· Private foundation
Mackworth-Mendoza 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 $10k5 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
- $250k+1 grant · $550k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LITERARY ARTS | $550,000 |
| THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL | $12,500 |
| FEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA | $5,000 |
| OREGON FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| HEAL PALESTINE | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOC | $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.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +7% since the first grant, against -9% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
LITERARY ARTS INC8× · 2018–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +64%- TITHE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL7× · 2017–2025 · $100k · revenue +33%
OREGON FOOD BANK6× · 2020–2025 · $26k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- LOLAKE OSWEGO ARTS COUNCILone grant, 2022 · $10k
- WWORDSTOCKone grant, 2017 · $5k
- NENEW EXPRESSIVE WORKSone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -37%
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.
Oregon ballet theatre is committed to sharing our passion for the expressive power of ballet, inspiring an enduring appreciation of dance, and connecting in meaningful ways to our community through excellence in performance, training, and…
Connecting people across oregon and the pacific northwest through the power of a shared story.
Portland state university foundation is responsible for raising and managing private resources to advance psu's priorities and mission to be a leading urban university.
Oregon research institute is an independent behavioral sciences research center dedicated to understanding human behavior and improving the quality of human life through the prevention and treatment of health, educational, and social…
Otradi is a non-profit research and development organization, supported in part by the state of oregon, that strives to promote bioscience industry growth and job creation in oregon. otradi achieves this goal via collaboration with private…
On the Boards' mission is to invest in leading contemporary performing artists near and far and connect them to a diverse range of communities interested in forward-thinking art and ideas.
As an organization, the institute of food technologists is focusing its work in four main areas, or "roles and goals." each is wide-reaching and helps to advance our mission.steward for the profession and its community - provide learning,…
Profile theatres mission is to produce a season of first-class productions and community engagement activities centered around a season-long featured writer whose vision broadens our perspective on the world and deepens our collective…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
The purpose and mission of the foundation are, acting on its own or through affiliates, to support and assist the university of oregon in its activities by management and administration of foundation assets representing privately donated…
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 23 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 LITERARY ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds OREGON CHILDREN'S THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NEW EXPRESSIVE WORKS ↗
- Who funds HEAL PALESTINE INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION 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 · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mackworth-Mendoza Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mackworth-Mendoza Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Oregon Food Bank: 21% of income from government
- Literary Arts Inc: 10% of income from government
- Feeding South Florida Inc: 5% of income from government
- New Expressive Works: 5% of income from government
- Oregon Museum of Science and Industry: 4% of income from government
- Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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