· Private foundation
The MacKenzie Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $180k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $195k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHRIST CHURCH OF OAK BROOK | $125,000 |
| GREEN LAKE ASSOCIATION | $70,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE FOUNDATION | $34,500 |
| CHICAGO FELLOWSHIP | $26,400 |
| SUNSHINE GOSPEL MINISTRIES | $20,000 |
| BY THE HAND | $20,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTISTRIES | $20,000 |
| ROCKFORD CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS | $19,000 |
| GREEN LAKE RENEWAL | $10,000 |
| GO CHURCH | $10,000 |
| HOPE INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
| CHICAGO HOPE ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| Caddie & Leadership Academy | $5,500 |
| BRIDGE COMMUNITIES | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 +62% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 6 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
- BUBREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC6× · 2019–2024 · $230k · revenue +139%
- SGSUNSHINE GOSPEL MINISTRIES6× · 2019–2024 · $98k · revenue +20%
- GLGREEN LAKE ASSOCIATION INC3× · 2020–2024 · $85k · revenue +425%
Funded once
- NANORTH AUSTIN COMMUNITY CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue ×19
- ALAGC LTDone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -66%
- MOMUSEUM OF THE BIBLEone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -54%
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.
Arise chicago builds partnerships between faith communities and workers to fight workplace injustice through education, organizing, and advocating for public policy changes.
Thrive chicago's mission is to prepare chicago's youth for a vibrant future by aligning efforts and outcomes from cradle to career.
To promote healing and wholeness through professional counseling, consultation and education from a Christian perspective
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Provide Charlotte's low-income children and youth with the academic, spiritual, and social development necessary to become Christian leaders determined to restore their communities.
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
To develop youth servant leaders who will share the message of jesus christ with their peers.
Crln builds partnerships among social movements and organized communities within and between the u.s. and latin america. we are united by our liberating faiths and inspired by the power of people to find allies to work for sustainable…
Our vision is to empower urban youth to transform their communities for christ through a combination of community based education programs. we send a second shift of educators to teach and mentor urban youth.
The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…
Empowering a diverse community, united by christ, to achieve excellence in education for the flourishing of all creation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Together Chicago Inc and the most unlike its peers is Young Athletes With Hope Nfp. 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 28 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 62 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.
- Who funds NORTH AUSTIN COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE GOSPEL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds GREEN LAKE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds By The Hand Club For Kids ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Intentional Sports ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HOPE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds AGC LTD ↗
- Who funds HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds ALL GOD'S CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Green Lake Renewal Inc ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago ↗
- Who funds GRIP OUTREACH FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS ACROSS AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds THE FIRST TEE OF CHICAGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FLORESTA USA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE URBAN MINISTRIES ↗
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 Code Family Foundation · Hallene Family Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Servant Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Andersen-Formolo Family Foundation · Kehe Cares Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Baird Foundation Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The US Charitable Gift Trust
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 The MacKenzie Family 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.
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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