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Evans Runyan Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WATERWATCH OF OREGON | $25,000 |
| OREGON NATURAL DESERT ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| OUTSIDE IN | $10,000 |
| STREET ROOTS | $10,000 |
| OREGON COMMUNITY WAREHOUSE | $10,000 |
| RAPHAEL HOUSE | $10,000 |
| CENTRAL CITY CONCERN | $7,500 |
| TRANSITION PROJECTS | $7,500 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| ROSE HAVEN CIC | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF COLUMBIA GORGE | $5,000 |
| FOREST PARK CONSERVANCY | $2,500 |
| BLANCHET HOUSE | $2,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE | $2,500 |
| CASA FOR CHILDREN | $2,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $116k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +61% since the first grant, against -21% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 1 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; $3k 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
- WOWaterWatch of Oregon6× · 2020–2025 · $120k · revenue +328%
RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND6× · 2020–2025 · $48k · revenue +88%
OUTSIDE IN6× · 2020–2025 · $45k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- HHERETOGETHERone grant, 2022 · $3k
- SOSISTERS OF THE ROAD CAFone grant, 2021 · $3k
- PPEARone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue -21%
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.
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.
Operation Nightwatch provides nighttime hospitality for Portland's unhoused population. For a few evenings a week, staff and volunteers at thehospitality center provide a safe place, food, socks, blankets, medical care, and welcome our…
Eastern oregon health & wellness provides recovery housing and outpatient services that support individuals and families impacted by substance use disorder through safe housing, trauma-informed care, and community-based support.
Beyond These Walls supports LGBTQ people impacted by incarceration in Oregon by providing direct service housing and advocacy.
Restoration House provides save, supervised housing for men with significant behavioral health needs, creating a stable environment where structure, accountability, and wraparound services support personal growth and long-term recovery.…
Sheltercare offers a variety of housing and support services for people who are homeless or those facing homelessness with a committed focus on the community's most vulnerable individuals dealing with psychiatric disabilities, acquired…
Impact nw prevents homelessness by supporting people as they navigate their journey to stability and strength. founded in portland in 1966, impact nw now serves 26,944 people a year in the greater portland, oregon metro area, including…
To lead oregon's casa programs to provide a strong voice for every abused and neglected child
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…
Welcome Home is a diverse coalition in the Portland metropolitan region that uses its collective resources to create healthy communities by ensuring everyone has an affordable and stable home. We use community education and collaboration…
To eliminate racism, empower women and promote peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.
Portland Harbor Community Coalition (PHCC) organizes frontline groups and individuals to heal the water, land, and air in and around the Wa'lmaomt (Willamette River) federal Superfund area, polluted from over a century of heavy industrial…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa for Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is WaterWatch of Oregon. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 19 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 WaterWatch of Oregon ↗
- Who funds RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds OUTSIDE IN ↗
- Who funds OREGON NATURAL DESERT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds STREET ROOTS INC ↗
- Who funds Oregon Community Warehouse Inc ↗
- Who funds Central City Concern ↗
- Who funds Transition Projects Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE FOREST PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ROSE HAVEN CIC ↗
- Who funds CASA FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds BLANCHET HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF OUTDOOR SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE INC ↗
- Who funds PEAR ↗
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: The Oregon Community Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Oregon Jewish Community Foundation · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · The Collins Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · The Starseed Foundation · The Larson Legacy · The Jackson Foundation · Onpoint Community Credit Union · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust
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 Evans Runyan Family Foundation 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.
- WaterWatch of Oregon — 61% of income from government
- Outside in — 33% of income from government
- Transition Projects Inc — 29% of income from government
- Oregon Community Warehouse Inc — 24% of income from government
- Central City Concern — 10% of income from government
- Raphael House of Portland — 10% of income from government
- Oregon Natural Desert Association — 9% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of the Columbia Willamette Inc — 7% of income from government
- Casa for Children Inc — 2% of income from government
- Pear — 1% 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.
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