· Private foundation
McKinnon Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 7% of McKinnon Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 7% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 4%.
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 +20% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
68 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. 68 of the 107 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.
- 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 EAT LEARN PLAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EVERY MOTHER COUNTS ↗
- Who funds GPII FOUNDATION CORPORATION ↗
- 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization McKinnon Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McKinnon Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to McKinnon Family Foundation?
Find your warmest path to McKinnon Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.
Play a game based on McKinnon Family’s filings →