Does Robert H McKee and Mary Ellen McKee Charitable Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Robert H McKee and Mary Ellen McKee Charitable Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arizona Community Foundation, Moreno Family Foundation, Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust.

Robert H McKee and Mary Ellen McKee Charitable Family Foundation

Robert H McKee and Mary Ellen McKee Charitable Family Foundation at a glance

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Robert H McKee and Mary Ellen McKee Charitable Family Foundation

Q: What does Robert H McKee and Mary Ellen McKee Charitable Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (34%), Health (30%), Youth Development (13%).

Q: Who are Robert H McKee and Mary Ellen McKee Charitable Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Heard Museum ($349k), Boys & Girls Club of Greater Scottsdale Inc ($134k), Valley Presbyterian Church ($133k).

Q: Does Robert H McKee and Mary Ellen McKee Charitable Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

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.

$188k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$75k

Largest

01What it funds

0192% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$399kHealth$344kYouth Development$150kReligion$140kPublic Benefit$57kHuman Services$28kAnimals$19kInternational$10kOther$0

02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k7 grants · $9k
$10k–50k4 grants · $104k
$50k–250k1 grant · $75k

$3,500

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION	$75,000
THE HEARD MUSEUM	$37,818
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SCOTTSDALE	$31,000
VALLEY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH	$20,000
SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR INSTITUTE	$15,000
PHOENIX ART MUSEUM	$3,500
TGEN FOUNDATION	$2,000
FRANCISCAN SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY	$1,000
ARIZONA WOMEN'S BOARD	$1,000
HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY	$750
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SCOTTSDALE FOUNDATION	$500
FRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION	$250

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.1M · 30 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

30 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.1M

$53k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%

+25%

Still filing today

67%

60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureAnimalsYouth DevelopmentEducationOther

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

TH
THE HEARD MUSEUM
8× · 2017–2024 · $349k · revenue +59%
BG
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SCOTTSDALE INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $134k · revenue +103%
BN
BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION
2× · 2018–2024 · $75k · revenue +9%

Funded once

US
UC SAN DIEGO - SHILEY EYE INSTITUTE
one grant, 2018 · $10k
MC
MAYO CLINIC
one grant, 2022 · $10k
CA
COWBOYS AGAINST CANCER
one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -9%

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.

Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health

Honorhealth

Honorhealth's mission is to improve the health and well-being of those we serve.

Health

Lodestar Charitable Foundation

To perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes of the arizona community foundation, an az nonprofit corporation, so long as the arizona community foundation, inc. remains a qualified organization.

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100 Club of Arizona

To provide immediate financial assistance to families of public safety officers and firefighters who are seriously injured or killed in the line of duty, and to provide resources to enhance their safety and welfare.

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American Council of Engineering Companies of Arizona

To assist member firms in achieving higher professional, ethical business and economic standards, enabling member firms to provide quality consulting and engineering services for their clients and the public.

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Arizona Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics

Azaap is committed to improving the health of arizona children and supporting the pediatric professionals who care for them.

Health

Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Foundation

Bringing together diverse voices to advance health and healthcare in arizona.

Health

Banner Alzheimer's Foundation

Established in 2006, the banner alzheimer's foundation (baf) secures and stewards charitable gifts to advance the mission of banner alzheimer's institute (bai), including groundbreaking research initiatives and pioneering prevention…

Health

Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce

Greater phoenix chamber of commerce (the chamber) catalyzes regional prosperity with forward-thinking public policy, intentional economic growth, and diverse, prepared talent.

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Banner Health Foundation

Established in 2001, banner health foundation secures and stewards charitable contributions to advance banner health's mission, investing in facilities and programs that support advancements in care, research, medical education, patient…

Health

Arizona Healthiest State Foundation

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Vitalyst Health Foundation

To connect, support and inform efforts to improve the health of individuals and communities in arizona.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice of the Valley; the most unlike its peers is The Dons of Arizona. 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

49 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 49 of the 77 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

49/49

Grantees still filing

40/49

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arts & Culture$393,748Other$394,000Youth Development$135,150Health$131,750Community Improvement$56,100Human Services$35,500Animals$19,498

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.

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.

Arizona Community FoundationAZ30.4× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Moreno Family Foundation · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Thunderbirds Charities · Lyon Dennis & Janis Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Phoenix · Livingston Foundation · Tw Lewis Foundation · The Kemper & Ethel Marley Fdn · Garcia Family Foundation · The Rob Walton Foundation · American Express Foundation

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 Robert H McKee and Mary Ellen McKee Charitable Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert H McKee and Mary Ellen McKee Charitable Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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.

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