· Private foundation
Richard and Diane Van Grunsven Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k73 grants · $130k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND | $60,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND | $30,000 |
| EAA AVIATION FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| BLANCHET HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY | $10,000 |
| FORA HEALTH INC | $10,000 |
| VISITATION CATHOLIC CHURCH | $10,000 |
| AFRICAN ROAD INC | $5,000 |
| EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE | $5,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $5,000 |
| PROVIDENCE ST VINCENT MEDICAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ALK POSITIVE INCORPORATED | $5,000 |
| RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND | $5,000 |
| MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC | $5,000 |
| BLANCHET HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY | $5,000 |
| OREGON AVIATION HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $73k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 78% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +70% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
102 repeat relationships — 68 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 6 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, 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
FORA HEALTH INC8× · 2017–2024 · $220k · revenue +110%- UOUNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND8× · 2017–2024 · $207k · revenue +7%
- EAEAA AVIATION FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $166k · revenue +190%
Funded once
- PCPROVIDENCE CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -90%
- EAEXPERIMENTAL AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION PORTLAND CHAPTER 105graduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +170%
Cheetah Conservation Fundgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +135%
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.
Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…
To ensure economic prosperity in the portland region by providing strong leadership, partnership, and programs that encourage business growth and vitality.
Orla serves as the leading industry advocate, striving to protect, improve and promote oregon hospitality.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
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…
We believe that the freedoms of press, speech, assembly, and religion, and the rights to due process, equal protection and privacy, are fundamental to a free people. We advance civil liberties and civil rights by activities that include…
As expressions of god's healing love, witnessed through the ministry of jesus, we are steadfast in serving all, especially those who are poor and vulnerable.
The oregon center for public policy's mission is to achieve economic justice for all oregonians through research, analysis, and advocacy. ocpp works to change policies that foster economic security and stability for all oregonians. we do…
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
Support significant improvements in health care delivery and outcomes within the context of nonprofit, charitable ownership.
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…
Disability rights washington's mission is to advance the dignity, equality, and self determination of people with disabilities. we work to pursue justice on matters related to human and legal rights.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc and the most unlike its peers is Will's Place. 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 32 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
127 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. 127 of the 147 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 FORA HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds EAA AVIATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLANCHET HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY ↗
- Who funds OREGON AVIATION HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE ST VINCENT MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AIRWAY SCIENCE FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN ROAD INC ↗
- Who funds WINGS OVER THE ROCKIES AIR & SPACE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds PORT TOWNSEND AERO MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds ALK POSITIVE INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds EXPERIMENTAL AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE AOPA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOARING SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN ANTIQUE AEROPLANE & AUTOMOBILE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds OVARIAN CANCER ALLIANCE OF OREGON AND SW WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds West Tuality Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds FRANK LENTZ FOUNDATION LTD ↗
- Who funds THUMBUDDY SPECIAL INC ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds LIFEWORKS NW ↗
- Who funds THE ABBEY FOUNDATION OF OREGON ↗
- Who funds PATH ↗
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 · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Collins Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Autzen Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Juan Young Trust · United Way of the Columbia-Willamette · Careoregon Inc · The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Care Foundation · The Reser Family 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 Richard and Diane Van Grunsven 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.
- Pueblo Unido Pdx — 100% of income from government
- Airway Science for Kids Inc — 100% of income from government
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Youth Rights & Justice — 81% of income from government
- Sexual Assault Resource Center — 81% of income from government
- Lines for Life — 70% of income from government
- Call to Safety — 61% of income from government
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Portland Street Medicine — 32% of income from government
- Adelante Mujeres — 31% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Transition Projects Inc — 29% of income from government
- Holla — 29% of income from government
- Native American Youth and Family Center — 23% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- New Avenues for Youth Inc — 20% of income from government
- Latino Network — 15% of income from government
- Voz Workers Rights Education Project — 12% of income from government
- Raphael House of Portland — 10% of income from government
- Bradley Angle — 10% of income from government
- Lifeworks Nw — 8% of income from government
- Neighbors for Kids — 8% of income from government
- The Shadow Project — 8% of income from government
- The Contingent — 5% of income from government
- Friends of the Children-Portland — 5% of income from government
- North By Northeast Community Health Center — 4% of income from government
- The Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization — 4% of income from government
- St Andrew Legal Clinic — 2% of income from government
- Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum — 2% of income from government
- Chess for Success — 2% of income from government
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
- University of Portland — 1% of income from government
- Pear — 1% of income from government
- Oregon Aviation Historical Society — 0% of income from government
- National Indian Child Welfare Association — 0% of income from government
- Period Inc — 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
- Seeding Justice — 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.