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James and Shirley Rippey Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
53
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$600k
Largest
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$15MYouth Development$4.9MHuman Services$3.2MArts & Culture$2.1MAnimals$1.4MHousing & Shelter$900kCrime & Legal$865kRecreation & Sports$555kOther$0
02FY2025 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k11 grants · $275k
  • $50k–250k41 grants · $4.4M
  • $250k+1 grant · $600k
$75,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$84M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION$600,000
LIBRARY FOUNDATION$225,000
COLLEGE POSSIBLE$200,000
DE LA SALLE NORTH CATHOLIC HS$200,000
CASA OF MULTWASHCOL CNTY$200,000
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN$200,000
Individual grant recipient$200,000
ST MARY'S HOME FOR BOYS$150,000
PORTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE$150,000
OREGON ZOO$150,000
THE NEXT DOOR$150,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS$150,000
NEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH$150,000
Individual grant recipient$150,000
MIKEROWE WORKS FOUNDATION$125,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $2.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 24% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ST MARY'S HOME FOR BOYS: $150k → 8%ST MARY'S HOME FOR BOYS: $100k → 8%ST MARY'S HOME FOR BOYS: $100k → 8%ST MARY'S HOME FOR BOYS: $100k → 8%ST MARY'S HOME FOR BOYS: $100k → 8%CLACKAMAS WOMEN'S SERVICES: $50k → 8%ST MARY'S HOME FOR BOYS: $100k → 8%ST MARY'S HOME FOR BOYS: $100k → 8%CLACKAMAS WOMEN'S SERVICES: $30k → 8%ST MARY'S HOME FOR BOYS: $100k → 8%CLACKAMAS WOMEN'S SERVICES: $30k → 8%ADELANTE MUJERES: $125k → 8%ADELANTE MUJERES: $125k → 8%ADELANTE MUJERES: $100k → 8%ADELANTE MUJERES: $100k → 8%ADELANTE MUJERES: $100k → 8%ADELANTE MUJERES: $100k → 8%ADELANTE MUJERES: $75k → 8%CLACKAMAS WOMEN'S SERVICES: $20k → 8%ADELANTE MUJERES: $20k → 8%CLACKAMAS WOMEN'S SERVICES: $20k → 8%CLACKAMAS WOMEN'S SERVICES: $10k → 8%RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND: $50k → 12%RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND: $25k → 12%RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND: $25k → 12%RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND: $10k → 12%PROJECT LEMONADE: $50k → 12%PROJECT LEMONADE: $35k → 12%PROJECT LEMONADE: $30k → 12%PROJECT LEMONADE: $20k → 12%PROJECT LEMONADE: $20k → 12%PROJECT LEMONADE: $15k → 12%BIRCH COMMUNITY SERVICES: $85k → 12%BIRCH COMMUNITY SERVICES: $50k → 12%BIRCH COMMUNITY SERVICES: $35k → 12%BIRCH COMMUNITY SERVICES: $35k → 12%REAP INC: $25k → 12%REAP INC: $25k → 12%REAP INC: $20k → 12%REAP INC: $10k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$32M · 71 repeat orgs$740k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

71 repeat relationships: 50 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

71
7

Total granted

$32M
$615k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+28%

Still filing today

61%
14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesCrime & LegalArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION
    8× · 2018–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +156%
  • TL
    THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION
    8× · 2018–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +29%
  • CP
    COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +77%

Funded once

  • EH
    EDISON HIGH SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $240k · revenue +28%
  • PS
    PROVIDENCE ST VINCENT EMERGENCY DEP
    one grant, 2024 · $200k
  • C
    CASA
    one grant, 2018 · $75k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Our Children Oregon

Our children oregon's mission is to be a voice and force for the common good for all oregon children, ensuring all children have the resources and opportunities they need to reach their full potential. we elevate data and the voices of…

Philanthropy
2
Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
3
Family and Community Together

Fact oregon empowers families, youth, and communities to navigate disability systems, advocating together for disability justice and policy change so that people with disabilities have what they need to thrive at home, in school, and in…

Human Services
4
Kairospdx

Kairospdx's singularly focused mission is to close the racial achievement and opportunity gaps by cultivating confident, creative, compassionate leaders exceeding academic standards at each developmental milestone from ages 0-10.

