Oregon · Private foundation
Dwyer Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $81k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2025
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 29
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $970k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Dwyer Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 25 | $81k | 4% |
| FY2024 | 28 | $77k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $77k | 23% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $73k | 12% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $90k | 34% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $78k | 32% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $79k | 14% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $103k | 24% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seattle Nativity School | $115,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Providence Center | $62,000 | 5 | 3% |
| St Vincent de Paul | $45,700 | 9 | n/a |
| St Andrew Nativity School | $35,000 | 8 | n/a |
| St Marys Academy | $23,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Rose Haven Cic | $19,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Store to Door | $16,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Providence Milwaukie Foundation | $14,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Meals on Wheels People Inc | $13,500 | 5 | 0% |
| De la Salle North Catholic High School | $13,000 | 4 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seattle Nativity School | $115,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Providence Center | $62,000 | 5 | 3% |
| St Vincent de Paul | $45,700 | 9 | n/a |
| St Andrew Nativity School | $35,000 | 8 | n/a |
| St Marys Academy | $23,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Rose Haven Cic | $19,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Store to Door | $16,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Providence Milwaukie Foundation | $14,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Meals on Wheels People Inc | $13,500 | 5 | 0% |
| De la Salle North Catholic High School | $13,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Portland Rescue Mission | $12,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Metropolitan Family Service | $12,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Raphael House of Portland | $11,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Blanchet House of Hospitality | $11,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Hollywood Senior Center dba Community for Positive Aging | $8,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Sisters of St Mary of Oregon | $7,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Macdonald Center | $5,500 | 2 | 0% |
| St Clare Church & School | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Saving Grace Maternity Home | $2,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Holy Family Academy | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Wheel to Walk Foundation | $2,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Project 48 Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 5% |
| St Philip Neri Church | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($312k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dwyer Charitable Trust supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Juan Young Trust · The Oregon Community Foundation · Clark Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Robert D and Marcia H Randall Charitable Trust · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · Bp Lester & Regina John Foundation · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · Onpoint Community Credit Union · Hoover Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Dwyer Charitable Trust
- How much does Dwyer Charitable Trust give?
- Dwyer Charitable Trust reported 26 grants totaling $80,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Dwyer Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (46%), Human Services (20%), Religion (16%).
- Who are Dwyer Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Seattle Nativity School ($115k), Providence Center ($62k), St Vincent de Paul ($46k).
- Does Dwyer Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dwyer Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Dwyer Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Juan Young Trust, The Oregon Community Foundation, Clark Foundation.
- Where is Dwyer Charitable Trust based?
- Dwyer Charitable Trust is based in OR.
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