· Private foundation
Karen Alice Nilsen Olsen Charitable Foundation Inc
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 $10k19 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BLOOD CANCER UNITED WEST | $10,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA GREATER COLORADO COUNCIL | $6,000 |
| ANDERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MAPLE VALLEY YOUTH SYMPHONY | $5,000 |
| VINE MAPLE PLACE | $5,000 |
| BLACK DIAMOND COMMUNITY CENTER | $5,000 |
| PAVE-PAWS ASSISTING VETERANS | $4,000 |
| SOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL OF JUNCTION CITY | $4,000 |
| ROCAWAY BEACH VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION | $3,000 |
| ARRL FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| DENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION INC | $1,200 |
| THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY | $1,000 |
| WILDLAND FIREFIGHTER FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 3% 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.
24 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- VMVINE MAPLE PLACE6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +75%
- GCGREATER COLORADO COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA4× · 2022–2025 · $24k · revenue +42%
- NCNORTHWEST CENTER4× · 2020–2023 · $20k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- SCSt Charles Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +66%
- GSGOOD SAMARITAN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -224%
- LHLEGACY HEALTH - MARK A TERRY ENDOWMENTone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
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How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 36 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 MAPLE VALLEY YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHEST ↗
- Who funds VINE MAPLE PLACE ↗
- Who funds GREATER COLORADO COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST CENTER ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds Oregon State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds St Charles Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WILDLAND FIREFIGHTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds LONG BEACH VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARRL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Operation Warm Inc ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ROGUE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALS Northwest ↗
- Who funds SHOES THAT FIT ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Karen Alice Nilsen Olsen Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Karen Alice Nilsen Olsen Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Oregon State University Foundation: 0% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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