· Private foundation
Sawyer & Jean Marglous Foundation
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $38k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| St Judes | $15,000 |
| Flance Early Lrn Center | $11,952 |
| Our Lady of the Lake | $10,900 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| Heifer International | $5,000 |
| Satement Cancer Center | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| Alzheimers Assoc | $3,200 |
| Mult Athletic Foundation | $3,000 |
| Portland Art Museum | $3,000 |
| Friends of the Public Library | $2,500 |
| Habitat for Humanity | $2,500 |
| Jesuit School of Portland | $2,000 |
| Michelle's Love | $2,000 |
| Meals on Wheels | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $83k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.
56 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down; 10 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FMFLANCE MANAGEMENT INC D/B/A FLANCE EARLY LEARNING CENTER5× · 2017–2023 · $82k · revenue +70%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC4× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +145%
PORTLAND ART MUSEUM7× · 2019–2025 · $26k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- OLOur Lady of Lake Schoolone grant, 2021 · $15k
- LOLady of Lake Schoolone grant, 2022 · $13k
- PJPortl Japanese Gardenone grant, 2022 · $7k
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.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
To spark curiosity and creativity in all young children through positive, play-based learning experiences.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
The mission of the new orleans museum of art is to inspire the love of art; to collect, preserve, exhibit and present excellence in the visual arts; to educate, challenge and engage a diverse public.
The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.
The museum of northwest art collects, preserves, interprets and exhibits art created in the pacific northwest, supports artists, and strives to integrate art into the lives of all people. the museum is free and open to the public seven…
Portland museum is an innovative and compelling neighborhood museum. the museum boldly weaves exhibitions, performances, collections, and educational programs to excite, challenge and illuminate our neighbors, visitors, and participants…
The saint louis zoo association was established to support and enhance the saint louis zoo by providing facilities, funds, and advice. the association provides direct financial support to the zoo for renovations, new facilities, programs,…
The oregon shakespeare festival creates world-class theater, revealing our collective humanity through illuminating interpretations of new and classic plays, and inspiring a love of our art form for current and future generations.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
Founded in 1917, the seattle art museum (sam) connects art to life. as the leading visual art institution in the pacific northwest, sam draws on its global collections, powerful special exhibitions, numerous installations, and dynamic…
The luminarium opened in april 2023 with more than 125 interactive exhibits and a kaleidoscope of engaging programs focused on science, art, and human perception. the luminarium is an innovative community space and learning environment…
How this is measured
47 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. 47 of the 120 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 FLANCE MANAGEMENT INC D/B/A FLANCE EARLY LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI APPLESEED ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MULTNOMAH ATHLETIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds APPLESEED FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JAPANESE GARDEN SOCIETY OF OREGON ↗
- Who funds OREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Centene Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · Edward Jones Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Edward Jones Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · The Bellwether Foundation · The Kranzberg Family Charitable Foundation · The Jackson Foundation · Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission · St Louis Community Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sawyer & Jean Marglous Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sawyer & Jean Marglous Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- High Desert Museum: 11% of income from government
- Oregon Museum of Science and Industry: 4% of income from government
- Portland Art Museum: 1% of income from government
- Oregon Symphony Association: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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