· 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.
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 |
|---|---|
| SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY | $9,301 |
| DOERNBECHER | $7,500 |
| NATIONS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $5,000 |
| PROJECT CHAMBER MUSIC | $3,000 |
| SALEM DREAM CENTER | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
13 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
LIBERTY HOUSE4× · 2020–2023 · $20k · revenue +34%
Southern Methodist University2× · 2024–2025 · $19k · revenue +3%- SDSALEM DREAM CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- SCSISTERS COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $5k
- BBLANCHETone grant, 2023 · $3k
FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +132%
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.
To improve the health and well-being of the people and communities we serve.
Providing health care services
To support salem health, salem health west valley and related organizations.
The mission of The Oregon Community Foundation is to improve lives of all Oregonians through the power of philanthropy.
To create decent, affordable housing for those in need, and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience with people everywhere.
Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital and Medical Center (LGSHMC), founded in 1875 is one of the earliest hospitals in the Pacific Northwest. LGSHMC provides acute and tertiary care in Portland, OR with 539 licensed beds. LGSHMC provides a…
We partner with our community to make good health possible for all. wallace serves individuals and families who face barriers to care throughout the east multnomah county in the portland metropolitan area.
To identify and financially partner with organizations in the portland area that are successfully helping men, women, and children gain stability in their lives so they are no longer homeless.
Legacy Health Foundation (LHF) was incorporated on August 21, 2013. The mission of the foundation is to foster charitable giving as well as community commitment and involvement to support the founding principles, mission and vision of…
The vision of Spokane Humane Society is to enrich the lives of animals and their companions through Support, Education, Advocacy and Love (SEAL). As the oldest local non-profit in Spokane, we have been serving companion animals in need and…
Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center (LMHMC) was founded in 1922 and is a community hospital in Gresham, Oregon with 115 licensed beds. LMHMC offers a wide range of services including family birth, diagnostic services, cancer treatment,…
Legacy Meridian Park Hospital (LMPH), established in 1973, is a community hospital in Tualatin, OR, south of Portland with 150 licensed beds. LMPH serves the needs of the fast growing communities of Tualatin, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sherwood,…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 19 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 DOERNBECHER CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds SALEM DREAM CENTER ↗
- Who funds HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY ↗
- Who funds THE SALEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE MID-WILLAMETTE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds SISTERS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC ↗
- Who funds WILLAMETTE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Morgan McClain Family Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Morgan McClain Family Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Family Building Blocks Inc: 68% of income from government
- Center for Hope and Safety: 68% of income from government
- Liberty House: 23% of income from government
- United Way of the Mid-Willamette Valley: 6% of income from government
How this is measured
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