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McKinney Charitable Foundation at a glance

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McKinney Charitable Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$612k
Granted FY2025still arriving
36
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
THE PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST$25,000
IMANI CHRISTIAN ACADEMY$25,000
SQUONK OPERA INC$25,000
MEADVILLE COMMUNITY THEATRE$22,000
PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE$20,000
NEW HAZLETT CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING$20,000
MATTRESS FACTORY$20,000
CONCORDIA LUTHERAN MINISTRIES FOUNDATION$20,000
BAREBONES PRODUCTIONS INC$20,000
OPEN FIELD$20,000
PITTSBURGH MUSICAL THEATER$20,000
RANKIN CHRISTIAN CENTER$20,000
PITTSBURGH SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK$20,000
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.

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Its 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 its 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
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

NH
MN
NY
MA
PA
UT
NC
SC
DC
FL
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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
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

  • 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%
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
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
Pittsburgh Entertainment Project

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

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4
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
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
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
8
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
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
Citizens for the Arts in Pennsylvania

Citizens for the arts in pennsylvania (cfa/pa) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization advocating for funding and for public policies, all to ensure the vibrant practice and appreciation of the arts and culture across the commonwealth of…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pittsburgh Cultural Trust; 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.
04the grantee network

138 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
30
Early backer (in before they grew)
136/138
Grantees still filing
86/138
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 moreRANKIN CHRISTIAN CENTER: $35,000 · Human ServicesRANKIN CHR…CITY OF ASYLUM: $35,000 · Human ServicesCITY OF AS…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 ServicesGrowing Up Greene: $15,000 · Human ServicesWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA DIAPER BANK: $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 moreIMANI CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $25,000 · EducationUNION ENHANCEMENT FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationSEWICKLEY ACADEMY: $20,000 · EducationTHE LEARNING LAMP INC: $20,000 · EducationTHE CREATING LANDSCAPES LEARNING CENTER INC: $16,000 · EducationALLIANCE FOR REFUGEE YOUTH SUPPORT AND EDUCATION: $15,000 · EducationREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC: $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 · EducationCONCORDIA LUTHERAN MINISTRIESFOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthADAGIO HEALTH INC: $20,000 · HealthCONCORDIA LUTHERAN MINISTRIES: $20,000 · HealthST MARGARET FOUNDATION: $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 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 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 budgetBAREBONES PRODUCTIONS INC: $35,000 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetBREW HOUSE ARTS: $35,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetRANKIN CHRISTIAN CENTER: $35,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLATIN AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION: $35,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCITY OF ASYLUM: $35,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetPITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRADIANT HALL STUDIOS: $30,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetPITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFine Art Miracles Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetTHE BOTTLEWORKS INC ETHNIC ARTS CENTER: $30,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetBODIOGRAPHY CONTEMPORARY BALLET: $30,000 over 2y, 15% 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 budgetINDUSTRIAL ARTS WORKSHOP INC: $27,500 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetNEW SUN RISING: $27,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetVariety the Childrens Charity: $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetRAINBOW KITCHEN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $25,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetKIDSVOICE: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetResonance Works: $25,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetIMANI CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSQUONK OPERA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetUNION ENHANCEMENT FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 36% 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 budgetCONCORDIA LUTHERAN MINISTRIESFOUNDATION: $20,000 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.

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

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 McKinney Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McKinney Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's 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
    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 167 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2026) is on record and reports $687k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2025, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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