· Private foundation
The McKinney Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $257k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SIDEWALK | $42,500 |
| EMPOWER COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| MITCHELL'S PLACE | $25,000 |
| UNITED WAY | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| BIG CITY MOUNTAINEERS | $15,000 |
| A PLUS EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| WOMENS FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $14,000 |
| BIRMINGHAM MUSEUM OF ART | $10,000 |
| ALABAMA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $10,000 |
| KULTURE CITY | $10,000 |
| RED MOUNTAIN THEATER | $10,000 |
| UAB VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS | $10,000 |
| PENNY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +83% since the first grant, against -99% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k 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
- ESEMPOWER SCHOOLS OF ALABAMA3× · 2022–2024 · $110k · revenue +312%
- MPMITCHELL'S PLACE INC4× · 2021–2024 · $105k · revenue +30%
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC3× · 2021–2024 · $60k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BIRMINGHAMone grant, 2022 · $50k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $15k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMAone grant, 2022 · $15k
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.
Breakthrough Birmingham works with highly motivated, traditionally underrepresented students in Alabama to achieve post-secondary success while empowering aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educators and advocates.
Innovate birmingham is a nonprofit organization working to promote economic mobility and fill the tech talent gap in central alabama.
To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of the community
To partner with higher-education and faith-based organizations to strengthen awareness about poverty and its causes while advocating for fact-based policy decisions statewide.
Our mission is to empower people across Birmingham through community education and organizing, ensuring neighborhoods have direct and democratic control over local resources and municipal spending while holding our government accountable…
To provide treatment and rehabilitative services for juveniles and adults in alabama through contracts primarily with the alabama department of youth services and the alabama department of mental health.
The mission of united way of west alabama is to promote the general welfare of the citizens of west alabama by: raising funds, on an annual basis, to assist the effective delivery of health and human care programs and services, allocating…
Provide year-round sports training & athletic competition in a variety of olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage,…
Empower youth to step out of generational poverty and tackle urban blight by earning the education, workforce skills, and multi-family homeownership to collectively lead long-term community revitalization.
The arc of alabama provides services to aid individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities in the state of alabama.
To work in partnership with families and organizations to ensure that all alabama children (birth to five) get everything they need to develop to their fullest potential.
To assist all persons, particularly minorities and the economicallydisadvantaged, in the achievement of social and economic equality,implementing program services in the areas of employment education, housingand youth services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youthserve Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sidewalk. 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 29 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 EMPOWER SCHOOLS OF ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds MITCHELL'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds Sidewalk ↗
- Who funds KultureCity ↗
- Who funds YOUTHSERVE INC ↗
- Who funds RYKERS RAINBOW ↗
- Who funds THE RED BARN ↗
- Who funds BIG CITY MOUNTAINEERS ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds Birmingham Promise Inc ↗
- Who funds UNLESS U INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDING PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE PENNY 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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Protective Life Foundation · Altecstyslinger Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Hugh Kaul Foundation · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · The Hackney Foundation · Better Place Foundation · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 McKinney 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.