Education
5
Mitch Charter School

We believe that the strength of our community lies in its diversity. we know the power of many different voices at the table. these voices resound from the hearts and minds of our youth, who hold the keys to a just, fair and sustainable…

Education
6
Trillium Family Services

Building brighter futures with children and families.

Housing & Shelter
7
Friends of the Children-Portland

Friends - portland commits to standing alongside our community's youth as they work to overcome barriers to their success. each child receives 1:1 support and guidance from a salaried, professional mentor (called a friend), from…

Youth Development
8
Friends of the Children- Central Oregon

Friends of the children - central oregon is a oregon based nonprofit with the mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years,…

Youth Development
9
Portland Opportunities Indust Center

The organization provides the highest quality services in education, mentoring, family outreach, employment training and placement.

—
10
Youthbuild Dc Public Charter School Inc

Youthbuild pcs seeks to transform the lives of disconnected youth by offering a program, in english and spanish, that combines rigorous academic instruction with vocational training, life and employability skills- building, and community…

Education
11
Parenting With Intent

Building strong connections for healthy communities through mental health programs, youth empowerment services and family services.

Human Services
12
Olalla Center

To help strengthen and heal children and families, and the community. olalla center's staff believes all children and families can heal and this premise is the foundation of olalla center's treatment philosophy and the basis for their work.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Open School Inc; the most unlike its peers is Columbia Gorge Casa. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

