· Private foundation
McPherson Family Foundation
Its FY2020 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, FY2017 to 2020.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| ST LUKES EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $2,000 |
| WITTE MUSEUM | $250 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $200 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $200 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $200 |
| ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION | $100 |
| SAN ANTONIO CONSERVATION SOCIETY | $35 |
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 (FY17–19, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 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.
11 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2020, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BIBOYSVILLE INC3× · 2017–2019 · $2k · revenue +41%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC3× · 2018–2020 · $2k · revenue +125%- NANATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION2× · 2019–2020 · $300 · revenue +93%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $3k
- AHALAMO HEIGHTS METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $200
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $200
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.
The mission of the san antonio medical foundation is to improvehealth care, advance biomedical science, and enhance communitywell-being by providing leadership & active stewardship of our landand other assets.
Guided by artists, rooted in new mexico, site santa fe celebrates contemporary creative expression.
To serve as your most trusted and impactful philanthropic partner.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The mission of the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts shall be to establish and maintain a museum in order to house and exhibit a permanent collection of art as well as to provide space for traveling exhibitions, for the purpose of the…
The mission of the new orleans museum of art is to inspire the love of art; to collect, preserve, exhibit and present excellence in the visual arts; to educate, challenge and engage a diverse public.
Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.
To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
To collect and preserve significant historical materials that relate to the early history and culture of Texas and to promote the study of the history of Texas through exhibits, publications, and educational programs.
Hospice care of terminally ill patients
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
To develop the resources to support san antonio regional hospital's mission to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we serve.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 18 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.
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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: San Antonio Area Foundation · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization McPherson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McPherson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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