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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.

$567k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
16
Grants FY2024
14
Organizations funded FY2023
14%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$30,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$80,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 14
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$12M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 14% of the organizations The Coit Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
AnimalsPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving15$487k0%
FY202314$440k14%
FY202213$490k0%
FY202113$380k15%
FY202011$300k0%
FY20199$205k0%
FY20189$254k0%
FY201711$342kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$814kEnvironment$610kArts & Culture$537kScience & Tech$430kHealth$412kFood & Nutrition$300kAnimals$195kHousing & Shelter$110k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($220k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Coit Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOregon Museum of Science and Industry: $430,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetOregon Food Bank: $300,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetRandall Childrens Hospital Foundation: $291,500 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetOregon State University Foundation: $289,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Transitional School: $245,000 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetHigh Desert Museum: $227,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetOregon Public Broadcasting: $200,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetOregon Coast Aquarium Inc: $135,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFriends of Hopewell House dba Hopewell House: $120,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetOregon Energy Fund: $110,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetOregon Ballet Theatre: $110,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetOpal Creek Ancient Forest Center: $100,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetThe Oregon Zoo Foundation: $60,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPortland State University Foundation: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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 Oregon Community FoundationOR20.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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How do I get to The Coit Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Coit Family 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.

About The Coit Family Foundation

How much does The Coit Family Foundation give?
The Coit Family Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $567,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Coit Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (24%), Environment (18%), Arts & Culture (16%).
Who are The Coit Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Oregon Museum of Science and Industry ($430k), Oregon Food Bank ($300k), Randall Childrens Hospital Foundation ($292k).
Does The Coit Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Coit Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Coit Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Oregon Community Foundation, Willard L & Ruth P Eccles Foundation, Juan Young Trust.
Where is The Coit Family Foundation based?
The Coit Family Foundation is based in CA.

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 16 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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