· Private foundation
McKinnon Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $451k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $885k
- $250k+3 grants · $2.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UCSF FOUNDATION | $1,430,000 |
| SANTA FE INSTITUTE | $500,000 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY | $300,000 |
| ROGER FEDERER CHARITABLE FUND | $197,000 |
| FIRST SERVE - NEW MEXICO | $125,000 |
| EAT LEARN PLAY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| PEORIA RIVERFRONT MUSEUM | $100,000 |
| HARVARD UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| STINSON BEACH VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOC | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO MENS BASKETBALL | $62,500 |
| ROAD RUNNER FOOD BANK OF NEW MEXICO | $50,000 |
| CONNECTED-THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR COLLEGE & CAREER | $50,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH T1D | $43,333 |
| GOLDEN STATE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $41,000 |
| LIFE SPRING NETWORK | $30,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 22% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of McKinnon Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 7% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 4% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $455k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
SANTA FE INSTITUTE9× · 2017–2025 · $6.3M · revenue +219%- MAMARIN ACADEMY5× · 2018–2022 · $2.5M · revenue +45%
DUKE UNIVERSITY5× · 2018–2022 · $1.4M · revenue +41%
Funded once
- NMNEW MEXICO PHILHARMONIC FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $1.2M · revenue -48% · 81% of their budget
- NMNEW MEXICO COALITION OF COMUNITY FOUNDATIONSone grant, 2020 · $1.0M
- NMNEW MEXICO DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND ENERGENCY MANAGEMENTone grant, 2020 · $250k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Golden State Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Tiburon Volunteer Fire Department. 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.
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 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
68 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. 68 of the 107 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds SANTA FE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARIN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ALBUQUERQUE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO PHILHARMONIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROGER FEDERER CHARITABLE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds IMENTOR INC ↗
- Who funds OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds USTA PLAYER DEVELOPMENT INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FIRST SERVE-NM INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds THE BATTERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIFE SPRING NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds UNM LOBO CLUB ↗
- Who funds SOMOS UNIDOS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STINSON BEACH VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Peoria Riverfront Museum ↗
- Who funds GPII FOUNDATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds EAT LEARN PLAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EVERY MOTHER COUNTS ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds Harper For Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS - ARTS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FAMILY HOUSE INC ↗
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.
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
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 McKinnon Family 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.
- Children's Learning Centers of Fairfield County Inc — 36% of income from government
- Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc — 8% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
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.
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