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Edward & Romell Ackley Fdn

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$250k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.

Health$711kHuman Services$216kYouth Development$204kCrime & Legal$147kRecreation & Sports$112kAnimals$95kPublic Benefit$80kEducation$60kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $239k
$12,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDRENPORTLAND$25,000
GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE - PORTLAND LLC$24,000
OREGON ZOO FOUNDATION$20,000
VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC$20,000
WHEEL TO WALK FOUNDATION$20,000
CHILDRENS CANCER ASSOCIATION$15,000
BEND PARKS AND REC$15,000
ABC HOUSE$15,000
STORE TO DOOR$12,500
BLOOMIN BOUTIQUE$12,000
MAKEAWISH FOUNDATION OF OREGON$10,000
RETURNING VETERANS PROJECT$10,000
TUCKER MAXON SCHOOL$10,000
FINANCIAL BEGINNINGS$10,000
CASA OF CLACKAMAS COUNTY$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $123k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%OPERATION WARM INC: $10k → 10%BLOOMIN BOUTIQUE: $12k → 8%ABC HOUSE: $15k → 13%BLOOMIN BOUTIQUE: $12k → 8%TREEHOUSE THERAPIES ASSOCIATES: $17k → 10%TREEHOUSE THERAPIES ASSOCIATES: $15k → 10%FINANCIAL BEGINNINGS: $10k → 12%STORE TO DOOR: $13k → 12%STORE TO DOOR: $10k → 12%ALBERTINA KERR CENTERS: $10k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.4M · 28 repeat orgs$418k to everyone else

28 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
20

Total granted

$1.4M
$378k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+22%

Still filing today

86%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalEducationArts & CultureOther

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

  • CASA FOR CHILDREN INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $117k · revenue +27%
  • FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-PORTLAND
    5× · 2020–2025 · $97k · revenue +17%
  • THE OREGON ZOO FOUNDATION
    6× · 2018–2025 · $95k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • WC
    WILLAMETTE COMMUNITY HEALTH SOLUTIONS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue +13%
  • GARTEN SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -1%
  • OH
    OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $25k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Family Forward Oregon

We work collectively to educate and advocate for systems that elevate the vital work of care and caregiving in its many forms within our community.

Human Services
2
Oregon Casa Network

To lead oregon's casa programs to provide a strong voice for every abused and neglected child

Human Services
3
LArche Portland

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…

Human Services
4
Cascades Academy of Central Oregon

Cascades academy is an engaged, vibrant community that weaves challenging academics with experiential learning to inspire socially responsible individuals ready for a diverse and changing world.

Education
5
Oregon Justice Network

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…

Human Services
6
Oregon Child Development Coalition

Oregon child development coalition is dedicated to improving the lives of children and families by providing early childhood education, care and advocacy with unique and supportive services to enhance family growth and community success.

Human Services
7
Oregon Agricultural Trust

Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.

Environment
8
Oregon Research Institute

Oregon research institute is an independent behavioral sciences research center dedicated to understanding human behavior and improving the quality of human life through the prevention and treatment of health, educational, and social…

Social Science
9
Abilities At Work

To provide employment and alternative service programs for developmentally disabled adults in the portland metro area.

Employment
10
Oregon Child Abuse Solutions

To ensure children and youth in oregon have access to high quality, comprehensive services and resources to address child abuse.

Crime & Legal
11
Family Forward Action

We build the collective power of mothers and caregivers to actualize their agency to fight for racial, gender, economic, and reproductive equity.

Community Improvement
12
The Arc Oregon

The arc of oregon, together with its network of members and affiliated chapters, advocates for the rights and full community participation of all children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa for Children Inc 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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%6%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr19%47%20–35yr12%24%35–55yr15%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr19%48%20–35yr12%29%35–55yr15%9%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/38
the rest of the field
12%
1,306/10,825

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.

