· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| ACLU FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| ACLU OF COLORADO | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA - COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE | $5,000 |
| BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE | $5,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF PORTLAND | $5,000 |
| NORTHWEST ABORTION ACCESS FUND | $4,000 |
| BIKELOUD PDX | $3,500 |
| UKRAINIAN CRISIS RELIEF FUND | $3,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE GORGE | $3,000 |
| SUNSHINE DIVISION | $2,503 |
| SOUL 2 SOUL SISTERS | $2,500 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 15% of Kave Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 73% of the giving stays in OR; by stated purpose, 62%.
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 +1% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
KAIROSPDX6× · 2017–2022 · $67k · revenue +313%- PHPATH HOME2× · 2024–2025 · $45k · revenue +11%
- SSOLVE8× · 2018–2025 · $12k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD - PORTLANDone grant, 2024 · $12k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $10k
- PFPCC FOUNDATION (SCHOLARSHIPS)one grant, 2024 · $8k
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.
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.
How this is measured
66 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. 66 of the 107 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 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 MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST ABORTION ACCESS FUND ↗
- Who funds OREGON TRAIL OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE PORTLAND PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds SPARK SF PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds DEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds KABOOM INC ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE DIVISION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kave Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kave Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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