· Private foundation
Richard and Barbara Marx 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $99k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $138k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $58k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ELLA CURRAN COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $58,300 |
| FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS | $28,600 |
| MARION POLK FOOD SHARE | $24,200 |
| OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY | $18,150 |
| UNION GOSPEL MISSION | $18,150 |
| MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL | $17,650 |
| SALVATION ARMY POLK COUNTY | $15,400 |
| ISSACS ROOM | $15,400 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE OCHOCOS | $9,020 |
| JAMES 2 COMMUNITY KITCHEN | $7,700 |
| TECHNOSERVE | $7,500 |
| CASA OF POLK COUNTY | $6,600 |
| MONMOUTH INDEPENDENCE COMMUNITY FOU | $6,050 |
| ACRES OF HOPE | $6,050 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,050 |
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 (FY19–25, $176k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
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.
30 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC7× · 2019–2025 · $138k · revenue +94%- MFMARION-POLK FOOD SHARE INC7× · 2019–2025 · $134k · revenue +59%
- IRISAAC'S ROOM7× · 2019–2025 · $88k · revenue +102%
Funded once
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF OREGONone grant, 2023 · $8k
- CSCENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2024 · $6k
COUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENTgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue +64%
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.
Idaho Animal Rescue Network is a 501(c)(3) non-profit based in Idaho that works in Idaho and Eastern Washington to educate, advocate, and network with other rescues and law enforcement in Idaho regarding animal cruelty and neglect. We are…
Our mission is to help herding dogs who are abandoned, neglected and abused or simply in the wrong home into a loving appropriate home.
Helping animals live and overcome (h.a.l.o.) provides a no-kill safe haven where extraordinary measures are taken to save homeless pets and protect them from abuse and neglect. we continually refine our programs to maintain a 98% save…
The organization's mission is to increase the quantity of high quality food commodities donated to the oregon food bank network through a partnership of farmers, food processors, the oregon food bank network and the public.
Providing positive life changing solutions to people and animals in need.
Promote and project socially responsible agriculture in oregon, while working to support independent, family scale farmers and rachers who are ecologically farming in ways that are respectful of land, animals and community.
Our village gardens brings a spirit of hope to the people by growing and sharing food, learning and teaching skills, and empowering community leadership.(continued on schedule o)our village gardens leverages community organizing, skill…
The marion county humane society was established for the purpose of providing temporary care and housing of stray or homeless dogs and cats, to assist in the return of lost dogs and cats to their owners, to provide a means of finding new…
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
FISH of Orchards, Inc. is an emergency food and clothing bank located in east Clark County, WA.
The humane society of southwest missouri is one of the largest open admission, no kill shelters in southwest missouri. it is dedicated to helping sick, injured and abandoned dogs and cats find their forever homes. for over 60 years the…
To assist the community in the successful rehoming (and training) of adoptable animals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kauai Humane Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Polk County Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 37 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 FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC ↗
- Who funds MARION-POLK FOOD SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds ISAAC'S ROOM ↗
- Who funds ELLA CURRAN COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds WILLAMETTE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE OCHOCOS ↗
- Who funds TECHNOSERVE INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PEAR ↗
- Who funds ACCION INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds CREATING OPPORTUNITIES ↗
- Who funds ACRES OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds KAUAI HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CASA OF POLK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MONMOUTH INDEPENDENCE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT ↗
- Who funds POLK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds KINDNESS CLUB DALLAS OREGON ↗
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 Oregon Community Foundation · United Way of the Mid-Willamette Valley · Maps Community Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · Braemar Charitable Trust · Salem Health · Willamette Health Council · The Salem Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Roundhouse Foundation · The Collins Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust
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 Richard and Barbara Marx 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.
- Creating Opportunities — 74% of income from government
- Ella Curran Community Food Bank — 70% of income from government
- Family Building Blocks Inc — 68% of income from government
- Medical Teams International — 14% of income from government
- Isaac's Room — 5% of income from government
- Marion-Polk Food Share Inc — 5% of income from government
- Pear — 1% 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.