· Private foundation
Sam Elkins Memorial Fund Founded in Mem Ory of Samuel Isaac Elkins1991-2010 Inc
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLACKAMAS HIGH SCHOOL | $9,821 |
| ADRIENNE C NELSON HIGH SCHOOL | $8,538 |
| MILWAUKIE YOUTH BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION | $2,392 |
| CLACKAMAS JUNIOR BASEBALL | $1,500 |
| TWELVE STEP RECOVERY LEAGUE | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| HAPPY VALLEY PREP BASKETBALL | $695 |
| TUALATIN FASTPITCH SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| MILWAUKIE HIGH SCHOOL | $330 |
| GLADSTONE HIGH SCHOOL | $250 |
| OREGON CITY HIGH SCHOOL | $250 |
| GRAND VIEW BAPTIST CHURCH | $200 |
| MILWAUKIE WRESTLING CLUB | $165 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 7 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CHCLACKAMAS HIGH SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $35k
- ACADRIENNE C NELSON HIGH SCHOOL5× · 2021–2025 · $29k
- MHMILWAUKIE HIGH SCHOOL PTSA4× · 2019–2025 · $7k
Funded once
- BSBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - CASCADE PACIFIC COUNCILone grant, 2017 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $1k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Lacrosse Club for high school students
The Corvallis Baseball Softball Association operates to provide youth baseball and softball leagues and playing fields for the community to enjoy, promoting the growth of recreational activities for children and teens.
To provide the youth of Portland area communities with the opportunity to experience the joy and thrill of soccer in a player centered environment. The main focus is on FUN and DEVELOPMENT with age appropriate training and coaching where…
Oregon girls lacrosse association is responsible for managing league/statewide policies, scheduling and organizing league activities to ensure a safe and fair environment, and promoting the spirit and sportsmanship of the game of lacrosse…
providing lacrosse education and league for youth 1st grade through 8th grade
Lincoln Youth Soccer is a community soccer club offering recreational, developmental and competitive opportunities to youth from elementary schools, middle schools and neighboring communities around Lincoln High School, located in…
Our organization provides administration for girls youth softball programs in West Linn, OR for approximately 300 players.
Oregon City Youth Football Assoc. was established to provide organized flag and tackle football to kids in the elementary grades.
Youth and High School Sport Club in Portland Oregon. The club is run by volunteer parents for a sport that is not supported by the school district or state.
Promote and organize youth sports
To promote, develop, and administer the game of soccer amoung youth (boys and girls under 19 years of age), residing within the Chehalem Valley and surrounding areads, and to promote amateur soccer competition for these youth.
Provide youth soccer programs
How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 59 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MILWAUKIE HIGH SCHOOL PTSA ↗
- Who funds CLACKAMAS YOUTH FOOTBALL ↗
- Who funds CLACKAMAS JUNIOR BASEBALL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GOFUNDMEORG ↗
- Who funds ZMAN SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EASTSIDE TIMBERS ↗
- Who funds CLACKAMAS YOUTH LACROSSE INC ↗
- Who funds Linfield University ↗
- Who funds TROUT CREEK BIBLE CAMP INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sam Elkins Memorial Fund Founded in Mem Ory of Samuel Isaac Elkins1991-2010 Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sam Elkins Memorial Fund Founded in Mem Ory of Samuel Isaac Elkins1991-2010 Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Linfield University: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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