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Robert and Frances Chaney Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$375k
Granted FY2022
50
Grants FY2022
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 53% of ROBERT AND FRANCES CHANEY FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2022 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k31 grants · $155k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $220k
$7,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$7.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YMCA DBA ROGUE VALLEY FAMILY YMCA$25,000
HOPE EQUESTRIAN CENTER$20,000
ASANTE FOUNDATION$15,000
SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL$10,000
CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA$10,000
SPARTAN BOXING CLUB$10,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITYROGUE VALLEY$10,000
ROGUE VALLEY MENTORING$10,000
SPARROW CLUBS USA$10,000
CHIRON CENTER INCORPORATED$10,000
FRIENDS OF COUNTRY LIVING$10,000
BUTTE CREEK MILL FOUNDATION$10,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE ROGUE VALLEY$10,000
JOSEPHINE COUNTY FOUNDATION$10,000
NORTH VALLEY KNIGHTS BOOSTER CLUB$10,000
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 (FY21–22, $59k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GOLDEN GIRL INC: $6k → 18%RIVER VALLEY CHILD DEVELOPMENT SERVICES: $5k → 19%PREGNANCY CARE CENTER OF GRANTS PASS: $5k → 18%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL - OUR LADY OF THE VALLEY COUNCIL: $4k → 18%COMPASS HOUSE INC: $5k → 13%WILDERNESS TRAILS INC: $5k → 13%JACKSONVILLE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $2k → 13%HEARTS WITH A MISSION: $10k → 13%DAVID'S CHAIR OUTDOOR MOBILITY SYSTEMS: $10k → 13%HEARTS WITH A MISSION: $5k → 13%THE PREGNANCY CENTER: $2k → 13%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.

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.

37%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$253k · 16 repeat orgs$427k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2022, 0 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
29

Total granted

$253k
$191k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+25%

Still filing today

63%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $236k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentAnimalsReligionArts & CultureOther

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

  • HW
    HEARTS WITH A MISSION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $15k · revenue +30%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE TRI-STATE INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $14k · revenue +78%
  • CB
    CROSSING BRIDGES THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $11k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • MV
    Milton Volunteer Fire Departmentgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +106%
  • MP
    MASLOW PROJECT
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +19%
  • A
    ACCESSgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +62%

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
Rogue Valley Humane Society

The Rogue Valley Humane Society provides compassionate care for stray unwanted displaced and abandoned animals and works toward ending pet overpopulation so that there will be no more homeless pets. We are committed to placing every…

Animals
2
Herding Dog Rescue of Central Oregon

Our mission is to help herding dogs who are abandoned, neglected and abused or simply in the wrong home into a loving appropriate home.

Animals
3
Raphael House of Portland

Raphael house of portland is dedicated to ending domestic and sexual violence. we support survivors through emergency and ongoing services, while advancing systemic change through community-based education and collaborative advocacy. we…

Human Services
4
A Family for Every Child

A family for every child (affec) is dedicated to finding permanent and loving adoptive families for waiting foster children. to accomplish our mission, we focus on finding loving and permanent families for children who the foster care…

Human Services
5
Christian Community Placement Center

A christian organization compassionately serving youth and families, providing them counseling, mentoring, skill building and education services in safe environment, to support the development of their hope and future.

Human Services
6
Youth Empowerment Shelter

To provide youth in crisis a place of physical and emotional safety while assisting them to build positive relationships and develop their individual potentials.

Youth Development
7
Southern Oregon Aspire

Our mission is to inspire unlimited opportunities for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities to live the life they choose by providing person-centered supports tailored to the unique needs of each individual.

Employment
8
Restoration House Inc

Restoration House provides save, supervised housing for men with significant behavioral health needs, creating a stable environment where structure, accountability, and wraparound services support personal growth and long-term recovery.…

Health
9
Community Outreach Inc

Our mission is helping people help themselves to lead healthy and productive lives. communiyt outreach, inc.ofeers the most comphrehensiveset of intergrated social services in the mid-williamette valley. we serve an at-risk population of…

Human Services
10
Mcminnville Area Habitat for Humanity

To build partnerships among volunteers, families, and the community in order to build simple, decent houses for families in need.

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11
Oregon Child Abuse Solutions

To ensure children and youth in oregon have access to high quality, comprehensive services and resources to address child abuse.

Crime & Legal
12
Child Advocacy Center of Coos County

To protect children, support families, and bring hope and healing through compassionate, coordinated, and child-centered advocacy, through specialized programs and services, such as multi-disciplinary team coordination, forensic…

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Works Inc and the most unlike its peers is Eugene Debbs Potts Foundation. 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 31 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%0%<5yr13%11%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr20%28%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr15%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr13%14%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr20%26%20–35yr13%32%35–55yr15%9%55yr+

The field is 21% 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 — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/53
the rest of the field
12%
201/1,729

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

50 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. 50 of the 77 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/50
Grantees still filing
35/50
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

