinity72 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Heinz Endowments · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · The Grable Foundation · Opportunity Foundation · The Fine Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Program to Aid Citizen Enterprise Inc · Staunton Farm Foundation 540-054 Dba Staunton Farm Foundation · The Buhl Foundation · The Jack Buncher Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania

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 McKinney Charitable 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.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    53report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 167 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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