· Private foundation
Cynthia B Tomlinson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $4k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $97k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Saving Grace | $16,000 |
| Central Oregon Community College Foundation | $16,000 |
| John Austin Cheley Foundation | $16,000 |
| Mountain Star Family Relief Nursury | $16,000 |
| Los Charros Foundation | $13,000 |
| Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation | $10,000 |
| Benaroya Research Institute at VM | $10,000 |
| Gales Creek Camp Foundation | $4,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $205k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- COCENTRAL OREGON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $128k · revenue +23%
MOUNTAINSTAR FAMILY RELIEF NURSERY9× · 2017–2025 · $128k · revenue +83%- SGSAVING GRACE5× · 2021–2025 · $77k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- DFDOUGLAS FOSTER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
Children's institute's mission is to leverage research, practice, policy, and advocacy to shift systems toward justice for families so that all of oregon's children, prenatal to grade 5, have access to opportunity.
Children's cancer research fund fuels transformational research to bring better treatments and cures to children with cancer.
The mission of the lung cancer research foundation is to improve lung cancer outcomes by funding research for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of lung cancer.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.
Children's research institute dba children's national research institute conducts and promotes translational and clinical medical research and education programs that lead to improved understanding, prevention, treatment, and care of…
Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
Our mission is to expand scientific knowledge and improve public health by designing and conducting world-class clinical trials and epidemiologic research.
The colorado mountain college foundation builds sustainable community support for the needs and strategic priorities of colorado mountain college and its students.
The lustgarten foundation is the largest private funder of pancreatic cancer research in the world. see schedule o.the lustgarten foundation is boldly leading the way through hope and innovation, turning fear into action through education…
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 15 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
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 CENTRAL OREGON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAINSTAR FAMILY RELIEF NURSERY ↗
- Who funds SAVING GRACE ↗
- Who funds JOHN AUSTIN CHELEY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOS CHARROS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds BENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds GALES CREEK CAMP FOUNDATION ↗
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 Oregon Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cynthia B Tomlinson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cynthia B Tomlinson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Saving Grace: 61% of income from government
- Mountainstar Family Relief Nursery: 51% of income from government
How this is measured
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