· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE GIVING PLATE | $6,550 |
| BEND-LAPINE EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $6,125 |
| CANDLELIGHTERS FOR CHILDREN WITH CA | $4,375 |
| SERENDIPITY CENTER | $3,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +128% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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 18 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 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 ↗
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 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Boyd Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Boyd Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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