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Boyd Family 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE GIVING PLATE | $6,550 |
| BEND-LAPINE EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $6,125 |
| CANDLELIGHTERS FOR CHILDREN WITH CA | $4,375 |
| SERENDIPITY CENTER | $3,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +128% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 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, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- BCBraking Cycles8× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +128%
SERENDIPITY CENTER INC4× · 2018–2025 · $12k · revenue +2%- LCLOWER COLUMBIA SCHOOL GARDENS5× · 2017–2022 · $9k · revenue +168%
Funded once
Central City Concerngraduatedone grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue +30%- BBBEST BUDDIES IN OREGONone grant, 2021 · $3k
- WLWITH LOVEone grant, 2017 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Equipping youth to rise from hardship through culinary training and job placement. Youth at Sprouts are paired with a chef mentor and wraparound program to develop the vocational skills needed to secure and maintain a culinary job.…
We use food as a tool to strengthen bodies, empower minds, and build communities. dcck prepares people facing high barriers to employment for culinary careers, and creates jobs for our graduates through innovative programs that expand…
Provides alternative educational opportunities to at-risk youth. The school foundation for success is embedded in its core value.
Work options for women helps people overcome barriers to sustainable employment by building confidence while providing resources and culinary training.
Friends - portland commits to standing alongside our community's youth as they work to overcome barriers to their success. each child receives 1:1 support and guidance from a salaried, professional mentor (called a friend), from…
Friends of the children - central oregon is a oregon based nonprofit with the mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years,…
Community kitchen pittsburgh is a nonprofit food service company. because poverty, food insecurity and employment are entwined issues, we work across these focus areas, engaging in the following activities: "culinary based workforce…
To provide youth in crisis a place of physical and emotional safety while assisting them to build positive relationships and develop their individual potentials.
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.
Se works' mission is to strengthen the economic health and well being of our diverse community by facilitating successful connections between job seekers and employers.
Friends of the children - seattle has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what. youth in the friends…
Urban peak helps youth experiencing homelessness and youth at risk of becoming homeless overcome real life challenges by providing essential services and a supportive community, empowering them to become self-sufficient adults.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Treehouse and the most unlike its peers is Oregon Friends of Shelter Animals. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 18 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 Braking Cycles ↗
- Who funds SERENDIPITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LOWER COLUMBIA SCHOOL GARDENS ↗
- Who funds THE GIVING PLATE ↗
- Who funds Central City Concern ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds TREEHOUSE ↗
- Who funds Oregon Friends of Shelter Animals ↗
- Who funds SELF ENHANCEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds AIRWAY SCIENCE FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds First Image ↗
- Who funds THE VANPORT MOSAIC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · Juan Young Trust · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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 Boyd Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Airway Science for Kids Inc — 100% of income from government
- The Vanport Mosaic — 81% of income from government
- Self Enhancement Inc — 14% of income from government
- Central City Concern — 10% of income from government
- Serendipity Center Inc — 2% of income from government
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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