04the grantee network

38 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. 38 of the 51 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/38
Grantees still filing
24/38
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC — $138,000 · HealthVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINICWHEEL TO WALK FOUNDATION — $76,000 · HealthWHEEL TO WALK FOUNDATIONWILLAMETTE COMMUNITY HEALTH SOLUTIONS INC — $75,000 · HealthWILLAMETTE COMMUNITY HEALTH SO…MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OREGON — $73,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OREG…VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE — $25,000 · HealthPROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $25,000 · HealthANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC — $24,000 · HealthALS Northwest — $20,000 · Health+2 more — $30,000 · Health+2 moreGARTEN SERVICES INC — $50,000 · OtherGARTEN SERVICES INCNW ASSOC FOR BLIND ATHLETES — $50,000 · OtherNW ASSOC FOR BLIND ATHLETESGIGI'S PLAYHOUSE - PORTLAND LLC — $44,000 · OtherGIGI'S PLAYHOUSE - PORTLAND LLCTUCKER MAXON SCHOOL — $30,000 · OtherGleaners of Clackamas County Inc — $30,000 · OtherOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE FOUNDATION — $25,000 · OtherFINANCIAL BEGINNINGS OREGON — $25,000 · OtherRETURNING VETERANS PROJECT — $79,500 · OtherRETURNING VETERANS PROJECTCASA OF CLACKAMAS COUNTY — $40,000 · OtherCASA OF CLACKAMAS COUNTYChildrens Center — $30,000 · Other+17 more — $230,500 · Other+17 moreOperation Warm Inc — $74,500 · Human ServicesOperation Wa…Treehouse Therapies Associates — $31,500 · Human ServicesTreehouse Th…BLOOMIN BOUTIQUE — $24,000 · Human ServicesBLOOMIN BOUT…STORE TO DOOR — $22,500 · Human ServicesSTORE TO DOO…NORTHWEST ASSOCIATION FOR BLIND ATHLETES — $15,000 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST AS…ABC HOUSE INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesABC HOUSE IN…ALBERTINA KERR CENTERS — $10,000 · Human ServicesFINANCIAL BEGINNINGS — $10,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-PORTLAND — $97,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS O…FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN — $36,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS O…Girls Inc of the Pacific Northwest — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentGirls Inc…CASA FOR CHILDREN INC — $116,750 · Civil RightsChildren's Cancer Association — $108,000 · Arts & CultureTHE OREGON ZOO FOUNDATION — $94,750 · Animals
Health$486,000Other$634,000Human Services$202,500Youth Development$148,000Civil Rights$116,750Arts & Culture$108,000Animals$94,750

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC — $138,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetCASA FOR CHILDREN INC — $116,750 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetChildren's Cancer Association — $108,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-PORTLAND — $97,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE OREGON ZOO FOUNDATION — $94,750 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetRETURNING VETERANS PROJECT — $79,500 over 7y, 3.9% of budgetWHEEL TO WALK FOUNDATION — $76,000 over 8y, 6.3% of budgetWILLAMETTE COMMUNITY HEALTH SOLUTIONS INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOperation Warm Inc — $74,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OREGON — $73,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetGARTEN SERVICES INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCASA OF CLACKAMAS COUNTY — $40,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN — $36,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTreehouse Therapies Associates — $31,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetChildrens Center — $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTUCKER MAXON SCHOOL — $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGleaners of Clackamas County Inc — $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE — $25,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetPROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFINANCIAL BEGINNINGS OREGON — $25,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetBLOOMIN BOUTIQUE — $24,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC — $24,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSTORE TO DOOR — $22,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetALS Northwest — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSpecial Olympics Oregon Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGirls Inc of the Pacific Northwest — $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNORTHWEST ASSOCIATION FOR BLIND ATHLETES — $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSERENITY LANE — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetABC HOUSE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCENTRAL OREGON DISABILITY SUPPORT NETWORK INC — $15,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetPHAME ACADEMY — $12,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetOREGON ADAPTIVE SPORTS — $12,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL SCHOOL — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetALBERTINA KERR CENTERS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetConstructing Hope Pre-Apprenticeship Program — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetALBERTINA KERR CENTERS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetNEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFINANCIAL BEGINNINGS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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.

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.

The Oregon Community …OCF Joseph E Weston P…Marie Lamfrom Charita…Hillman Family Founda…The Robert D and Marc…The Jackson FoundationThe Autzen FoundationMaybelle Clark Macdon…Juan Young TrustThe Holzman FoundationThe Collins FoundationOnpoint Community Cre…
The Oregon Community FoundationOR54.2× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Hillman Family Foundations · The Robert D and Marcia H Randall Charitable Trust · The Jackson Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · Juan Young Trust · The Holzman Foundation · The Collins Foundation · Onpoint Community Credit Union

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 Edward & Romell Ackley Fdn 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Albertina Kerr Centers — 74% of income from government
  • Garten Services Inc — 34% of income from government
  • Abc House Inc — 25% of income from government
  • New Avenues for Youth Inc — 20% of income from government
  • Community Transitional School — 7% of income from government
  • Providence Portland Medical Foundation — 5% of income from government
  • Friends of the Children-Portland — 5% of income from government
  • Girls Inc of the Pacific Northwest — 4% of income from government
  • Constructing Hope Pre-Apprenticeship Program — 2% of income from government
  • Casa for Children Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Financial Beginnings — 1% of income from government
  • Volunteers in Medicine Clinic — 0% of income from government
  • Phame Academy — 0% of income from government
  • Casa of Clackamas County — 0% of income from government
  • Childrens Center — 0% of income from government
  • Willamette Community Health Solutions Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Serenity Lane — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 51 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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