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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.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
43
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$143k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$1.2MHealth$541kYouth Development$421kCrime & Legal$419kHuman Services$189kReligion$131kInternational$81kFood & Nutrition$72kOther$0
02FY2025 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $420k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $583k
$15,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KIDS CENTER$142,500
Individual grant recipient$70,000
INTIMACY ICU$60,000
AS- IS CHURCH$60,000
PORTLAND YOUTH BUILDER$50,000
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN CO$50,000
OHSU FOUNDATION DOEMBECHER$50,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BEND$50,000
ST JUDE$50,000
ACCION INTERNATIONAL$30,000
YOUTH VILLAGES$30,000
J BAR J$30,000
PROJECT LEMONADE$25,000
THE DOUGY CENTER$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MAGGIE'S PLACE: $10k → 11%WOUNDED WARRIER PROJECT: $500 → 14%COMMUNITY YOUTH SERVICES: $1k → 9%WOMEN AND CHILDRENS ALLIANCE: $5k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%PARTNERS IN CARE: $20k → 8%NORTHWEST CHILDREN'S OUTREACH: $10k → 8%CASA OF CENTRAL OREGON: $25k → 10%WILSONVILLE COMMUNITY SHARING: $1k → 8%MY NEXT STEP: $1k → 11%EVERY CHILD CENTRAL OREGON: $6k → 10%EVERY CHILD CENTRAL OREGON: $5k → 10%EVERY CHILD CENTRAL OREGON: $1k → 10%EVERY CHILD CENTRAL OREGON: $1k → 10%FAMILY ACCESS NETWORK CO: $2k → 10%RAPHAEL HOUSE: $25k → 12%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $500 → 12%PROJECT LEMONADE: $25k → 12%FURNISH HOPE: $1k → 10%PROJECT LEMONADE: $10k → 12%PROJECT LEMONADE: $7k → 12%PROJECT LEMONADE: $5k → 12%PROJECT LEMONADE: $5k → 12%PROJECT LEMONADE: $5k → 12%YOUTH VILLAGES: $30k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
SD
OH
CA
CO
MO
MD
AZ
KS
TN
DC
HI
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 30 repeat orgs$739k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +70% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
94

Total granted

$2.5M
$269k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%
+19%

Still filing today

53%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $470k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterInternationalFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 CENTER
    8× · 2017–2025 · $363k · revenue +70%
  • BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF BEND INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $123k · revenue +7%
  • II
    Intimacy ICU
    2× · 2024–2025 · $85k · revenue +142% · 40% of their budget

Funded once

  • RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -17%
  • RF
    ROYAL FAMILY KIDS CAMP
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
  • PI
    PARTNERS IN CARE
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Priority Oregon

To support public policies that will help oregon's economy and create new family supporting jobs in oregon.

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2
Oregon Casa Network

To lead oregon's casa programs to provide a strong voice for every abused and neglected child

Human Services
3
Oregon Justice Network

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…

Human Services
4
Family Forward Oregon

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.

Human Services
5
Network Services

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…

Human Services
6
Saving Grace

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.

Human Services
7
Building Changes

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…

Health
8
LArche Portland

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…

Human Services
9
Family Forward Action

We build the collective power of mothers and caregivers to actualize their agency to fight for racial, gender, economic, and reproductive equity.

Community Improvement
10
Cornerhouse

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.

Crime & Legal
11
Family Impact Network

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…

Human Services
12
Impact Nw

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…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Convoy of Hope; 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.
04the grantee network

