· Private foundation
Jason E Zidell Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $175k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MJCC | $43,333 |
| CATLIN GABEL SCHOOL | $43,333 |
| MORRISON CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES | $25,000 |
| PORTLAND JEWISH ACADEMY | $13,600 |
| B'NAI B'RITH CAMP | $10,000 |
| OUTSIDE IN | $10,000 |
| NATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH & FAMILY CENTER | $10,000 |
| ISRAEL TECH MISSION | $10,000 |
| NEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH | $10,000 |
| VIRGINIA GARCIA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| OUTSIDE THE FRAME | $5,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF PORTLAND | $5,000 |
| PATHFINDERS | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 72% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +70% since the first grant, against +61% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
CATLIN GABEL SCHOOL8× · 2017–2025 · $105k · revenue +74%- BBB'NAI BRITH MEN'S CAMP ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2025 · $66k · revenue +86%
- MCMORRISON CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES8× · 2017–2025 · $61k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $19k
PORTLAND ART MUSEUMone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +3%- RBREBECCA BENDER INITIATIVEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +61%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Oregon research institute is an independent behavioral sciences research center dedicated to understanding human behavior and improving the quality of human life through the prevention and treatment of health, educational, and social…
Next up amplifies the voice and leadership of diverse young people to achieve a more just and equitable oregon.
Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…
Next up amplifies the voice of diverse youth to achieve a more just oregon
Partnering with parents to provide a rich, innovative, and effective home- based education that nurtures academic success and personal growth.
Connecting people across oregon and the pacific northwest through the power of a shared story.
The school provides a robust and immersive multilingual curriculum, fostering an inclusive community that celebrates diverse perspectives and creates the foundation for reflective learners to thrive and effect change in an interconnected…
The oregon center for public policy's mission is to achieve economic justice for all oregonians through research, analysis, and advocacy. ocpp works to change policies that foster economic security and stability for all oregonians. we do…
Orla serves as the leading industry advocate, striving to protect, improve and promote oregon hospitality.
Portland Public Library is a welcoming cultural center that brings people together and connects them with trusted resources, ideas, experiences, and information. We build a stronger community by inspiring learning, creativity, and…
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.
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Native American Youth and Family Center and the most unlike its peers is Rebecca Bender Initiative. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 24 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CATLIN GABEL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds B'NAI BRITH MEN'S CAMP ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MORRISON CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds OUTSIDE IN ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND JEWISH ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA GARCIA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds NEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds OUTSIDE THE FRAME ↗
- Who funds Jewish Federation of Greater Portland ↗
- Who funds THE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds THE OREGON ZOO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SMART READING ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds REBECCA BENDER INITIATIVE ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Oregon Jewish Community Foundation · United Way of the Columbia-Willamette · Juan Young Trust · The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Care Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Jay and Diane Zidell Charitable Foundation · The Holzman Foundation · Onpoint Community Credit Union · Careoregon Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Jason E Zidell Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Morrison Child and Family Services — 91% of income from government
- Outside in — 33% of income from government
- Native American Youth and Family Center — 23% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- New Avenues for Youth Inc — 20% of income from government
- B'nai Brith Men's Camp Association — 7% of income from government
- The Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization — 4% of income from government
- Smart Reading — 3% of income from government
- Portland Art Museum — 1% of income from government
- Outside the Frame — 1% of income from government
- Oregon Symphony Association — 0% of income from government
- Catlin Gabel School — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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