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Harry and Winnie McNay Education Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$24k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
18
Grants FY2025
21
Organizations funded FY2024
100%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$3,700
Organizations funded a year
11 to 26
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$858k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Harry and Winnie McNay Education Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’22’24
EducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving11$24k27%
FY202421$31k100%
FY202226$47k85%
FY202020$47k60%
FY201911$40kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$217kRecreation & Sports$1k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
IA
NE
MO
KS
LA
AL
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Central College$5,10020%
Indian Hills Community College$4,55621%
University of South Alabama$4,1002n/a
Grand View University$2,00010%
Simpson College$1,66620%
Pensacola Christian College Inc$1,00010%
Midamerica Nazarene University$1,00010%
Northwestern University$1,0001n/a
St Ambrose University$1,00010%
Graceland University$1,00010%
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All grantees of Harry and Winnie McNay Education Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Central College$5,10020%
Indian Hills Community College$4,55621%
University of South Alabama$4,1002n/a
Grand View University$2,00010%
Simpson College$1,66620%
Pensacola Christian College Inc$1,00010%
Midamerica Nazarene University$1,00010%
Northwestern University$1,0001n/a
St Ambrose University$1,00010%
Graceland University$1,00010%
William Penn University$66610%
The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund$66610%
Wartburg College$66610%
Creighton University$60010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 55 recipients with no EIN on record ($163k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Harry and Winnie McNay Education Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCentral College: $5,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIndian Hills Community College: $4,556 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetGrand View University: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSimpson College: $1,666 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPensacola Christian College Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMidamerica Nazarene University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Ambrose University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGraceland University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam Penn University: $666 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund: $666 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWartburg College: $666 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCreighton University: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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.

Moore Scholarship TrustWI15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Moore Scholarship Trust · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · J Ralph And Gladys Meier Scholarship Trust · Fahrney Education Fdtn Trust · The Van Buren Foundation Inc · The Eagle Foundation · Roy J Carver Charitable Trust · Ottumwa Regional Legacy Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Compare Harry and Winnie McNay Education Trust with peer funders

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How do I get to Harry and Winnie McNay Education Trust?

Find your warmest path to Harry and Winnie McNay Education Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Harry and Winnie McNay Education Trust

How much does Harry and Winnie McNay Education Trust give?
Harry and Winnie McNay Education Trust reported 18 grants totaling $23,842 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 26 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Harry and Winnie McNay Education Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%), Recreation & Sports (0%).
Who are Harry and Winnie McNay Education Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Central College ($5k), Indian Hills Community College ($5k), University of South Alabama ($4k).
Does Harry and Winnie McNay Education Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Harry and Winnie McNay Education Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Harry and Winnie McNay Education Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Moore Scholarship Trust, Pella Rolscreen Foundation, J Ralph And Gladys Meier Scholarship Trust.
Where is Harry and Winnie McNay Education Trust based?
Harry and Winnie McNay Education Trust is based in MT.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 69 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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