72 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. 72 of the 148 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/72
Grantees still filing
45/72
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MY FATHERS HOUSE: $1,100,000 · Housing & ShelterMY FATHERS HOUSE+4 more: $35,500 · Housing & ShelterST JUDE: $100,000 · OtherST JUDESELF ENHANCEMENT INC: $90,000 · OtherSELF ENHANCEMENT INCFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN CO: $76,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN COIndividual grant recipient: $70,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAS IS CHURCH: $60,000 · OtherAS IS CHURCHOHSU FOUNDATION DOEMBECHER: $50,000 · OtherTHE DOUGY CENTER INC: $48,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $47,500 · OtherJ BAR J: $42,000 · OtherCARE FOR CHILDREN: $35,000 · Other+91 more: $403,455 · Other+91 moreKIDS INTERVENTION AND DIAGNOSTIC SERVICE CENTER: $363,361 · Crime & LegalKIDS INTERVEN…GUARDIAN GROUP: $15,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $1,000 · Crime & LegalPROJECT LEMONADE INC: $61,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH VILLAGES INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesRAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND: $25,000 · Human ServicesCASA OF CENTRAL OREGON: $25,000 · Human ServicesPARTNERS IN CARE: $20,000 · Human ServicesEVERY CHILD CENTRAL OREGON: $13,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 · Human ServicesMAGGIE'S PLACE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST CHILDRENS OUTREACH: $10,000 · Human Services+11 more: $14,500 · Human ServicesBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF BEND INC: $123,000 · Youth DevelopmentPortland YouthBuilders: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentCARE FOR CHILDREN CARE FOR CHILDREN - USA INC: $25,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentIntimacy ICU: $85,000 · HealthMICHELLES LOVE: $62,000 · HealthCONSTANTINOS & MARINA FAKIRIS CHILDRENS RELIEF FUND: $20,000 · Health+6 more: $10,000 · HealthACCION INTERNATIONAL: $30,000 · InternationalAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID: $15,000 · InternationalWILD PHILANTHROPY INC: $10,000 · InternationalOperation Broken Silence: $10,000 · InternationalCONVOY OF HOPE: $10,000 · InternationalSUDARA FREEDOM FUND: $5,000 · International
Housing & Shelter$1,135,500Other$1,022,455Crime & Legal$379,361Human Services$218,500Youth Development$203,000Health$177,000International$80,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMY FATHERS HOUSE: $1,100,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetKIDS INTERVENTION AND DIAGNOSTIC SERVICE CENTER: $363,361 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF BEND INC: $123,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetSELF ENHANCEMENT INC: $90,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetIntimacy ICU: $85,000 over 2y, 40% of budgetMICHELLES LOVE: $62,000 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetPROJECT LEMONADE INC: $61,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetPortland YouthBuilders: $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE DOUGY CENTER INC: $48,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetROSE HAVEN CIC: $31,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetYOUTH VILLAGES INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCASA OF CENTRAL OREGON: $25,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetPARTNERS IN CARE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SCOTCH: $18,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGUARDIAN GROUP: $15,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetEVERY CHILD CENTRAL OREGON: $13,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetTHE PONGO FUND: $11,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWILD PHILANTHROPY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Broken Silence: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetPortland Backpack: $6,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUDARA FREEDOM FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetWomen's and Children's Alliance: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP RAINBOW GOLD INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKINSHIP HOUSE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SUMMIT FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFirst Story: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGRANDMAS HOUSE OF CENTRAL OREGON: $2,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFamily Access Network Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALPHA PHI FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMY NEXT STEP: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCentral City Concern: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFURNISH HOPE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMagic Wheelchair: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFirst Image: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWILSONVILLE COMMUNITY SHARING: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE GIVING PLATE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColumbia Pacific Food Bank: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOIN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE of COLUMBIA County: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPORTLAND ANIMAL WELFARE TEAM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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 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 ACCION INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH VILLAGES INC ↗
  • Who funds RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND ↗
  • Who funds CASA OF CENTRAL OREGON ↗
  • Who funds CARE FOR CHILDREN CARE FOR CHILDREN - USA INC ↗
  • Who funds CONSTANTINOS & MARINA FAKIRIS CHILDRENS RELIEF FUND ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN CARE ↗
  • Who funds THE SCOTCH ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID ↗
  • Who funds GUARDIAN GROUP ↗
  • Who funds EVERY CHILD CENTRAL OREGON ↗
  • Who funds THE PONGO FUND ↗
  • Who funds WILD PHILANTHROPY INC ↗

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.

The Oregon Community …OCF Joseph E Weston P…The Autzen FoundationMarie Lamfrom Charita…Onpoint Community Cre…Meyer Memorial TrustMaybelle Clark Macdon…Juan Young TrustThe Roundhouse Founda…The Robert D and Marc…The Reser Family Foun…The Anjulicia Foundat…
The Oregon Community FoundationOR51.1× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Northwest Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Northwest Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 190%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
19get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
6rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 148 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home