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Speckman Family 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.

$266k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$820kHealth$738kHuman Services$142kReligion$126kYouth Development$90kPublic Safety & Disaster$88kCrime & Legal$70kAnimals$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $156k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$45,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$5.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LCC Foundation$100,000
Wounded Warrior Project$45,000
Tunnel to Towers Foundation$45,000
Sleepy Eye Education Foundation$45,000
Northwood Christian Church$21,000
Gary Sinise Foundation$5,000
Willamette Christian Center$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $137k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Wounded Warrior Project: $45k → 14%Pararescue Foundation: $2k → 8%Liberty House: $30k → 14%Wounded Warrior Project: $40k → 14%Wounded Warrior Project: $20k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
MI
NY
MA
OR
CO
TN
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 14% of Speckman Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 59% of the giving stays in OR; by stated purpose, 46%.

Speckman Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 12 repeat orgs$142k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +97% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
9

Total granted

$2.0M
$132k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+97%
+15%

Still filing today

67%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentAnimalsHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SE
    SLEEPY EYE EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $490k · revenue +8% · 58% of their budget
  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $150k · revenue +112%
  • WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $105k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • LIBERTY HOUSEgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue +70%
  • OC
    OREGON CITY PRESCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +159% · 44% of their budget
  • DD
    DIGGITY DOGS SERVICES DOGS INC
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +15%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Saving Grace

Saving grace offers safety, hope, and healing to survivors of intimiate partner violence and sexual assault and engages central oregon to build life free from violence.

Human Services
2
Oregon Center for Public Policy

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…

Employment
3
Oregon Justice Network

Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…

Human Services
4
Oregon Law Foundation

The oregon law foundation builds a fairer legal system and supports justice for all in oregon by:-ensuring access to civil legal help for people with low incomes, or who experience other systemic barriers;-promoting the accessibility of…

Crime & Legal
5
K9S for Warriors Research Institute Inc

Research and advocacy for veterans with post-traumatic stress and the prevention of veteran suicide.

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6
Safety and Justice Oregon

Safety & justice oregon supports research, education, and collaboration to advance public safety and justice policy that is data-driven, effective, and equitable.

Public Safety & Disaster
7
Portland State University Foundation

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.

—
8
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Oregon Inc

The aclu foundation of oregon is dedicated to preserving and defending civil liberties and civil rights.

Civil Rights
9
University of Oregon Foundation

The purpose and mission of the foundation are, acting on its own or through affiliates, to support and assist the university of oregon in its activities by management and administration of foundation assets representing privately donated…

Education
10
National Veterans Legal Services Program Inc

To provide at no cost legal assistance to veterans of the u.s. armed forces and current service members.

—
11
Attorney General's Sexual Assault Task Force

Oregon satf's mission is to build, connect, and sustain survivor-centered systems to prevent sexual violence and advocate for equitable, trauma-informed responses across oregon. we accomplish this by advancing primary prevention, fostering…

Crime & Legal
12
Oregon Public Broadcasting

Connecting people across oregon and the pacific northwest through the power of a shared story.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Sleepy Eye Education Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 23 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
11/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LCC Foundation: $613,381 · OtherLCC FoundationNORTHWOOD CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $121,000 · OtherNORTHWOOD CHRISTIAN CHURCHHudson David McNeel Foundation: $120,000 · OtherHudson David McNeel FoundationClackamas County Peace Officers Ben: $88,125 · OtherClackamas County Peace Officers Ben+6 more: $60,000 · Other+6 moreSLEEPY EYE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $489,500 · EducationSLEEPY EYE EDUCATION FOUNDATIONSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $150,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATIONSECOND WIND FUND INC: $95,000 · EducationSECOND WIND FUND INCOregon State University Foundation: $55,000 · EducationOregon State University FoundationWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $105,000 · Human ServicesLIBERTY HOUSE: $30,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,500 · Human ServicesOPHELIA'S PLACE: $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentA VILLAGE FOR ONE: $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentOregon Crime Victims Law Center: $60,000 · Crime & LegalNATIONAL CRIME VICTIM LAW INSTITUTE: $10,000 · Crime & LegalDIGGITY DOGS SERVICES DOGS INC: $25,000 · AnimalsFrozen Ice Sports: $15,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,002,506Education$789,500Human Services$136,500Youth Development$80,000Crime & Legal$70,000Animals$25,000Recreation & Sports$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSLEEPY EYE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $489,500 over 9y, 58% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $105,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND WIND FUND INC: $95,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetOregon Crime Victims Law Center: $60,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetOregon State University Foundation: $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOPHELIA'S PLACE: $40,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetA VILLAGE FOR ONE: $40,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetLIBERTY HOUSE: $30,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetOREGON CITY PRESCHOOL: $25,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetDIGGITY DOGS SERVICES DOGS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetFrozen Ice Sports: $15,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetNATIONAL CRIME VICTIM LAW INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLines for Life: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARARESCUE FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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.

The Oregon Community …Juan Young TrustMarie Lamfrom Charita…The Ford Family Found…The Blackbaud Giving …American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Oregon Community FoundationOR14.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · Juan Young Trust · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Ford Family Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Speckman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Speckman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 23%
  • Oregon Crime Victims Law Center: 100% of income from government
  • Lines for Life: 70% of income from government
  • A Village for One: 33% of income from government
  • Liberty House: 23% of income from government
  • Ophelia's Place: 22% of income from government
  • National Crime Victim Law Institute: 5% of income from government
  • Oregon State University Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home