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The Cedar Spray 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $215k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IDAHO NOVUS CLASSICAL ACADEMY | $104,500 |
| LEAD-UP INTERNATIONAL | $40,000 |
| FRIENDS OF EAST AFRICA FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| DOVE LEWIS EMERGENCY ANIMAL HOSPITAL INC | $25,000 |
| OREGON EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| ST ANDREW NATIVITY SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| OREGON FOOD BANK INC | $24,500 |
| OPAL CREEK ANCIENT FOREST CENTER | $10,000 |
| CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $78k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 68% 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of The Cedar Spray Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +46% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 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, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k 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
CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $206k · revenue +36%- FIFRENCH INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF OREGON2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +23%
- OCOpal Creek Ancient Forest Center6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +103%
Funded once
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES USAone grant, 2024 · $54k
- LILEAD-UP INTERNATIONALone grant, 2020 · $35k · revenue -56%
- SCST CECILIA CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $25k
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.
Empowering life-affirming decisions
Cascades academy is an engaged, vibrant community that weaves challenging academics with experiential learning to inspire socially responsible individuals ready for a diverse and changing world.
To protect and promote every persons right to access the full range of reproductive healthcare choices in Washington State, including safe and legal abortion, through education, advocacy, lobbying and coalition-building
The Pro-Choice Washington Foundation is our 501c3 focused on issue research, leadership development, and community and decision-maker education.
Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences educates and trains health care professionals emphasizing service among rural and medically under-served communities throughout the Northwest.
Catholics for Choice - which serves the pro-choice Catholic majority - encounters, educates, and emboldens people of faith who support reproductive freedom. Catholics for Choice believes healthcare is a human right and that includes access…
Educate and train midwives to provide safe, professional, affordable and personal maternity and general health care.
We work collectively to educate and advocate for systems that elevate the vital work of care and caregiving in its many forms within our community.
Public Education.
At Catholic Charities, we focus our efforts around three core pillars: Food Access, Mental Health and Housing. Guided by our mission - to serve and enhance human dignity for all people - we provide essential services and foster a sense of…
To prepare a diverse range of students for a life of learning in post-secondary education, citizenship, and leadership.
To support public policies that will help oregon's economy and create new family supporting jobs in oregon.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Community Services of Western Washington and the most unlike its peers is Lead-Up International. 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 47 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 8% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 33 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 CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Idaho Novus Classical Academy ↗
- Who funds FRENCH INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF OREGON ↗
- Who funds Opal Creek Ancient Forest Center ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
- Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds DOVE LEWIS EMERGENCY ANIMAL HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds COPPER CANNON CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LEAD-UP INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF EAST AFRICA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY RESOURCE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SPOKANE ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of Idaho ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PROJECT LEMONADE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds CHOOSE LIFE IDAHO INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds HOMEPLATE YOUTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds JOHN PAUL II HEALING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Susan B Anthony List Education Fund ↗
- Who funds IDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE ↗
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 Gerald and Susan Schwalbach Family Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · Juan Young Trust · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment 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 The Cedar Spray 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.
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- Homeplate Youth Services — 17% of income from government
- Project Lemonade Inc — 15% of income from government
- Friends of the Children-Portland — 5% 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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