· Private foundation
Clarklewis Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k35 grants · $115k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $245k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE LIVING DESERT | $50,000 |
| PROVIDENCE ST VINCENT | $50,000 |
| EDISON HIGH SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| ST MARY'S ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| THE LIVING DESERT | $25,000 |
| HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC CHURCH | $20,000 |
| CANNON BEACH HISTORY CENTER | $19,811 |
| THE LIVING DESERT | $13,650 |
| OK YOU | $12,000 |
| PORTLAND RESCUE MISSION | $10,000 |
| EQUAMORE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING | $10,000 |
| THINK TOGETHER | $10,000 |
| EISENHOWER HEALTH | $10,000 |
| REBUILDING AMERICA'S WARRIORS | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $231k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% 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 +44% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 22 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $137k 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
- LDLIVING DESERT THE8× · 2017–2024 · $628k · revenue +84%
THE OREGON ZOO FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $192k · revenue +54%- EHEDISON HIGH SCHOOL4× · 2019–2024 · $160k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- STST THOMAS MORE CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $50k
- OROREGON RAIL HERITAGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +25%
- ODOREGON DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
Cascades academy is an engaged, vibrant community that weaves challenging academics with experiential learning to inspire socially responsible individuals ready for a diverse and changing world.
Oregon Wild works to protect and restore Oregon's wildlands, wildlife and waters as an enduring legacy for future generations.
Oregon research institute is an independent behavioral sciences research center dedicated to understanding human behavior and improving the quality of human life through the prevention and treatment of health, educational, and social…
Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.
To conserve and enhance land in southern oregon to sustain our human and natural communities forever.
Our mission is to empower, strengthen and sustain those impacted by cancer in our community through education, support and financial assistance.
Protecting our shrub-steppe and connecting people to this vanishing landscape.
We provide a voice for an effective and accessible behavioral health system of care for Oregonians.
The council is organized to foster partnerships for clean water, healthy streams, and abundant fisheries in the Clackamas Watershed
The Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council is a local nonprofit organization that strives to enhance and restore habitat for fish and wildlife our community and for future generations. Our Board of Directors consists of seven members with…
Rogue Climate's mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change including low-income, rural, youth, seniors & communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs &…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is We Belong Pdx and the most unlike its peers is Friends Involved in Dog Outreach. 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 32 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
70 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. 70 of the 118 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 LIVING DESERT THE ↗
- Who funds THE OREGON ZOO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EDISON HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JOHN TRACY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds MACDONALD CENTER ↗
- Who funds Womens Foundation of Oregon ↗
- Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING ↗
- Who funds FRIENDLY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND TENNIS & EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds THE BLESSING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds IRAQ STAR INC ↗
- Who funds THINK TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds COASTER THEATER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Gleaners of Clackamas County Inc ↗
- Who funds DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Childrens Center ↗
- Who funds THE CANNON BEACH ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds COACHELLA VALLEY YOUTH GOLF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH VILLAGES INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF CLACKAMAS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA GARCIA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OREGON RAIL HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FOREST PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds WORLD FORESTRY CENTER ↗
- Who funds North Coast Land Conservancy Inc ↗
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 · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Juan Young Trust · The Autzen Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Jackson Foundation · Clark Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · The Collins Foundation · Hoover Family 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 Clarklewis 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.
- Baker Relief Nursery Inc — 50% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- The Cannon Beach Academy — 10% of income from government
- Think Wild — 7% of income from government
- North Coast Land Conservancy Inc — 6% of income from government
- Friendly House Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Oregon Community Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Equamore Foundation — 2% of income from government
- University of Portland — 1% of income from government
- Oregon Public Broadcasting — 1% of income from government
- Womens Foundation of Oregon — 0% of income from government
- Casa of Clackamas County — 0% of income from government
- World Forestry Center — 0% of income from government
- Childrens Center — 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.