· Private foundation
Kave Family Foundation
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 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 $10k46 grants · $99k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PATH HOME | $30,000 |
| PORTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP | $10,000 |
| DEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| ACLU OF COLORADO | $5,000 |
| BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE | $5,000 |
| ACLU FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA - COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE | $5,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF PORTLAND | $5,000 |
| NORTHWEST ABORTION ACCESS FUND | $4,000 |
| BIKELOUD PDX | $3,500 |
| FRIENDS OF THE GORGE | $3,000 |
| UKRAINIAN CRISIS RELIEF FUND | $3,000 |
| SUNSHINE DIVISION | $2,503 |
| SOUL 2 SOUL SISTERS | $2,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 15% of Kave Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 73% of the giving stays in OR; read by stated purpose it is 62% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +1% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
49 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 14 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
KAIROSPDX6× · 2017–2022 · $67k · revenue +313%- PHPATH HOME2× · 2024–2025 · $45k · revenue +11%
- SSOLVE8× · 2018–2025 · $12k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD - PORTLANDone grant, 2024 · $12k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $10k
- PFPCC FOUNDATION (SCHOLARSHIPS)one grant, 2024 · $8k
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.
To ensure economic prosperity in the portland region by providing strong leadership, partnership, and programs that encourage business growth and vitality.
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…
Building a diverse grassroots movement to address the causes of climate disruption through justice-based solutions by inspiring, training and mobilizing people to act.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
SF Partnership is an organization comprised of SF's leading employers dedicated to supporting an equitable, resilient, and vibrant economy shared by all people working and living in San Francisco. Through education, advocacy, and research,…
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…
We believe that the freedoms of press, speech, assembly, and religion, and the rights to due process, equal protection and privacy, are fundamental to a free people. We advance civil liberties and civil rights by activities that include…
Connecting people across oregon and the pacific northwest through the power of a shared story.
The aclu foundation of oregon is dedicated to preserving and defending civil liberties and civil rights.
For more than five decades, public advocates has challenged the systemic causes of poverty and racial discrimination by strengthening community voices in public policy and achieving tangible legal victories advancing education, housing,…
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sunshine Division Inc and the most unlike its peers is Walk San Francisco. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
66 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. 66 of the 107 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 PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KAIROSPDX ↗
- Who funds PATH HOME ↗
- Who funds Jewish Federation of Greater Portland ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Columbia Gorge ↗
- Who funds SOLVE ↗
- Who funds SOUL 2 SOUL SISTERS ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds Walk San Francisco ↗
- Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST ABORTION ACCESS FUND ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON TRAIL OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE PORTLAND PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds SPARK SF PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds DEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds KABOOM INC ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE DIVISION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN ↗
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 · The Autzen Foundation · The Collins Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Hillman Family Foundations · Juan Young Trust · The Jackson Foundation · Oregon Jewish Community Foundation · The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Care Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust
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 Kave Family 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.
- Metropolitan Family Service — 29% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- Trailkeepers of Oregon — 19% of income from government
- A Smile for Kids — 19% of income from government
- Kairospdx — 19% of income from government
- Self Enhancement Inc — 14% of income from government
- El Programa Hispano Catolico — 13% of income from government
- The Portland Playhouse — 11% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of the Columbia Willamette Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Street Trust Community Fund — 6% of income from government
- Solve — 5% of income from government
- White Bird — 2% of income from government
- Community Cycling Center — 2% of income from government
- Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc — 0% of income from government
- Portland State University Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Legacy Health — 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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