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Rob & Ann McKee Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$204k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$62k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$474kPhilanthropy$144kEducation$129kYouth Development$97kHealth$77kRecreation & Sports$61kAnimals$58kReligion$11kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $63k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $116k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREEN BERET FOUNDATION$62,351
WARRIORS AND QUIET WATERS$54,000
KODIAK CARES FOUNDATION$13,000
RUBY'S HOME FOR GOOD$10,000
MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER$10,000
CBR YOUTH CONNECT$10,000
WHO RESCUED WHO ANIMAL RESCUE$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION$7,500
TOOLBOX MINISTRIES$7,500
HOPE FAMILY CARE MINISTRIES INC$2,500
GATHER$2,500
CY-FAIR EDUCATION FOUNDATION$2,000
FRIENDS OF TEXAS WILDLIFE$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $515k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $15k → 11%THE GREEN BERET FOUNDATION: $78k → 16%SPECIAL OPERATIONS CARE FUND INC: $5k → 13%GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $15k → 11%THE GREEN BERET FOUNDATION: $65k → 16%GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $8k → 11%GREEN BERET FOUNDATION: $62k → 16%GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $8k → 11%THE GREEN BERET FOUNDATION: $57k → 16%GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $5k → 11%THE GREEN BERET FOUNDATION: $57k → 16%GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $5k → 11%THE GREEN BERET FOUNDATION: $40k → 16%GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $5k → 11%THE GREEN BERET FOUNDATION: $25k → 16%GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $5k → 11%THE GREEN BERET FOUNDATION: $15k → 16%SAILING ANGELS FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%SAILING ANGELS FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%SAILING ANGELS FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%NORTHWEST ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $16k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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MI
NY
WY
CO
MD
NC
OK
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 20 repeat orgs$125k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against -7% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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Total granted

$1.1M
$113k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
-7%

Still filing today

55%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyEducationRecreation & SportsReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • GB
    GREEN BERET FOUNDATION
    8× · 2018–2025 · $400k · revenue +72%
  • TG
    THE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $65k · revenue +22%
  • BB
    BARBARA BUSH HOUSTON LITERACY FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $65k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • JW
    JJ WATT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • FO
    FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +204%
  • NA
    NORTHWEST ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2017 · $16k · revenue -23%
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.

04Its field

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.

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First Nature Foundation Inc Kerul Kassel

At first nature foundation, our mission is to help program participants grow their emotional resilience, self-confidence, and self-awareness, by partnering with nature and our wise herd of horses, who help facilitate these outcomes. at our…

Human Services
2
Lead the Way Fund Inc

Army ranger lead the way fund is an active duty, casualty assistance, recovery, transition and veterans organization that provides financial support to u.s. army rangers and the families of those who have died, have been disabled or who…

Human Services
3
Frontline to Field Foundation

Frontline to field is a nonprofit organization founded from the hearts of two individuals deeply committed to the well-being of those who serve and sacrifice for others. inspired by their personal connections to the military, first…

Recreation & Sports
4
Aerial Recovery

Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…

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5
Tbi Warrior Foundation

Provide education, support and resources to the community at large: U.S. Armed Forces Service Members, Veterans, non-military and non-veteran people with disabilities, their families and caregivers, with special emphasis on brain…

Education
6
Pathways Youth and Family Services Inc

Pathways' mission is: transforming lives, families and communities.

Human Services
7
Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors Inc

The tragedy assistance program for survivors (taps) is america's national nonprofit organization that has cared for the loved ones of our nation's fallen heroes since 1994. taps ensures these living legacies of service and sacrifice do not…

Health
8
Wheelchairs for Warriors

Wheelchairs for warriors designs, builds, and delivers custom-fit, complex-rehab mobility solutions to veterans and first responders injured in the line of duty

Human Services
9
Texas Wounded Warriors

The mission of the texas wounded warrior foundation is to raise awareness, to honor, and to empower our wounded united state military warriors, enabling them to assimilate back to daily life upon their return from combat. we seek to…

Public Benefit
10
Homes for Families

Homes 4 families' mission is to build resiliency, economic growth, neighborhoods, and homes for veterans and their families.

