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Steven McGeady 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $71k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Portland Art Museum | $70,824 |
| Nothwest Academy | $20,000 |
| CPF - Thompson Elk Comic | $10,000 |
| Library Foundation | $10,000 |
| OMSI | $5,000 |
| Basic Rights Oregon | $2,500 |
| Oregon Public Broadcasting | $1,200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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 (FY17–20, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 4 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
PORTLAND ART MUSEUM9× · 2017–2025 · $345k · revenue +3%
OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY8× · 2017–2024 · $47k · revenue +29%- TLTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION8× · 2018–2025 · $29k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- PNPACIFIC NORTHWEST COLLEGE OF ARTone grant, 2017 · $31k · revenue +33%
- CCCOMMUNITY CYCLING CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +47%
- CPCHARITABLE PARTNERSHIP FUNDone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
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.
Portland Public Library is a welcoming cultural center that brings people together and connects them with trusted resources, ideas, experiences, and information. We build a stronger community by inspiring learning, creativity, 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…
Rogue Climate's mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change including low-income, rural, youth, seniors & communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs &…
To inform its members and the community in public matters and to arouse in them the realization of the obligations of citizenship.
Next up amplifies the voice and leadership of diverse young people to achieve a more just and equitable oregon.
To enliven and expand the understanding of craft and the museum experience for all.
To ensure economic prosperity in the portland region by providing strong leadership, partnership, and programs that encourage business growth and vitality.
Open signal's mission is to nurture the change-making power of community media in service of a just and equitable world.
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…
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.
Oregon Arts Watch produces independent, professional arts and culture journalism and criticism that is transparent, fair and accurate.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oregon Public Broadcasting and the most unlike its peers is Civic Software Foundation. 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 30 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 47 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 PORTLAND ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY ↗
- Who funds THE CIRCUS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE NORTHWEST ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Civic Software Foundation ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC NORTHWEST COLLEGE OF ART ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND OPERA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Forward Together ↗
- Who funds BASIC RIGHTS OREGON ↗
- Who funds Regional Arts & Culture Council ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CYCLING CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHARITABLE PARTNERSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING ↗
- Who funds CAMP 45 CONTEMPORARY CONVERGE 45 ↗
- Who funds NINETY-NINE GIRLFRIENDS ↗
- Who funds BODYVOX INC ↗
- Who funds THE LAMP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds SPOON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Columbia Riverkeeper ↗
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 · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · The Jackson Foundation · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · The Autzen Foundation · Oregon Jewish Community Foundation · Regional Arts & Culture Council · The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Care Foundation · James F & Marion L Miller Foundation
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 Steven McGeady 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.
- Reach Community Development Inc — 18% of income from government
- Camp 45 Contemporary Converge 45 — 8% of income from government
- Write Around Portland — 6% of income from government
- Oregon Museum of Science and Industry — 4% of income from government
- Bodyvox Inc — 3% of income from government
- Community Cycling Center — 2% of income from government
- Portland Opera Association Inc — 2% of income from government
- Regional Arts & Culture Council — 1% of income from government
- Portland Art Museum — 1% of income from government
- Columbia Riverkeeper — 1% of income from government
- Oregon Public Broadcasting — 1% of income from government
- Portland 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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