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Sarah a Stewart Foundation
Its FY2023 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $145k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $230k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATARAJA YOGA ASHRAM | $130,000 |
| CENTAL CITY CONCERN | $100,000 |
| MERCY CORPS | $45,000 |
| AMERICAN BRAIN FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE | $20,000 |
| OREGON FOOD BANK | $20,000 |
| BLANCHET HOUSE | $20,000 |
| REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| STREET ROOTS | $5,000 |
| THE SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BEN LOMOND QUAKER CENTER | $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 (FY17–22, $135k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% 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 +52% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2022, 18 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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
POMONA COLLEGE4× · 2017–2020 · $150k · revenue +90%
Central City Concern4× · 2019–2022 · $140k · revenue +90%
OREGON FOOD BANK6× · 2017–2022 · $110k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- TGTHE GEORGE AND BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $40k · revenue +44%
- SNSW NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSEone grant, 2018 · $25k
- CRCASCADES REGION-AMERICAN RED CROSSone grant, 2020 · $20k
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 agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
Building a diverse grassroots movement to address the causes of climate disruption through justice-based solutions by inspiring, training and mobilizing people to act.
Orla serves as the leading industry advocate, striving to protect, improve and promote oregon hospitality.
Connecting people across oregon and the pacific northwest through the power of a shared story.
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…
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…
To ensure economic prosperity in the portland region by providing strong leadership, partnership, and programs that encourage business growth and vitality.
Nedc's mission is to work toward a future in which the pacific northwest leads the nation in developing, implementing & enforcing strong laws and regulations that protect the environment & human health, and where our governments &…
Western rivers conservancy's mission is to protect outstanding river ecosystems in the western united states. continued on schedule o.we acquire land to conserve critical habitat, provide public access for compatible use and enjoyment, and…
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…
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.
Earthshare oregon connects oregonians at their workplaces with the leading environmental groups working locally in their community, statewide, and around the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oregon Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is GreenWood. 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 35 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 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 53 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 POMONA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Central City Concern ↗
- Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds STATE OF SAFETY ↗
- Who funds BLANCHET HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY ↗
- Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
- Who funds Artists Repertory Theatre ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE AND BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BRAIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST ABORTION ACCESS FUND ↗
- Who funds STREET ROOTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE FOR POETIC MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Guttmacher Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OREGON RAIL HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Elakha Alliance ↗
- Who funds SILETZ TRIBAL ARTS AND HERITAGE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GreenWood ↗
- Who funds OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
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 · The Collins Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Autzen Foundation · The Jackson Foundation · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · Juan Young Trust · Onpoint Community Credit Union · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · Seeding Justice · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations
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 Sarah a Stewart 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.
- Neighborhood House Inc — 53% of income from government
- Artists Repertory Theatre — 48% of income from government
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- Oregon Wildlife Heritage Foundation — 16% of income from government
- Central City Concern — 10% of income from government
- Elakha Alliance — 10% of income from government
- Old Sturbridge Inc — 4% of income from government
- Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Pear — 1% of income from government
- Oregon Public Health Association — 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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