· Private foundation
Flowerree Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k34 grants · $106k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $103k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $197k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Robert E Flowerree Memorial Park Foundation | $70,000 |
| Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc | $67,000 |
| Portland Art Museum | $60,000 |
| Robert E Flowerree Memorial Park Foundation | $32,000 |
| Olalla Center | $18,000 |
| Jeanerette Landmark Society | $18,000 |
| Vanderbilt University Medical Center | $15,000 |
| Oregon Coast Children's Theatre | $10,000 |
| Mt Vernon Ladies Association of the Union | $10,000 |
| Tulane University | $9,000 |
| Portland Opera Association Inc | $7,500 |
| Christ Church Episcopal Parish | $7,500 |
| Julia Green Elementary School PTO | $7,500 |
| St Catherine's School Foundation | $6,000 |
| American Rhododendron Society | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +20% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
49 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- CCCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $372k · revenue +12%
PORTLAND ART MUSEUM5× · 2020–2024 · $370k · revenue +14%- TATHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND5× · 2020–2024 · $94k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- NLNorth Lake Wellness Centerone grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue -101% · 32% of their budget
- MCMonroe Carell Jr Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt Universityone grant, 2023 · $15k
- FOFRIENDS OF LINCOLNone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +3%
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.
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.
Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.
To produce, in a humanistic tradition, health care professionals and biomedical knowledge that will enhance and extend the quality of life in our communities.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is North Lake Wellness Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 35% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
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 61 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 Robert E Flowerree Memorial Park Foundation ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds JEANERETTE LANDMARK SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds ST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARITIME PASTORAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds OLALLA CENTER ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND OPERA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON COAST CHILDRENS THEATRE ↗
- Who funds North Lake Wellness Center ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STRATFORD HALL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN RHODODENDRON SOCIETY PORTLAND CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds WORLD FORESTRY CENTER ↗
- Who funds OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LINCOLN ↗
- Who funds WALDORF SCHOOL OF BEND ↗
- Who funds OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Reed Schools Foundation ↗
- Who funds HIGH HOPES INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST STEPS INC ↗
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 · Oregon Jewish Community Foundation · Juan Young Trust · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Roundhouse Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Autzen Foundation · The Swigert Foundation · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · The Jackson Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation
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 Flowerree 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.
- Albertina Kerr Centers — 74% of income from government
- Oregon Historical Society — 10% of income from government
- Lewis & Clark College — 2% of income from government
- Portland Opera Association Inc — 2% of income from government
- Portland Art Museum — 1% of income from government
- Oregon Health & Science University Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Oregon Public Broadcasting — 1% of income from government
- World Forestry Center — 0% 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.