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McKinstry Charitable Foundation
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k287 grants · $225k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $494k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $377k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Eastern Washington University Foundation | $200,000 |
| Clean Energy Transition Institute | $77,200 |
| Washington State University Foundation | $50,000 |
| PATH | $50,000 |
| University of Washington Foundation | $45,000 |
| Climate Solutions | $41,900 |
| Washington Alliance for Better Schools | $32,000 |
| Building Transparency | $30,000 |
| Spark Northwest | $26,400 |
| Seattle Childrens Foundation | $25,100 |
| Seattle Colleges Foundation | $25,000 |
| Treehouse | $21,300 |
| Groundwork Denver Incorporated | $20,600 |
| Western Washington University Foundation | $20,600 |
| Washington Stem Center | $20,400 |
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 (FY20–24, $235k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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 +23% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
264 repeat relationships — 176 still active in FY2024, 88 since wound down; 137 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k 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
- EWEastern Washington University Foundation5× · 2020–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +36%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $416k · revenue +7%
- PPATH4× · 2020–2024 · $300k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- SCSEATTLE CHILDREN HOSPITAL RESEARCHone grant, 2020 · $119k
- SFSEATTLE FOUNDATION THE PLATE FUNDone grant, 2020 · $21k
- SHSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK INLAND NWone grant, 2020 · $20k
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.
Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…
United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.
Disability rights washington's mission is to advance the dignity, equality, and self determination of people with disabilities. we work to pursue justice on matters related to human and legal rights.
To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.
Washington wild protects and restores wild lands and waters in washington state through advocacy, education and civic engagement.
Building changes advances equitable responses to homelessness in washington state, with a focus on children, youth, and families. we work at the intersection of housing, education, and health systems, partnering with communities and public…
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
Life science washington is a non-profit trade and professional association dedicated to promoting innovation and responsible growth in the life sciences and biomedical industries in the state of washington. promotion and education are…
RE Sources mobilizes people of Northwest Washington to build just and thriving communities and to protect the land, water, and climate on which we all depend.
To preserve and enhance the quality of life at home, with dignity and care.
Washington Bikes works to ensure that all who ride a bicycle in Washington have safe comfortable and convenient places to ride. Organization advocates for bicyclists rights and shapes policies.
Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Alaska & Washington and the most unlike its peers is Wa High School Equestrian Teams. 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 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
567 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. 567 of the 709 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Eastern Washington University Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE WASHINGTON STEM CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PATH ↗
- Who funds TREEHOUSE ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds Clean Energy Transition Institute ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON ALLIANCE FOR BETTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds FORTERRA NW ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE COLLEGES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD LIFELINE ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND ALUMNI ↗
- Who funds BUILDING TRANSPARENCY ↗
- Who funds MARY'S PLACE SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPARK NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds GROUNDWORK DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds KINDERING CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMARA ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VANESSA BEHAN ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Seattle Children's Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds BYRD BARR PLACE ↗
- Who funds Oregon Tradeswomen Inc ↗
- Who funds APPRENTICESHIP AND NONTRADITIONAL EMPLOYMENT FOR WOMEN ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA SLOUGH WATERSHED COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds SPOKANE NEIGHBORHOOD ACTION PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds YOUTHCARE ↗
- Who funds IMAGINE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition - TAG ↗
- Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR LEARNING ↗
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: Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · Medina Foundation · Seattle Foundation · United Way of King County · Lucky Seven Foundation · Garneau Nicon Family Foundation · Windermere Foundation · Grousemont Foundation · Glassybaby White Light Fund
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 McKinstry Charitable 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.
- Oregon Tradeswomen Inc — 46% of income from government
- Project 48 Inc — 23% of income from government
- Epilepsy Foundation of America — 22% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- Reach Community Development Inc — 18% of income from government
- Columbia Slough Watershed Council Inc — 11% of income from government
- Girls Inc of the Pacific Northwest — 4% of income from government
- Pdx Diaper Bank — 2% of income from government
- The Oregon Community Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 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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