· Private foundation
The MacKenzie Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| BREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTISTRIES | $20,000 |
| SUNSHINE GOSPEL MINISTRIES | $20,000 |
| BY THE HAND | $20,000 |
| ROCKFORD CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS | $19,000 |
| GREEN LAKE RENEWAL | $10,000 |
| HOPE INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
| GO CHURCH | $10,000 |
| CHICAGO HOPE ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| Caddie & Leadership Academy | $5,500 |
| DM STEARNS MISSIONARY FUND INC | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +20% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
35 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. 35 of the 62 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 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 MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE ↗
- Who funds Green Lake Renewal Inc ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago ↗
- Who funds GRIP OUTREACH FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds KIDS ACROSS AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE FIRST TEE OF CHICAGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE URBAN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds FLORESTA USA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD CHRISTIAN EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Metanoia Ukraine ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The MacKenzie Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The MacKenzie Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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