· Private foundation
The Hackborn 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Idaho Food Bank Warehouse | $5,000 |
| California State Polytechnic Univer | $3,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY PORTLAND REGIO | $3,000 |
| Ballet Idaho | $3,000 |
| Neighborhood Works Boise | $2,500 |
| BodyVox Dance Center | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| OHSU KNIGHT CANCER INSTITUTE | $2,500 |
| PROJECT FLUX | $2,500 |
| WOODHAVEN SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| Peregrine Fund | $2,000 |
| MIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE | $2,000 |
| NORTHWEST ABORTION ACCESS FUND | $2,000 |
| Discovery Center of Idaho | $2,000 |
| Life's Kitchen | $2,000 |
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 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 41% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of The Hackborn 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. Read by recipient address, 66% of the giving stays in ID; read by stated purpose it is 63% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
24 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- IFIDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE8× · 2017–2024 · $45k · revenue +48%
- BIBALLET IDAHO INC8× · 2017–2024 · $32k · revenue +62%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY PORTLAND METRO EAST4× · 2021–2024 · $19k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- WCWASSMUTH CENTERone grant, 2019 · $3k
- BSBoise State University Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +182%
- YYOUNGSETone grant, 2023 · $2k
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.
Nedc's mission is to work toward a future in which the pacific northwest leads the nation in developing, implementing & enforcing strong laws and regulations that protect the environment & human health, and where our governments &…
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…
Portland state university foundation is responsible for raising and managing private resources to advance psu's priorities and mission to be a leading urban university.
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…
The mission of the Foundation is to promote, accept, and maximize private support for programs, initiatives, and properties of Washington State University and its regional campuses. The Foundation also prudently manages, invests, and…
Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…
The Department of Bioregion's mission is a "world of interconnected bioregions and bioregional movements". It does this by creating departments of bioregions around the world and, providing administrative support to bioregional organizing…
The Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council is a local nonprofit organization that strives to enhance and restore habitat for fish and wildlife our community and for future generations. Our Board of Directors consists of seven members with…
The oregon shakespeare festival creates world-class theater, revealing our collective humanity through illuminating interpretations of new and classic plays, and inspiring a love of our art form for current and future generations.
Film forever northwest entertains, inspires, educates and connects our community through the art of film, while preserving the historic hollywood theatre and the world-class movie madness video collection. we offer a diverse array of film…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Discovery Center of Idaho Inc and the most unlike its peers is St Alphonsus Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 37 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 IDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE ↗
- Who funds BALLET IDAHO INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY PORTLAND METRO EAST ↗
- Who funds THE PEREGRINE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds LIFES KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE DISCOVERY CENTER OF IDAHO INC ↗
- Who funds IDAHO SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds LEARNING LAB INC ↗
- Who funds ST ALPHONSUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Oregon State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds BOISE PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST ABORTION ACCESS FUND ↗
- Who funds MILLS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds PEAR ↗
- Who funds WOODHAVEN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Boise State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Womens Foundation of Oregon ↗
- Who funds KINDNESS FARM ↗
- Who funds Northwest Documentary Arts & Media ↗
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: Idaho Power Foundation Inc · Simplot Company Foundation Inc · Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation Inc · Idaho Community Foundation Inc · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Oregon Community Foundation · Langan Barber Foundation · Harad Family Foundation · The Julius C Jeker Foundation Inc · Claude R & Ethel B Whittenberger Foundation · The Autzen 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 Hackborn 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.
- Habitat for Humanity Portland Metro East — 14% of income from government
- Pear — 1% of income from government
- Womens Foundation of Oregon — 0% of income from government
- Oregon 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.