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James Roy Foster Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$157k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$68k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Religion$219kRecreation & Sports$218kEducation$29kArts & Culture$26kHealth$16kAnimals$4kCommunity Improvement$4kFood & Nutrition$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $29k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $128k
$2,340
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTHWEST ASSOCIATION$67,576
CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF CLARK COUNTY$60,250
ALPHA SIGMA PHI FOUNDATION$7,450
Gardner School Donation$2,800
SATURDAY ACADEMY$2,582
MAKE IT FOUNDATION$2,573
CASCADE HEALTH FOUNDATION$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,340
MULTNOMAH ATHLETIC FOUNDATION$2,200
Individual grant recipient$2,100
Youth Efforts Against Hunger - HEAH$1,225
WCH Humane Society$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
BRIDGE THE GAP VANCOUVER$1,000
SOUTHWEST WA HUMANE SOCIETY$250
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 8% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MAUI FOOD BANK: $1k → 9%HAWAI'I COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $1k → 14%GHB3 BOOM: $5k → 17%AMERICA GIVES: $1k → 14%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $250 → 14%GIFTED WISHES: $6k → 8%HARPER'S PLAYGROUND: $1k → 12%CASCADE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $3k → 15%ALPHA SIGMA PHI EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $11k → 5%AGAPE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $500 → 9%WCH Humane Society: $1k → 10%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $100 → 14%MAKE IT FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%SATURDAY ACADEMY: $3k → 12%CASCADE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $2k → 15%ALPHA SIGMA PHI FOUNDATION: $7k → 5%BRIDGE THE GAP VANCOUVER: $1k → 9%WEST COLUMBIA GORGE HUMANE SOCIETY: $1k → 10%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $100 → 14%MULTNOMAH ATHLETIC FOUNDATION: $2k → 12%ALPHA SIGMA PHI EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $3k → 5%CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF CLARK COUNTY: $60k → 9%TAMIM PORTLAND: $2k → 12%ALPHA SIGMA PHI EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $1k → 5%CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF CLARK COUNTY: $50k → 9%CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF CLARK COUNTY: $50k → 9%CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF CLARK COUNTY: $28k → 9%CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF CLARK COUNTY: $25k → 9%CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF CLARK COUNTY: $573 → 9%CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF CLARK COUNTY: $538 → 9%Youth Efforts Against Hunger - HEAH: $1k → 9%Gardner School Donation: $3k → 9%GARDNER SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND SCIENCE: $1k → 9%SOUTHWEST WA HUMANE SOCIETY: $250 → 9%GARDNER SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND SCIENCE: $500 → 9%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MI
NY
OR
IN
CA
DC
HI
TX
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$411k · 5 repeat orgs$119k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +137% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
15

Total granted

$411k
$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+137%
+16%

Still filing today

80%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $87k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthAnimalsRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionHuman ServicesOther
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

  • NA
    NORTHWEST ASSOCIATION FOR BLIND ATHLETES
    3× · 2021–2023 · $147k · revenue +332%
  • VS
    VANCOUVER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
    3× · 2021–2023 · $24k · revenue +117%
  • AS
    ALPHA SIGMA PHI FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $22k · revenue +137%

Funded once

  • NM
    NATIONAL MS SOCIETY
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $6k
  • GB
    GHB3 BOOMgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +412%
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
University of Hawaii Foundation

To unite donors' passions with the university of hawai'i's (uh) aspirations by raising philanthropic support and managing investments to benefit uh, the people of hawai'i and our future generations.

Education
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
Seattle University

Seattle University is dedicated to educating the whole person, to professional formation, and to empowering leaders for a just and humane world.

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4
Washington University

The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)

Education
5
University of Portland

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…

Education
6
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
7
American University

To advance knowledge, foster intellectual curiosity, build community, and empower lives of purpose, service, and leadership.

Education
8
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
9
National Science and Technology Medals Foundation Inc

The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…

—
10
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
11
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
12
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

The mission of the institute has remained constant since its founding in 1953. as its restated articles of incorporation state the primary purpose and objective of the howard hughes medical institute shall be the promotion of human…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Willamette Community Health Solutions Inc; the most unlike its peers is GHB3 Boom. 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

22 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. 22 of the 34 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
13/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF CLARK COUNTY: $213,861 · OtherCHABAD LUBAVITCH OF CLARK COUNTYNORTHWEST ASSOCIATION: $67,576 · OtherNORTHWEST ASSOCIATIONVANCOUVER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $23,835 · OtherVANCOUVER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA+18 more: $37,782 · Other+18 moreNORTHWEST ASSOCIATION FOR BLIND ATHLETES: $147,042 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST ASSOCIATION FOR BLIND…ALPHA SIGMA PHI FOUNDATION INC: $22,005 · EducationTHE GARDNER SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $1,500 · Education+3 more: $1,450 · EducationWILLAMETTE COMMUNITY HEALTH SOLUTIONS INC: $4,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,000 · HealthDONATE LIFE NORTHWEST: $500 · HealthGHB3 BOOM: $5,000 · ReligionMULTNOMAH ATHLETIC FOUNDATION: $2,200 · Recreation & SportsHarpers Playground: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsMAKE IT FOUNDATION: $2,573 · Employment
Other$343,054Human Services$147,042Education$24,955Health$5,500Religion$5,000Recreation & Sports$3,200Employment$2,573

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 budgetNORTHWEST ASSOCIATION FOR BLIND ATHLETES: $147,042 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetVANCOUVER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $23,835 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetALPHA SIGMA PHI FOUNDATION INC: $22,005 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetGHB3 BOOM: $5,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetWILLAMETTE COMMUNITY HEALTH SOLUTIONS INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMULTNOMAH ATHLETIC FOUNDATION: $2,200 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GARDNER SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH EFFORTS AGAINST HUNGER: $1,225 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHarpers Playground: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEST COLUMBIA GORGE HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICA GIVES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREALITY CHANGERS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDONATE LIFE NORTHWEST: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAGAPE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChurch of Pug: $350 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

The Oregon Community …The Blackbaud Giving …Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…Vanguard Charitable E…Paypal Charitable Giv…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Oregon Community FoundationOR15.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Willamette Community Health Solutions Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Portland State University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to James Roy Foster Foundation?

Find your warmest path to James Roy Foster 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 34 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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