49 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 49 of the 82 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/49
Grantees still filing
35/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DE LA SALLE NORTH CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $2,300,000 · OtherDE LA SALLE NORTH CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLOMSI: $1,175,000 · OtherOMSIPORTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $1,150,000 · OtherPORTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGEIndividual grant recipient: $1,150,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS: $1,135,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBSIndividual grant recipient: $900,000 · OtherNEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INC: $900,000 · OtherOREGON ZOO: $850,000 · OtherST ANDREW NATIVITY SCHOOL: $840,000 · OtherPACIFIC LUTHERAN UNIV FOUNDATION: $725,000 · OtherCASA OF MULTWASHCOL CNTY: $700,000 · Other+39 more: $6,789,300 · Other+39 moreUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $1,575,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF OREGON…COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $1,100,000 · EducationCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INCSMART READING: $725,000 · EducationSMART READINGOregon State University Foundation: $700,000 · EducationOregon State Univers…SERENDIPITY CENTER INC: $450,000 · EducationSERENDIPITY CENTER I…OPEN SCHOOL INC: $450,000 · EducationOPEN SCHOOL INCCOMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL SCHOOL: $440,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY TRANSITION…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $325,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEE…+2 more: $58,000 · EducationTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $1,325,000 · Arts & CultureOREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $900,000 · Arts & CultureHIGH DESERT MUSEUM: $182,500 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $60,000 · Arts & CultureST MARY'S HOME: $850,000 · Human ServicesADELANTE MUJERES: $745,000 · Human ServicesBirch Community Services Inc: $205,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT LEMONADE INC: $170,000 · Human ServicesCLACKAMAS WOMEN'S SERVICES: $160,000 · Human ServicesRAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND: $110,000 · Human ServicesREAP INC: $80,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $910,000 · Youth DevelopmentPortland YouthBuilders: $440,000 · Youth DevelopmentELSO INC: $85,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE NEXT DOOR INC: $725,000 · Crime & LegalOREGON CHILD ABUSE SOLUTIONS: $250,000 · Crime & LegalCASA OF CLACKAMAS COUNTY: $180,000 · Crime & LegalChildrens Center: $155,000 · Crime & LegalKIDS INTERVENTION AND DIAGNOSTIC SERVICE CENTER: $50,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $37,500 · Crime & LegalOREGON COAST AQUARIUM INC: $565,000 · Animals
Other$18,614,300Education$5,823,000Arts & Culture$2,467,500Human Services$2,320,000Youth Development$1,435,000Crime & Legal$1,397,500Animals$565,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $1,575,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $1,325,000 over 8y, 8.0% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $1,100,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $910,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetNEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INC: $900,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetOREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $900,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetST MARY'S HOME: $850,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetADELANTE MUJERES: $745,000 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetSMART READING: $725,000 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetTHE NEXT DOOR INC: $725,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetOregon State University Foundation: $700,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetOREGON COAST AQUARIUM INC: $565,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetSERENDIPITY CENTER INC: $450,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetOPEN SCHOOL INC: $450,000 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL SCHOOL: $440,000 over 8y, 9.1% of budgetPortland YouthBuilders: $440,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION: $403,400 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $375,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $325,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CAMPBELL INSTITUTE: $275,000 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetOREGON CHILD ABUSE SOLUTIONS: $250,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetOUTSIDE IN: $245,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION: $225,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetREADING RESULTS: $215,000 over 8y, 4.8% of budgetBirch Community Services Inc: $205,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGirls on the Run of Portland Metro DBA Girls on the Run of Greater Oregon: $190,000 over 7y, 7.2% of budgetHIGH DESERT MUSEUM: $182,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCASA OF CLACKAMAS COUNTY: $180,000 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetPROJECT LEMONADE INC: $170,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetCLACKAMAS WOMEN'S SERVICES: $160,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetChildrens Center: $155,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetTOGETHER WE ARE GREATER THAN: $140,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetMINDS MATTER OF PORTLAND INC: $115,000 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetRAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND: $110,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetELSO INC: $85,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetREAP INC: $80,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetFINANCIAL BEGINNINGS OREGON: $80,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetOregon 4-H Foundation: $75,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetPORTLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $60,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetKINSHIP HOUSE: $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetYOUTH PROGRESS ASSOCIATION: $45,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPortland Workforce Alliance: $45,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetOREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOLUMBIA GORGE CASA: $37,500 over 3y, 11% of budgetPORTLAND CENTER STAGE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S BOOK BANK: $15,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budget
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 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds NEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds OREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds ST MARY'S HOME ↗
  • Who funds ADELANTE MUJERES ↗
  • Who funds SMART READING ↗
  • Who funds THE NEXT DOOR INC ↗
  • Who funds Oregon State University Foundation ↗
  • Who funds OREGON COAST AQUARIUM INC ↗
  • Who funds SERENDIPITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds OPEN SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Portland YouthBuilders ↗
  • Who funds THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE CAMPBELL INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds OREGON CHILD ABUSE SOLUTIONS ↗
  • Who funds OUTSIDE IN ↗
  • Who funds EDISON HIGH SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds MIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION ↗

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.

OCF Joseph E Weston Public FoundationOR64× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization James and Shirley Rippey Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James and Shirley Rippey Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Elso Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Reap Inc: 46% of income from government
  • The Next Door Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Portland YouthBuilders: 35% of income from government
  • Clackamas Women's Services: 33% of income from government
  • Outside in: 33% of income from government
  • Adelante Mujeres: 31% of income from government
  • Oregon Child Abuse Solutions: 30% of income from government
  • Youth Progress Association: 29% of income from government
  • Oregon Coast Aquarium Inc: 24% of income from government
  • New Avenues for Youth Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Project Lemonade Inc: 15% of income from government
  • High Desert Museum: 11% of income from government
  • Oregon Historical Society: 10% of income from government
  • Raphael House of Portland: 10% of income from government
  • Portland Workforce Alliance: 8% of income from government
  • Community Transitional School: 7% of income from government
  • Open School Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Together We Are Greater Than: 5% of income from government
  • Smart Reading: 3% of income from government
  • Serendipity Center Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Portland Center Stage: 1% of income from government
  • Columbia Gorge Casa: 1% of income from government
  • Casa of Clackamas County: 0% of income from government
  • The Campbell Institute: 0% of income from government
  • Oregon Symphony Association: 0% of income from government
  • Childrens Center: 0% of income from government
  • Oregon State University Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • Portland State University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to James and Shirley Rippey Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 82 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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