Oregon · Private foundation
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
- 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.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 7 | $394k | 71% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $50k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $35k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $45k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $40k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $55k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $44k | 10% |
| FY2018 | 29 | $44k | 7% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Baptist Church of Gresham | $70,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Western Seminary | $59,000 | 6 | n/a |
| American Baptist Foreign Mission Society | $28,000 | 4 | n/a |
| International Guiding Eyes Inc DBA Guide Dogs of America | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Good Samaritan Ministries | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Grace Chapel Castle Rock | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Champion Ministries Inc | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Heartland International Ministries | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| First Baptist Church | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| George Fox University | $13,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 35 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Baptist Church of Gresham | $70,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Western Seminary | $59,000 | 6 | n/a |
| American Baptist Foreign Mission Society | $28,000 | 4 | n/a |
| International Guiding Eyes Inc DBA Guide Dogs of America | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Good Samaritan Ministries | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Grace Chapel Castle Rock | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Champion Ministries Inc | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Heartland International Ministries | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| First Baptist Church | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| George Fox University | $13,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Berean Way Inc | $6,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Warner Pacific University | $5,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Mt Hood Hospice | $5,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Denver Street School | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Multnomah University | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Colorado Uplift Inc | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
| University of the Cumberlands Inc | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Barclay College | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Corban University | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Portland Rescue Mission | $4,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Vision Church Inc | $3,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Kolo Group | $3,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Linfield University | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Sim USA Incorporated | $3,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Union Gospel Mission | $3,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Mesa Global | $2,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Jews for Jesus | $1,100 | 2 | n/a |
| Wonderwork Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Navigators | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Birch Community Services Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| My Sisters House | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Wycliffe Bible Translators Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| American Bible Society | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Dept | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Oregon Right to Life | $500 | 1 | 0% |
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.
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How this is measured
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: 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
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.
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