· Private foundation
Doris and Bill Scharpf 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k21 grants · $2.4M
- $250k+16 grants · $12M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STEPHEN'S COLLEGE | $2,500,000 |
| SANTIAM CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS | $2,400,000 |
| SAFEHAVEN HUMANE SOCIETY | $1,350,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ALBANY | $1,050,000 |
| YMCA - ALBANY | $800,000 |
| ALBANY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $536,000 |
| ALBANY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| ABC HOUSE | $500,000 |
| EAST LINN CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $400,000 |
| DALIT EMPOWERMENT | $390,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY - CASCADE DIVISION | $350,000 |
| HAWAII WILDLIFE CENTER | $350,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OREGON LIBRARY | $300,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $300,000 |
| CREATIVE HOUSING COALITION | $250,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $2.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
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.
39 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M 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
- SCSTEPHENS COLLEGE3× · 2023–2025 · $7.5M · revenue +45%
- SHSAFEHAVEN HUMANE SOCIETY3× · 2023–2025 · $4.1M · revenue +29% · 39% of their budget
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ALBANY3× · 2023–2025 · $3.2M · revenue +9% · 29% of their budget
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $696k
- LCLinn-Benton Community College Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $495k · revenue +40% · 29% of their budget
- LCLANE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $495k · revenue -32%
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.
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
Mobilizing the community to uplift children and families impacted by foster care in Oregon.
The Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland nurtures the connection between people and pets to advance animal welfare and improve the quality of life in our community.
Acap works in partnership with families and communities to empower people to achieve economic self-sufficiency and an improved quality of life.
Partnering with parents to provide a rich, innovative, and effective home- based education that nurtures academic success and personal growth.
To provide head start/early head start education services to children and families, and educate parents in the area of child development, social services and health care.
To assist families by proving a Christ-centered bible-based education that inspires each student to have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and pursue excellence in moral character, academics, and service to others.
Higher education: Albany Law School is an institution of higher education that provides instructional and educational activities singularly focused on the study of law. Completion of the programs by students culminates in the awarding of…
The school's mission is to raise the standard for education as well as establish an environment that would reflect the community's faith in god. in eighteen years, the school has grown from 6 students meeting in a church to 56 students…
To lead oregon's casa programs to provide a strong voice for every abused and neglected child
We provide a voice for an effective and accessible behavioral health system of care for Oregonians.
At l'arche portland people with and without developmental disabilities create home and build community together. we nurture long-term mutual relationships that reveal the gifts of people with developmental disabilities. in doing so we…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa of Linn County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Benton Furniture Share. 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 43 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 56 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 STEPHENS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SANTIAM CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds SAFEHAVEN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ALBANY ↗
- Who funds ABC HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds EAST LINN CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ALBANY BOYS & GIRLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MCKENZIE RIVER DISCOVERY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ALBANY HELPING HANDS ↗
- Who funds CREATING HOUSING COALITION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG ROOTS OREGON ↗
- Who funds FAMILY TREE RELIEF NURSERY ↗
- Who funds HAWAII WILDLIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CASA OF LINN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ALBANY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Linn-Benton Community College Foundation ↗
- Who funds LANE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Dalit Empowerment ↗
- Who funds Unbridled Spirit 7 ↗
- Who funds SMART READING ↗
- Who funds BENTON FURNITURE SHARE ↗
- Who funds ANIMALS AS NATURAL THERAPY ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds ALBANY REGIONAL MUSEUM CORPORATION ↗
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 · Morse Family Foundation · United Way of Linn Benton and Lincoln Counties · The Ford Family Foundation · Chambers Family Foundation · Albany General Hospital · Linn Benton Food Share · Benton Community Foundation · Assurant Foundation · Braemar Charitable Trust · The Autzen Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable 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 Doris and Bill Scharpf 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.
- Home Life Inc — 95% of income from government
- Family Tree Relief Nursery — 57% of income from government
- Abc House Inc — 25% of income from government
- Ophelia's Place — 22% of income from government
- Young Roots Oregon — 21% of income from government
- Albany Helping Hands — 8% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Albany — 7% of income from government
- Albany Regional Museum Corporation — 3% of income from government
- Albany Public Schools Foundation — 3% of income from government
- Bushnell University Fka Northwest Christian University — 3% of income from government
- Smart Reading — 3% of income from government
- Casa of Linn County Inc — 0% of income from government
- Linn-Benton Community College 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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