· Private foundation
The Mackey Family Charitable Trust
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 FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k8 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $73k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOUNDATION FOR IUP | $47,455 |
| FRIENDS OF ROSE HILL CEMETERY | $25,479 |
| VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS | $5,017 |
| VFW POST 1989 INDIAN SPRINGS | $3,000 |
| INDIANA COUNTY K-9 UNIT | $2,500 |
| LEWISBURG AREA HIGH SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| NEW HOPE ASSISTANCE DOGS INC | $2,500 |
| AMERICA'S VET DOGS | $250 |
| BREAD FOR THE WORLD | $250 |
| NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION | $250 |
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 (FY18–19, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
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.
4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2019, 0 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (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 FY2019, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
- TFTHE FOUNDATION FOR INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA2× · 2018–2019 · $99k · revenue -49%
- LALEWISBURG AREA HIGH SCHOOL2× · 2018–2019 · $4k
- NHNEW HOPE ASSISTANCE DOGS INC2× · 2018–2019 · $3k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- PSPENN STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $50k
- TAThe AKC Humane Fund Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $500 · revenue +217%
- GPGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOODone grant, 2018 · $500
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.
The mission of the akc canine health foundation, inc. is to fund, advance, and communicate canine health research and science through knowledge and discovery.
To train and provide service dogs of the highest quality at no cost to disabled american veterans and others with mobile disabilities in order to help restore their physical and emotional independence.
At Hope for China Dogs, we are committed to combating the cruel and inhumane practice of the dog meat trade in China. We believe that every dog deserves to live a life free from pain and suffering, and we are dedicated to rescuing and…
To champion public awareness of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and challenges confronting our countrys heroes and rally support for shelter animal adoption by connecting heroes and companions.
The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…
Puppies behind bars trains incarcerated individuals to raise service dogs for wounded war veterans and first responders, facility dogs for police departments, and explosive-detecton canines for law enforcement.
The guide dog foundation for the blind, inc. provides guide and service dogs free of charge to provide increased independence, enhanced mobility, and companionship to people who are blind, visually impaired or have other disablities. the…
To pass animal protection laws, educate the public, and support humane candidates for office.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Akc Humane Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bread for the World Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 16 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 THE FOUNDATION FOR INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA (IUP) ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE ASSISTANCE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds The AKC Humane Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds ALICE PAUL HOUSE ↗
- Who funds American Kennel Club Companion Animal Recovery Corporation ↗
- Who funds Bread For The World Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
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.
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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 Mackey Family Charitable Trust 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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