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Anna C Macaskill Schwab and Dwight L Schwab

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.

$170k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0179% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$579kHuman Services$213kYouth Development$116kPublic Benefit$65kHealth$53kHousing & Shelter$50kArts & Culture$38kPhilanthropy$38kFood & Nutrition$20kOther$323k
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $85k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DAKOTA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY$65,000
CLARK COLLEGE FOUNDATION$15,000
CLARK COUNTY VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROGRAM$10,000
MARIN COUNTY VETERANS CENTER$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
SANTA CLARITA VETERANS CENTER$10,000
FOUNDATION FOR VANCOUVER$10,000
FRIENDS OF THE VA PUGET SOUND$10,000
NORTH MARIN COMMUNITY SERVICES$10,000
FOSTERFUL$7,500
THRIVE2SURVIVE$5,000
UNITY CENTER$5,000
CORTE MADERA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$2,500
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $213k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 31% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NORTHWEST CHILDREN'S OUTREACH: $10k → 8%FISH OF COWLITZ COUNTY: $15k → 13%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICE: $25k → 12%YWCA CLARK COUNTY: $35k → 9%YMCA OF COLUMBIA-WILLAMETTE: $25k → 12%YWCA CLARK COUNTY: $25k → 9%YWCA CLARK COUNTY: $15k → 9%YWCA CLARK COUNTY: $10k → 9%LIGHTHOUSE FINANCIAL FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%FOSTERFUL: $8k → 9%NORTHWEST BATTLE BUDDIES: $10k → 9%THRIVE2SURVIVE: $5k → 9%UNITY CENTER: $5k → 9%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

WA
IL
OR
NV
SD
CA
MO
KS

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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$985k · 12 repeat orgs$481k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +88% since the first grant, against +47% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
33

Total granted

$985k
$394k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+88%
+47%

Still filing today

92%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureHealthPublic BenefitOther

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

  • DW
    DAKOTA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2022–2025 · $295k · revenue +18%
  • CC
    CLARK COLLEGE DISTRICT 14 FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2025 · $204k · revenue +143%
  • YWCA CLARK COUNTY
    4× · 2017–2023 · $85k · revenue +88%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - SW WASHINGTONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +153%
  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF COLUMBIA-WILLAMETTE
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +24%
  • LF
    LIGHTHOUSE FINANCIAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue ×14

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.

1
Impact Nw

Impact nw prevents homelessness by supporting people as they navigate their journey to stability and strength. founded in portland in 1966, impact nw now serves 26,944 people a year in the greater portland, oregon metro area, including…

Human Services
2
Clackamas Service Center

Clackamas service center is an inclusive, "one-stop" community center for individuals and families seeking food relief and resources for improved health, dignity, and stability.

Human Services
3
Lutheran Community Services Northwest

LCSNW partners with individuals, families and communities for health, justice and hope. LCSNW provides a wide variety of social services in Oregon, Washington and Idaho and serves people of all ages, cultures and faiths.

Human Services
4
Columbia Wellness

CARE. Commitment to improving quality of life. Advocacy for mental health and overall well-being. Response to community needs. Effective treatment with measurable outcomes.

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5
Columbia Valley Community Health

The mission of columbia valley community health is partnering to achieve optimal health and wellness with compassion and respect for all.

Health
6
Columbia River Mental Health Services

Columbia river mental health services is a full service mental health agency offering a wide spectrum of behavioral health services to children and adults of clark county, washington.

Health
7
Community Lendingworks

To develop economically vibrant, inclusive communities by providing accessible loans that help community members, small businesses, and affordable housing developers reach their goals regardless of income level, racial identity or location.

Community Improvement
8
Columbia Pacific Food Bank

Columbia pacific food bank is the regional food distribution center for columbia county, oregon and local food pantry for the community of saint helens.

Food & Nutrition
9
Family Promise of Cowlitz County

To help families with children in our community who are situationally homeless achieve sustainable independence through a community based response by providing temporary housing, usually 60-90 days, along with case management.

Human Services
10
Thrive Central Oregon

To connect individuals to the housing and community resources they seek.

Human Services
11
Snoqualmie Valley Food Bank

Our mission is to provide food and key resources to help our neighbors and community thrive. we lead the effort to feed, educated and advocate ending hunger in the snoqualmie valley and beyond.

