· Private foundation
Brown Dog 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAINE NEEDS | $5,000 |
| ANIMAL REFUGE LEAGUE OF GREAT PORTLAND | $4,000 |
| PREBLE STREET | $3,000 |
| SISKIN CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE | $2,000 |
| GOOD SHEPARD FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF MAINE | $2,000 |
| SISKIN HOSPITAL FOR PHYSICAL REHABILITATION | $2,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF SOUTHERN MAINE | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 17% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +14% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 5 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, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- SHSISKIN HOSPITAL FOR PHYSICAL REHABILITATION INC4× · 2022–2025 · $6k · revenue +17%
- OIORCAS ISLAND FOOD BANK2× · 2022–2023 · $3k · revenue +52%
- OCORCAS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER2× · 2022–2023 · $2k · revenue +43%
Funded once
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%
BALLARD FOOD BANKgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +57%- QAQUEEN ANNE HELPLINEone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +9%
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.
Nourishing our community. the port angeles food bank is the main food bank in clallam county, providing food to 13 other area pantries and meal programs as well as providing food to over 5,000 individuals per month.
To provide infant, toddler, and preschool childcare services for the rural Orcas Island community. 75 children age 1 month to 12 years are enrolled in 4 classrooms:Infants, toddler, preschool,and school age.
Improving the quality of life for the people in the Olympic Peninsula Community by providing increased access to health and wellness services for the underserved
PAWS cares for lost, abandoned and abused animals and finds them new homes with responsible owners. PAWS also provides low cost spay and neuter services, a pet food pantry, and community education. During 2024 PAWS adopted out 577 pets.…
To collect and distribute food to those in need.
Orla serves as the leading industry advocate, striving to protect, improve and promote oregon hospitality.
The Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center serves as a hub of collaboration that strengthens the immigrant community through language acquisition, economic integration and civic engagement.
Strengthening the community by providing accessible and affordable health care.
Portland Public Library is a welcoming cultural center that brings people together and connects them with trusted resources, ideas, experiences, and information. We build a stronger community by inspiring learning, creativity, and…
To educate, inspire, connect, and involve our community and visitors as stewards of island history.
Our mission is that no one in the community goes hungry.
to promote, support and advocate for Alaska agriculture
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Orcas Island Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is Center for Whale Research. 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.
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 36 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
24 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. 24 of the 26 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 MOSE & GARRISON SISKIN MEMORIAL FDN INC D/B/A SISKIN CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SISKIN HOSPITAL FOR PHYSICAL REHABILITATION INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Needs Inc ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL REFUGE LEAGUE OF GREATER PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds PREBLE STREET ↗
- Who funds ORCAS ISLAND FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ORCAS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities Maine ↗
- Who funds ORCAS ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds OPAL COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Community Alliance Southern Maine ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM ↗
- Who funds BALLARD FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds QUEEN ANNE HELPLINE ↗
- Who funds OLD DOG HAVEN ↗
- Who funds Orcas Island Childrens House ↗
- Who funds THE MCCALLIE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR WHALE RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds RAINIER VALLEY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE ORCAS ISLAND EDUCATION FOUNDATI ON ↗
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 GreerSolien Fund · Seattle Foundation · Orcas Island Community Foundation · Donald Family Foundation · Daniel and Margaret Carper Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Brown Dog 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.