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Coon Family Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2020 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
DIRECT RELIEF$10,000
OREGON FOOD BANK$10,000
CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION$10,000
COALITION FOR COMMUNITIES OF COLOR$5,000
BLANCHET HOUSE$5,000
ELAKHA ALLIANCE$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
PHILADELPHIA BAIL FUND$2,500
CHICAGO COMMUNITY BOND FUND$2,500
LEWIS AND CLARK LAW SCHOOL$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +166% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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

+166%
+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
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.

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 +166%

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%
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.

04Its field

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.

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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oregon Food Bank; 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, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
15/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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.

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 …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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Coon Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Coon Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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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