Alabama · Private foundation
The McKinney 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.
- $232k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $14,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 18
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations The McKinney Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 17 | $232k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $264k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $232k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $289k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $180k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Empower Schools of Alabama | $150,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Mitchell's Place Inc | $130,000 | 5 | 1% |
| United Way of Central Alabama Inc | $85,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Sidewalk | $42,500 | 1 | n/a |
| KultureCity | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Women's Foundation of Alabama | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Big City Mountaineers | $30,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Youthserve Inc | $20,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Birmingham Promise Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Rykers Rainbow | $15,000 | 3 | 11% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Empower Schools of Alabama | $150,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Mitchell's Place Inc | $130,000 | 5 | 1% |
| United Way of Central Alabama Inc | $85,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Sidewalk | $42,500 | 1 | n/a |
| KultureCity | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Women's Foundation of Alabama | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Big City Mountaineers | $30,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Youthserve Inc | $20,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Birmingham Promise Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Rykers Rainbow | $15,000 | 3 | 11% |
| The Red Barn | $15,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Unless U Inc | $10,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Building Peace Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Prosper Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Penny Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Priory in the USA of the Most Venerable Order of the Hosp / St John of Jerusalem | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sibyl Temple Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($594k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The McKinney Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
About The McKinney Foundation
- How much does The McKinney Foundation give?
- The McKinney Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $232,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 18 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does The McKinney Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (22%), Education (22%), Health (18%).
- Who are The McKinney Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Empower Schools of Alabama ($150k), Mitchell's Place Inc ($130k), United Way of Central Alabama Inc ($85k).
- Does The McKinney Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The McKinney Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The McKinney Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham, The Daniel Foundation of Alabama, Protective Life Foundation.
- Where is The McKinney Foundation based?
- The McKinney Foundation is based in AL.
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