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Gray Family Foundation
The Gray Family Foundation is a supporting organization of The Oregon Community Foundation (OCF).
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $66k
- $10k–50k70 grants · $1.7M
- $50k–250k11 grants · $726k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NatureConnect Central Oregon | $86,000 |
| ELSO | $84,000 |
| National Caucus of Environmental Legislators | $75,000 |
| Lomakatsi Restoration Project | $71,000 |
| Soul River Inc | $65,000 |
| Beyond Toxics | $62,000 |
| Camp Myrtlewood | $60,000 |
| United Methodist Church Oregon-Idaho | $60,000 |
| Oregon Museum of Science and Industry | $55,600 |
| Oregon Community Foundation | $55,000 |
| Camp Lutherwood Association | $52,000 |
| Episcopal Diocese of Eastern Oregon | $48,000 |
| Rogue Climate | $45,000 |
| CAPACES Leadership Institute | $45,000 |
| Wild Diversity | $45,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $499k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 88% 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 +53% since the first grant, against +41% for those funded once.
145 repeat relationships: 68 still active in FY2024, 77 since wound down; 19 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $393k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FOFRIENDS OF OUTDOOR SCHOOL5× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +23% · 74% of their budget
- EIELSO INC5× · 2020–2024 · $356k · revenue +91%
- NCNATURECONNECT CENTRAL OREGON6× · 2018–2024 · $327k · revenue +469% · 36% of their budget
Funded once
- MMazamasgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $60k · revenue +31%
- MHMT HOOD KIWANIS CAMP FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -73%
- ROREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAone grant, 2018 · $42k
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.
Develop educational network to communicate historical and scientific information empasizing natural and cultural resources to pacific northwest.
Oregon Wild works to protect and restore Oregon's wildlands, wildlife and waters as an enduring legacy for future generations.
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
Cascades academy is an engaged, vibrant community that weaves challenging academics with experiential learning to inspire socially responsible individuals ready for a diverse and changing world.
The council is organized to foster partnerships for clean water, healthy streams, and abundant fisheries in the Clackamas Watershed
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…
To assist in the development implementation and maintenance of coordinated resource management that will enhance the natural resources business and social relationships of the McKenzie Sub-basin.
Founded in 1981, the wetlands conservancy is dedicated to working in partnership with communities statewide to permanently protect, conserve and restore oregon's greatest wetlands.
To conserve, enhance and protect the quality and ecological integrity of the watersheds by providing a cooperative forum to promote and facilitate integrated watershed management.
The institutes's mission is to inspire environmental stewardship through transformative learning experiences in natures.
The Network of Oregon Watershed Councils supports the work of Oregons watershed councils. (See Schedule O for full mission)
How this is measured
179 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 179 of the 248 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 FRIENDS OF OUTDOOR SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ELSO INC ↗
- Who funds NATURECONNECT CENTRAL OREGON ↗
- Who funds THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WALLOWA RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds CAPACES LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY ↗
- Who funds Beyond Toxics ↗
- Who funds SOUL RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds Rogue Climate ↗
- Who funds EUVALCREE ↗
- Who funds ECOLOGY IN CLASSROOMS AND OUTDOORS ↗
- Who funds LOMAKATSI RESTORATION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CAMP TAMARACK ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL GRANTMAKERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SISKIYOU FIELD INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Friends of Tryon Creek ↗
- Who funds THE COTTONWOOD SCHOOL OF CIVICS AND SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds CAMP FIRE COLUMBIA ↗
- Who funds APANO COMMUNITIES UNITED FUND ↗
- Who funds CAMP MYRTLEWOOD INC ↗
- Who funds Verde Inc ↗
- Who funds Cascade Pacific RC&D Area ↗
- Who funds Growing Gardens ↗
- Who funds Opal Creek Ancient Forest Center ↗
- Who funds KLAMATH OUTDOOR SCIENCE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA SLOUGH WATERSHED COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds ADELANTE MUJERES ↗
- Who funds RURAL ORGANIZING PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CAMP ARRAH WANNA INC ↗
- Who funds WESTWIND STEWARDSHIP GROUP ↗
- Who funds UNDERSTORY INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds PROGRESSIVE MULTIPLIER FUND ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN OREGON LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds American-Hellenic Educational Center 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.
Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Collins Foundation · The Roundhouse Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · Juan Young Trust · Seeding Justice · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Ronald W Naito Md Foundation · Braemar Charitable Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gray Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gray Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Bonneville Environmental Foundation: 100% of income from government
- Lomakatsi Restoration Project: 100% of income from government
- High Desert Partnership: 100% of income from government
- Elso Inc: 100% of income from government
- North Fork John Day Watershed Council: 100% of income from government
- Tillamook Estuaries Partnership: 100% of income from government
- Siuslaw Watershed Council Inc: 100% of income from government
- Marys River Watershed Council: 100% of income from government
- Southern Oregon Forest Restoration Collaborative: 100% of income from government
- Maxville Heritage Interpretive Center: 100% of income from government
- Wallowa Resources Inc: 100% of income from government
- Institute for Applied Ecology: 99% of income from government
- Ayco: 89% of income from government
- Willamette Partnership: 76% of income from government
- Calapooia Watershed Council: 57% of income from government
- Grande Ronde Model Watershed Foundation: 50% of income from government
- Middle Fork Willamette Watershed Council: 49% of income from government
- Coos Watershed Association: 44% of income from government
- Long Tom Watershed Council: 39% of income from government
- The Next Door Inc: 39% of income from government
- Understory Initiative: 36% of income from government
- Adelante Mujeres: 31% of income from government
- Upward Bound Camp for Persons With Special Ne: 30% of income from government
- Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership: 29% of income from government
- Friends of Zenger Farm: 28% of income from government
- Warm Springs Community Action Team: 28% of income from government
- Elevate Oregon: 28% of income from government
- Oregon Agriculture in the Classroom: 28% of income from government
- Sunny Wolf Charter School: 26% of income from government
- United Way of the Columbia-Willamette: 25% of income from government
- Oregon Coast Aquarium Inc: 24% of income from government
- Native American Youth and Family Center: 23% of income from government
- Capaces Leadership Institute: 20% of income from government
- Kairospdx: 19% of income from government
- Mt Hood Kiwanis Camp: 18% of income from government
- Euvalcree: 18% of income from government
- Rogue Valley Farm to School: 17% of income from government
- Siskiyou Field Institute: 17% of income from government
- Latino Network: 15% of income from government
- Coalition of Communities of Color: 15% of income from government
- Ywca of Greater Portland: 15% of income from government
- Ecotrust: 14% of income from government
- Beyond Toxics: 13% of income from government
- Friends of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument: 13% of income from government
- Columbia Slough Watershed Council Inc: 11% of income from government
- High Desert Museum: 11% of income from government
- Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians: 10% of income from government
- The Blueprint Foundation: 10% of income from government
- Outgrowing Hunger: 9% of income from government
- School Garden Project of Lane County: 9% of income from government
- Neighbors for Kids: 8% of income from government
- Impact Nw: 8% of income from government
- Rogue Climate: 7% of income from government
- Growing Gardens: 6% of income from government
- Kings Valley Charter School: 6% of income from government
- Willamette Cascades Community Land Trust: 5% of income from government
- Playa: 5% of income from government
- Luckiamute Valley Charter Schools: 5% of income from government
- Klamath Outdoor Science School: 4% of income from government
- Oregon Museum of Science and Industry: 4% of income from government
- The Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization: 4% of income from government
- Walla Walla Basin Watershed Foundation: 4% of income from government
- Verde Inc: 3% of income from government
- Oregon Shores Conservation Coalition: 3% of income from government
- Eastern Oregon Regional Arts Council dba Art Center East: 3% of income from government
- Corvallis Waldorf Association: 2% of income from government
- The Cottonwood School of Civics and Science: 2% of income from government
- The Oregon Community Foundation: 2% of income from government
- Trash for Peace: 2% of income from government
- Ridgeline Montessori Public: 1% of income from government
- Young Mens Christian Assoc Medford dba Rv Family Ymca: 1% of income from government
- Rose Community Development Corporat: 1% of income from government
- Portland Community Media: 1% of income from government
- Young Men's Christian Association of Columbia-Willamette: 1% of income from government
- Columbia Riverkeeper: 1% of income from government
- Caldera: 1% of income from government
- Tualatin Riverkeepers Inc: 1% of income from government
- Love Is King Inc: 0% of income from government
- Central Oregon Environmental Center Inc Dba - the Environmental Center: 0% of income from government
- Food Roots: 0% of income from government
- Southern Oregon University Foundation: 0% of income from government
- Bird Alliance of Oregon Inc: 0% of income from government
- Powell Butte Charter School: 0% of income from government
- Yakona Nature Preserve: 0% of income from government
- Oregon State University Foundation: 0% of income from government
- Portland State University Foundation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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