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Ray Hickey Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
- $250k+2 grants · $575k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SW WASHINGTON | $325,000 |
| COLUMBIA RIVER MARITIME MUSEUM INC | $250,000 |
| AKIN | $100,000 |
| OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY | $50,000 |
| HEALING OPPORTUNITIES FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| PEACEHEALTH SW MEDICAL CENTER | $35,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS - CASCADES REGION | $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 (FY20–24, $475k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 12% of Ray Hickey Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in WA; read by stated purpose it is 88% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +78% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $400k 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
- VHVANCOUVER HUMANE SOCIETY AND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS4× · 2020–2024 · $550k · revenue +129%
MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC3× · 2020–2023 · $225k · revenue +10%- SDSUNSHINE DIVISION INC2× · 2022–2023 · $200k · revenue +15%
Funded once
Oregon State University Foundationone grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue -35%- OHOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $300k
- HSHumane Society of SW Washingtonone grant, 2020 · $250k
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.
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…
We offer our homeless neighbors accessible whole-person care to improve and support health, and to bridge a gap in trust between people and systems.
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…
To help empower african americans and others achieve equality in education, employment, and economic security.
Nourishing our community. the port angeles food bank is the main food bank in clallam county, providing food to 13 other area pantries and meal programs as well as providing food to over 5,000 individuals per month.
Partners in care is an integrated and comprehensive end of life services organization servicing the central oregon region with home health care; in-home hospice care; in-patient hospice care in partners in care hospice house; and…
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
Northwest housing alternatives (nha)s mission is to create opportunity through housing. nha develops, builds, and manages affordable rental housing for families, seniors, and people with disabilities across oregon. these homes help…
Sea mar community health centers is a community-based organization committed to providing quality, comprehensive health, human, housing, educational, and cultural services to diverse communities, specializing in service to latinos.
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.
Sheltercare offers a variety of housing and support services for people who are homeless or those facing homelessness with a committed focus on the community's most vulnerable individuals dealing with psychiatric disabilities, acquired…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Childrens Home Society of Washington and the most unlike its peers is Healing Opportunities Foundation Co Healing Opportunities. 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 39 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 33 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 VANCOUVER HUMANE SOCIETY AND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds Oregon State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds Healing Opportunities Foundation CO Healing Opportunities ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA RIVER MARITIME MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE DIVISION INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON COAST AQUARIUM INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds YWCA CLARK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SELF ENHANCEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds NEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds THE PARK ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds MOUNT ST HELENS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FISH OF VANCOUVER ↗
- Who funds OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FISH ↗
- Who funds OREGON TRAIL OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds STROKE AWARENESS OREGON ↗
- Who funds OUR HOUSE OF PORTLAND INC ↗
- Who funds READING RESULTS ↗
- Who funds The Giving Closet ↗
- Who funds EDWARDS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AGE US ↗
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 Autzen Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · Wheeler Foundation · The Firstenburg Foundation · Onpoint Community Credit Union · The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Care Foundation · The Collins Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · The Swigert 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 Ray Hickey 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.
- Edwards Center Inc — 79% of income from government
- Oregon Coast Aquarium Inc — 24% of income from government
- New Avenues for Youth Inc — 20% of income from government
- Self Enhancement Inc — 14% of income from government
- Medical Teams International — 14% of income from government
- Age Us — 6% of income from government
- Columbia River Maritime Museum — 3% of income from government
- Oregon 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.