· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| STREET ROOTS | $10,000 |
| OREGON COMMUNITY WAREHOUSE | $10,000 |
| OUTSIDE IN | $10,000 |
| RAPHAEL HOUSE | $10,000 |
| TRANSITION PROJECTS | $7,500 |
| CENTRAL CITY CONCERN | $7,500 |
| FRIENDS OF COLUMBIA GORGE | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| ROSE HAVEN CIC | $5,000 |
| FOREST PARK CONSERVANCY | $2,500 |
| BLANCHET HOUSE | $2,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE | $2,500 |
| CASA FOR CHILDREN | $2,500 |
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 (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 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against -21% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WOWaterWatch of Oregon6× · 2020–2025 · $120k · revenue +246%
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%
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.
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…
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 19 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Evans Runyan Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Evans Runyan Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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