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Francis Cheney 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $37k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASANTE FOUNDATION | $37,000 |
| HIGHER GROUND SUN VALLEY | $1,500 |
| NAMI-CENTRAL OREGON | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF GALENA TRAILS | $1,000 |
| HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| SISTERS KIWANIS FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| WOOD RIVER LAND TRUST | $1,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF CENTRAL OREGON | $500 |
| MARY'S PLACE CO SAVING GRACE | $500 |
| HOSPICE OF WOOD RIVER VALLEY | $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 (FY22–22, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
18 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- HGHIGHER GROUND USA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $16k · revenue +73%
- WRWOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO9× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +121%
HIGH DESERT MUSEUM5× · 2017–2021 · $7k · revenue +274%
Funded once
- TCTHRIVE CENTRAL OREGONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +25%
- HOHEART OF OREGON CORPS INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue +66%
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.
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
Western rivers conservancy's mission is to protect outstanding river ecosystems in the western united states. continued on schedule o.we acquire land to conserve critical habitat, provide public access for compatible use and enjoyment, and…
The oregon humane society ("ohs") is a private animal welfare organization, founded in 1868 and incorporated in 1880, whose mission is to create a more humane society with the vision of a world where all animals are treated with…
To conserve and enhance land in southern oregon to sustain our human and natural communities forever.
Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…
Oregon Wild works to protect and restore Oregon's wildlands, wildlife and waters as an enduring legacy for future generations.
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
To conserve and restore wild and working lands in oregons high desert for wildlife and people, and provide common ground to improve climate resilience, wildlife connectivity, habitat restoration, innovative grazing practices, cultural…
Orla serves as the leading industry advocate, striving to protect, improve and promote oregon hospitality.
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.
Advance health and social justice for all members of our community.
Wwt's mission is to protect and restore water in rivers and streams across washington state. washington water trust restores and protects water in rivers and streams and promotes sustainable freshwater management in washington, and, more…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oregon Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is Wood River Land Trust Co. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 21 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 ASANTE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HIGHER GROUND USA INC ↗
- Who funds WOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO ↗
- Who funds HIGH DESERT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds St Charles Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Deschutes Land Trust ↗
- Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF CENTRAL OREGON ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL OREGON ANIMAL FRIENDS HOME AT LAST HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OREGON ↗
- Who funds THRIVE CENTRAL OREGON ↗
- Who funds HEART OF OREGON CORPS 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 · The Roundhouse Foundation · Bend Foundation · The Anjulicia Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Francis Cheney 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.
- Deschutes Land Trust — 46% of income from government
- Heart of Oregon Corps Inc — 28% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- Thrive Central Oregon — 12% of income from government
- High Desert Museum — 11% 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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