· Private foundation
The McKeen Foundation
Its FY2025 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 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $2k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $170k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KIRK IN THE HILLS | $50,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE | $20,000 |
| PROVINCE OF ST JOSEPH OF THE | $20,000 |
| GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC | $20,000 |
| UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY INC | $10,000 |
| HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM | $10,000 |
| WILLIAM J BRENNAN JR CENTER FOR JUSTICE | $10,000 |
| EVERY MOTHER COUNTS | $10,000 |
| PRO PUBLICA INC | $10,000 |
| AUTISM ALLIANCE OF MICHIGAN | $10,000 |
| ELECTRIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| OAKLAND HOPE | $10,000 |
| PEN AMERICA | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION | $10,000 |
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 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +134% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 11 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, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUniversity of Michigan8× · 2017–2024 · $99k · revenue +202%
- PVPresbyterian Villages of Michigan5× · 2017–2024 · $18k · revenue +277%
- TVTHE VILLAGE CLUB FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $12k · revenue +134%
Funded once
- MAMANCHESTER AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $500 · revenue +32%
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.
The chamber is the voice for business and works to power the economy for southeast michigan through public policy, advocacy and leading regional economic development and talent initiatives.
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
Michigan farm bureau (mfb) is a member directed agricultural organization whose purpose is to represent, protect, and enhance the business, economic, social, and educational interests of our members located throughout the state of michigan.
See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…
Mifma supports the viability of all community-driven marketplaces so that they can connect all consumers to local farms and businesses.
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
Freedom, equality, and justicethe bill of rights declared that we have rights and liberties that the government shouldn't interfere with. rights like the freedom of speech and our right to a speedy trial that are the cornerstone of our…
The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 28 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 University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Presbyterian Villages of Michigan ↗
- Who funds HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds THE VILLAGE CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds EVERY MOTHER COUNTS ↗
- Who funds Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds AUTISM ALLIANCE OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds OAKLAND HOPE ↗
- Who funds PEN AMERICAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MATRIX THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds MANCHESTER AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
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: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The McKeen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The McKeen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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