· Private foundation
Dwyer Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PORTLAND RESCUE MISSION | $5,000 |
| SEATTLE NATIVITY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - LEBANON AREA | $4,000 |
| ST ANDREW NATIVITY SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| ROSE HAVEN | $4,000 |
| DE LA SALLE NORTH CATHOLIC HS | $4,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES | $4,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $4,000 |
| SISTERS OF ST MARY OF OREGON FOUNDA | $4,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE | $4,000 |
| HOLY FAMILY SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| STORE TO DOOR | $3,000 |
| HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CHURCH SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| SISTERS OF THE HOLY CHILD CARE CENT | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% 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.
38 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- SNSEATTLE NATIVITY SCHOOL7× · 2017–2025 · $115k · revenue +150%
ROSE HAVEN CIC6× · 2018–2025 · $20k · revenue +303%- PMPROVIDENCE MILWAUKIE FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $15k · revenue +141%
Funded once
- JVJESUIT VOLUNTEER CORPone grant, 2019 · $10k
- SHSOCIETY HOLY CHILD JESUSone grant, 2023 · $5k
- MCMAYBELLE CENTERone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
Meals on wheels of central maryland's charitable mission, to keep homebound people living safely and independently at home through the provision of nutritious meals, personal contact and support services, reduces hospitalization, and…
To provide isolated homebound seniors in san francisco with nutritious meals, daily human contact, and supportive services to prevent their premature institutionalization.
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…
We offer our homeless neighbors accessible whole-person care to improve and support health, and to bridge a gap in trust between people and systems.
Provail's mission is to support people with disabilities to fulfill their life choices.
As expressions of god's healing love, witnessed through the ministry of jesus, we are steadfast in serving all, especially those who are poor and vulnerable.
William temple house provides food, counseling, clothing and household items to portland-area neighbors to strengthen our community.
Providence house was established to provide housing, supportive services, training, employment and opportunities for homeless families with children to break the cycle of homelessness.
Providing shelter, food, clothing & support for homeless families
We partner with our community to make good health possible for all. wallace serves individuals and families who face barriers to care throughout the east multnomah county in the portland metropolitan area.
Cathedral center's mission is to provide a safe environment for women and families, while working to end homelessness one life at a time. the cathedral center serves unaccompanied women and families with children who are homeless or…
Mary's mantle is a catholic residential program for homeless expectant women. we witness the love of christ by promoting the dignity of life. we provide a safe, faith-based and caring environment that supports the transition into…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Metropolitan Family Service 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 51 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
15 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. 15 of the 57 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 SEATTLE NATIVITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ROSE HAVEN CIC ↗
- Who funds STORE TO DOOR ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE MILWAUKIE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Family Service ↗
- Who funds BLANCHET HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY ↗
- Who funds RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds Hollywood Senior Center dba Community for Positive Aging ↗
- Who funds MACDONALD CENTER ↗
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: 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
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 Dwyer Charitable Trust 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.
- Metropolitan Family Service — 29% of income from government
- Project 48 Inc — 23% of income from government
- Raphael House of Portland — 10% of income from government
- Hollywood Senior Center dba Community for Positive Aging — 9% 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.