· Private foundation
Dwyer Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- SCST CLARE CHURCH & SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $5k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
How this is measured
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds BLANCHET HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY ↗
- Who funds Hollywood Senior Center dba Community for Positive Aging ↗
- Who funds MACDONALD CENTER ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Dwyer Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dwyer Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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