· Private foundation
The McKenna Family 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 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 $10k7 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHORE MEDICAL HEALTH FUND | $20,000 |
| NAVIVITY PREP SCHOOL OF WILMINGTON | $5,000 |
| LASALLE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| FRACTURED ATLAS - THE CO-CONSPIRATI | $4,000 |
| OBLATE DEVELOPMENT FUND | $1,000 |
| SOUTH JERSEY CATHOLIC MINISTRIES | $550 |
| SISTERS OF THE HOLY FAMILY NAZARETH | $425 |
| NORTHEAST CATHOLIC ALUMNI MEM SCHOL | $60 |
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 (FY19–21, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% 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.
26 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 1 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LSLA SALLE UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $68k · revenue -40%
- TJTHOMAS JEFFERSON HOSPITAL6× · 2017–2022 · $60k
- SMSHORE MEDICAL HEALTH FUND3× · 2023–2025 · $24k
Funded once
- CFCCHM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $25k
- SJST JOSEPHS INDIAN SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $9k
- DVDelaware Valley Fairness Projectone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue -68%
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.
Provision of charitable healthcare services
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Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.
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…
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Georgian court university (gcu), provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and is open to students of all faiths, delivers a curriculum that promotes scholarship, service, and personal development.
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How this is measured
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 57 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 LA SALLE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds Hands Together Inc ↗
- Who funds Delaware Valley Fairness Project ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CITY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds OPERATION 300 INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN R ELLIOTT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE WASHINGTON DC ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds BLOSSOM PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds WOMENS GLOBAL EDUCATION PROJECT ↗
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: Connelly Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 McKenna Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The McKenna Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Food Bank of South Jersey Inc: 30% of income from government
How this is measured
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