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Gelco Charitable Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
99% of Gelco Charitable Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 12 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Gelco Charitable Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 50 organizations, $346k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k66 grants · $180k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $167k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PROVIDENCE ST VINCENT MEDICAL FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| 40 DAYS FOR LIFE | $14,500 |
| OUR LADY OF THE LAKE CHURCH | $14,500 |
| MARY TV INC | $14,000 |
| CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF THE MID WILLAMETTE | $12,000 |
| FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE | $11,500 |
| REGIS CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| BLANCHET CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| MARIAN FATHERS OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF THE | $10,000 |
| RESURRECTION CATHOLIC PARISH | $10,000 |
| QUEEN OF PEACE CATHOLIC CHURCH | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE MID-WILLAMETTE VALLEY | $10,000 |
| CONGREGATION OF MARIAN FATHERS OF THE IMMACULATE C | $10,000 |
| CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF THE MID WILLAMETTE | $7,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $166k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% 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 +59% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
55 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2022, 15 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
PROVIDENCE ST VINCENT MEDICAL FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2022 · $98k · revenue +258%- AFARCHBISHOP FRANCIS N BLANCHET SCHOOL6× · 2017–2022 · $89k · revenue +94%
- MTMary TV Inc6× · 2018–2023 · $47k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- BOBASILICA OF THE NATIONAL SHRINE OF THE IMMACULATEone grant, 2017 · $5k
- DMDE MUNIZ RESOURCE CENTER LEGAL CLINICone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -26%
- DSDOMINICAN SISTERS OF MARY MOTHER OF EUCHARISTone grant, 2019 · $5k
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.
St. mary's home for boys is dedicated to providing high risk youth and their families the opportunity to become involved in change within an environment that embraces safety, security, and integrity, utilizing time tested, outcome oriented…
Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital and Medical Center (LGSHMC), founded in 1875 is one of the earliest hospitals in the Pacific Northwest. LGSHMC provides acute and tertiary care in Portland, OR with 539 licensed beds. LGSHMC provides a…
As the charitable arm of the archdiocese of denver and inspired by god's love and compassion, catholic charities extends the healing ministry of jesus christ to the poor and those in need. catholic charities of the archdiocese of denver…
Catholic charities affirms the dignity of every person, partnering with parishes and the greater community to serve and advocate for those who are vulnerable, bringing stability and hope to people throughout eastern washington.
To provide compassion and support to individuals in need, regardless of race, origin, religion or gender.
The university of portland, an independently governed catholic university guided by the congregation of holy cross, addresses significant questions of human concern through interdisciplinary studies of the arts, sciences, and humanities…
Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center (LMHMC) was founded in 1922 and is a community hospital in Gresham, Oregon with 115 licensed beds. LMHMC offers a wide range of services including family birth, diagnostic services, cancer treatment,…
St. Mary's Center for Women and Children (SMC), a multi-service organization supporting women, children, and families, believes shelter is not enough to erase the devastation of cyclical poverty and homelessness.Grounded in social justice,…
Saving grace offers safety, hope, and healing to survivors of intimiate partner violence and sexual assault and engages central oregon to build life free from violence.
Catholic answers is an apostolate dedicated to serving christ by bringing the fullness of catholic truth to the world. we help good catholics become better catholics, bring former catholics home, and lead non-catholics into the fullness of…
Provide superior, compassionate, life-affirming health care to patients of all ages, honoring the sanctity of life from conception to natural death, and supporting the culture of life.
Cathedral center's mission is to provide a safe environment for women and families, while working to end homelessness one life at a time. the cathedral center serves unaccompanied women and families with children who are homeless or…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Community Services of the Mid- Willamette Valley & Central Coast and the most unlike its peers is Encounter Ministries. 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 41 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
58 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. 58 of the 101 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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF THE MID- WILLAMETTE VALLEY & CENTRAL COAST ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE ST VINCENT MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARCHBISHOP FRANCIS N BLANCHET SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Mary TV Inc ↗
- Who funds 40 DAYS FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE ↗
- Who funds STANDUPGIRLCOM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Catholic Broadcasting Northwest Inc dba Mater Dei Radio ↗
- Who funds THE DOUGY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OREGON ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC ↗
- Who funds ST GERMAINE ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MARION AND POLK COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds ENCOUNTER MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE MID-WILLAMETTE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAST (CATCH A SPECIAL THRILL) FOR KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
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 Salem Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Juan Young Trust · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Maps Community Foundation · Braemar Charitable Trust · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Lawrence E Tokarski Charitable Trust · Salem Health · Willamette Health Council · The Ford Family 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 Gelco Charitable 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.
- Family Building Blocks Inc — 68% of income from government
- Liberty House — 23% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- Project Lemonade Inc — 15% of income from government
- Church at the Park — 12% of income from government
- Raphael House of Portland — 10% of income from government
- Parenting With Intent — 7% of income from government
- United Way of the Mid-Willamette Valley — 6% of income from government
- Marion-Polk Food Share Inc — 5% of income from government
- Adaptive Riding Institute Dba Horses of Hope Oregon — 5% of income from government
- Oregon Museum of Science and Industry — 4% of income from government
- The Dougy Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Oregon Health & Science University Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Catholic Community Services Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Oregon State University Foundation — 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.
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