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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.

$406k
Granted FY2024still arriving
43
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$70k
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 2024.

Recreation & Sports$702kArts & Culture$630kHealth$551kEducation$262kReligion$193kHuman Services$137kEnvironment$44kMembership Benefit$22kOther$0
02FY2024 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k34 grants · $106k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $103k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $197k
$3,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$5.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Mt Vernon Ladies Association of the Union$10,000
Oregon Coast Children's Theatre$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
Belvedere Nursery School$5,000
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 (FY20–24, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Robison Jewish Home: $4k → 12%Robison Jewish Home: $2k → 12%ALBERTINA KERR CENTERS: $2k → 12%Albertina Kerr Centers: $1k → 12%Albertina Kerr Centers: $1k → 12%ALBERTINA KERR CENTERS: $1k → 12%ALBERTINA KERR CENTERS: $500 → 12%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
WI
MI
NY
OR
NV
IA
PA
CA
VA
AZ
TN
DC
OK
LA
TX
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 49 repeat orgs$120k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +4% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
8

Total granted

$2.5M
$96k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+4%

Still filing today

57%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CC
    CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $372k · revenue +12%
  • PORTLAND ART MUSEUM
    5× · 2020–2024 · $370k · revenue +14%
  • TA
    THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND
    5× · 2020–2024 · $94k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • NL
    North Lake Wellness Center
    one grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue -101% · 32% of their budget
  • MC
    Monroe Carell Jr Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt University
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF LINCOLN
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +3%
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
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
2
University of Southern California

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…

Education
3
Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

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.

Health
4
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University

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.

Education
5
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
6
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

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…

Health
7
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
8
Western University of Health Sciences

To produce, in a humanistic tradition, health care professionals and biomedical knowledge that will enhance and extend the quality of life in our communities.

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9
Trustees of Dartmouth College

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.

Education
10
Western New England University

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…

Education
11
Washington University

The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)

Education
12
American Museum of Natural History

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."

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

38 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. 38 of the 61 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/38
Grantees still filing
27/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Robert E Flowerree Memorial Park Foundation: $702,076 · PhilanthropyRobert E Flowerree Memorial Pa…PORTLAND ART MUSEUM: $370,000 · Arts & CulturePORTLAND ART MUSEUMJEANERETTE LANDMARK SOCIETY: $123,000 · Arts & CultureJEANERETTE LANDMARK SOCIE…PORTLAND OPERA ASSOCIATION INC: $46,000 · Arts & CulturePORTLAND OPERA ASSOCIATIO…STRATFORD HALL: $26,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $19,000 · Arts & CultureLINCOLN COUNTY CHILD AND FAMILY DAY TREATMENT CENTER: $70,000 · OtherLINCOLN COUNTY CHILD AND…MARITIME PASTORAL INSTITUTE: $68,000 · OtherMARITIME PASTORAL INSTIT…OLALLA CENTER: $46,000 · OtherOLALLA CENTEROREGON COAST CHILDRENS THEATRE: $44,500 · OtherOREGON COAST CHILDRENS T…VANDERBILT UNIVIERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $40,000 · OtherVANDERBILT UNIVIERSITY M…North Lake Wellness Center: $40,000 · OtherNorth Lake Wellness Cent…CHRIST CHURCH PARISH LAKE OSWEGO: $39,500 · OtherCHRIST CHURCH PARISH LAK…Love Your Neighbor Ministries: $23,000 · OtherTRINITY EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL: $23,000 · OtherMt Vernon Ladies Association of the Union: $22,000 · Other+19 more: $152,104 · Other+19 moreCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $372,000 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS F…GOOD SAMARITAN FOUNDATION: $33,000 · HealthGOOD SAMARITAN FOUN…Vanderbilt University Medical Center: $15,000 · Health+3 more: $16,500 · HealthTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $93,500 · EducationTHE ADMINI…ST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $77,000 · EducationST CATHERI…LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE: $15,500 · EducationLEWIS & CL…FRIENDS OF LINCOLN: $10,000 · EducationWALDORF SCHOOL OF BEND: $10,000 · EducationOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $9,000 · Education+5 more: $25,500 · Education+5 moreAMERICAN RHODODENDRON SOCIETY PORTLAND CHAPTER: $16,500 · EnvironmentWORLD FORESTRY CENTER: $12,500 · EnvironmentHoyt Arboretum Friends Foundation: $3,000 · EnvironmentROBISON JEWISH HOME: $5,500 · Human ServicesALBERTINA KERR CENTERS: $5,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,000 · Human ServicesTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $5,500 · Public Benefit
Philanthropy$702,076Arts & Culture$584,000Other$568,104Health$436,500Education$240,500Environment$32,000Human Services$12,500Public Benefit$5,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRobert E Flowerree Memorial Park Foundation: $702,076 over 5y, 96% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $372,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPORTLAND ART MUSEUM: $370,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetJEANERETTE LANDMARK SOCIETY: $123,000 over 5y, 49% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $93,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $77,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetMARITIME PASTORAL INSTITUTE: $68,000 over 4y, 56% of budgetPORTLAND OPERA ASSOCIATION INC: $46,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetOREGON COAST CHILDRENS THEATRE: $44,500 over 5y, 11% of budgetNorth Lake Wellness Center: $40,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN FOUNDATION: $33,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSTRATFORD HALL: $26,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN RHODODENDRON SOCIETY PORTLAND CHAPTER: $16,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetLEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE: $15,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD FORESTRY CENTER: $12,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetOREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF LINCOLN: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetWALDORF SCHOOL OF BEND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetReed Schools Foundation: $8,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHIGH HOPES INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFIRST STEPS INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBELVEDERE NURSERY SCHOOL: $7,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $5,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetROBISON JEWISH HOME: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $5,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetALBERTINA KERR CENTERS: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $4,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetATLAS SCIENCE CENTER INC: $3,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetHoyt Arboretum Friends Foundation: $3,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEYOND BATTEN DISEASE FOUNDATION: $500 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.

  • 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 ↗

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 Oregon Community …Oregon Jewish Communi…Juan Young TrustOCF Joseph E Weston P…The Roundhouse Founda…Meyer Memorial TrustThe Autzen FoundationThe Swigert FoundationRose E Tucker Charita…The Jackson FoundationThe Blackbaud Giving …American Endowment Fo…
The Oregon Community FoundationOR25.1× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Flowerree Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Flowerree Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
4report 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
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 61 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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