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The Mckeever Foundation Inc

Cleveland Heights, OH · EIN 31-1367070. Reported 63 grants totalling $310,602 to 39 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$2,500median grant
$310,602granted, 2021-2024
39organizations funded
44%of grantees funded again the next year
$454,258assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. The Mckeever Foundation Inc did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $2,500. Half of everything it gave fell between $500 and $5,500; the smallest was $100 and the largest $53,600. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
17 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
26 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
13 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
6 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church Our Lady of Peace Catholic ChurchCleveland, OH$67,350442024
Communion of Saints Parish Communion of Saints ParishCleveland Hts, OH$49,100442024
Univnotre Dame Univ Notre DameNotre Dame, IN$47,500222022
Heart of a Shepherd Campaign Heart of a Shepherd CampaignCleveland, OH$20,000222022
Univ of Notre Dame Univ of Notre DameNotre Dame, IN$20,000222024
Cleveland Right to Life Cleveland Right to LifeCleveland, OH$14,000442024
Legatus Cleveland Chapter Legatus Cleveland ChapterAnn Arbor, MI$14,000332024
Zellies Home Zellies HomeGarfield Hts, OH$9,500222024
Catholic Community Foundation Catholic Community FoundationCleveland, OH$7,500112023
Heart of a Shepherd Heart of a ShepherdCleveland, OH$7,500112023
Lyceum Academy Lyceum AcademySouth Euclid, OH$7,000112021
Am 1260 the Rock Am 1260 the RockBroadview Hts, OH$6,250332024
Zelie's Home Zelie's HomeGarfield Hts, OH$6,000112021
Catholic Charities Catholic CharitiesCleveland, OH$5,000222023
Legatus Soc Univ Notre Dame Legatus Soc Univ Notre DameAnn Arbor, MI$5,000112021
Walsh Jesuit High School Walsh Jesuit High SchoolCuyahoga Falls, OH$4,000112021
Morgan Place Cemetery Morgan Place CemeterySidney, OH$2,500112021
Church of the Gesu Church of the GesuUniversity Hts, OH$2,100332024
Advantage Cleveland Tennis & Educ Advantage Cleveland Tennis & EducCleveland, OH$1,500222022
Forest Hills Swim Club Forest Hills Swim ClubCleveland Hts, OH$1,500222024
Sorin Society Univ Notre Dame Sorin Society Univ Notre DameNotre Dame, IN$1,500112022
St Ignatius Antioch Church St Ignatius Antioch ChurchCleveland, OH$1,500112024
St Ignatius High School St Ignatius High SchoolCleveland, OH$1,500112021
Alliance for Working Together Fdn Alliance for Working Together FdnMentor, OH$1,000112021
Dominican Sisters Dominican SistersCleveland, OH$1,000112024
Grandvue Study Center Grandvue Study CenterPittsburgh, PA$1,000112021
Grandvue Study Grandvue StudyPittsburgh, PA$1,000112023
St Peter the Rock St Peter the RockBroadview Hts, OH$1,000112021
Ozanam Hunger Center Ozanam Hunger CenterEast Cleveland, OH$502112022
Forest Hills Swim Aquatic Program Forest Hills Swim Aquatic ProgramCleveland Hts, OH$500112021
Ivy Women's Center Ivy Women's CenterMentor, OH$500112022
Metro Health Fdn Metro Health FdnCleveland, OH$500112022
Metro Catholic High School Metro Catholic High SchoolCleveland, OH$450222022
City Mission City MissionCleveland, OH$350222022
Salvation Army Salvation ArmyCleveland, OH$300112021
Holy Cross Church Holy Cross ChurchCleveland, OH$250112024
St Stephen Catholic Church St Stephen Catholic ChurchCleveland, OH$250112021
Catholics Come Home Catholic CharitiesCleveland, OH$100112021
Hillsdale College Hillsdale CollegeHillsdale, MI$100112021

15 of 39 (38%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 44%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 3 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
2 grants
Education
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202122$90,500$1,250
202216$59,952$1,375
202313$60,500$3,150
202412$99,650$3,500

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 71% of this one's giving went to organizations in Ohio. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Ohio
$221K
Indiana
$69K
Michigan
$19K
Pennsylvania
$2K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc8 shared recipientsThe Cleveland Foundation6 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program6 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc5 shared recipientsAmerican Endowment Foundation5 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund5 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $2,500. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Ohio.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from The Mckeever Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 2289 Chatfield, Cleveland Heights, OH, 44106. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 31-1367070 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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