· Private foundation
Robert and Mary Jane Smith Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $573k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $380k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OPERATION HELO | $500,000 |
| BRECKENRIDGE OUTDOOR EDUCATION CENT | $85,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $75,000 |
| AARON MEYERS SCHOOL OF MUSIC | $60,000 |
| PEACE HEALTH SW MEDICAL CENTER | $60,000 |
| ESTACADA FIRE VOLUNTEER ASSOCIATION | $50,000 |
| CROSS PURPOSES | $50,000 |
| COLUMBIA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $40,000 |
| FAITH IN PRACTICE | $35,000 |
| CHRIST THE VINE LUTHERAN CHURCH | $35,000 |
| CASA OF CLACKAMAS COUNTY | $30,000 |
| CRISIS CENTER | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| LAKE CHINOOK FIRE AND RESCUE | $30,000 |
| CHRIST THE VINE SCHOOL | $30,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
49 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 12 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, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $662k 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
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN7× · 2018–2024 · $295k · revenue +94%
B-17 ALLIANCE FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $147k · revenue +73%- CCROSSPURPOSE2× · 2023–2024 · $130k · revenue +73%
Funded once
- DCDODGE COMMUNITY CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $338k
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMY - DISASTER RELIEone grant, 2022 · $170k
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +83%
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.
Cascades academy is an engaged, vibrant community that weaves challenging academics with experiential learning to inspire socially responsible individuals ready for a diverse and changing world.
The mission of the boy scouts of america is to prepare young people to make ethical choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the scout oath and law.
The vision of the csfc is to partner with the fire service and supplier partners across the state of colorado in their efforts to protect all of colorado's life and property from fire and other disasters. it is a dynamic organization,…
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.
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…
At Children's Cancer Association (CCA), our mission is to deliver Joy-centric programs that create immediate and measurable improvement to the mental and emotional wellness of young patients.
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
Young people want to shape the world. camp fire central oregon (cfco) provides them the opportunity to find their spark, lift their voice, and discover who they are. in camp fire, it begins now. light the fire within!
Founded in 1973, dove lewis emergency animal hospital, inc. (dovelewis) is one of the premier veterinary medical service organizations in the us and the only 24/7 not-for-profit animal emergency, critical care, and specialty hospital in…
Rogue Climate's mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change including low-income, rural, youth, seniors & communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs &…
Shelter Animal Resource Alliance rescues, assists, and advocates for shelter animals in Lane County by developing and implementing programs designed to increase the number of animals adopted into permanent, loving homes and decrease the…
Conduct rescue of dogs, facilitate adoptions of same. provide emergency vet services for dogs needing rescue
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Peacehealth Southwest Medical Center Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Emmet Pyatt Foundation. 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 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 15% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 83 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 OPERATION HELO INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Estacada Fire Volunteer Association ↗
- Who funds SUNDAY SCHOOL FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds B-17 ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CROSSPURPOSE ↗
- Who funds Victory Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds UROLOGICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAITH IN PRACTICE ↗
- Who funds OUR RESCUE ↗
- Who funds PEACEHEALTH SOUTHWEST MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CASA OF CLACKAMAS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF CLARK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds DENVER CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds Longhopes Donkey Shelter Inc ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE DIVISION INC ↗
- Who funds DOERNBECHER CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARYLHURST EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER THE MARYLHURST SCHOOL ↗
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: OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · Juan Young Trust · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · American Gift Fund · The Autzen Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 Mary Jane Smith 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.
- LArche Portland — 59% of income from government
- Casa of Clackamas County — 0% of income from government
- Clackamas Community College Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 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.
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