Oregon · Private foundation
The Challenge Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $350,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $396k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations The Challenge Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 13 | $1.7M | 8% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $1.7M | 8% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $1.7M | 21% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $1.8M | 13% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $1.8M | 0% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $1.4M | 6% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $1.4M | 0% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $2.7M | 48% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Young America's Foundation | $2,614,670 | 9 | 1% |
| Barry Goldwater Institute for Public Policy Research | $1,625,000 | 9 | 10% |
| Moving Picture Institute | $1,350,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Core Knowledge Foundation | $1,125,000 | 3 | 23% |
| The Heritage Foundation | $950,000 | 9 | 0% |
| State Policy Network | $950,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Center for the Rights of Abused Children | $625,000 | 6 | 35% |
| EdChoice Inc | $590,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Pacific Research Institute For Public Policy | $436,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Cascade Policy Institute | $342,500 | 8 | 5% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Young America's Foundation | $2,614,670 | 9 | 1% |
| Barry Goldwater Institute for Public Policy Research | $1,625,000 | 9 | 10% |
| Moving Picture Institute | $1,350,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Core Knowledge Foundation | $1,125,000 | 3 | 23% |
| The Heritage Foundation | $950,000 | 9 | 0% |
| State Policy Network | $950,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Center for the Rights of Abused Children | $625,000 | 6 | 35% |
| EdChoice Inc | $590,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Pacific Research Institute For Public Policy | $436,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Cascade Policy Institute | $342,500 | 8 | 5% |
| Liberty Justice Center | $325,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Edison High School | $300,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Columbia-Willamette | $235,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc | $225,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Veterans Legacies Inc | $210,000 | 4 | 61% |
| National Opportunity Project | $200,000 | 2 | 100% |
| Freedomworks Foundation Inc | $108,250 | 1 | 2% |
| National Center for Justice and Liberty | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cornerstone Classical Academy Inc | $78,338 | 1 | 41% |
| Freedomworks Inc | $40,000 | 1 | 1% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Challenge Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 19 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Donors Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Challenge Foundation
- How much does The Challenge Foundation give?
- The Challenge Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $1,685,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Challenge Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (24%), Public Benefit (24%), Civil Rights (23%).
- Who are The Challenge Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Young America's Foundation ($2.6M), Barry Goldwater Institute for Public Policy Research ($1.6M), Moving Picture Institute ($1.4M).
- Does The Challenge Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Challenge Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Challenge Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donors Trust Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is The Challenge Foundation based?
- The Challenge Foundation is based in OR.
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