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The Coit Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k13 grants · $372k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $195k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY IN OREGON | $80,000 |
| OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY (OMSI) | $65,000 |
| OREGON FOOD BANK | $50,000 |
| OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $47,000 |
| OREGON COAST AQUARIUM | $40,000 |
| COMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL SCHOOL | $35,000 |
| OREGON ZOO FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| SMART (START MAKING A READER TODAY) | $30,000 |
| PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| FRIENDS OF HOPEWELL HOUSE | $30,000 |
| OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING | $25,000 |
| OPAL CREEK ANCIENT FOREST CENTER | $25,000 |
| RANDALL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| HIGH DESERT MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| OREGON ENERGY FUND | $20,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of your 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.
15 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY8× · 2017–2024 · $430k · revenue +29%
OREGON FOOD BANK8× · 2017–2024 · $300k · revenue +70%- RCRANDALL CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $292k · revenue +21%
Funded once
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.
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
Oregon research institute is an independent behavioral sciences research center dedicated to understanding human behavior and improving the quality of human life through the prevention and treatment of health, educational, and social…
Oregon Wild works to protect and restore Oregon's wildlands, wildlife and waters as an enduring legacy for future generations.
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…
Orla serves as the leading industry advocate, striving to protect, improve and promote oregon hospitality.
The purpose and mission of the foundation are, acting on its own or through affiliates, to support and assist the university of oregon in its activities by management and administration of foundation assets representing privately donated…
To conserve and enhance land in southern oregon to sustain our human and natural communities forever.
The mission of The Oregon Community Foundation is to improve lives of all Oregonians through the power of philanthropy.
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
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…
As the steward of oregon's history, the oregon historical society educates, informs, and engages the public through collecting, preserving, and interpreting the past....in other words, oregon history matters.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oregon Public Broadcasting and the most unlike its peers is Community Transitional School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 16 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 THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY ↗
- Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds RANDALL CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Oregon State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HIGH DESERT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING ↗
- Who funds OREGON COAST AQUARIUM INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Hopewell House dba Hopewell House ↗
- Who funds OREGON ENERGY FUND ↗
- Who funds OREGON BALLET THEATRE ↗
- Who funds Opal Creek Ancient Forest Center ↗
- Who funds THE OREGON ZOO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Willard L & Ruth P Eccles Foundation · Juan Young Trust · Hillman Family Foundations · Clark Foundation · The Swigert Foundation · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · The Robert D and Marcia H Randall Charitable Trust · The Jackson Foundation · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable 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 The Coit 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.
- Oregon Coast Aquarium Inc — 24% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- High Desert Museum — 11% of income from government
- Community Transitional School — 7% of income from government
- Oregon Museum of Science and Industry — 4% of income from government
- Oregon Public Broadcasting — 1% of income from government
- Oregon Ballet Theatre — 0% of income from government
- Randall Childrens Hospital Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Oregon State University Foundation — 0% 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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