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Erickson Family Foundation at a glance

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Erickson Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$21k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Animals$54kReligion$35kHealth$25kInternational$6kPhilanthropy$4kFood & Nutrition$4k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$7,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$276k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Tillamook Seventh Day Adventist$7,000
Homeward Bound Pets$7,000
Oregon Lions Sight & Hearing Foundation$7,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–21, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Live Like JoJo Foundation: $4k → 10%Live Like Jojo Foundation: $4k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$93k · 4 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +100% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
6

Total granted

$93k
$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+100%
0%

Still filing today

75%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsHealthInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • HB
    HOMEWARD BOUND PETS HUMANE SOCIETY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $44k · revenue +29%
  • LL
    LIVE LIKE JOJO FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $7k · revenue +100%
  • WILDLIFE CENTER OF THE NORTH COAST
    2× · 2020–2021 · $7k · revenue +109%

Funded once

  • TT
    THE TOBY KEITH FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $7k · revenue 0%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue +13%
  • OREGON FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue +5%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals
2
The Oregon Zoo Foundation

To foster community pride and involvement in the oregon zoo and to secure financial support for the zoo's conservation, education and animal well-being programs.

Animals
3
Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka Paws

A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.

Animals
4
Oregon Cancer Foundation

Our mission is to empower, strengthen and sustain those impacted by cancer in our community through education, support and financial assistance.

Health
5
Pet Orphans of Southern California

In addition to rescue and adoption, pet orphans provides a wide range of services including education, medical/financial, spay/neuter, and training assistance.

Animals
6
Orca Conservancy

Orca conservancy is working on behalf of orcinus orca, the killer whale, and protecting the wild places on which it depends.

Animals
7
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
8
Wild Orca

Translating science into action to save Southern Resident killer whales from extinction.

Animals
9
Orphans of the Storm

Animal shelter operations and related pet adoption activities.

Animals
10
Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center

KS Wilds mission is to protect and restore wild nature in the Klamath-Siskiyou region of southwest Oregon and northwest California.

Environment
11
Brightside Animal Center

Brightside animal center is a high-save shelter dedicated to providing sheltering, placement, and prevention services to reduce animal homelessness and unnecessary euthanasia.

Animals
12
Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland

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.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oregon Food Bank; the most unlike its peers is Live Like Jojo Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOMEWARD BOUND PETS HUMANE SOCIETY: $44,000 · OtherHOMEWARD BOUND PETS HUMANE SOCIETYTillamook Seventh Day Adventist: $35,000 · OtherTillamook Seventh Day AdventistOREGON FOOD BANK: $3,500 · OtherOHSU Foundation: $3,500 · OtherWILDLIFE CENTER OF THE NORTH COAST: $6,500 · AnimalsPERFORMING ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY: $3,000 · AnimalsTHE TOBY KEITH FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 · PhilanthropyLIVE LIKE JOJO FOUNDATION: $7,000 · Human ServicesOregon Lions Sight & Hearing Foundation: $7,000 · HealthMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $6,000 · InternationalUKANDU: $3,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$86,000Animals$9,500Philanthropy$7,000Human Services$7,000Health$7,000International$6,000Recreation & Sports$3,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHOMEWARD BOUND PETS HUMANE SOCIETY: $44,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTHE TOBY KEITH FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIVE LIKE JOJO FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetOregon Lions Sight & Hearing Foundation: $7,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWILDLIFE CENTER OF THE NORTH COAST: $6,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON FOOD BANK: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUKANDU: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPERFORMING ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Autzen FoundationThe Oregon Community …Paypal Charitable Giv…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Autzen FoundationOR13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Autzen Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Erickson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Erickson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 24%
  • Oregon Lions Sight & Hearing Foundation: 24% of income from government
  • Oregon Food Bank: 21% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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