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The Cedar Spray Foundation at a glance

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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.

$324k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$105k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$724kInternational$350kReligion$129kHealth$66kHuman Services$63kEnvironment$60kCivil Rights$60kFood & Nutrition$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $215k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $105k
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$5.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IDAHO NOVUS CLASSICAL ACADEMY$104,500
LEAD-UP INTERNATIONAL$40,000
FRIENDS OF EAST AFRICA FOUNDATION$35,000
CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY$30,000
OREGON EPISCOPAL SCHOOL$25,000
ST ANDREW NATIVITY SCHOOL$25,000
DOVE LEWIS EMERGENCY ANIMAL HOSPITAL INC$25,000
OREGON FOOD BANK INC$24,500
OPAL CREEK ANCIENT FOREST CENTER$10,000
CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY$5,000
02The need
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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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Lead-Up International: $20k → 11%HOMEPLATE YOUTH SERVICES: $5k → 8%CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON: $10k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SPOKANE: $10k → 12%CHOOSE LIFE IDAHO INC: $10k → 8%Lead-Up International: $15k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SPOKANE: $8k → 12%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

NH
WA
ID
MN
OR
CA
CO
NE
VA
MD
DC
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 9% of The Cedar Spray Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Cedar Spray Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 6.7% directed abroad (not shown)
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 18 repeat orgs$337k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
13

Total granted

$1.3M
$198k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+14%

Still filing today

72%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsAnimalsEnvironmentHealthOther
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

  • CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $206k · revenue +36%
  • FI
    FRENCH INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF OREGON
    2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +23%
  • OC
    Opal Creek Ancient Forest Center
    6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +103%

Funded once

  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES USA
    one grant, 2024 · $54k
  • LI
    LEAD-UP INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2020 · $35k · revenue -56%
  • SC
    ST CECILIA CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
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
Options Pregnancy Resource Centers Inc

Empowering life-affirming decisions

Health
2
Cascades Academy of Central Oregon

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.

Education
3
Pro-Choice Washington

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

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4
Pro-Choice Washington Foundation

The Pro-Choice Washington Foundation is our 501c3 focused on issue research, leadership development, and community and decision-maker education.

Civil Rights
5
Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences

Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences educates and trains health care professionals emphasizing service among rural and medically under-served communities throughout the Northwest.

Education
6
Catholics for Choice

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…

Civil Rights
7
Midwives College of Utah

Educate and train midwives to provide safe, professional, affordable and personal maternity and general health care.

Education
8
Family Forward Oregon

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.

Human Services
9
Pocatello Community Charter School

Public Education.

Education
10
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of St Cloud

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…

Human Services
11
Innovation Spokane Schools

To prepare a diverse range of students for a life of learning in post-secondary education, citizenship, and leadership.

Education
12
Priority Oregon

To support public policies that will help oregon's economy and create new family supporting jobs in oregon.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Community Services of Western Washington; 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.
05the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 33 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
18/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LEAD-UP INTERNATIONAL: $280,000 · OtherLEAD-UP INTERNATIONALOREGON EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $155,000 · OtherOREGON EPISCOPAL SCHOOLST ANDREW NATIVITY SCHOOL: $140,000 · OtherST ANDREW NATIVITY SCHOOLYoung America's Foundation: $55,000 · OtherYoung America's FoundationCATHOLIC CHARITIES USA: $54,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES USAOREGON FOOD BANK: $44,500 · OtherFRIENDS OF EAST AFRICA FOUNDATION: $35,000 · OtherPREGNANCY RESOURCE SERVICES: $31,000 · Other+11 more: $135,000 · Other+11 moreCORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY: $206,000 · EducationCORPORATION OF GONZAGA…Idaho Novus Classical Academy: $104,500 · EducationIdaho Novus Classical …LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $18,500 · EducationLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVE…FRENCH INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF OREGON: $100,000 · Arts & CultureLEAD-UP INTERNATIONAL: $35,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SPOKANE: $23,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT LEMONADE INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesCHOOSE LIFE IDAHO INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON: $10,000 · Human ServicesHOMEPLATE YOUTH SERVICES: $5,000 · Human ServicesCOPPER CANNON CORPORATION: $35,000 · Recreation & SportsLITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $35,000 · Recreation & SportsOpal Creek Ancient Forest Center: $60,000 · EnvironmentDOVE LEWIS EMERGENCY ANIMAL HOSPITAL INC: $39,000 · Animals
Other$929,500Education$329,000Arts & Culture$100,000Human Services$98,000Recreation & Sports$70,000Environment$60,000Animals$39,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY: $206,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetIdaho Novus Classical Academy: $104,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetFRENCH INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF OREGON: $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOpal Creek Ancient Forest Center: $60,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $55,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOREGON FOOD BANK: $44,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDOVE LEWIS EMERGENCY ANIMAL HOSPITAL INC: $39,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOPPER CANNON CORPORATION: $35,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF EAST AFRICA FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetLITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $35,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPREGNANCY RESOURCE SERVICES: $31,000 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SPOKANE: $23,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Charities of Idaho: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $18,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT LEMONADE INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-PORTLAND: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHOOSE LIFE IDAHO INC: $10,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOMEPLATE YOUTH SERVICES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJOHN PAUL II HEALING CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSusan B Anthony List Education Fund: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Gerald and Susan …The Oregon Community …Marie Lamfrom Charita…Maybelle Clark Macdon…Juan Young TrustOCF Joseph E Weston P…Lamb Weston Charitabl…Seattle FoundationRaymond James Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…
The Gerald and Susan Schwalbach Family FoundationDE28.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Cedar Spray Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Cedar Spray Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 17%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Cedar Spray Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Cedar Spray Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 33 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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