YMCA DBA ROGUE VALLEY FAMILY YMCA — $50,000 · OtherYMCA DBA ROGUE VALLEY FAMILY YMCACHIRON CENTER INCORPORATED — $20,000 · OtherHOPE EQUESTRIAN CENTER — $20,000 · OtherAURORA RURAL FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT — $18,960 · OtherPURDY FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT — $15,620 · OtherMilton Volunteer Fire Department — $15,000 · OtherJOSEPHINE COUNTY FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Other+38 more — $254,333 · Other+38 moreHEARTS WITH A MISSION — $15,000 · Human ServicesHEARTS WITH…DAVIDS CHAIR OUTDOOR MOBILITY SYSTEMS — $10,000 · Human ServicesDAVIDS CHAI…THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDRE…GOLDEN GIRL INC — $6,000 · Human ServicesGOLDEN GIRL…WILDERNESS TRAILS INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesWILDERNESS …COMPASS HOUSE INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesCOMPASS HOU…RIVER VALLEY CHILD DEVELOPMENT SERVICES SERVICES INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesRIVER VALLE…Pregnancy Care Center of Grants Pass — $4,800 · Human ServicesPregnancy C…SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL OUR LADY OF THE VALLEY DIST COUNCIL — $3,500 · Human ServicesJACKSONVILLE COMMUNITY CENTER — $2,370 · Human Services+1 more — $2,200 · Human ServicesMASLOW PROJECT — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentROGUE VALLEY MENTORING — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE ROGUE VALLEY — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH 71FIVE MINISTRIES — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentJOE'S PLACE MINISTRIES — $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentKIDS UNLIMITED OF OREGON — $5,330 · Youth DevelopmentASANTE FOUNDATION — $20,000 · HealthCROSSING BRIDGES THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC — $10,500 · HealthJACKSON COUNTY SART — $7,500 · HealthCOMMUNITY WORKS INC — $5,000 · HealthGrants Pass Sobering Center Inc — $3,450 · HealthHAVENHOUSE ST LOUIS — $2,400 · HealthWALKING TALL SOUTHERN OREGON — $20,000 · ReligionSPARROW CLUBS USA — $15,172 · ReligionBARNABAS FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 · ReligionWILDLIFE IMAGES REHABILITATION & EDUCATION — $13,407 · AnimalsDOGS FOR THE DEAF INC DBA DOGS FOR BETTER LIVES — $7,500 · AnimalsSANCTUARY ONE — $7,500 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF THE ANIMALS — $1,000 · AnimalsHABITAT FOR HUMANITY ROGUE VALLEY — $15,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE TRI-STATE INC — $14,250 · Housing & Shelter
Other$413,913Human Services$68,870Youth Development$52,830Health$48,850Religion$37,672Animals$29,407Housing & Shelter$29,250

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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJOSEPHINE COUNTY FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetASANTE FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE EQUESTRIAN CENTER — $20,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetWALKING TALL SOUTHERN OREGON — $20,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetSPARROW CLUBS USA — $15,172 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMilton Volunteer Fire Department — $15,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY ROGUE VALLEY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHEARTS WITH A MISSION — $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE TRI-STATE INC — $14,250 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWILDLIFE IMAGES REHABILITATION & EDUCATION — $13,407 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCROSSING BRIDGES THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC — $10,500 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetDAVIDS CHAIR OUTDOOR MOBILITY SYSTEMS — $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetNorth Valley Knights Booster Club — $10,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetMASLOW PROJECT — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetROGUE VALLEY MENTORING — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE ROGUE VALLEY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetACCESS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON CENTER FOR CREATIVE LEARNING DBA KID TIME — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBUTTE CREEK MILL FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ROGUE VALLEY COUNCIL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYOUTH 71FIVE MINISTRIES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSPARTAN BOXING CLUB — $10,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetJACKSONVILLE ENGINE CO 1 INC — $8,600 over 1y, 77% of budgetJACKSON COUNTY 4-H FFA JR LIVESTOCK AUCTION COMMITTEE INC — $7,887 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetJOE'S PLACE MINISTRIES — $7,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetJACKSON COUNTY SART — $7,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetDOGS FOR THE DEAF INC DBA DOGS FOR BETTER LIVES — $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSANCTUARY ONE — $7,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetGOLDEN GIRL INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS UNLIMITED OF OREGON — $5,330 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWILDERNESS TRAILS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY WORKS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPROVIDENCE COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNEW HOPE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOMPASS HOUSE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRIVER VALLEY CHILD DEVELOPMENT SERVICES SERVICES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION SPRINGFIELD — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPregnancy Care Center of Grants Pass — $4,800 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCommunity Bridges Foundation — $4,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL OUR LADY OF THE VALLEY DIST COUNCIL — $3,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetGrants Pass Sobering Center Inc — $3,450 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBARNABAS FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJACKSON COUNTY CHILD ABUSE TASK FORCE DBA CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetONTRACK INC — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAVENHOUSE ST LOUIS — $2,400 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJACKSONVILLE COMMUNITY CENTER — $2,370 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTHE PREGNANCY CENTER — $2,200 over 1y, 0.4% 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 Carpenter Foundat…West Family FoundationCarrico Family Founda…The Oregon Community …Four Way Community Fo…The Ford Family Found…Arthur R Dubs Foundat…The Roundhouse Founda…The Autzen FoundationJoe & Frances Naumes …Dutch Bros FoundationAnna May Family Found…
The Carpenter FoundationOR65.2× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Carpenter Foundation · West Family Foundation · Carrico Family Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Four Way Community Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · Arthur R Dubs Foundation · The Roundhouse Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · Joe & Frances Naumes Family Foundation · Dutch Bros Foundation · Anna May 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 Robert and Frances Chaney 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 240%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 31%
  • Access — 65% of income from government
  • Community Works Inc — 59% of income from government
  • Hearts With a Mission — 51% of income from government
  • Rogue Valley Mentoring — 42% of income from government
  • Oregon Center for Creative Learning Dba Kid Time — 42% of income from government
  • Grants Pass Sobering Center Inc — 31% of income from government
  • Maslow Project — 22% of income from government
  • Youth 71FIVE Ministries — 16% of income from government
  • Jackson County Sart — 14% of income from government
  • Compass House Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Ontrack Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Hope Equestrian Center — 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
24get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
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 77 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $370k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

Source object · view filing

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