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Demorest Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k15 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $278k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $270k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND | $120,000 |
| THE FRESHWATER TRUST | $50,000 |
| OHSU FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| OHSU DOERNBECHER FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| OMSI | $25,000 |
| NORTHWEST ACADEMY | $20,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| MCMINNVILLE COMMUNITY TENNIS ASS | $20,000 |
| MCMINNEVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT | $15,000 |
| WEST LINN MEN'S LACROSSE BOOSTER CL | $13,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| OLD TIMERS BASEBALL OF PORTLAND | $10,000 |
| ST JUDE'S | $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, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% 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 +29% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
52 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 15 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $183k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND8× · 2017–2024 · $500k · revenue +7%
THE FRESHWATER TRUST8× · 2017–2024 · $446k · revenue +40%- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY PORTLAND METRO EAST6× · 2017–2022 · $300k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $47k
- DFDOERNBECHER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $25k
- TBTHE BALLMER INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN'S BEHAVIORAL HEALTHone grant, 2023 · $20k
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.
Portland state university foundation is responsible for raising and managing private resources to advance psu's priorities and mission to be a leading urban university.
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…
See schedule othe purpose and mission of the organization is to support and assist the university of oregon foundation in its activities by management and administration of organization assets representing privately donated funds, by…
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
The mission of The Oregon Community Foundation is to improve lives of all Oregonians through the power of philanthropy.
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…
To do our part for a stronger and healthier oregon by supporting and encouraging students along their personal continuums of medical education.continued on schedule o.oregon medical education foundation (omef) also strives to be good…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
A community where anyone can thrive through education. every person deserves the opportunity and support necessary to achieve their educational goals. (continued on schedule o)we actively seek out and invest in prospective and current…
To support our members and promote the growth and quality of oregon's technology industry by providing opportunities for business and professional development through networking and informational programs.
See schedule ofbo advances oregon's commitment to support every child to learn, grow, and thrive. we bridge community, policymakers, and philanthropy to collaborate toward realizing a shared long-term vision for our children and young…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Oregon Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Wheel to Walk Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
54 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. 54 of the 98 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 UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds THE FRESHWATER TRUST ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY PORTLAND METRO EAST ↗
- Who funds OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY ↗
- Who funds ALL HANDS RAISED ↗
- Who funds Oregon State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds Central City Concern ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S RESOURCES OF OREGON ↗
- Who funds Clackamas Community College Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE NORTHWEST ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Bradley Angle ↗
- Who funds Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INCIGHT COMPANY ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLANCHET HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY ↗
- Who funds SAM DAY FOUNDATION ↗
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 · The Autzen Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · Juan Young Trust · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · Onpoint Community Credit Union · The Reser Family Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · The Jackson Foundation · The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Care 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 Demorest 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.
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- New Avenues for Youth Inc — 20% of income from government
- The Freshwater Trust — 17% of income from government
- Latino Network — 15% of income from government
- Habitat for Humanity Portland Metro East — 14% of income from government
- Oregon Historical Society — 10% of income from government
- Central City Concern — 10% of income from government
- Bradley Angle — 10% of income from government
- Open School Inc — 5% of income from government
- Friends of the Children-Portland — 5% of income from government
- Oregon Museum of Science and Industry — 4% of income from government
- University of Portland — 1% of income from government
- Caldera — 1% of income from government
- Youth Music Project — 1% of income from government
- William Temple House — 0% of income from government
- Clackamas Community College Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Oregon State University Foundation — 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.
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