Oregon · Private foundation
The Morgan McClain Family 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.
- $41k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $9,301
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 13
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations The Morgan McClain Family Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 8 | $41k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $51k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $68k | 23% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $54k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $56k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $53k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doernbecher Children's Hospital Foundation | $57,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Nations Foundation | $30,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Liberty House | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Southern Methodist University | $19,301 | 2 | 0% |
| Union Gospel Mission | $14,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Salem Dream Center | $11,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Center for Hope and Safety | $9,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Sisters Community Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Family Building Blocks Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doernbecher Children's Hospital Foundation | $57,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Nations Foundation | $30,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Liberty House | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Southern Methodist University | $19,301 | 2 | 0% |
| Union Gospel Mission | $14,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Salem Dream Center | $11,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Center for Hope and Safety | $9,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Sisters Community Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Family Building Blocks Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Willamette Humane Society | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($144k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Morgan McClain Family Trust supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: The Oregon Community Foundation · The Salem Foundation · Maps Community Foundation · United Way of the Mid-Willamette Valley · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Evergreen Charitable Trust · W Walton Decd Charitable Trust · Pioneer Trust Bank Na Foundation · Gelco Charitable Foundation · Marion-Polk Food Share Inc · The Ford Family Foundation · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Morgan McClain Family Trust
- How much does The Morgan McClain Family Trust give?
- The Morgan McClain Family Trust reported 8 grants totaling $40,801 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 13 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Morgan McClain Family Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (20%), Youth Development (17%), Religion (13%).
- Who are The Morgan McClain Family Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Doernbecher Children's Hospital Foundation ($58k), Nations Foundation ($30k), Liberty House ($20k).
- Does The Morgan McClain Family Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Morgan McClain Family 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.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Morgan McClain Family Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Oregon Community Foundation, The Salem Foundation, Maps Community Foundation.
- Where is The Morgan McClain Family Trust based?
- The Morgan McClain Family Trust is based in OR.
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