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The McPherson Foundation

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.

$4k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What you fund
0181% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Philanthropy$71kEducation$9kHealth$6kReligion$3kCommunity Improvement$3kHuman Services$2kInternational$1kArts & Culture$596Other$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$170
Median grant
3
States reached
$441k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Rotary$1,279
The Village Church$1,000
Maui Ocean Center$524
Tahoe Family Solutions$252
Village Christian Academy$170
Village Christian Thrift Store$132
Diamond Peak Ski Education Foundati$75
Individual grant recipient$58
Maui Cat Rescue$15
Mammoth Lakes Hospital$13
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $50) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Eddy House: $50 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

9%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$9k · 10 repeat orgs$97k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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25

Total granted

$9k
$96k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+18%

Still filing today

20%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $797 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • TF
    TAHOE FAMILY SOLUTIONS INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $805 · revenue +57%
  • PN
    Pet Network Humane Society
    2× · 2020–2021 · $146 · revenue +42%
  • MC
    MY CHARITY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2022 · $100 · revenue +317%

Funded once

  • SC
    Scwab Charitable
    one grant, 2024 · $53k
  • PF
    Parasol Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $24k
  • PU
    Prager University
    one grant, 2022 · $9k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Valley Humane SocietyInc

Valley Humane Society (VHS) creates a brighter future for cats and dogs by encouraging and strengthening the bond between people and pets. VHS rescues and rehabilitates companion animals, champions responsible caretaking, shares pets'…

Animals
2
Humane Society of Truckee-Tahoe

The Humane Society is dedicated to saving and improving the lives of pets through adoptions, community spay/neuter services and humane eduon programs.

Animals
3
Nevada Humane Society

To care for pets, find them homes and save lives.

Animals
4
Idaho Humane Society Inc

The mission of the Idaho Humane Society (IHS) is to advocate for the welfare and responsible care of animals, protect them from neglect and cruelty, and promote humane education, awareness and compassion for all living creatures.

Animals
5
Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care Inc

Our mission: We rescue, rehabilitate, and release orphaned and injured wildlife and educate the community about the health and safety of our wildlife.

6
Humane Society of Taos Inc dba Stray Hearts Animal Shelter

Stray Hearts is a socially conscious shelter and adoption facility reuniting lost pets with their families and providing humane care and shelter for surrendered, lost, and homeless companion animals in Taos County, New Mexico.Our pledge:…

Animals
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Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for Monterey County

The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…

Animals
8
Truckee Trails Foundation Inc

The Truckee Trails Foundation (TTF) is working towards a system of trails and bikeways in and around Truckee, California that will connect people and places, reduce our community's dependence on automobiles, and improve our physical,…

Environment
9
Truckee River Watershed Council

The truckee river watershed council was founded to implement locally developed public-private collaborative solutions to protect and improve water quality and biological resources for the sustainable environmental and economic health of…

Environment
10
Tahoe Institute for Natural Science

To advance the natural history, conservation and ecosystem knowledge of the Tahoe region through science, education and outreach.

Environment
11
The Sierra Fund

The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.

Environment
12
Humane Society of the Sierra Foothills

To prevent animal abuse and neglect, enforce the anti-cruelty laws of the State of California and promote the wellbeing of animals.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tahoe Family Solutions Inc and the most unlike its peers is My Charity Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 41 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
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Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Scwab Charitable — $53,000 · OtherScwab CharitableParasol Foundation — $24,000 · OtherParasol FoundationPrager University — $9,000 · OtherPrager UniversityRotary — $5,529 · OtherIVGID — $5,500 · Other+28 more — $6,905 · Other+28 moreTahoe Community Foundation — $18,000 · EducationTahoe Community …For Hearts and Souls — $1,000 · HealthLIFE CHOICES PREGNANCY CENTER INC — $250 · HealthTAHOE FAMILY SOLUTIONS INC — $805 · Youth DevelopmentPACIFIC WHALE FOUNDATION — $188 · EnvironmentPIONEER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $186 · Arts & CulturePet Network Humane Society — $146 · AnimalsMAUI CAT RESCUE — $15 · Animals
Other$103,934Education$18,000Health$1,250Youth Development$805Environment$188Arts & Culture$186Animals$161

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTahoe Community Foundation — $18,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFor Hearts and Souls — $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTAHOE FAMILY SOLUTIONS INC — $805 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLIFE CHOICES PREGNANCY CENTER INC — $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPACIFIC WHALE FOUNDATION — $188 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPIONEER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $186 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPet Network Humane Society — $146 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMY CHARITY FOUNDATION — $100 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDIAMOND PEAK SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFood Bank of Northern Nevada Inc — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDDY HOUSE — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI CAT RESCUE — $15 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Tahoe Community Foundation
  • Who funds For Hearts and Souls
  • Who funds TAHOE FAMILY SOLUTIONS INC
  • Who funds LIFE CHOICES PREGNANCY CENTER INC
  • Who funds PACIFIC WHALE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds PIONEER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
  • Who funds Pet Network Humane Society
  • Who funds MY CHARITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds DIAMOND PEAK SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Food Bank of Northern Nevada Inc
  • Who funds EDDY HOUSE
  • Who funds MAUI CAT RESCUE

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Offerdahl Family FoundationNV15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Offerdahl Family Foundation · Tahoe Community Foundation · Dave & Cheryl Duffield Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The McPherson Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The McPherson Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The McPherson Foundation 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 41 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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