· Private foundation
Charis Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOOD RIVER VALLEY ADULT CENTER | $7,500 |
| SAN FRANCISCO SAFEHOUSE | $7,500 |
| FREE CLINIC OF SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON | $7,500 |
| COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER | $7,500 |
| CASA PACIFICA CENTERS | $7,500 |
| SQUARE PEG FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL LA PINE | $7,500 |
| HELPING HANDS RESOURCES | $7,500 |
| ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER PORTLA | $7,500 |
| COMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER | $7,500 |
| TRIUMPH TREATMENT SERVICES | $7,500 |
| VICTOR VALLEY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC | $7,500 |
| HEALTHY RURAL CALIFORNIA INC | $7,500 |
| CLATSOP COMMUNITY ACTION | $7,500 |
| SILVERTON AREA COMMUNITY AID | $7,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $745k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +49% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.
130 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 105 since wound down; 48 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, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $290k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CSClay Street Table4× · 2019–2023 · $26k · revenue +67%
- AOAcres of Diamonds5× · 2018–2024 · $25k · revenue +242%
CASA OF CLACKAMAS COUNTY5× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- F(FISH (FRIENDS IN SERVICE HELPING)one grant, 2019 · $10k
- WNWINTER NIGHTS SHELTERone grant, 2019 · $10k
URBAN GLEANERSone grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue 0%
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.
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…
Provide a safe, healing, and restorative community that empowers long-term transformation through human connection for those recovering from the trauma of homelessness, addictions, and mental health challenges.
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.
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.
Chs empowers individuals and families to live in stable housing, connect to community resources, build relationships and access quality food.
Improve the quality of life for individuals in Alameda County, Contra Costa County, Solano County, Monterey County, Sacramento County and the surrounding area in the State of California.
Homeward Bound is the main provider of emergency shelter, supportive housing and services for people overcoming a crisis of homelessness in Marin County, California. Our mission of "opening doors to safety, dignity, hope, and…
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.
To empower families experiencing housing insecurity through intervention, prevention,and stabilization services.
Transitions works to end poverty and homelessness for women and children in Spokane, Washington.
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.
To provide youth in crisis a place of physical and emotional safety while assisting them to build positive relationships and develop their individual potentials.
How this is measured
298 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. 298 of the 389 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Clay Street Table ↗
- Who funds Acres of Diamonds ↗
- Who funds CASA OF CLACKAMAS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LA PINE COMMUNITY KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds Emilio Nares Foundation ↗
- Who funds SPIN CAFE ↗
- Who funds The Good Shepherd Gracenter of San Francisco ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THOUGHT ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF YOUTH ↗
- Who funds THE INSIGHT ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE SOPHIA WAY ↗
- Who funds WHITE PONY EXPRESS ↗
- Who funds COMPASS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER MAPLE VALLEY COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE RECEIVING CENTER ↗
- Who funds YAKIMA VALLEY COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM ↗
- Who funds KINDRED PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds GREEN PLATE SPECIAL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SALEM FREE CLINICS ↗
- Who funds Elizabeth Home ↗
- Who funds FREE CLINIC OF SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds ST FRANCIS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE ON THE SHELTERLESS ↗
- Who funds HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CORVALLIS INC ↗
- Who funds Growing Gardens ↗
- Who funds Winter Nights Family Shelter Inc ↗
- Who funds THE GREENHOUSE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds ARLINGTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NAMI WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds Loaves and Fishes of Contra Costa ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds STEPS ↗
- Who funds BYRD BARR PLACE ↗
- Who funds Loved Twice ↗
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 Autzen Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Norcliffe Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Garneau Nicon Family Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Robert D and Marcia H Randall Charitable Trust · Medina Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Charis Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charis Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- Family Building Blocks Inc: 68% of income from government
- Jackson Street Youth Shelter Inc: 59% of income from government
- Kindred Partners: 42% of income from government
- Unity Shelter: 42% of income from government
- Building Healthy Families: 41% of income from government
- Portland YouthBuilders: 35% of income from government
- Clackamas Women's Services: 33% of income from government
- Responder Life: 33% of income from government
- Transition Projects Inc: 29% of income from government
- Friends of Zenger Farm: 28% of income from government
- Clatsop Community Action: 26% of income from government
- Project 48 Inc: 23% of income from government
- Parrott Creek Child and Family Services: 20% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Corvallis Inc: 16% of income from government
- Ywca of Greater Portland: 15% of income from government
- Raphael House of Portland: 10% of income from government
- Outgrowing Hunger: 9% of income from government
- Impact Nw: 8% of income from government
- Compass House Inc: 7% of income from government
- Growing Gardens: 6% of income from government
- The Boys & Girls Aid Society of Oregon: 3% of income from government
- Casa of Central Oregon: 2% of income from government
- Casa of Clackamas County: 0% of income from government
- David's Harp 930771871: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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