Ohio · Private foundation
Harold & Helen McMaster Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $254k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 55%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $70,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 20
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 55% of the organizations Harold & Helen McMaster Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 42% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k 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 | 21 | $218k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $181k | 55% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $214k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $318k | 61% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $132k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $232k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $267k | 9% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $232k | 11% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Defiance College | $400,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The University of Toledo Foundation | $180,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges | $105,125 | 9 | 0% |
| The Buckeye Institute | $101,875 | 9 | 1% |
| 1851 Center for Constitutional Law | $71,250 | 9 | 15% |
| Ashland University | $54,518 | 6 | 0% |
| Oregon Schools Foundation | $40,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Friends of the Ashbrook Center | $36,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Toledo Science Center | $35,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Lourdes University | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 26 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($794k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Harold & Helen McMaster Foundation Inc 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: Toledo Community Foundation Inc · The O-I Charities Foundation · Promedica Health System Inc · The Oswald Supporting Organization · Tr Ua Toledo Community Foundation- Donor · United Way of Greater Toledo · Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation · Premier Bank Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
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About Harold & Helen McMaster Foundation Inc
- How much does Harold & Helen McMaster Foundation Inc give?
- Harold & Helen McMaster Foundation Inc reported 22 grants totaling $253,975 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Harold & Helen McMaster Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (53%), Public Benefit (7%), Civil Rights (3%).
- Who are Harold & Helen McMaster Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Defiance College ($400k), The University of Toledo Foundation ($180k), The Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges ($105k).
- Does Harold & Helen McMaster Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 55% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Harold & Helen McMaster Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Harold & Helen McMaster Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Toledo Community Foundation Inc, The O-I Charities Foundation, Promedica Health System Inc.
- Where is Harold & Helen McMaster Foundation Inc based?
- Harold & Helen McMaster Foundation Inc is based in OH.
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