· Private foundation
The Mackenzie 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INDIANA LEGAL SERVICES | $3,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF NWI | $3,000 |
| STEPPING STONE SHELTER FOR WOMEN | $3,000 |
| HEALTHLINC OMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER | $1,000 |
| THE HANGOUT ONE HAPPY PLACE | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| WHISTLEBLOWER AID | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| ANTRIM PLAYHOUSE | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE LP CO LIBRARY | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION | $1,000 |
| PUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| RIVERTOWN FILM SOCIETY | $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 (FY19–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 87% 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.
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 +51% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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
- IOINSIDE OUT REENTRY INC3× · 2020–2022 · $6k · revenue +51%
FCNL EDUCATION FUND2× · 2018–2024 · $5k · revenue +24%- JGJAMES GANG2× · 2020–2021 · $4k · revenue +492%
Funded once
- OCOWEESTA CORPORATIONone grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue +16%
- UFUNITY FOUNDATION OF LAPORTEone grant, 2024 · $6k
- UUUNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CONGREGATIONone grant, 2019 · $4k
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.
To encourage, promote, support, and elect pro-choice women of all political parties to all levels of public office in minnesota.
The union works to advocate and advance a public policy agenda to support and protect the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of iowa. it works to maintain throughout the united states the rights of free…
The foundation works to defend and promote the constitution of the united states, focusing especially on the first, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, and 14th amendments. the foundation also works to defend and promote the constitution of the…
The american civil liberties union of indiana seeks to promote, protect, and defend the rights, liberties, and freedoms guaranteed to all people in our state by the united states and indiana constitutions.
Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…
To promote justice for domestic and sexual violence victims--standpoint achieves its mission by advocating for system change, for secure access to justice for all, and to improve the legal system's response to domestic and sexual violence…
Engage more individuals in legislative advocacy, educate them about the impact of public policies on their lives and our economy, and build support for policies that empower individuals by giving them greater freedom and autonomy.
To provide civil legal services to women in crisis.
Offer life-affirming choices for pregnancy and sexual health.
Advance workers rights & social justice through building sustained relationships and taking direct action to create concrete change in the lives of working families
Turn fear into confidence by meeting the real needs of women and men and providing strength for life's tough choices.
Mission is to provide women facing an unplanned pregnancy with truthful medical information and education. we are faith-based with a mission to encourage, through education and outreach, the recognition of human life from the moment of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Indiana Civil Liberties Union of Indiana Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rivertown Film Society Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 27 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 INSIDE OUT REENTRY INC ↗
- Who funds OWEESTA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FCNL EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds JAMES GANG ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CRISIS SERVICES AND FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds STEPPING STONE SHELTER FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds Indiana Legal Services Inc ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WOMENS HEALTH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERTOWN FILM SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds VALUES UNITED ↗
- Who funds HANGOUT ONE HAPPY PLACE INCORPORATED ↗
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: Community Foundation of Johnson County · Impactassetsinc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 The Mackenzie 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.