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Scott R Mackenzie Foundation Inc at a glance

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Scott R Mackenzie Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$961k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$450k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Health$3.2MScience & Tech$3.1MEducation$2.0M
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k4 grants · $511k
  • $250k+1 grant · $450k
$149,345
Median grant
3
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOUNT DESERT ISLAND BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY$450,000
HMH HOSPITALS CORPORATION$150,000
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION$149,345
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION$125,000
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE$86,571
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $175k → 15%ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND: $149k → 17%MAYO CLINIC: $250k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $87k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION: $125k → 19%THE JACKSON LABORATORY: $330k → 11%EMORY UNIVERSITY GRANTS: $250k → 14%CINCINNATI CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $350k → 16%HMH HOSPITALS CORPORATION: $150k → 8%MOUNT DESERT ISLAND BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY: $450k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $175k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA: $128k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $78k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION: $50k → 19%THE JACKSON LABORATORY: $308k → 11%HMH HOSPITALS CORPORATION: $150k → 8%MOUNT DESERT ISLAND BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY: $450k → 11%MAYO CLINIC: $61k → 14%THE JACKSON LABORATORY: $282k → 11%MOUNT DESERT ISLAND BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY: $450k → 11%MAYO CLINIC: $33k → 14%THE JACKSON LABORATORY: $280k → 11%MOUNT DESERT ISLAND BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY: $400k → 11%MAYO CLINIC: $10k → 14%MDI BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY: $400k → 11%MDI BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY: $350k → 11%MDI BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY: $337k → 11%THE JACKSON LABORATORY: $135k → 11%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

ME
NY
OH
NJ
CT
AZ
GA
FL
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.0M · 8 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
5

Total granted

$7.0M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+27%

Still filing today

38%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationScience & TechOther
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

  • MD
    Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.8M · revenue -6%
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +56%
  • TJ
    THE JACKSON LABORATORY
    3× · 2017–2022 · $1.3M · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • FI
    FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2020 · $350k
  • CC
    CINCINNATI CANCER FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $350k · revenue +75%
  • EU
    Emory University
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +16%
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/7
Grantees still filing
5/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MDI BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY: $1,086,691 · OtherMDI BIOLOGICAL LABORATORYMAYO CLINIC: $353,203 · OtherMAYO CLINICUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $350,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONAFLORIDA INTERNATIONAL: $350,000 · OtherFLORIDA INTERNATIONALUNIVERSITY OF MIAMI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $164,516 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MIAMI COLLEGE OF MEDI…ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC: $148,500 · OtherISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INCUNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA: $128,449 · OtherTHE JACKSON LABORATORY: $1,334,500 · HealthTHE JACKSON LABORATORYCINCINNATI CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $350,000 · HealthCINCINNATI CANCER FOUNDATIO…HMH HOSPITALS CORPORATION: $300,000 · HealthHMH HOSPITALS CORPORATIONTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $1,707,132 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA …Emory University: $250,000 · EducationEmory UniversityMount Desert Island Biological Laboratory: $1,750,000 · Science & TechMount Desert Island Bio…
Other$2,581,359Health$1,984,500Education$1,957,132Science & Tech$1,750,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMount Desert Island Biological Laboratory: $1,750,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $1,707,132 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTHE JACKSON LABORATORY: $1,334,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCINCINNATI CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $350,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetEmory University: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC: $148,500 over 1y, 2.1% 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 Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE JACKSON LABORATORY ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HMH HOSPITALS CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Emory University ↗
  • Who funds ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Scott R Mackenzie Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Scott R Mackenzie Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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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    Find your warmest path to Scott R Mackenzie Foundation Inc 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 13 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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