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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
6
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Environment$124kHuman Services$120kPublic Benefit$100kCommunity Improvement$70kHousing & Shelter$67kArts & Culture$40kRecreation & Sports$38kEducation$23kOther$0
02FY2020 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k11 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $74k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VOTE AT HOME$100,000
NORTH STAR CIVIC FOUNDATION$50,000
ELAW (ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ALLIANCE WORLDWIDE)$15,377
NW EMPLOYMENT AND EDUCATION DEFENSE$15,000
STREET ROOTS$14,000
OREGON FOOD BANK$10,000
DIRECT RELIEF$10,000
CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION$10,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
COALITION FOR COMMUNITIES OF COLOR$5,000
BLANCHET HOUSE$5,000
ELAKHA ALLIANCE$5,000
CHICAGO COMMUNITY BOND FUND$2,500
PHILADELPHIA BAIL FUND$2,500
LEWIS AND CLARK LAW SCHOOL$2,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $73k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.

area typical 11%STREET ROOTS: $30k → 12%REAL CHANGE: $5k → 9%STREET ROOTS: $14k → 12%REAL CHANGE: $1k → 9%STREET ROOTS: $11k → 12%STREET ROOTS: $10k → 12%STREET ROOTS (WE GAVE THEM TWO SEPARATE GRANTS THIS YEAR): $2k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$319k · 8 repeat orgs$332k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +138% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2020, 3 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
8

Total granted

$319k
$115k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+138%
+16%

Still filing today

63%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
EnvironmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureCrime & LegalRecreation & SportsPublic BenefitOther

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

  • EL
    ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ALLIANCE WORLDWIDE
    4× · 2017–2020 · $115k · revenue +277%
  • STREET ROOTS INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $67k · revenue +182%
  • THE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $58k · revenue +138%

Funded once

  • RI
    REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT SERVICES AND EMPOWERMENT
    one grant, 2017 · $40k
  • P
    PCUN
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
  • CL
    CAPACES LEADERSHIP INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +468%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Oregon Agricultural Trust

Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.

Environment
2
Oregon Justice Network

Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…

Human Services
3
Rogue Climate

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 &…

Education
4
Citizens Utility Board

As directed by oregon voters in 1984, the oregon citizens' utility board (cub) represents the interests of oregon's residential utility customers before administrative, judicial, and legislative bodies. cub works at the intersection of…

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5
Oregon Restaurant and Lodging Association

Orla serves as the leading industry advocate, striving to protect, improve and promote oregon hospitality.

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6
American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon Inc

We believe that the freedoms of press, speech, assembly, and religion, and the rights to due process, equal protection and privacy, are fundamental to a free people. We advance civil liberties and civil rights by activities that include…

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7
Clackamas River Basin Council Inc

The council is organized to foster partnerships for clean water, healthy streams, and abundant fisheries in the Clackamas Watershed

Environment
8
Oregon Center for Public Policy

The oregon center for public policy's mission is to achieve economic justice for all oregonians through research, analysis, and advocacy. ocpp works to change policies that foster economic security and stability for all oregonians. we do…

Employment
9
Portland Business Alliance

To ensure economic prosperity in the portland region by providing strong leadership, partnership, and programs that encourage business growth and vitality.

Community Improvement
10
Portland Board of Realtors

To provide & promote services to enhance members' abilities to conduct their businesses with integrity & competency with due consideration for the promotion & preservation of a favorable environment for brokerage operations & the right to…

Community Improvement
11
Community Credit Lab

To support equitable access to economic opportunities for immigrants, refugees, low-income, marginalized, and underserved communities in king county and the united states.

Human Services
12
Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council

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…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oregon Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is Capaces Leadership Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 29 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
15/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ALLIANCE WORLDWIDE — $115,377 · OtherENVIRONMENTAL LAW ALLIANCE WORLDWIDEVOTE AT HOME — $100,000 · OtherVOTE AT HOMETHE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION — $57,782 · OtherTHE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONNORTH STAR CIVIC FOUNDATION — $50,000 · OtherNORTH STAR CIVIC FOUNDATIONREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT SERVICES AND EMPOWERMENT — $40,000 · OtherREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT SERVICES AND EMPOWERMENTIndividual grant recipient — $25,000 · OtherPCUN — $20,000 · Other+14 more — $70,000 · Other+14 moreSTREET ROOTS INC — $66,500 · Human ServicesSTREET ROOTS…REAL CHANGE HOMELESS EMPOWERMENT PROJECT — $6,000 · Human ServicesREAL CHANGE …COMMUNITY CYCLING CENTER — $37,500 · Recreation & SportsCAPACES LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE — $20,000 · Public BenefitCOMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL SCHOOL — $17,500 · EducationCREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Arts & CultureOREGON RAIL HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Arts & CultureDIRECT RELIEF — $10,000 · International
Other$478,159Human Services$72,500Recreation & Sports$37,500Public Benefit$20,000Education$17,500Arts & Culture$15,000International$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 budgetDIRECT RELIEF — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON FOOD BANK — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREAL CHANGE HOMELESS EMPOWERMENT PROJECT — $6,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOALITION OF COMMUNITIES OF COLOR — $5,000 over 1y, 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 budgetPHILADELPHIA BAIL FUND INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO COMMUNITY BOND FUND — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOREST PARK CONSERVANCY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBAINBRIDGE ISLAND LAND TRUST — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Oregon Community …The Collins FoundationMeyer Memorial TrustThe Jackson FoundationHillman Family Founda…The Larson LegacyOCF Joseph E Weston P…Rose E Tucker Charita…Oregon Jewish Communi…Careoregon IncSeeding JusticeJuan Young Trust
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

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 Coon 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
  • Capaces Leadership Institute — 20% of income from government
  • Coalition of Communities of Color — 15% of income from government
  • Elakha Alliance — 10% of income from government
  • Community Transitional School — 7% of income from government
  • The Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization — 4% of income from government
  • Community Cycling Center — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The DAF merry-go-round
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines