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Marlene K Sapinsley Private 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.

$56k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Environment$91kAnimals$40kInternational$31kFood & Nutrition$25kHealth$17kCivil Rights$17kCrime & Legal$10kMembership Benefit$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$3,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$560k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DIRECT RELIEF$6,000
FOOD & WATER WATCH$5,000
OREGON ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL$5,000
EARTHJUSTICE$5,000
ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP$5,000
ANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE$5,000
THE CARTER CENTER$3,000
CENTRAL CITY CONCERN$3,000
CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS$3,000
REDROVER$3,000
ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND$2,000
BLANCHET HOUSE$2,000
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL$2,000
THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER$2,000
EUGENE MASONIC CEMETERY ASSOCIATION$1,393
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FOREST READERS: $1k → 11%LANGE FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%HYGIENE 4 ALL: $1k → 12%HYGIENE 4 ALL: $1k → 12%HYGIENE 4 ALL: $1k → 12%HYGIENE 4 ALL: $1k → 12%URBAN LEAGUE OF PORTLAND: $2k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
MN
NY
OR
CA
VA
TN
DC
AL
GA
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$211k · 36 repeat orgs$37k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

36 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
16

Total granted

$211k
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+7%

Still filing today

92%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentAnimalsInternationalHealthHuman ServicesCrime & LegalOther

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

  • NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $16k · revenue +41%
  • EW
    ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP
    6× · 2017–2024 · $15k · revenue +109%
  • DIRECT RELIEF
    4× · 2020–2024 · $13k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • WB
    WHITE BUFFALO LAND TRUST
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +7%
  • KP
    K-9 PLACEMENT AND ASSISTANCE LEAGUE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +28%
  • RT
    RETURN TO FREEDOM WILD HORSE SANCTUARY
    one grant, 2020 · $3k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
2
Cascadia Wildlands

Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…

Environment
3
National Association of Clean Water Agencies

Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.

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4
Oregon Agricultural Trust

Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.

Environment
5
Northwest Environmental Defense Center

Nedc's mission is to work toward a future in which the pacific northwest leads the nation in developing, implementing & enforcing strong laws and regulations that protect the environment & human health, and where our governments &…

—
6
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
7
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
8
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
9
Amazon Watch Inc

To protect the rainforest and advance the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with Indigenous communities in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability, and the preservation of the Amazon Basin's…

Environment
10
Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah

Heal utah's mission is to protect utah's environment and its people by promoting clean air, clean energy, and comprehensive solutions to radioactive and toxic waste.

Environment
11
Wildlife Conservation Network Inc

Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.

Animals
12
Animal Outlook Inc

Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wild Salmon Center and the most unlike its peers is Eugene Masonic Cemetery Association. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Health Access Advocacy and …Community FoundationsAnimal Rescue and ShelterImmigrant Worker SupportFood Banks and Pantries
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr16%30%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr16%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr16%35%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%32%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/50
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,515

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.

