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Pape Family Foundation at a glance

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Pape Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$118k
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Health$364kEducation$132kHuman Services$130kRecreation & Sports$98kYouth Development$88kArts & Culture$56kFood & Nutrition$48kHousing & Shelter$39kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k23 grants · $88k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
$5,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MY POSSIBILITIES$10,000
LIFE SCHOOL OF DALLAS$10,000
NORTHWEST ASSOCIATION FOR BLINDATHLETES$10,000
MARIST SPARTAN BOOSTERS$6,900
HUMANE SOCIETY OF UTAH$5,915
THE HIGH DESERT MUSEUM$5,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS NORTHWEST$5,000
THINK WILD$5,000
FRIENDLY HOUSE INC$5,000
BIT BY BIT$5,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ADA COUNTY$5,000
TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN$5,000
KINSHIP HOUSE$5,000
ITS A SENSORY WORLD INC$5,000
COMMUNITY GARDEN KITCHEN OF COLLIN COUNTY INC$5,000
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, $149k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%HOLY FAMILY DAY HOMES OF SAN FRANCISCO: $5k → 10%PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS: $9k → 5%OUR CALLING INC: $10k → 14%ABC HOUSE: $4k → 13%OLD MILL CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $5k → 18%CANCER PATHWAYS: $10k → 9%NORTHWEST ASSOCIATION FOR BLIND ATHLETES: $8k → 9%JACKSON HOLE THERAPEUTIC RIDING ASSOCIATION: $2k → 5%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $6k → 10%FRISCO FAMILY SERVICES CENTER: $5k → 5%HOLDING OUT HELP INC: $6k → 8%NORTHWEST ASSOCIATION FOR BLINDATHLETES: $10k → 9%JACKSON HOLE THERAPEUTIC RIDING ASSOCIATION: $2k → 5%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $9k → 10%FRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $12k → 12%ITS A SENSORY WORLD INC: $5k → 14%FRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $5k → 12%IDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC: $10k → 8%SERENITY LANE HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $3k → 15%IDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC: $6k → 8%RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND: $5k → 12%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY OF LANE COUNTY INC: $5k → 15%METTA INC: $9k → 14%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
OR
WY
CA
UT
CO
MD
TX
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.

47%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$522k · 27 repeat orgs$590k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
69

Total granted

$522k
$531k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+18%

Still filing today

85%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsHealthArts & CultureYouth 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

  • OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2023 · $149k · revenue +79%
  • MP
    MY POSSIBILITIES
    3× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +25%
  • HIGH DESERT MUSEUM
    5× · 2019–2025 · $22k · revenue +186%

Funded once

  • MP
    MCCALL PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -27%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE CHILDRENgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +140%
  • C
    CHILDHAVEN
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +1%
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
Children's Home Society of Idaho Inc

Our mission is to improve the lives of children in our community.

Health
2
The Children's Center Utah

The mission of the children's center utah is to provide comprehensive mental health care to enhance the emotional well-being of infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and their families. we are the only organization in utah and the largest in…

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3
Friends of the Children-Portland

Friends - portland commits to standing alongside our community's youth as they work to overcome barriers to their success. each child receives 1:1 support and guidance from a salaried, professional mentor (called a friend), from…

Youth Development
4
Trillium Family Services

Building brighter futures with children and families.

Housing & Shelter
5
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
6
Kitsap Mental Health Services

Offering hope and opportunity through comprehensive recovery-oriented behavioral health care.

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7
Kidworks Community Development Corp

Kidworks inspires purpose in youth, fuels their growth, and catalyzes their impact in the community and the world.

Human Services
8
Tennyson Center for Children At Colorado Christian Home

Tennyson center for children (tcc) is dedicated to helping children who have experienced severe abuse, neglect, and/or trauma so they can bravely, and safely, change their life's story. tcc's trained professionals empower children and…

Human Services
9
Encompass Northwest

The purpose of encompass is to improve the well-being of children by partnering with families and the community. our vision is a community where all children thrive.

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10
Youth Progress Association

Youth progress is a nonprofit organization that is licensed as a child caring agency (cca) to serve youth ages 12-25 in the custody of the oregon youth authority (oya) or the oregon department of human services (dhs). youth progress uses…

Health
11
University Cooperative School

We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.

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12
Neighborhood House Inc

Neighborhood house's vision is that every neighbor have the community and support they need to thrive. our programs span three pillars of excellence: safety net and community health, education, and wealth building. we serve community…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Compass Family Services; the most unlike its peers is Ileap. 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

