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Stephen J McKee 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $69k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $37,500 |
| UNITY HOUSE | $16,000 |
| THE JUSTICE CENTER OF RENSSELAER COUNTY | $15,000 |
| OAKWOOD CEMETERY | $3,500 |
| TAUM | $3,000 |
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| VANDERHEYDEN HALL | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,550 |
| ST ANTHONY OF PADUA | $1,150 |
| SEAT CENTER | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF PROSPECT PARK | $1,000 |
| NAACP FREEDOM FUND | $1,000 |
| BREUKELEIN INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
| JOSEPH'S HOUSE | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 +34% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 7 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- DUDESALES UNIVERSITY5× · 2018–2022 · $200k · revenue +34%
- TATROY AREA UNITED MINISTRIES INC5× · 2018–2022 · $33k · revenue +28%
- CFCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION2× · 2018–2020 · $30k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $100k
- COCOMMISSION ON ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY OF LUZERNE COUNTYone grant, 2023 · $55k · revenue -28%
- TCTHE CENTER FOR LAW & JUSTICE INCone grant, 2020 · $35k · revenue -69% · 27% of their budget
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.
The troy community land bank acquires, rehabilitates and resells vacant and abandoned buildings throughout the city of troy, new york
Food bank of central new york is a not-for-profit organization: our mission is to lead the effort to eliminate hunger in our region, through partnerships with others in our community, through education, advocacy, and distribution of…
A pioneering advocate for cultural equity, the bronx council on the arts nurtures the development of diverse artists and arts organizations and build strong cultural connections in and beyond the bronx.
Ccr is a non-profit legal and educational organization dedicated to advancing and protecting the rights guaranteed by the united states constitution the universal declaration of human rights. ccr stands with social justice movements…
Accelerate economic opportunity in albany/ny's capital region by developing and implementing strategies to attract, expand, and create businesses and jobs, and provide catalytic leadership, working with partners and stakeholders to shape a…
To manage the brooklyn navy yard for the city of new york, specifically to expand job opportunities for new yorkers by fostering the development of small businesses.
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
Our mission is to foster a thriving and equitable central new york region by leading and inspiring a community culture of giving, celebrating legacy and stewarding charitable resources for today and tomorrow.
Spark lasting social justice change, mobilizing people, capital, & expertise for a fair brooklyn.
The mission of capitalize albany corporation is to facilitate strategic economic development and stimulate transformative investment throughout the city of albany, making new york's capital a vibrant place to thrive.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To create, enhance, and promote a downtown experience that is welcoming, fun, and livable.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Addictions Care Center of Albany Inc and the most unlike its peers is Breukelein Institute. 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 54 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 35% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 81 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
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.
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- Who funds THE CENTER FOR LAW & JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds TROY AREA UNITED MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TROY LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Friends of Turkana Inc CO MR JAMES LAUGHLIN ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARTS CENTER OF THE CAPITAL REGION ↗
- Who funds BREUKELEIN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL ENTERPRISE AND TRAINING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OAKWOOD COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TROY SAVINGS BANK MUSIC HALL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds OAKWOOD CEMETERY INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL ROOTS INC ↗
- Who funds VANDERHEYDEN HALL INC ↗
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: The McCarthy Charities Inc · The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · The Troy Savings Bank Charitable Fo · The Howard and Bush Foundation Inc · Kiwi Foundation · Capital District Physicians' Health Plan Inc · Pioneer Bank Charitable Foundation · Troy Redevelopment Foundation Inc · The Bender Family Foundation · United Way of the Greater Capital Region · Ge Aerospace Foundation
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 Stephen J McKee 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.
- Epilepsy Foundation of America — 22% of income from government
- Bennington College Corporation — 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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