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Northwest 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 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 $10k10 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $420k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $583k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KIDS CENTER | $142,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $70,000 |
| INTIMACY ICU | $60,000 |
| AS- IS CHURCH | $60,000 |
| OHSU FOUNDATION DOEMBECHER | $50,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BEND | $50,000 |
| ST JUDE | $50,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN CO | $50,000 |
| PORTLAND YOUTH BUILDER | $50,000 |
| ACCION INTERNATIONAL | $30,000 |
| J BAR J | $30,000 |
| YOUTH VILLAGES | $30,000 |
| CARE FOR CHILDREN | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| CASA OF CENTRAL OREGON | $25,000 |
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, $211k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 63% 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 +70% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 22 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, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $470k 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
KIDS INTERVENTION AND DIAGNOSTIC SERVICE CENTER8× · 2017–2025 · $363k · revenue +70%
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF BEND INC4× · 2022–2025 · $123k · revenue +7%- IIIntimacy ICU2× · 2024–2025 · $85k · revenue +142% · 40% of their budget
Funded once
RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLANDone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -17%- PIPARTNERS IN CAREone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
- RFROYAL FAMILY KIDS CAMPone grant, 2024 · $20k
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.
To support public policies that will help oregon's economy and create new family supporting jobs in oregon.
To lead oregon's casa programs to provide a strong voice for every abused and neglected child
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…
We work collectively to educate and advocate for systems that elevate the vital work of care and caregiving in its many forms within our community.
Network services has been serving homeless families in the puget sound area since 1990, with a focus on families with children. network services aims to break the cycle of homelessness by providing assistance to families with children to…
Saving grace offers safety, hope, and healing to survivors of intimiate partner violence and sexual assault and engages central oregon to build life free from violence.
Building changes advances equitable responses to homelessness in washington state, with a focus on children, youth, and families. we work at the intersection of housing, education, and health systems, partnering with communities and public…
At l'arche portland people with and without developmental disabilities create home and build community together. we nurture long-term mutual relationships that reveal the gifts of people with developmental disabilities. in doing so we…
We build the collective power of mothers and caregivers to actualize their agency to fight for racial, gender, economic, and reproductive equity.
The mission of cornerhouse is to partner with families, communities, and systems - entrusted with the safety of children, youth and vulnerable adults - to reduce trauma and end abuse.
Providing resources & services to vulnerable children and families to address overall well-being. family impact network ("fin") supports restorative and empowering efforts to transition under-resourced children and families from crisis to…
Impact nw prevents homelessness by supporting people as they navigate their journey to stability and strength. founded in portland in 1966, impact nw now serves 26,944 people a year in the greater portland, oregon metro area, including…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Convoy of Hope and the most unlike its peers is Operation Broken Silence. 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 31 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
72 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. 72 of the 148 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 MY FATHERS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds KIDS INTERVENTION AND DIAGNOSTIC SERVICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF BEND INC ↗
- Who funds SELF ENHANCEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Intimacy ICU ↗
- Who funds MICHELLES LOVE ↗
- Who funds PROJECT LEMONADE INC ↗
- Who funds Portland YouthBuilders ↗
- Who funds THE DOUGY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ROSE HAVEN CIC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH VILLAGES INC ↗
- Who funds ACCION INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds CASA OF CENTRAL OREGON ↗
- Who funds CARE FOR CHILDREN CARE FOR CHILDREN - USA INC ↗
- Who funds RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN CARE ↗
- Who funds CONSTANTINOS & MARINA FAKIRIS CHILDRENS RELIEF FUND ↗
- Who funds THE SCOTCH ↗
- Who funds GUARDIAN GROUP ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID ↗
- Who funds EVERY CHILD CENTRAL OREGON ↗
- Who funds THE PONGO FUND ↗
- Who funds Operation Broken Silence ↗
- Who funds MAGGIE'S PLACE 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: The Oregon Community Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Onpoint Community Credit Union · Meyer Memorial Trust · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · Juan Young Trust · The Roundhouse Foundation · The Robert D and Marcia H Randall Charitable Trust · The Reser Family Foundation · The Anjulicia Foundation
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 Northwest 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.
- Friends of Trees — 100% of income from government
- My Next Step — 100% of income from government
- Safe of Columbia County — 78% of income from government
- The Harbor Inc — 66% of income from government
- Todos Juntos Inc — 64% of income from government
- Neighborhood House Inc — 53% of income from government
- Portland YouthBuilders — 35% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Clubs of Bend Inc — 16% of income from government
- Project Lemonade Inc — 15% of income from government
- Self Enhancement Inc — 14% of income from government
- Central City Concern — 10% of income from government
- Raphael House of Portland — 10% of income from government
- Join — 4% of income from government
- Casa of Central Oregon — 2% of income from government
- The Dougy Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- First Story — 0% of income from government
- Bethlehem Inn — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Legacy Health — 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.