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Caryll M & Norman F Sprague Jr Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k26 grants · $109k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLLEGE OF WOOSTER | $60,250 |
| MARBOROUGH SCHOOL | $31,583 |
| ST MATTHEW PARISH SCHOOL | $17,500 |
| AUTRY NATIONAL CENTER | $16,000 |
| PORTLAND ART MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| PARISH OF ST MATTHEW | $8,500 |
| UCSB FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| D-PRIZE | $7,500 |
| MONTAGE HEALTH FOUNDATION | $6,500 |
| SANTA CATALINA SCHOOL | $6,500 |
| HORIZONS SPECIALIZED SERVICES | $6,000 |
| OREGON COAST AQUARIUM | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| PUNAHOU SCHOOL | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +40% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
62 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
THE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER2× · 2021–2024 · $108k · revenue +4%- HMHarvey Mudd College4× · 2020–2023 · $84k · revenue +41%
CATE SCHOOL2× · 2022–2023 · $59k · revenue +17%
Funded once
THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDone grant, 2023 · $21k · revenue +1%
VISION TO LEARNgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +77%- BCBandon Community Youth Center Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +33%
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.
We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
To produce, in a humanistic tradition, health care professionals and biomedical knowledge that will enhance and extend the quality of life in our communities.
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Ashland university, guided by our christian heritage, is a comprehensive, private university that provides a transformative learning experience, shaping graduates who work, serve and lead with integrity in their local, national, and global…
The waverly school is a nonsectarian, coeducational, college preparatory progressive day school that spans preschool through high school. it is fully accredited by the western association of school and colleges and the california…
Sonoma charter school seeks to achieve academic excellence through engaged learning in a setting that involves students, teachers, and parents.
Marin academy asks every individual to think, question, and create in an environment of encouragement and compassion, and challenges each person to accept the responsibilities posed by education in a democratic society.
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Autry Museum of the American West and the most unlike its peers is Monterey Bay United. 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 48 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
54 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 54 of the 93 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 THE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER ↗
- Who funds MARLBOROUGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Harvey Mudd College ↗
- Who funds CATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SANTA CATALINA SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LEGACY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MONTAGE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds PUNAHOU SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds VISION TO LEARN ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE HEAD ROYCE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds OREGON COAST AQUARIUM INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE OREGON ZOO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TETON COUNTY SHERIFF'S AUXILIARY ↗
- Who funds St Anne School ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COOS ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BANDON LIBRARY FRIENDS AND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAS MADRINAS ↗
- Who funds OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds RELIEF NURSERY INC ↗
- Who funds PILCHUCK GLASS SCHOOL ↗
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 · Norman F Sprague Jr Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Hillman Family Foundations · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Ford Family Foundation · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · Juan Young Trust · The Collins Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · California Community Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund
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 Caryll M & Norman F Sprague Jr 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.
- Oregon Coast Community Action — 85% of income from government
- Relief Nursery Inc — 30% of income from government
- Oregon Coast Aquarium Inc — 24% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Oregon Historical Society — 10% of income from government
- The Street Trust Community Fund — 6% of income from government
- Coos Art Museum — 5% of income from government
- Bandon Community Youth Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Portland Art Museum — 1% of income from government
- Randall Childrens Hospital Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Legacy Health — 0% 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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