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Ray Hickey Foundation at a glance

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Ray Hickey Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$825k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$325k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Animals$1.0MHealth$935kEducation$600kFood & Nutrition$575kHuman Services$280kArts & Culture$250kHousing & Shelter$150kPublic Safety & Disaster$125kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $100k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
  • $250k+2 grants · $575k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Oregon Harbor of Hope: $50k → 12%YWCA of Clark County: $75k → 9%YWCA OF CLARK COUNTY: $50k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS CASCADES REGION: $25k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS - CASCADES REGION: $25k → 12%FISH OF VANCOUVER: $50k → 9%American Red Cross Cascades Region: $25k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS - CASCADES REGION: $25k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS CASCADES REGION: $25k → 12%AKIN: $100k → 9%THE GIVING CLOSET: $25k → 9%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.
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 12% of Ray Hickey Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in WA; by stated purpose, 88%.

Ray Hickey Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

53%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 12 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +78% since the first grant, against +22% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
18

Total granted

$2.2M
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+78%
+22%

Still filing today

83%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $400k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesAnimalsEducationHealthFood & NutritionInternationalOther
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

  • VH
    VANCOUVER HUMANE SOCIETY AND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
    4× · 2020–2024 · $550k · revenue +129%
  • MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $225k · revenue +10%
  • SD
    SUNSHINE DIVISION INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $200k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • Oregon State University Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue -35%
  • OH
    OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $300k
  • HS
    Humane Society of SW Washington
    one grant, 2020 · $250k
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
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
2
Portland Street Medicine

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.

Health
3
Oregon Research Institute

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…

Social Science
4
Urban League of Portland Inc

To help empower african americans and others achieve equality in education, employment, and economic security.

Human Services
5
Port Angeles Food Bank

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.

Food & Nutrition
6
Partners in Care

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…

Human Services
7
Oregon Agricultural Trust

Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.

Environment
8
Northwest Housing Alternatives

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…

Housing & Shelter
9
Oregon Energy Systems Technology and Research
Environment
10
Sea Mar Community Health Centers

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.

Health
11
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
12
Sheltercare

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…

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Childrens Home Society of Washington; 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.
05the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 33 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
18/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY: $300,000 · OtherOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITYPEACEHEALTH SW MEDICAL CENTER: $285,000 · OtherPEACEHEALTH SW MEDICAL CENTERHumane Society of SW Washington: $250,000 · OtherHumane Society of SW WashingtonSELF ENHANCEMENT INC: $115,000 · OtherSELF ENHANCEMENT INCNEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INC: $100,000 · OtherNEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INCSUNSHINE DIVISION INC: $200,000 · OtherSUNSHINE DIVISION INCMEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL: $75,000 · Other+10 more: $290,000 · Other+10 moreVANCOUVER HUMANE SOCIETY AND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $550,000 · AnimalsVANCOUVER HUMANE SOC…OREGON COAST AQUARIUM INC: $150,000 · AnimalsOREGON COAST AQUARIU…OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY: $50,000 · AnimalsOREGON HUMANE SOCIET…Oregon State University Foundation: $500,000 · EducationOregon State Un…THE PARK ACADEMY: $75,000 · EducationTHE PARK ACADEM…+1 more: $5,000 · EducationAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $125,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Nat…YWCA CLARK COUNTY: $125,000 · Human ServicesYWCA CLARK C…CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON: $100,000 · Human ServicesCHILDRENS HO…FISH OF VANCOUVER: $50,000 · Human ServicesFISH OF VANC…OREGON TRAIL OF HOPE: $50,000 · Human ServicesOREGON TRAIL…The Giving Closet: $25,000 · Human ServicesHealing Opportunities Foundation CO Healing Opportunities: $270,000 · HealthSTROKE AWARENESS OREGON: $35,000 · HealthCOLUMBIA RIVER MARITIME MUSEUM: $250,000 · Arts & CultureMEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC: $225,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,615,000Animals$750,000Education$580,000Human Services$475,000Health$305,000Arts & Culture$250,000Food & Nutrition$225,000

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 budgetVANCOUVER HUMANE SOCIETY AND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $550,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetOregon State University Foundation: $500,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHealing Opportunities Foundation CO Healing Opportunities: $270,000 over 3y, 46% of budgetCOLUMBIA RIVER MARITIME MUSEUM: $250,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC: $225,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSUNSHINE DIVISION INC: $200,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetOREGON COAST AQUARIUM INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $125,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA CLARK COUNTY: $125,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetSELF ENHANCEMENT INC: $115,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INC: $100,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PARK ACADEMY: $75,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetFISH OF VANCOUVER: $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetOREGON TRAIL OF HOPE: $50,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetOREGON HUMANE SOCIETY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOUNT ST HELENS INSTITUTE: $50,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetFISH: $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSTROKE AWARENESS OREGON: $35,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetREADING RESULTS: $25,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetOUR HOUSE OF PORTLAND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Giving Closet: $25,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetEDWARDS CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAGE US: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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 Autzen FoundationThe Oregon Community …Marie Lamfrom Charita…OCF Joseph E Weston P…Maybelle Clark Macdon…Wheeler FoundationThe Firstenburg Found…Onpoint Community Cre…The Harold & Arlene S…The Collins FoundationHillman Family Founda…The Swigert Foundation
The Autzen FoundationOR27.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 33 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

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