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Keller Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $280k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DAF GIVING 360 (FORMERLY SCHWAB CHARITABLE DAF) | $200,000 |
| DE LA SALLE NORTH CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $170,000 |
| FREE CLINIC OF SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON | $140,000 |
| CLARK COUNTY FOOD BANK | $140,000 |
| CHILDREN'S LITERACY PROJECT | $138,000 |
| THE ABIGAIL ADAMS INSTITUTE INC | $125,000 |
| DOUGY CENTER | $125,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE FINANACIAL | $120,000 |
| CHILD'S COURSE INC (FIRST TEE) | $100,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE RIDGEFIELD NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE | $85,000 |
| YAMHILL ENRICHMENT SOCIETY | $75,000 |
| OREGON CHILDRENS THEATRE | $75,000 |
| VANCOUVER ARTS & MUSIC FESTIVAL | $72,000 |
| EDISON HIGH SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND | $50,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $150k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% 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 100% of Keller 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, 83% of the giving stays in WA; read by stated purpose it is 0% — 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 +57% since the first grant, against -28% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M 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
- GOGIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC6× · 2019–2024 · $192k · revenue +132%
- EHEDISON HIGH SCHOOL6× · 2019–2024 · $192k · revenue +28%
PROVIDENCE ST VINCENT MEDICAL FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $151k · revenue +137%
Funded once
- PSPEACEHEALTH SW MEDICAL FOUNDATION (HOSPICEEMERGENCY)one grant, 2022 · $25k
- TWTHE WEST POINT SOCIETY OF OREGONone grant, 2022 · $10k
- FCFLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF ARIZONA INCone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -59%
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.
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 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…
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…
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
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…
Promote economic and social fairness by working in coalition open a broad range of issues and activities in the public arena
To support public policies that will help oregon's economy and create new family supporting jobs in oregon.
Next up amplifies the voice and leadership of diverse young people to achieve a more just and equitable oregon.
We work collectively to educate and advocate for systems that elevate the vital work of care and caregiving in its many forms within our community.
Rogue Climate's mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change including low-income, rural, youth, seniors & communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs &…
The council is organized to foster partnerships for clean water, healthy streams, and abundant fisheries in the Clackamas Watershed
Oregon Arts Watch produces independent, professional arts and culture journalism and criticism that is transparent, fair and accurate.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Elevate Oregon and the most unlike its peers is Kasper Ironhorse Foundation. 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 29 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 81 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 GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds EDISON HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds OREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE ST VINCENT MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLARK COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds FREE CLINIC OF SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds Childrens Literacy Project Formerly Known as BeUndivided ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds The Abigail Adams Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds THE DOUGY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF RIDGEFIELD NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE ↗
- Who funds OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds YAMHILL ENRICHMENT SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds OREGON CHILDREN'S THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE OREGON ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds NEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds CLARK COLLEGE DISTRICT 14 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Oregon Society of Artists ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST AUTISM RESEARCH AND RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Adopt One Block ↗
- Who funds VANCOUVER NATIONAL HISTORIC RESERVE TRUST ↗
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: Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Oregon Community Foundation · Juan Young Trust · The Reser Family Foundation · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · The Autzen Foundation · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · The Jackson Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Clark Foundation · The Firstenburg Foundation · The Robert D and Marcia H Randall 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 Keller 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.
- Elevate Oregon — 28% of income from government
- Project 48 Inc — 23% of income from government
- New Avenues for Youth Inc — 20% of income from government
- Oregon Historical Society — 10% of income from government
- Community Transitional School — 7% of income from government
- The Oregon Community Foundation — 2% of income from government
- The Dougy Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Portland Art Museum — 1% of income from government
- Bird Alliance of Oregon Inc — 0% of income from government
- Oregon Symphony Association — 0% of income from government
- Randall Childrens Hospital Foundation — 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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