· Private foundation
McKinney Family Foundation Inc
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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $63k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $2.0M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ENERGY FOUNDATION | $600,000 |
| MICHIGAN SAVES | $250,000 |
| IU ENVIRONMENTAL RESILIENCE INSTITUTE | $250,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $240,000 |
| EMORY UNIVERSITY | $230,000 |
| STAND UP INDIANA | $225,000 |
| SIERRA CLUB | $202,000 |
| ADVANCED ENERGY ECONOMY INSTITUTE | $200,000 |
| CONSERVATIVE ENERGY NETWORK | $200,000 |
| IU SCHOOL OF PHILANTHROPY | $130,000 |
| FAITH IN PLACE | $100,000 |
| SOLAR UNITED NEIGHBORS | $100,000 |
| INDIANAPOLIS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| VOTEORG | $75,000 |
| HOOSIER ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL FOUNDATION | $51,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $454k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +65% since the first grant, against -8% for those funded once.
45 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $696k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Indiana University Foundation8× · 2017–2024 · $4.8M · revenue +97%- AEAdvanced Energy Institute7× · 2018–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +90%
- CEConservative Energy Network7× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +640%
Funded once
LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +135%- CECLIMATE & ENERGY FUNDERS GROUPone grant, 2019 · $27k
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +26%
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.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
To support healthy communities and a healthy earth, the institute for conservation leadership strengthens leaders, organizations, coalitions and networks.
The indiana university alumni association activates and supports the global alumni network- encouraging alumni to grow a lifelong connection with indiana university, and inspiring their ongoing generosity toward each other and the…
To serve its members and local associations by providing leadership programs and services to sustain a healthy real estate market in indiana. in providing these services, the association will raise the standards of the real estate…
Trusted journalism, inspiring stories and lifelong learning.
Indiana united way is the leading voice to advocate, engage, and partner with a strong united way network and key stakeholders to advance human well-being throughout indiana.
Cicp foundation, inc. (the foundation) operates exclusively for the benefit of and carries out the mission of central indiana corporate partnership, inc. (cicp) by engaging in and supporting activities in furtherance of purposes that are…
Amazon conservation unites science, people, and innovation to protect the amazon - the greatest wild forest on earth. as guardians of the most iconic forest on the planet, we bring together the power of the latest science and technology…
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
The american civil liberties union of indiana seeks to promote, protect, and defend the rights, liberties, and freedoms guaranteed to all people in our state by the united states and indiana constitutions.
How this is measured
44 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. 44 of the 70 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.
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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: Lilly Endowment Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · The McKnight Foundation · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Marni McKinney Foundation · Griffith Family Foundation Inc · Lacy Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization McKinney Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McKinney Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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