· Private foundation
Matthew and Emmanuella Essieh Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
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.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 51% of all-years giving ($728k)
5 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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 8% of Matthew and Emmanuella Essieh Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 39% of the giving stays in OR; by stated purpose, 36%.
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 +53% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +207%
Funded once
- NCNafana Community Development Fundone grant, 2017 · $80k
- BUBangor Universityone grant, 2023 · $11k
- RCRCCG Chapel of Mercyone grant, 2024 · $10k
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.
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…
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 70 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 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 ↗
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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Matthew and Emmanuella Essieh Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Matthew and Emmanuella Essieh Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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