· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $207k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EMPOWER SCHOOLS OF ALABAMA | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| UNITED WAY | $25,000 |
| MITCHELL'S PLACE | $25,000 |
| UAB VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS | $20,000 |
| A PLUS EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $17,500 |
| BIG CITY MOUNTAINEERS | $15,000 |
| WOMENS FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $14,000 |
| ALABAMA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $10,000 |
| PROSPER FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BIRMINGHAM PROMISE | $5,000 |
| YOUTHSERVE | $5,000 |
| ADVENT EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| UNLESS U | $2,500 |
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 (FY21–25, $70k) 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 its grants land in higher-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 +20% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ESEMPOWER SCHOOLS OF ALABAMA4× · 2022–2025 · $150k · revenue +310%
- MPMITCHELL'S PLACE INC5× · 2021–2025 · $130k · revenue +20%
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC4× · 2021–2025 · $85k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BIRMINGHAMone grant, 2022 · $50k
- SSidewalkgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $43k · revenue ×28
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMAone grant, 2022 · $15k
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.
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 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 support workforce development, entrepreneurial ventures and job growth in non-profit and commercial creative industries.
The arc of alabama provides services to advocate and aid individuals with cognitive, intellectual, and developmental disabilities in the state of alabama.
The mission is to make birmingham, al a more connected, comfortable and livable city through the use of bicycles. bicycles are affordable transportation which fight traffic congestion and pollution in the city center while boosting health…
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.
Our mission is to develop, implement and drive creative community-based strategies and programs that enhance economic opportunity, builds inclusive and equitable ecosystems, facilitates historic preservation, and ensures a dynamic,…
The organization creates educational opportunities and programs that will provide additional support for preservation and development. the organization will achieve its mission through enhancement, effective asset management,…
The organization's exempt purpose is to provide educational assistanceto birmingham city schools' children through an after school readingprogram.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 32 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 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 WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds BIG CITY MOUNTAINEERS ↗
- Who funds YOUTHSERVE INC ↗
- Who funds Birmingham Promise Inc ↗
- Who funds RYKERS RAINBOW ↗
- Who funds THE RED BARN ↗
- Who funds UNLESS U INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDING PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds PROSPER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PENNY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRIORY IN THE USA OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSP / ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM ↗
- Who funds SIBYL TEMPLE FOUNDATION ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The McKinney Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The McKinney Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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