91 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. 91 of the 109 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
88/91
Grantees still filing
56/91
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DOERNBECHER CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $41,000 · OtherDOERNBECHER CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONMY POSSIBILITIES: $30,000 · OtherMY POSSIBILITIESBLANCHET HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY: $17,500 · Other+46 more: $353,403 · Other+46 moreOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $149,000 · EducationOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE…EUGENE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $21,000 · EducationEUGENE EDUCATION FOUNDA…MCCALL PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationNorthwest School for Hearing-Impaired Children: $10,000 · EducationSOUTH DALLAS COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationLIFESCHOOL OF DALLAS: $10,000 · Education+4 more: $25,300 · Education+4 moreNORTHWEST ASSOCIATION FOR BLIND ATHLETES: $17,500 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST ASSOCIA…FRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $17,400 · Human ServicesFRIENDLY HOUSE IN…IDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC: $16,000 · Human ServicesIDAHO YOUTH RANCH…COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $14,500 · Human ServicesCOMPASS FAMILY SE…OURCALLING INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesOURCALLING INCCancer Pathways: $10,000 · Human ServicesCancer PathwaysVETERANS LEGACY: $10,000 · Human ServicesVETERANS LEGACYTAHOE COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $9,800 · Human ServicesTAHOE COALITION F…METTA INC: $9,000 · Human ServicesPATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS: $8,500 · Human Services+10 more: $46,500 · Human Services+10 morePEACEHEALTH SACRED HEART MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $16,125 · HealthTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN: $15,600 · HealthCHILDREN'S THERAPY CENTER: $15,000 · HealthWELLMAMA INC: $10,000 · HealthVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC OF THE CASCADES: $10,000 · HealthFAMILY HOUSE INC: $10,000 · HealthKINSHIP HOUSE: $5,000 · HealthBIT BY BIT: $5,000 · HealthEMERALD KIDSPORTS: $21,125 · Recreation & SportsEUGENE CIVIC ALLIANCE: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsCascade Bicycle Club: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsKirkwood Ski Education Foundation: $8,500 · Recreation & SportsMARIST SPARTAN BOOSTERS INC: $6,900 · Recreation & SportsLITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsTAHOE BLUE VOLLEYBALL CLUB: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsIDAHO YOUTH GOLF ASSOCIATION INC: $4,300 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $2,000 · Recreation & SportsHIGH DESERT MUSEUM: $22,300 · Arts & CultureWATERSIDE WORKSHOPS: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCOTTAGE THEATRE: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $10,000 · Arts & CultureOREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY: $9,000 · Arts & CultureHUMANITIES WASHINGTON: $5,000 · Arts & CultureCOPPELL ARTS CULTURAL & HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC: $2,300 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN- CENTRAL OREGON: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentPortland YouthBuilders: $8,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF ADA CO ID: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS COLUMBIA NORTHW: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP RAINBOW GOLD INC: $2,300 · Youth Development
Other$441,903Education$235,300Human Services$169,200Health$86,725Recreation & Sports$72,825Arts & Culture$68,600Youth Development$40,300

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $149,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDOERNBECHER CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $41,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMY POSSIBILITIES: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHIGH DESERT MUSEUM: $22,300 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEMERALD KIDSPORTS: $21,125 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetEUGENE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $21,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetNORTHWEST ASSOCIATION FOR BLIND ATHLETES: $17,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBLANCHET HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY: $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $17,400 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPEACEHEALTH SACRED HEART MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $16,125 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetIDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC: $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN: $15,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S THERAPY CENTER: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $14,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGENESIS COMMUNITY HEALTH: $13,716 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMT HOOD KIWANIS CAMP: $13,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetThink Wild: $12,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMCCALL PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDHAVEN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARC OF LANE COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWATERSIDE WORKSHOPS: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetNorthwest School for Hearing-Impaired Children: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRELIEF NURSERY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOSLC DEVELOPMENTS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWELLMAMA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetOSLC Community Programs dba Oregon Community Programs: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC OF THE CASCADES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOURCALLING INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOTTAGE THEATRE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFAMILY HOUSE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEUGENE CIVIC ALLIANCE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCancer Pathways: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetVETERANS LEGACY: $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN- CENTRAL OREGON: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE BIRTHDAY PARTY PROJECT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCascade Bicycle Club: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTH DALLAS COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLIFESCHOOL OF DALLAS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBIA COUNTY CHILD ABUSE ASSESSM: $9,863 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Lake Tahoe: $9,852 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTAHOE COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $9,800 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetJASPER MOUNTAIN: $9,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOPPELL HUMANE SOCIETY: $9,300 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetOREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY: $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS: $8,500 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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 …The Autzen FoundationChambers Family Found…The Ford Family Found…Marie Lamfrom Charita…M J Murdock Charitabl…OCF Joseph E Weston P…Pacificsource Foundat…The Collins FoundationMeyer Memorial TrustJuan Young TrustBraemar Charitable Tr…
The Oregon Community FoundationOR46.8× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · Chambers Family Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Pacificsource Foundation for Health Improvement · The Collins Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Juan Young Trust · Braemar Charitable Trust

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 Pape Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pape Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Arc of Lane County: 79% of income from government
  • Veterans Legacy: 63% of income from government
  • Old Mill Center for Children and Families Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Portland YouthBuilders: 35% of income from government
  • Friends of the Child Advocacy Center Inc: 33% of income from government
  • Relief Nursery Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Abc House Inc: 25% of income from government
  • Mt Hood Kiwanis Camp: 18% of income from government
  • Friends of the Children- Central Oregon: 16% of income from government
  • High Desert Museum: 11% of income from government
  • Raphael House of Portland: 10% of income from government
  • Wellmama Inc: 9% of income from government
  • St Vincent De Paul Society of Lane County Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Think Wild: 7% of income from government
  • Cottage Theatre: 5% of income from government
  • Oregon Museum of Science and Industry: 4% of income from government
  • Volunteers in Medicine Clinic of the Cascades: 3% of income from government
  • Friendly House Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Oregon Health & Science University Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • Jasper Mountain: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
31report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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.
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How do I get to Pape Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Pape Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 109 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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