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Ramsay Family 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.

$265k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182025.

Public Benefit$220kHealth$200kArts & Culture$44kEducation$21kCommunity Improvement$20kPublic Safety & Disaster$20kAnimals$5k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $250k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST CHARLES FOUNDATION INC$200,000
TAXPAYER FOUNDATION OF OREGON$50,000
HERITAGE FOUNDATION$10,000
DESERT SKY MONTESSORI$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MCKENZIE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $20k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$241k · 3 repeat orgs$289k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +124% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
4

Total granted

$241k
$89k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+124%
0%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Public BenefitHealthHuman ServicesEducationAnimalsOther

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

  • TF
    Taxpayer Foundation of Oregon
    6× · 2020–2025 · $160k · revenue +405% · 40% of their budget
  • THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $60k · revenue 0%
  • DESERT SKY MONTESSORI
    3× · 2018–2025 · $21k · revenue +124%

Funded once

  • EO
    Eastern Oregon Museum
    one grant, 2024 · $44k · revenue 0% · 29% of their budget
  • MC
    McKenzie Community Development Corporation
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -97%
  • CR
    CASCADE RELIEF TEAM
    one grant, 2021 · $20k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Deschutes County Historical Society

Preserve, promote and celebrate our local history

2
Oregon Energy Systems Technology and Research
Environment
3
Earth Day Oregon
4
Oregon Made Creative Foundation

The Oregon Made Creative Foundation supports the efforts of storytellers, filmmakers, and artists statewide to attain sustainable careers in the arts, especially the digital arts. The Foundation, under its #OregonMade banner, strives to…

Arts & Culture
5
Idaho Forest Restoration Partnership
Environment
6
Oregon Websites and Watershed Project Inc

Develop educational network to communicate historical and scientific information empasizing natural and cultural resources to pacific northwest.

Environment
7
Rainier Oregon Historical Museum

Preserving the past via a local museum.

Arts & Culture
8
The Oregon Community Foundation Trust

The oregon community foundation trust is a supporting organization of the oregon community foundation (ocf). the trust makes grants that further the mission of ocf which is to improve the lives of all oregonians through the power of…

Philanthropy
9
Mount Baker Foundation
Philanthropy
10
Nevada Gold Mines Heritage Fund
Philanthropy
11
Oregon Olive Growers Foundation
Education
12
The Manav Foundation
Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Tarpan Horse Conservation Program. 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

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
2/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Taxpayer Foundation of Oregon — $160,000 · Public BenefitTaxpayer Foundation of OregonTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $60,000 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATIONSt Charles Foundation Inc — $200,000 · HealthSt Charles Foundation IncEastern Oregon Museum — $44,000 · OtherEastern Orego…CASCADE RELIEF TEAM — $20,000 · OtherCASCADE RELIE…DESERT SKY MONTESSORI — $21,000 · EducationMcKenzie Community Development Corporation — $20,000 · Human ServicesTARPAN HORSE CONSERVATION PROGRAM — $5,000 · Animals
Public Benefit$220,000Health$200,000Other$64,000Education$21,000Human Services$20,000Animals$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTaxpayer Foundation of Oregon — $160,000 over 6y, 40% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEastern Oregon Museum — $44,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetDESERT SKY MONTESSORI — $21,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetMcKenzie Community Development Corporation — $20,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetCASCADE RELIEF TEAM — $20,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTARPAN HORSE CONSERVATION PROGRAM — $5,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budget
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.

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.

The Roundhouse FoundationOR13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Roundhouse Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 Ramsay Family 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 40%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Desert Sky Montessori1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 8 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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