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Dunlap Silsby 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 $10k31 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ELON UNIVERSITY | $55,000 |
| STRENGTHENING HEALTH INSTITUTE | $7,500 |
| DREAMZ WORK | $7,500 |
| CASA OF JACKSON COUNTY INC | $7,500 |
| TERRA FIRMA RAINWATER COLLECTIVE | $7,500 |
| GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC | $5,000 |
| YOUTH SYMPHONY OF SOUTHERN OREGON | $5,000 |
| ACCELERATE CHANGE INC | $5,000 |
| ROSE HAVEN CIC | $4,000 |
| PROJECT POOCH | $3,000 |
| CAT ADOPTION TEAM | $3,000 |
| ROGUE VALLEY FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| BUTTERFLY HAVEN INC | $3,000 |
| GLADSTONE CHEERLEADING | $2,500 |
| THE GOLISANO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NAPLES INC | $2,500 |
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, $97k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% 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 +18% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 6 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
Elon University3× · 2022–2024 · $65k · revenue +18%- KSKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION5× · 2018–2024 · $34k · revenue +78%
- TFTERRA FIRMA RAINWATER COLLECTIVE3× · 2022–2024 · $28k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- HCHILL CITY INCone grant, 2017 · $7k
- SHSHILOH HOME INCone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue 0%
BELONG Partnersone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -24%
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.
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.
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 &…
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…
Building changes advances equitable responses to homelessness in washington state, with a focus on children, youth, and families. we work at the intersection of housing, education, and health systems, partnering with communities and public…
Rethink Priorities' mission is to support organizations, researchers, and changemakers in efforts to generate the most significant possible charitable impact for others in the present and the long-term future.
The dove project is a domestic violence and sexual assault agency that provides survivor services, prevention education and community programming in an effort to reduce interpersonal harm.
Every Shelter's mission is to build a localized refugee-aid ecosystem centered around the needs, preferences, and aspirations of refugees.
Empowering life-affirming decisions
Leading the way in creating a compassionate, safe community for pets and people through progressive lifesaving programs and services, community resources, and educational opportunities.
Shelter Animal Resource Alliance rescues, assists, and advocates for shelter animals in Lane County by developing and implementing programs designed to increase the number of animals adopted into permanent, loving homes and decrease the…
New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.
Human Rights for Kids is an international non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion and protection of human rights for children. We use an integrated, multi-faceted approach which consists of research & public education, coalition…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Accelerate Change Inc and the most unlike its peers is Xcape Dance Company. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 21 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
72 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. 72 of the 81 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 Elon University ↗
- Who funds STRENGTHENING HEALTH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds EVON'S HOPE ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SYMPHONY OF SOUTHERN OREGON ↗
- Who funds KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TERRA FIRMA RAINWATER COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds DREAMZ WORK INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds GOLISANO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds ROGUE VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BUTTERFLY HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds Nick Wilson Charitable Group ↗
- Who funds GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds NO MANS LAND FILM FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds JUDI'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds ROGUE RETREAT ↗
- Who funds MASLOW PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SCIENCEWORKS HANDS-ON MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Sylvia Rivera Law Project Inc ↗
- Who funds CAT ADOPTION TEAM ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF OMAHA INC ↗
- Who funds THE MALALA FUND ↗
- Who funds PROJECT POOCH ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds PATTY BAKER HUMANE SOCIETY NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds Greater Salina Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds KANBE'S MARKETS ↗
- Who funds CASA OF JACKSON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds RECREATIONAL AVIATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROGUE VALLEY FARM TO SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds 2000 FEET INC ↗
- Who funds TALENT MAKER CITY ↗
- Who funds MARY'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE AOPA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ACCELERATE CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds GARDNERS HOUSE INC ↗
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 Carpenter Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Carrico Family Foundation · The Collins Foundation · Quinn Hill Foundation · Joe & Frances Naumes Family Foundation · Raymond Family Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · The Roundhouse Foundation · The Larson Legacy
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 Dunlap Silsby 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.
- Dreamz Work Incorporated — 100% of income from government
- Maslow Project — 22% of income from government
- Rogue Valley Farm to School — 17% of income from government
- Ecotrust — 14% of income from government
- New Haven Reads Community Book Bank Inc — 13% of income from government
- Rogue Retreat — 12% of income from government
- Youth Symphony of Southern Oregon — 6% of income from government
- Friends of the Children-Portland — 5% of income from government
- Justice Dance Performance Project Inc — 2% of income from government
- Pdx Diaper Bank — 2% of income from government
- The Oregon Community Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Scienceworks Hands-On Museum — 0% of income from government
- Casa of Jackson County Inc — 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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