· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +18% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $797 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TFTAHOE FAMILY SOLUTIONS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $805 · revenue +57%
- PNPet Network Humane Society2× · 2020–2021 · $146 · revenue +42%
- MCMY CHARITY FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2022 · $100 · revenue +317%
Funded once
- SCScwab Charitableone grant, 2024 · $53k
- PFParasol Foundationone grant, 2023 · $24k
- PUPrager Universityone grant, 2022 · $9k
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.
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'…
The Humane Society is dedicated to saving and improving the lives of pets through adoptions, community spay/neuter services and humane eduon programs.
To care for pets, find them homes and save lives.
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.
Our mission: We rescue, rehabilitate, and release orphaned and injured wildlife and educate the community about the health and safety of our wildlife.
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:…
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…
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,…
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…
To advance the natural history, conservation and ecosystem knowledge of the Tahoe region through science, education and outreach.
The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.
To prevent animal abuse and neglect, enforce the anti-cruelty laws of the State of California and promote the wellbeing of animals.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 41 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.
- 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 EDDY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of Northern Nevada Inc ↗
- Who funds MAUI CAT RESCUE ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The McPherson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The McPherson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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