· Private foundation
The Harold and Judy McKonly 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
58% of The Harold and Judy McKonly Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 11 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year The Harold and Judy McKonly Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $695k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k15 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $250k+1 grant · $625k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRUSTEES OF THE UNIV OF PENNSYL | $625,000 |
| FLORIDA KEYS SPCA | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| RAVEN RIDGE WILDLIFE REFUGE | $5,000 |
| GULF COAST HUMANE SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| CLINIC FOR THE REHABIL OF WILDLIFE | $5,000 |
| HELEN KRAUSE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| LEO'S HELPING PAWS | $4,000 |
| SEBASTIAN FOUND FOR ANIMAL RESCUE | $2,000 |
| 2ND CHANCE 4 LIFE RESCUE | $2,000 |
| SAVE OUR KEY DEER INC | $2,000 |
| DOLPHIN RESCUE CENTER | $2,000 |
| ACORN ACRES WILDLIFE REHABILITATION | $2,000 |
| TURTLE HOSPITAL | $2,000 |
| HEART OF RHODE ISLAND ANIMAL RESCUE | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 43% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2022, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FKFLORIDA KEYS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $165k · revenue +97%
- LHLEO'S HELPING PAWS INC7× · 2019–2025 · $26k · revenue +66%
- GCGULF COAST HUMANE SOCIETY INC4× · 2022–2025 · $18k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- GRGHANDIS REFUGE ANIMAL RESCUEone grant, 2018 · $2k
- SFSEBASTIAN FOUNDATION FOR ANIMALRESCUEone grant, 2021 · $2k
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.
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.
Survivors Paws Animal Rescue Inc rescues dogs and cats from southern state kill shelters and off the streets to save them being euthanized. We also help contract by the pet population by spaying and neutering and educating the public on…
Find homes for homeless/abandoned dogs. Provide full vet car and housing while awaiting adoption,
To help injured, abandoned and unwanted animals. We provide food, vet care that includes heartworm prevention and spay or neuter services, shelter and anything else needed.
To help rescue unwanted pets
For our community we provide high quality low cost spay and neuter services as well as low cost vaccinations. we do have programs that allows us to help the families that have pets but are in financial strain and not able to have their…
The mission is to protect and care for homeless animals in the Dillon and Beaverhead county area.
we are a small animal rescue. We help the community by assisting with vet care and rehoming animals they cannot keep. We also pull dogs cats kittens and puppies from local kill shelters when they run out of space, we provide those animals…
The organization seeks to reduce the unecessary killing and suffering of healthy adoptable dogs at animal rescue and shelter organizations
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 30 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds COLUMBIA ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA KEYS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds LEO'S HELPING PAWS INC ↗
- Who funds GULF COAST HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CLINIC FOR THE REHABILITATION OF WILDLIFE INC ↗
- Who funds 2ND CHANCE 4 LIFE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds ACORN ACRES WILDLIFE REHABILITATION ↗
- Who funds Brother Wolf Animal Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS FOR ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds PA PETS INC ↗
- Who funds SKIP PROGRAM ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Lancaster County Community Foundation · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Harold and Judy McKonly Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Harold and Judy McKonly Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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