Pennsylvania · Private foundation
McKinney Charitable Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $612k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 36
- Grants FY2025
- 39
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 56%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 33 to 46
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $13M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 56% of the organizations McKinney Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 48% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $263k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 36 | $612k | 61% |
| FY2024 | 39 | $549k | 56% |
| FY2023 | 37 | $685k | 57% |
| FY2022 | 42 | $549k | 64% |
| FY2021 | 33 | $547k | 85% |
| FY2020 | 46 | $573k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Mattress Factory Ltd | $125,000 | 4 | 2% |
| The City Theatre Company Inc | $95,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Pittsburgh Musical Theater | $65,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Quantum Theatre Inc | $63,794 | 3 | 2% |
| Open Field | $60,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Union Project | $60,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Friends of Hopital Albert Schweitzer Haiti | $60,000 | 2 | 20% |
| Pittsburgh Public Theater Corporation | $55,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Community Arts Center of Cambria County | $54,388 | 3 | 4% |
| Civic Light Opera Association of Greater Pittsburgh | $50,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 144 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($499k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
McKinney Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 126 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About McKinney Charitable Foundation
- How much does McKinney Charitable Foundation give?
- McKinney Charitable Foundation reported 36 grants totaling $612,118 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 46 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does McKinney Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (56%), Education (6%), Human Services (6%).
- Who are McKinney Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Mattress Factory Ltd ($125k), The City Theatre Company Inc ($95k), Pittsburgh Musical Theater ($65k).
- Does McKinney Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does McKinney Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as McKinney Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Heinz Endowments, The Pittsburgh Foundation, Hillman Family Foundations.
- Where is McKinney Charitable Foundation based?
- McKinney Charitable Foundation is based in PA.
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