04the grantee network

49 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. 49 of the 57 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/49
Grantees still filing
36/49
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $16,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL …Oregon Environmental Council — $16,000 · EnvironmentOregon Environmental CouncilENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP — $14,500 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUPEARTHJUSTICE — $11,500 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICEKLAMATH-SISKIYOU WILDLANDS CENTER — $4,000 · EnvironmentBeyond Toxics — $4,000 · EnvironmentNORTHWEST CENTER FOR ALTERNATIVES TO PESTICIDES — $4,000 · EnvironmentSOUTHERN OREGON LAND CONSERVANCY INC — $4,000 · EnvironmentTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION — $3,500 · Environment+1 more — $2,500 · EnvironmentEQUAL JUSTICE INSTITUTE — $6,000 · OtherEQUAL JUSTICE INSTITUTEUNITED ANIMAL NATIONS DBA REDROVER — $5,500 · OtherUNITED ANIMAL NATIONS DBA REDRO…NETWORK FOR REPRODUCTIVE OPTIONS — $4,000 · OtherNETWORK FOR REPRODUCTIVE OPTION…BLANCHET HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY — $4,000 · OtherBLANCHET HOUSE OF HOSPITALITYRETURN TO FREEDOM WILD HORSE SANCTUARY — $2,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $2,500 · OtherEUGENE MASONIC CEMETERY ASSOCIATION — $9,750 · OtherEUGENE MASONIC CEMETERY ASSOCIA…HYGIENE4ALL — $4,000 · OtherHYGIENE4ALLLANGE FOUNDATION — $2,500 · OtherSoi Dog Foundation USA — $3,500 · OtherTHE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $3,000 · OtherPROJECT DRAWDOWN — $4,000 · OtherPROJECT DRAWDOWNTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $3,000 · Other+12 more — $19,000 · Other+12 moreDIRECT RELIEF — $13,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIE…MADRE INC — $8,000 · InternationalMADRE INCWELL AWARE INC — $4,000 · InternationalWELL AWARE I…THE CARTER CENTER INC — $3,000 · InternationalTHE CARTER C…ADOPT-A-VILLAGE IN GUATEMALA INC — $2,000 · InternationalADOPT-A-VILL…ANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE — $9,500 · AnimalsANIMAL WELFA…ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC — $4,500 · AnimalsANIMAL LEGAL…WILD SALMON CENTER — $4,000 · AnimalsWILD SALMON …THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC — $3,500 · AnimalsTHE DAVID SH…Last Chance for Animals — $3,500 · AnimalsLast Chance …K-9 PLACEMENT AND ASSISTANCE LEAGUE INC — $2,500 · AnimalsK-9 PLACEMEN…THE ASHER HOUSE — $2,000 · AnimalsTHE ASHER HO…FOOD & WATER WATCH — $15,500 · Food & NutritionFOOD & WAT…ASHLAND EMERGENCY FOOD BANK — $8,000 · Food & NutritionASHLAND EM…SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $11,500 · Crime & LegalMEMPHIS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER — $2,000 · Crime & LegalVIOLENCE POLICY CENTER — $2,000 · Crime & LegalCASCADIA HEALTH — $5,000 · HealthNORTH BY NORTHEAST COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER — $4,000 · HealthCentral City Concern — $3,000 · HealthNational Women's Health Network — $1,000 · HealthSUPPORTING INITIATIVES TO REDISTRIBUTE UNUSED MEDICINE - SIRUM — $1,000 · Health
Environment$80,000Other$73,250International$30,000Animals$29,500Food & Nutrition$23,500Crime & Legal$15,500Health$14,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $16,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOregon Environmental Council — $16,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD & WATER WATCH — $15,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP — $14,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF — $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $11,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $11,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEUGENE MASONIC CEMETERY ASSOCIATION — $9,750 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE — $9,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetASHLAND EMERGENCY FOOD BANK — $8,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetMADRE INC — $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED ANIMAL NATIONS DBA REDROVER — $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCASCADIA HEALTH — $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC — $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWILD SALMON CENTER — $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT DRAWDOWN — $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH BY NORTHEAST COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER — $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKLAMATH-SISKIYOU WILDLANDS CENTER — $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWELL AWARE INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBeyond Toxics — $4,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBLANCHET HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY — $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN OREGON LAND CONSERVANCY INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHYGIENE4ALL — $4,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSoi Dog Foundation USA — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLast Chance for Animals — $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CARTER CENTER INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCentral City Concern — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHITE BUFFALO LAND TRUST — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetK-9 PLACEMENT AND ASSISTANCE LEAGUE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetLANGE FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEMPHIS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASHER HOUSE — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetORGANIC CONSUMERS ASSOCIATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF PORTLAND INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVIOLENCE POLICY CENTER — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNational Women's Health Network — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCaravan to Class — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBLACK UNITED FUND OF OREGON — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFERST READERS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOREGON FOOD BANK — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUPPORTING INITIATIVES TO REDISTRIBUTE UNUSED MEDICINE - SIRUM — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Oregon Community …Seeding JusticeThe Collins FoundationMeyer Memorial TrustPatagoniaorgCareoregon IncUnited Way of the Col…OCF Joseph E Weston P…Marie Lamfrom Charita…Give Lively Foundatio…Clif Family FoundationHillman Family Founda…
The Oregon Community FoundationOR25.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · Seeding Justice · The Collins Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Patagoniaorg · Careoregon Inc · United Way of the Columbia-Willamette · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Give Lively Foundation Inc · Clif Family Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations

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 Marlene K Sapinsley Private 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Wild Salmon Center — 49% of income from government
  • Urban League of Portland Inc — 33% of income from government
  • Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
  • Beyond Toxics — 13% of income from government
  • Central City Concern — 10% of income from government
  • Northwest Center for Alternatives to Pesticides — 5% of income from government
  • North By Northeast Community Health Center — 4% of income from government
  • Cascadia Health — 3% of income from government
  • The Oregon Community Foundation — 2% of income from government
  • Black United Fund of Oregon — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 57 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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