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Roth 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 57% of ROTH FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k31 grants · $88k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DARBY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $55,000 |
| MOUNT VERNON LADIES ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| THE OREGON JOURNALISM PROJECT | $10,000 |
| BITTERROOT LAND TRUST | $8,000 |
| SUN VALLEY WRITERS CONFERENCE | $8,000 |
| PORTLAND ART MUSEUM | $7,000 |
| WOOD RIVER LAND TRUST | $5,000 |
| CASA | $5,000 |
| WORLD CUP DREAMS FOUNDATION(WCDF) | $5,000 |
| CHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| WILD SALMON CENTER | $5,000 |
| THE ADVOCATES | $5,000 |
| IN A LANDSCAPE | $5,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL CATHEDRAL SCHOOL | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $52k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +27% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
57 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 31 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE6× · 2018–2024 · $142k · revenue +30%
OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY8× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +26%- CBCHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2025 · $29k · revenue +322%
Funded once
- ANALTERNATIVE NEWSWEEKLY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -3%
- HHHELPING HANDS REENTRY OUTREACH CENTERSgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +127%
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSSone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
Wwt's mission is to protect and restore water in rivers and streams across washington state. washington water trust restores and protects water in rivers and streams and promotes sustainable freshwater management in washington, and, more…
Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…
Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
Save the redwoods league protects and restores redwood forests and connects people with their peace and beauty so these wonders of the natural world flourish.
To preserve and enhance natural ecosystems, scenic areas, open spaces, fish and wildlife habitat within deschutes basin.
To conserve functioning salmon/steelhead eco-system at watershed levels, integrate angling activities with basic scientific research, collect raw data, monitor environmental functions, salmon/steelhead population dynamics, public…
To conserve and enhance land in southern oregon to sustain our human and natural communities forever.
The foundation board is comprised of members with diverse backgrounds and expertise who devote their shared commitment and passion to collectively support protection and restoration of the washington coast region salmon by providing…
Founded in 1981, the wetlands conservancy is dedicated to working in partnership with communities statewide to permanently protect, conserve and restore oregon's greatest wetlands.
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.…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wild Salmon Center and the most unlike its peers is Word of Honor Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
79 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. 79 of the 138 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 LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Word of Honor Fund ↗
- Who funds THE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION ↗
- Who funds ROSE HAVEN CIC ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING ↗
- Who funds DARBY RODEO ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds WILD SALMON CENTER ↗
- Who funds Friends of Tryon Creek ↗
- Who funds NEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY WRITERS' CONFERENCE INC ↗
- Who funds DOERNBECHER CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IN A LANDSCAPE ↗
- Who funds Transition Projects Inc ↗
- Who funds Bald Mountain Rescue Fund ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ALTERNATIVE NEWSWEEKLY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS REENTRY OUTREACH CENTERS ↗
- Who funds OREGON JOURNALISM PROJECT ↗
- Who funds BITTER ROOT LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds BLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERDALE SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLAINE COUNTY CHARITABLE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NORDIC NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds CASA FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
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 Jackson Foundation · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Care Foundation · Oregon Jewish Community Foundation · Kohnstamm Family Foundation · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · The Autzen Foundation · Juan Young Trust · The Collins Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust
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 Roth Family 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.
- Wild Salmon Center — 49% of income from government
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Transition Projects Inc — 29% of income from government
- United Way of the Columbia-Willamette — 25% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- New Avenues for Youth Inc — 20% of income from government
- Helping Hands Reentry Outreach Centers — 18% of income from government
- Literary Arts Inc — 10% of income from government
- Community and Shelter Assistance Corp — 5% of income from government
- Columbia River Maritime Museum — 3% of income from government
- Lewis & Clark College — 2% of income from government
- Casa for Children Inc — 2% of income from government
- Portland Art Museum — 1% of income from government
- Oregon Public Broadcasting — 1% of income from government
- In a Landscape — 0% of income from government
- Bird Alliance of Oregon Inc — 0% of income from government
- Western Rivers Conservancy — 0% of income from government
- Oregon Ballet Theatre — 0% of income from government
- Oregon Symphony Association — 0% of income from government
- Oregon State University Foundation — 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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