Food & Nutrition
12
Network Services

Network services has been serving homeless families in the puget sound area since 1990, with a focus on families with children. network services aims to break the cycle of homelessness by providing assistance to families with children to…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Metropolitan Family Service and the most unlike its peers is North County Community Food Bank. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyMarin County Community Infr…Youth Academic Support Prog…Youth Sports ProgramsLive Performance PresentersCommunity Support Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr19%30%20–35yr12%19%35–55yr14%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr19%19%20–35yr12%34%35–55yr14%32%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/43
the rest of the field
13%
1,237/9,876

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

42 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 56 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/42
Grantees still filing
31/42
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DAKOTA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $295,000 · EducationDAKOTA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITYCLARK COLLEGE DISTRICT 14 FOUNDATION — $204,000 · EducationCLARK COLLEGE DISTRICT 14 FOUNDATIONWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $70,000 · EducationWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION+1 more — $10,000 · EducationLIGHTHOUSE RESOURCE CENTER — $70,000 · OtherLIGHTHOUSE RESOURCE CENTERCLARK COUNTY FOOD BANK — $40,000 · OtherCLARK COUNTY FOOD BANKSHARE — $20,000 · OtherEVERGREEN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $20,000 · OtherVANCOUVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $15,000 · OtherBraking Cycles — $15,000 · OtherTHE PORTLAND PLAYHOUSE — $20,000 · OtherCORTE MADERA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $27,500 · OtherCORTE MADERA COMMUNITY FOUNDATI…+22 more — $191,000 · Other+22 moreYWCA CLARK COUNTY — $85,000 · Human ServicesYWCA CLARK COUNT…YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF COLUMBIA-WILLAMETTE — $25,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRI…LIGHTHOUSE FINANCIAL FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE FINAN…Metropolitan Family Service — $25,000 · Human ServicesMetropolitan Fam…FISH of Cowlitz County — $15,000 · Human ServicesFISH of Cowlitz …NORTHWEST BATTLE BUDDIES — $10,000 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST CHILDRENS OUTREACH — $10,000 · Human ServicesFOSTERFUL — $7,500 · Human Services+2 more — $10,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN — $70,500 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - SW WASHINGTON — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentNorth Marin Community Services — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentCLARK COUNTY VETERANS ASSISTANCE CENTER — $45,000 · Public BenefitRETURNING VETERANS PROJECT — $10,000 · Public BenefitCOMMUNITY MILITARY APPRECIATION COMMITTEE - CMAC — $10,000 · Public BenefitFREE CLINIC OF SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON — $25,000 · HealthCommunity Health Partners — $15,000 · HealthDAYBREAK YOUTH SERVICES — $12,500 · HealthCOUNCIL FOR THE HOMELESS — $40,000 · Housing & ShelterST JAMES INN — $10,000 · Housing & Shelter
Education$579,000Other$418,500Human Services$212,500Youth Development$115,500Public Benefit$65,000Health$52,500Housing & Shelter$50,000

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 budgetDAKOTA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $295,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCLARK COLLEGE DISTRICT 14 FOUNDATION — $204,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetYWCA CLARK COUNTY — $85,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN — $70,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCLARK COUNTY VETERANS ASSISTANCE CENTER — $45,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR THE HOMELESS — $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCORTE MADERA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $27,500 over 3y, 9.1% of budgetFREE CLINIC OF SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON — $25,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - SW WASHINGTON — $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF COLUMBIA-WILLAMETTE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE FINANCIAL FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetMetropolitan Family Service — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE PORTLAND PLAYHOUSE — $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSHARE — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEVERGREEN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFISH of Cowlitz County — $15,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetBraking Cycles — $15,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCommunity Health Partners — $15,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetDAYBREAK YOUTH SERVICES — $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRETURNING VETERANS PROJECT — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSTARLIGHT THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS CITY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorth County Community Food Bank — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNorth Marin Community Services — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST BATTLE BUDDIES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetOREGON PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY — $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY MILITARY APPRECIATION COMMITTEE - CMAC — $10,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetNORTHWEST CHILDRENS OUTREACH — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JAMES INN — $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetFOSTERFUL — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHRIVE2SURVIVE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITY CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPositively Arts — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPORTLAND JAZZ FESTIVAL INCORPORATED — $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

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.

The Firstenburg Found…The Oregon Community …Marie Lamfrom Charita…Columbia Community Cr…The Honorable Frank L…M J Murdock Charitabl…Kaiser Foundation Hos…PeaceHealthOCF Joseph E Weston P…Clark County Food BankUnited Way of the Col…The Autzen Foundation
The Firstenburg FoundationWA36.5× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Firstenburg Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Columbia Community Credit Union · The Honorable Frank L & Arlene G Price Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · PeaceHealth · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Clark County Food Bank · United Way of the Columbia-Willamette · The Autzen 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 Anna C Macaskill Schwab and Dwight L Schwab 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Metropolitan Family Service — 29% of income from government
  • The Portland Playhouse — 11% of income from government
  • Young Men's Christian Association of Columbia-Willamette — 1% of income from government
  • Portland Jazz Festival Incorporated — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

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How do I get to Anna C Macaskill Schwab and Dwight L Schwab?

Find your warmest path to Anna C Macaskill Schwab and Dwight L Schwab 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 56 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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