Housing & Shelter
11
Building Homes for Heroes Inc

Building homes for heroes is determined and devoted to bringing renewed hope to our nation's injured veterans, first responders and their families. the organization builds or modifies homes, and gifts them, mortgage-free, to injured…

Housing & Shelter
12
Hope for the Warriors

The mission of the Hope For The Warriors is to enhance the quality of life for United States Service Members and their families who have been adversely affected by injuries or death in the line of duty. See Schedule O for continuation

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Green Beret Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 33 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
12/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GREEN BERET FOUNDATION: $399,543 · Human ServicesGREEN BERET FOUNDATIONTHE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $65,200 · Human ServicesTHE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTIONSAILING ANGELS FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesSAILING ANGELS FOUNDATION INC+3 more: $28,500 · Human Services+3 moreCBR YOUTHCONNECT: $75,000 · OtherCBR YOUTHCONNECTWHO RESCUED WHO ANIMAL RESCUE: $67,500 · OtherWHO RESCUED WHO ANIMAL RESCUEMD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $65,000 · OtherMD ANDERSON CANCER CENTERGWOT MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherGWOT MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONJJ WATT FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherJJ WATT FOUNDATIONKODIAK CARES FOUNDATION: $36,500 · OtherKODIAK CARES FOUNDATIONKLEIN OAK HIGH SCHOOL CARES: $25,000 · OtherKLEIN OAK HIGH SCHOOL CARESGATHER: $17,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · Other+7 more: $16,500 · OtherWARRIORS & QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 · HealthWARRIORS & Q…BREAKTHROUGH T1D: $24,500 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH…HOPE FAMILY CARE MINISTRIES INC: $17,500 · HealthHOPE FAMILY …Halo House Foundation: $5,000 · HealthBARBARA BUSH HOUSTON LITERACY FOUNDATION: $65,200 · PhilanthropyAdvantage Heroes Inc: $30,925 · PhilanthropyFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationCY-FAIR EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationHouston Golf Association Youth Program Inc dba First Tee of Greater Houston: $30,000 · Recreation & SportsSpringSpirit Inc: $2,000 · Recreation & SportsTOOLBOX MINISTRIES INC: $18,500 · Religion
Human Services$523,243Other$418,000Health$137,000Philanthropy$96,125Education$40,000Recreation & Sports$32,000Religion$18,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGREEN BERET FOUNDATION: $399,543 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetWARRIORS & QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $65,200 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetBARBARA BUSH HOUSTON LITERACY FOUNDATION: $65,200 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetAdvantage Heroes Inc: $30,925 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $24,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTOOLBOX MINISTRIES INC: $18,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHOPE FAMILY CARE MINISTRIES INC: $17,500 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetNORTHWEST ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $15,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCY-FAIR EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetRuby's Home for Good: $10,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetHOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHalo House Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSpringSpirit Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ENTRY SERVICES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAfrica Community Transformation Services: $1,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budget
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 GREEN BERET FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WARRIORS & QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION ↗
  • Who funds BARBARA BUSH HOUSTON LITERACY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Advantage Heroes Inc ↗
  • Who funds SAILING ANGELS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Houston Golf Association Youth Program Inc dba First Tee of Greater Houston ↗
  • Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
  • Who funds TOOLBOX MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE FAMILY CARE MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds CY-FAIR EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Ruby's Home for Good ↗
  • Who funds HOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Halo House Foundation ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OPERATIONS CARE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds SpringSpirit Inc ↗
  • Who funds Friends of Texas Wildlife ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ENTRY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds Africa Community Transformation Services ↗

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.

Shell USA Company FoundationTX18.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · Strake Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Rob & Ann McKee Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rob & Ann McKee Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Rob & Ann McKee Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Rob & Ann McKee 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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