· Private foundation
Joseph P Tennant Charitable Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| CRISTO REY CHARLES HS | $10,000 |
| COL RIVER MARITIME MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| PORTLAND ART MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| ASSUMPTION CATHOLIC CHURCH | $5,000 |
| COAST GUARD FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| DESERT COMMUN FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| ARCHDIOCESE OF PORTLAND | $3,900 |
| ST MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL | $2,500 |
| MT VERNON LADIES ASSOC OF THE UNION | $2,500 |
| MAKE IT LIGHT | $2,500 |
| ST MARY CATHEDRALOF THE IMMACULATE | $2,400 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–23, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 7 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WFWATERFALL FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2023 · $34k · revenue +29%
- OHOREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY4× · 2020–2025 · $33k · revenue +64%
- PBPRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2021 · $20k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $25k
- SESt Edward Catholic Churchone grant, 2020 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Portland state university foundation is responsible for raising and managing private resources to advance psu's priorities and mission to be a leading urban university.
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
Portland museum is an innovative and compelling neighborhood museum. the museum boldly weaves exhibitions, performances, collections, and educational programs to excite, challenge and illuminate our neighbors, visitors, and participants…
How this is measured
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 58 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 WATERFALL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Children's Cancer Association ↗
- Who funds COAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA RIVER MARITIME MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WO SMITH NASHVILLE COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MAKE IT LIGHT ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S HOME ↗
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: The Oregon Community Foundation · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · Juan Young Trust · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · King Family Foundation · Gelco Charitable Foundation · R H Parkerunited Foundation · Wheeler Foundation · The Reser Family Foundation · Clark Foundation · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Joseph P Tennant Charitable Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joseph P Tennant Charitable Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- Oregon Historical Society: 10% of income from government
- Columbia River Maritime Museum: 3% of income from government
- The Dougy Center Inc: 1% of income from government
- Portland Art Museum: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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