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Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund
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 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 $10k24 grants · $96k
- $10k–50k93 grants · $1.9M
- $50k–250k41 grants · $3.3M
- $250k+7 grants · $1.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION | $366,950 |
| PROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL FOUNDATION | $270,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF OREGON AND SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON | $260,000 |
| CENTRAL OREGON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| IDANHA-DETROIT FIRE DISTRICT | $250,000 |
| WILLAMETTE FALLS TRUST | $250,000 |
| COLUMBIA RIVER MARITIME MUSEUM INC | $250,000 |
| HEART OF OREGON CORPS | $212,896 |
| ALBERTINA KERR CENTERS FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| LAVA BEAR YOUTH SPORTS FOUNDATION | $175,000 |
| PROVIDENCE ST VINCENT MEDICAL FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| LITERARY ARTS INC | $130,000 |
| PORTLAND ART MUSEUM | $120,000 |
| EVERGREENHEALTH MONROE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
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 human-services grants (FY17–25, $6.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 65% 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
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.
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 +43% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
301 repeat relationships — 120 still active in FY2025, 181 since wound down; 45 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.5M 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
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $2.7M · revenue +182%
Oregon State University Foundation2× · 2018–2022 · $1.6M · revenue +27%
FORA HEALTH INC3× · 2017–2020 · $1.6M · revenue +110%
Funded once
- POPORTLAND OPERA ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2017 · $320k · revenue -70%
- MAMOUNT ANGEL ABBEY AND SEMINARYABBEY FOUNDATION OF OREGONone grant, 2024 · $300k
PROVIDENCE SEASIDE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $300k · revenue -47%
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.
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…
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…
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
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.
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.
Orla serves as the leading industry advocate, striving to protect, improve and promote oregon hospitality.
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…
Advocate for policies that protect and promote healthy and health equity for all people in oregon and provide learning, collaboration and leadership opportunities for public health professionals and the broader community.
Open signal's mission is to nurture the change-making power of community media in service of a just and equitable world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundations for a Better Oregon and the most unlike its peers is Jessie F Richardson Foundation. 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.
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 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.3% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
364 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. 364 of the 550 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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- Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
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- Who funds VIRGINIA GARCIA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds CASA FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
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- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE PARK ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds YOUTH VILLAGES INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAINSTAR FAMILY RELIEF NURSERY ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL OREGON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LITERARY ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds SFF PRESENTS ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND OPERA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL OREGON INC ↗
- Who funds RIDE CONNECTION INC ↗
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: OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Juan Young Trust · The Autzen Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Jackson Foundation · The Collins Foundation · The Reser Family Foundation · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · The Oregon Community Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Care Foundation · Braemar Charitable Trust
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 Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund 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.
- Friends of Trees — 100% of income from government
- Morrison Child and Family Services — 91% of income from government
- Opportunity Foundation of Central Oregon Inc — 86% of income from government
- Family Building Blocks Inc — 68% of income from government
- Neighborimpact — 68% of income from government
- Alliance for Equity in Montessori Education — 65% of income from government
- Mountainstar Family Relief Nursery — 60% of income from government
- LArche Portland — 59% of income from government
- Family Peace Center of Washington County — 49% of income from government
- Artists Repertory Theatre — 48% of income from government
- Saving Grace — 48% of income from government
- Black Parent Initiative — 45% of income from government
- Council On Aging of Central Oregon — 43% of income from government
- Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest — 38% of income from government
- Bridge Meadows — 36% of income from government
- Clackamas Women's Services — 33% of income from government
- Outside in — 33% of income from government
- Adelante Mujeres — 31% of income from government
- Relief Nursery Inc — 30% of income from government
- Transition Projects Inc — 29% of income from government
- Metropolitan Family Service — 29% of income from government
- Heart of Oregon Corps Inc — 28% of income from government
- Friends of Zenger Farm — 28% of income from government
- Warm Springs Community Action Team — 28% of income from government
- Elevate Oregon — 28% of income from government
- Native Fish Society Inc — 27% of income from government
- Dawns House Corporation Llc — 27% of income from government
- Oregon Justice Resource Center — 26% of income from government
- Row River Fire Response — 26% of income from government
- Abc House Inc — 25% of income from government
- Oregon Coast Aquarium Inc — 24% of income from government
- Oregon Community Warehouse Inc — 24% of income from government
- Liberty House — 23% of income from government
- Young Audiences of Oregon Inc — 23% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- New Avenues for Youth Inc — 20% of income from government
- Bend-Redmond Habitat for Humanity — 17% of income from government
- The Freshwater Trust — 17% of income from government
- Human Solutions Inc Dba Our Just Future — 17% of income from government
- Oregon Wildlife Heritage Foundation — 16% of income from government
- Latino Network — 15% of income from government
- Project Lemonade Inc — 15% of income from government
- Medical Teams International — 14% of income from government
- The Portland Playhouse — 11% of income from government
- High Desert Museum — 11% of income from government
- Oregon Historical Society — 10% of income from government
- Central City Concern — 10% of income from government
- Raphael House of Portland — 10% of income from government
- Music Workshop — 10% of income from government
- Bradley Angle — 10% of income from government
- Literary Arts Inc — 10% of income from government
- Clackamas Service Center — 9% of income from government
- Addictions Recovery Center Inc — 9% of income from government
- Mosaic Community Health — 8% of income from government
- Lifeworks Nw — 8% of income from government
- Impact Nw — 8% of income from government
- Age Us — 6% of income from government
- Girl Scouts of Oregon & Sw Washington Inc — 5% of income from government
- Portland Institute for Contemporary Art — 5% of income from government
- Portland Community College Foundation Inc — 5% of income from government
- Providence Portland Medical Foundation — 5% of income from government
- Open School Inc — 5% of income from government
- Together We Are Greater Than — 5% of income from government
- Children's Healing Art Project Inc — 4% of income from government
- Cappella Romana — 4% of income from government
- Oregon Museum of Science and Industry — 4% of income from government
- Ride Connection Inc — 4% of income from government
- Girls Inc of the Pacific Northwest — 4% of income from government
- The Boys & Girls Aid Society of Oregon — 3% of income from government
- Columbia River Maritime Museum — 3% of income from government
- Smart Reading — 3% of income from government
- Friendly House Inc — 3% of income from government
- George Fox University — 2% of income from government
- Trillium Family Services — 2% of income from government
- The Oregon Community Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Casa for Children Inc — 2% of income from government
- Portland Opera Association Inc — 2% of income from government
- Young Men's Christian Association of Columbia-Willamette — 1% of income from government
- Northwest Housing Alternatives — 1% of income from government
- Portland Art Museum — 1% of income from government
- Sunriver Music Festival — 1% of income from government
- Portland Center Stage — 1% of income from government
- Caldera — 1% of income from government
- Portland Youth Philharmonic Association — 0% of income from government
- Central Oregon Environmental Center Inc Dba - the Environmental Center — 0% of income from government
- William Temple House — 0% of income from government
- The Campbell Institute — 0% of income from government
- Beaverton Arts Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Western Rivers Conservancy — 0% of income from government
- All Classical Public Media Inc — 0% of income from government
- Oregon Ballet Theatre — 0% of income from government
- Oregon Symphony Association — 0% of income from government
- Bethlehem Inn — 0% of income from government
- Catholic Community Services Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Childrens Center — 0% of income from government
- The Northwest Catholic Counseling Center — 0% of income from government
- Oregon State University Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Serenity Lane — 0% of income from government
- Portland State 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.
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