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Iseli Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$394k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2025
2
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$274,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 31
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$7.7M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Iseli Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesReligionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving7$394k71%
FY20242$50k0%
FY20234$35k25%
FY20224$45k0%
FY20214$40k50%
FY20204$55k25%
FY201931$44k10%
FY201829$44k7%
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$595kInternational$73kEducation$48kYouth Development$24kAnimals$20kHuman Services$11kHealth$6kArts & Culture$1kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
OR
PA
CA
CO
MO
KY
AZ
KS
NC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
First Baptist Church of Gresham$70,0005n/a
Western Seminary$59,0006n/a
American Baptist Foreign Mission Society$28,0004n/a
International Guiding Eyes Inc DBA Guide Dogs of America$20,00010%
Good Samaritan Ministries$20,0001n/a
Grace Chapel Castle Rock$20,0001n/a
Champion Ministries Inc$20,0001n/a
Heartland International Ministries$20,00021%
First Baptist Church$15,0001n/a
George Fox University$13,00030%
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All grantees of Iseli Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
First Baptist Church of Gresham$70,0005n/a
Western Seminary$59,0006n/a
American Baptist Foreign Mission Society$28,0004n/a
International Guiding Eyes Inc DBA Guide Dogs of America$20,00010%
Good Samaritan Ministries$20,0001n/a
Grace Chapel Castle Rock$20,0001n/a
Champion Ministries Inc$20,0001n/a
Heartland International Ministries$20,00021%
First Baptist Church$15,0001n/a
George Fox University$13,00030%
Berean Way Inc$6,00035%
Warner Pacific University$5,00030%
Mt Hood Hospice$5,00030%
The Denver Street School$5,00010%
Multnomah University$4,00030%
Colorado Uplift Inc$4,00030%
University of the Cumberlands Inc$4,00030%
Barclay College$4,00030%
Corban University$4,00030%
Portland Rescue Mission$4,0003n/a
Vision Church Inc$3,0003n/a
Kolo Group$3,0003n/a
Linfield University$3,00030%
Sim USA Incorporated$3,0003n/a
Union Gospel Mission$3,0003n/a
Mesa Global$2,0002n/a
Jews for Jesus$1,1002n/a
Wonderwork Inc$1,0001n/a
The Navigators$1,0001n/a
Birch Community Services Inc$1,00010%
My Sisters House$1,00010%
Wycliffe Bible Translators Inc$1,0001n/a
American Bible Society$50010%
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Dept$5001n/a
Oregon Right to Life$50010%

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($422k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Iseli Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetInternational Guiding Eyes Inc DBA Guide Dogs of America: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHeartland International Ministries: $20,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetGeorge Fox University: $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBerean Way Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetWarner Pacific University: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMt Hood Hospice: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Denver Street School: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMultnomah University: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Uplift Inc: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of the Cumberlands Inc: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBarclay College: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCorban University: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLinfield University: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBirch Community Services Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMy Sisters House: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Bible Society: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOregon Right to Life: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 17.

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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.

M J Murdock Charitable TrustWA14.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Oregon Community Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Iseli Foundation

How much does Iseli Foundation give?
Iseli Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $394,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 31 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Iseli Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (76%), International (9%), Education (6%).
Who are Iseli Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: First Baptist Church of Gresham ($70k), Western Seminary ($59k), American Baptist Foreign Mission Society ($28k).
Does Iseli Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Iseli Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Iseli Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include M J Murdock Charitable Trust, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, The Oregon Community Foundation.
Where is Iseli Foundation based?
Iseli Foundation is based in OR.

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 51 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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