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The Mackenzie Foundation at a glance

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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.

$20k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$65kCommunity Improvement$13kCrime & Legal$9kHuman Services$8kPhilanthropy$6kPublic Benefit$5kCivil Rights$4kReligion$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$298k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INDIANA LEGAL SERVICES$3,000
STEPPING STONE SHELTER FOR WOMEN$3,000
FOOD BANK OF NWI$3,000
HEALTHLINC OMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION$1,000
WHISTLEBLOWER AID$1,000
PUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
ANTRIM PLAYHOUSE$1,000
THE HANGOUT ONE HAPPY PLACE$1,000
FRIENDS OF THE LP CO LIBRARY$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
RIVERTOWN FILM SOCIETY$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE HANGOUT ONE HAPPY PLACE: $1k → 6%COMMUNITY CRISIS SVCS & FOOD BANK: $4k → 15%STEPPING STONE SHELTER FOR WOMEN: $3k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$86k · 6 repeat orgs$49k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
8

Total granted

$86k
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+16%

Still filing today

67%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
Crime & LegalHuman ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHealthPublic BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • IO
    INSIDE OUT REENTRY INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $6k · revenue +51%
  • FCNL EDUCATION FUND
    2× · 2018–2024 · $5k · revenue +24%
  • JG
    JAMES GANG
    2× · 2020–2021 · $4k · revenue +492%

Funded once

  • OC
    OWEESTA CORPORATION
    one grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue +16%
  • UF
    UNITY FOUNDATION OF LAPORTE
    one grant, 2024 · $6k
  • UU
    UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CONGREGATION
    one grant, 2019 · $4k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Women Winning

To encourage, promote, support, and elect pro-choice women of all political parties to all levels of public office in minnesota.

Public Benefit
2
American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa

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…

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3
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Iowa

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…

Civil Rights
4
The Indiana Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc

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.

Civil Rights
5
Women's Law Project

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…

Civil Rights
6
Battered Women's Legal Advocacy Project

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…

Crime & Legal
7
Independent Women's Voice

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.

Civil Rights
8
Women's Center and Shelter Civil Law Project

To provide civil legal services to women in crisis.

Human Services
9
Women's Care Center Inc

Offer life-affirming choices for pregnancy and sexual health.

Health
10
Colorado Jobs With Justice Inc

Advance workers rights & social justice through building sustained relationships and taking direct action to create concrete change in the lives of working families

Employment
11
Informed Choice of Iowa Corporation

Turn fear into confidence by meeting the real needs of women and men and providing strength for life's tough choices.

Health
12
The Human Choice of Iowa

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…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Indiana Civil Liberties Union of Indiana Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 27 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITY FOUNDATION INC: $63,206 · OtherUNITY FOUNDATION INCUNITY FOUNDATION OF LAPORTE: $5,500 · OtherUNITY FOUNDATION OF LAPORTEUNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CONGREGATION: $3,873 · OtherROTARY DISTRICT 6000 HEF: $3,810 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $3,500 · Other+10 more: $15,091 · Other+10 moreINSIDE OUT REENTRY INC: $6,393 · Crime & LegalINSIDE OUT…SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $3,181 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN P…Indiana Legal Services Inc: $3,000 · Crime & LegalIndiana Le…COMMUNITY CRISIS SERVICES AND FOOD BANK: $3,872 · Human ServicesSTEPPING STONE SHELTER FOR WOMEN INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesHANGOUT ONE HAPPY PLACE INCORPORATED: $1,000 · Human ServicesOWEESTA CORPORATION: $5,500 · Community ImprovementFCNL EDUCATION FUND: $5,310 · Public BenefitJAMES GANG: $4,052 · Arts & CultureRIVERTOWN FILM SOCIETY INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureWOMEN'S CARE CENTER INC: $2,750 · HealthVALUES UNITED: $1,000 · Education
Other$94,980Crime & Legal$12,574Human Services$7,872Community Improvement$5,500Public Benefit$5,310Arts & Culture$5,052Health$2,750Education$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINSIDE OUT REENTRY INC: $6,393 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetOWEESTA CORPORATION: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFCNL EDUCATION FUND: $5,310 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJAMES GANG: $4,052 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY CRISIS SERVICES AND FOOD BANK: $3,872 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $3,181 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPPING STONE SHELTER FOR WOMEN INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWOMEN'S CARE CENTER INC: $2,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMENS HEALTH PROJECT INC: $2,341 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINDIANA CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF INDIANA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHANGOUT ONE HAPPY PLACE INCORPORATED: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budget
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.

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.

Community Foundation …ImpactassetsincVanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation of Johnson CountyIA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Mackenzie Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mackenzie Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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