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Rio Vista 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.

$28k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$14k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Animals$145kCivil Rights$20kHealth$16kPublic Safety & Disaster$14kFood & Nutrition$14kHousing & Shelter$9kInternational$7kArts & Culture$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
$500
Median grant
7
States reached
$241k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PONGO FUND$13,500
VETERINARY CARE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED$5,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED$2,500
DOVE LEWIS EMERGENCY ANIMAL HOSPITAL INC$1,000
MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSONS RESEARCH$1,000
OREGON FOOD BANK INC$750
BETHLEHEM INN$500
VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC OF THE CASCADES$500
SKY DOG SANCTUARY INC$500
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC$500
15-10 FOUNDATION$500
BEND THE ARC-A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE$250
GIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE$250
BEAGLE FREEDOM PROJECT$250
BRIGHTSIDE ANIMAL CENTER$250
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 (FY17–20, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $250 → 9%NORTHWEST BATTLE BUDDIES: $500 → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $500 → 9%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.

Which US states your grants reach

AK
VT
WA
NY
OR
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MD
DC
HI
AL
TX
FL

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$225k · 28 repeat orgs$21k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +46% for the ones you funded once.

28 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
32

Total granted

$225k
$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+46%

Still filing today

82%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsEducationHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCivil RightsOther

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

  • TP
    THE PONGO FUND
    8× · 2017–2024 · $67k · revenue +57%
  • DL
    DOVE LEWIS EMERGENCY ANIMAL HOSPITAL INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $62k · revenue +177%
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $13k · revenue ×11

Funded once

  • MS
    MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC - DOCTORS WITHOUT
    one grant, 2022 · $4k
  • VIRGINIA GARCIA MEMORIAL HEALTH CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +38%
  • PA
    PEN AMERICAN CENTER INC
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue -27%

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
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals
2
Agricultural Research Foundation

Our mission is to encourage facilitate support and engage in scientific investigation and research experimentation and to advance educational and training activities related to agriculture and natural resources throughout the state of…

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3
Oregon Journalism Project

Oregon journalism project's mission is to inform, engage, and empower oregonians with the kind of data-driven and solution-seeking investigative reporting that makes a significant impact at the state and local levels - serving no agenda…

Arts & Culture
4
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Oregon Inc

The aclu foundation of oregon is dedicated to preserving and defending civil liberties and civil rights.

Civil Rights
5
Animal Outlook Inc

Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.

Animals
6
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
7
American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon Inc

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…

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8
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
9
Portland State University Foundation

Portland state university foundation is responsible for raising and managing private resources to advance psu's priorities and mission to be a leading urban university.

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10
Oregon Restaurant and Lodging Association

Orla serves as the leading industry advocate, striving to protect, improve and promote oregon hospitality.

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11
Western University of Health Sciences

To produce, in a humanistic tradition, health care professionals and biomedical knowledge that will enhance and extend the quality of life in our communities.

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12
Oregon Center for Public Policy

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…

Employment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wikimedia Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Katmai Conservancy. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAnimal Rescue and ShelterCommunity FoundationsHealth Access Advocacy and …Jewish Community Organizati…Immigrant Worker SupportEquine Therapy ProgramsOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Policy Research and AdvocacyLocal Food System Organizat…Christian Missionary Organi…Affordable Housing Developm…Food Banks and Pantries
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 30 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr13%13%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr19%21%20–35yr12%26%35–55yr16%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr13%2%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr19%11%20–35yr12%60%35–55yr16%6%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/57
the rest of the field
11%
2,770/25,374

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.

