· Private foundation
So Hum 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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k37 grants · $192k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $287k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $641k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARAVIND EYE FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| EVERY WOMAN TREATY | $125,000 |
| SPOON FOUNDATION | $105,000 |
| BARK | $105,000 |
| AMERICAN SERVICE TO INDIA | $75,700 |
| NEIGHBORS FOR KIDS | $55,000 |
| GLOBAL ROOTS | $50,000 |
| SELF ENHANCEMENT INC | $35,000 |
| SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS PORTLAND | $31,000 |
| NOMAD FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| BBH EYE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE MAHAYANA TRADITION | $22,700 |
| CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA | $20,075 |
| L'ARCHE USA | $20,000 |
| HEALING ARTS MISSION | $20,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $364k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 12% of So Hum Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 46% of the giving stays in OR; by stated purpose, 44%.
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 +48% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
60 repeat relationships: 51 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 6 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FOFRIENDS OF ARAVIND INC DBA ARAVIND EYE FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $745k · revenue +146% · 30% of their budget
- EWEVERY WOMAN TREATY INC3× · 2023–2025 · $504k · revenue +63%
SELF ENHANCEMENT INC6× · 2020–2025 · $210k · revenue +90%
Funded once
MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONALone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +22%
BLANCHET HOUSE OF HOSPITALITYone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +21%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +39%
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.
Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
To offer the dignity of fair employment to people living in impoverished communities, who become transformational agents of global forest restoration.
To protect the rainforest and advance the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with Indigenous communities in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability, and the preservation of the Amazon Basin's…
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
The Fossey Fund is dedicated to the conservation and study of gorillas in Africa through a successful, people-centered approach: 1) Providing daily protection to gorillas, 2) Scientific research providing critical data on gorillas and…
International Rivers protects rivers and defends the rights of communities that depend on them.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…
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…
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
How this is measured
65 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 65 of the 81 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 FRIENDS OF ARAVIND INC DBA ARAVIND EYE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EVERY WOMAN TREATY INC ↗
- Who funds SELF ENHANCEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds NOMAD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OREGON SHORES CONSERVATION COALITION ↗
- Who funds SPOON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEALING ART MISSIONS ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds BARK ↗
- Who funds BBH EYE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LArche USA ↗
- Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
- Who funds Human Kindness Foundation ↗
- Who funds Global Resource Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds Caravan to Class ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LINCOLN CO ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds PNR USA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Friends of Tilonia Inc ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL ROOTS ↗
- Who funds BLANCHET HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOUGY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PEACE IN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds EXCEED ENTERPRISES INC CO ALBERTINA KERR ↗
- Who funds Opal Creek Ancient Forest Center ↗
- Who funds Latino Network ↗
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: The Oregon Community Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Collins Foundation · The Jackson Foundation · Juan Young Trust · The Robert D and Marcia H Randall Charitable Trust · The Reser Family Foundation · Patagoniaorg
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization So Hum Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from So Hum Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Lines for Life: 70% of income from government
- Exceed Enterprises Inc Co Albertina Kerr: 68% of income from government
- Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
- Willamette Riverkeeper: 42% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank: 21% of income from government
- Latino Network: 15% of income from government
- Self Enhancement Inc: 14% of income from government
- Medical Teams International: 14% of income from government
- Neighbors for Kids: 8% of income from government
- Oregon Shores Conservation Coalition: 3% of income from government
- Bark: 2% of income from government
- The Oregon Community Foundation: 2% of income from government
- The Dougy Center Inc: 1% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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