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Coon Family Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$256k
Granted FY2020
19
Grants FY2020
18
Organizations funded FY2020
72%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Median grant, FY2020
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2020
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 18
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
6
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 72% of the organizations Coon Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 85% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $217k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20
EnvironmentArts & CultureCrime & LegalInternationalHuman ServicesSocial ScienceOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202018$256k72%
FY20199$86k56%
FY20185$39k20%
FY201710$270kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Environment$124kHuman Services$120kPublic Benefit$100kCommunity Improvement$70kHousing & Shelter$67kArts & Culture$40kRecreation & Sports$38kEducation$23kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($232k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Coon Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEnvironmental Law Alliance Worldwide: $115,377 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetStreet Roots Inc: $66,500 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetThe Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization: $57,782 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity Transitional School: $17,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCreative Visions Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDirect Relief: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOregon Food Bank: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetReal Change Homeless Empowerment Project: $6,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBlanchet House of Hospitality: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOregon Rail Heritage Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCoalition of Communities of Color: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPhiladelphia Bail Fund Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChicago Community Bond Fund: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBainbridge Island Land Trust: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Forest Park Conservancy: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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.

The Oregon Community FoundationOR27× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · The Collins Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Jackson Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · The Larson Legacy · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · Oregon Jewish Community Foundation · Careoregon Inc · Seeding Justice · Juan Young Trust

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Coon Family Foundation

How much does Coon Family Foundation give?
Coon Family Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $255,877 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does Coon Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Environment (19%), Human Services (18%), Public Benefit (15%).
Who are Coon Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide ($115k), Street Roots Inc ($67k), The Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization ($58k).
Does Coon Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 72% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Coon Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Coon Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Oregon Community Foundation, The Collins Foundation, Meyer Memorial Trust.
Where is Coon Family Foundation based?
Coon Family Foundation is based in OR.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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