04the grantee network

54 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. 54 of the 63 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/54
Grantees still filing
43/54
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE PONGO FUND — $67,350 · AnimalsTHE PONGO FUNDDOVE LEWIS EMERGENCY ANIMAL HOSPITAL INC — $61,550 · AnimalsDOVE LEWIS EMERGENCY ANIMAL HOSPITAL INCVETERINARY CARE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $7,500 · Animals+6 more — $7,850 · Animals+6 moreOREGON FOOD BANK — $10,500 · OtherOREGON FOOD BANKDOERNBECHER CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $8,500 · OtherDOERNBECHER CHILDREN'S …MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC - DOCTORS WITHOUT — $3,500 · OtherMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERE…AMERICAN LEADERSHIP FORUM OF OREGON — $1,800 · OtherREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL S — $1,750 · OtherVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC OF THE CASCADES — $1,750 · OtherSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $3,150 · OtherSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CE…High Desert Food & Farm Alliance — $2,500 · Other+31 more — $17,100 · Other+31 moreWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $13,450 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $3,000 · InternationalBETHLEHEM INN — $8,950 · Housing & ShelterSHEPHERD'S HOUSE MINISTRIES — $1,000 · Housing & ShelterGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE — $6,700 · Civil RightsNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $2,000 · Civil RightsTREVOR PROJECT INC — $700 · Civil Rights+1 more — $300 · Civil RightsBEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE — $7,900 · PhilanthropySNEAKERS FOR SOLDIERS INC — $500 · PhilanthropyUndies for Everyone — $500 · Philanthropy+1 more — $250 · PhilanthropyOREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING — $3,500 · Arts & CulturePEN AMERICAN CENTER INC — $1,000 · Arts & CultureLYRIC THEATRE COMPANY — $750 · Arts & Culture
Animals$144,250Other$50,550International$16,450Housing & Shelter$9,950Civil Rights$9,700Philanthropy$9,150Arts & Culture$5,250

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE PONGO FUND — $67,350 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetDOVE LEWIS EMERGENCY ANIMAL HOSPITAL INC — $61,550 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $13,450 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON FOOD BANK — $10,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBETHLEHEM INN — $8,950 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDOERNBECHER CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $8,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE — $7,900 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetVETERINARY CARE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE — $6,700 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHTSIDE ANIMAL CENTER — $4,100 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetOREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING — $3,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $3,150 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHigh Desert Food & Farm Alliance — $2,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $2,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LEADERSHIP FORUM OF OREGON — $1,800 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC OF THE CASCADES — $1,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSKY DOG SANCTUARY INC — $1,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA GARCIA MEMORIAL HEALTH CENTER — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEN AMERICAN CENTER INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHEPHERD'S HOUSE MINISTRIES — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREE GEEK — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTURION MINISTRIES INC — $950 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPixie Project Inc — $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLYRIC THEATRE COMPANY — $750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC — $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE INC — $650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF BEND — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOCIETY FOR SCIENCE & THE PUBLIC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST FAMILY SERVICES — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN OREGON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget97PERCENTORG INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSNEAKERS FOR SOLDIERS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST BATTLE BUDDIES — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUND EQUINE OPTIONS — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUndies for Everyone — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FINDERS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI HUMANE SOCIETY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Houston — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKLCC PUBLIC RADIO FOUNDATION — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FILOMEN M DAGOSTINO GREENBERG MUSIC SCHOOL INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Oregon Community …OCF Joseph E Weston P…Meyer Memorial TrustThe Autzen FoundationD27 FoundationMaybelle Clark Macdon…First Interstate Banc…Marie Lamfrom Charita…St Charles Health Sys…The Jackson FoundationOregon Jewish Communi…The Roundhouse Founda…
The Oregon Community FoundationOR32.5× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Autzen Foundation · D27 Foundation · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · St Charles Health System Inc · The Jackson Foundation · Oregon Jewish Community Foundation · The Roundhouse 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 Rio Vista 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • High Desert Food & Farm Alliance — 45% of income from government
  • Northwest Family Services — 35% of income from government
  • Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
  • Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center — 11% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of the Columbia Willamette Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Free Geek — 5% of income from government
  • Volunteers in Medicine Clinic of the Cascades — 3% of income from government
  • Klcc Public Radio Foundation — 2% of income from government
  • Oregon Health & Science University Foundation — 1% of income from government
  • Oregon Public Broadcasting — 1% of income from government
  • Bethlehem Inn — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 63 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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