· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CLARK COUNTY FOOD BANK | $140,000 |
| FREE CLINIC OF SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON | $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 |
| OREGON CHILDRENS THEATRE | $75,000 |
| YAMHILL ENRICHMENT SOCIETY | $75,000 |
| VANCOUVER ARTS & MUSIC FESTIVAL | $72,000 |
| GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND | $50,000 |
| EDISON HIGH SCHOOL | $50,000 |
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 (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 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 100% of Keller Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 83% of the giving stays in WA; by stated purpose, 0%.
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 +57% since the first grant, against -16% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- EHEDISON HIGH SCHOOL6× · 2019–2024 · $192k · revenue +28%
- GOGIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC6× · 2019–2024 · $192k · revenue +132%
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
38 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. 38 of the 81 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 EDISON HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC ↗
- 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 COMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds OREGON CHILDREN'S THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds YAMHILL ENRICHMENT SOCIETY ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Keller Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Keller Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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