Ohio · Private foundation
R S McPherson Trust
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.
- $54k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
Read this first · the figures below need context
50% of R S McPherson Trust’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Clinton County Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2025
- $27,079
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $27,079
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 5
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations R S McPherson Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 1 | $27k | 100% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $60k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $69k | 80% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $5k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $11k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $4k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $22k | 0% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $31k | n/a |
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 grants in FY2025.
| GRATIOT COUNTY PROBATE COURT | $27,079 |
| CLINTON COUNTY FOUNDATION | $27,079 |
About R S McPherson Trust
- How much does R S McPherson Trust give?
- R S McPherson Trust reported 2 grants totaling $54,158 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 5 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does R S McPherson Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (43%), Crime & Legal (11%), Philanthropy (11%).
- Does R S McPherson Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does R S McPherson Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Where is R S McPherson Trust based?
- R S McPherson Trust is based in OH.
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