· Private foundation
Matthew and Emmanuella Essieh Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $173k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $160k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MSEF Charitable Foundation | $110,000 |
| Palm University Foundation | $50,000 |
| Southern Oregon University | $30,000 |
| Portland Opera | $20,200 |
| Palm University Foundation | $20,000 |
| Juneteenth Oregon | $15,898 |
| Nottingham Trent University | $14,940 |
| University of Hertfordshire | $14,157 |
| Niagara College Canada | $13,659 |
| Algonquin College of Applied Arts | $13,286 |
| World Oregon | $10,750 |
| Georgia State University | $10,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| York St John University | $8,156 |
| Sheridan College | $6,354 |
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 US giving — 49% of grant dollars ($704k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 51% that went abroad ($728k) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY21–22, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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
Beyond the US — 51% of all-years giving ($728k)
5 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of Matthew and Emmanuella Essieh 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, 39% of the giving stays in OR; read by stated purpose it is 36% — 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 +53% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 15 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, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $201k 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
- CACHILDRENS AIDS ART PROGRAMME9× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue +53%
- HCHARAMBEE CENTRE INC3× · 2020–2024 · $8k · revenue +7%
- CICANTORES IN ECCLESIA6× · 2018–2025 · $7k · revenue +300%
Funded once
- NCNafana Community Development Fundone grant, 2017 · $80k
- BUBangor Universityone grant, 2023 · $11k
- PCPeace Corps Foundationone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +17%
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.
Pursuing excellence in research learning and engagement to foster global citizenship and advance a sustainable and just society across British Columbia Canada and the world.
To bring Irish playwrights unique perspective on oppression and empowerment,and conflict and resolution,to Portland in order to change our world for the better.
Seattle University is dedicated to educating the whole person, to professional formation, and to empowering leaders for a just and humane world.
The Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) is a private non-profit federation of independent overseas research centers that promotes research to advance knowledge of the world outside The United States in an era of global…
The school provides a robust and immersive multilingual curriculum, fostering an inclusive community that celebrates diverse perspectives and creates the foundation for reflective learners to thrive and effect change in an interconnected…
The corporation's purpose is to raise funds for and award academic scholarships to students of international studies at oregon colleges and universities, and to educate local business leaders about international business opportunities and…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of pnca is to prepare students for a life of creative practice. the intent is to transform students into knowledgeable, articulate, practicing artists and designers with the ability to significantly contribute in original ways…
The university of portland, an independently governed catholic university guided by the congregation of holy cross, addresses significant questions of human concern through interdisciplinary studies of the arts, sciences, and humanities…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Portland Opera Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Family Room. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 70 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 PORTLAND OPERA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PALM UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS AIDS ART PROGRAMME ↗
- Who funds Peace Corps Foundation ↗
- Who funds HARAMBEE CENTRE INC ↗
- Who funds CANTORES IN ECCLESIA ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY ROOM ↗
- Who funds FLY FISHING COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
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: The Oregon Community Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Autzen Foundation · Careoregon Inc · Juan Young Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Matthew and Emmanuella Essieh 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.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Portland Community College Foundation Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization — 4% of income from government
- Portland Opera Association Inc — 2% of income from government
- World Affairs Council of Oregon dba WorldOregon — 0% of income from government
- Southern Oregon University 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.