New York · Private foundation
McKinnon Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $3.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 50
- Grants FY2025
- 42
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 48%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,430,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 42
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $24M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 48% of the organizations McKinnon Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k 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 | 47 | $3.2M | 34% |
| FY2024 | 42 | $2.6M | 48% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $1.5M | 46% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $3.4M | 50% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $4.1M | 25% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $5.2M | 52% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $1.1M | 41% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $757k | 69% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Fe Institute | $6,300,000 | 9 | 18% |
| University of California San Francisco Foundation | $2,730,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Marin Academy | $2,460,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Duke University | $1,400,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Albuquerque Academy | $1,370,000 | 4 | 2% |
| New Mexico Philharmonic Foundation Inc | $1,249,000 | 1 | 81% |
| Roger Federer Charitable Fund Inc | $796,500 | 7 | 12% |
| Imentor Inc | $675,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Occidental College | $310,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Greenwich Academy Inc | $309,999 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 68 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
McKinnon Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 57 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Marin Community Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The San Francisco Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Albuquerque Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Harman Family Foundation · The Abeles Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma
How this is measured
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About McKinnon Family Foundation
- How much does McKinnon Family Foundation give?
- McKinnon Family Foundation reported 50 grants totaling $3,617,213 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 42 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does McKinnon Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (28%), Science & Tech (25%), Health (19%).
- Who are McKinnon Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Santa Fe Institute ($6.3M), University of California San Francisco Foundation ($2.7M), Marin Academy ($2.5M).
- Does McKinnon Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 48% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does McKinnon Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as McKinnon Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marin Community Foundation, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, The San Francisco Foundation.
- Where is McKinnon Family Foundation based?
- McKinnon Family Foundation is based in NY.
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