· Private foundation
The Hackborn 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE IDAHO FOODBANK | $5,000 |
| BodyVox Dance Center | $5,000 |
| THE BLACK OREGON LAND TRUST | $3,500 |
| Ballet Idaho | $3,000 |
| California State Polytechnic Univer | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| OHSU KNIGHT CANCER INSTITUTE | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Neighborhood Works Boise | $2,500 |
| THE PEREGRINE FUND | $2,000 |
| NORTHWEST ABORTION ACCESS FUND | $2,000 |
| PORTLAND CHILD ART STUDIO | $2,000 |
| Life's Kitchen | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| COMM CTR RSRC FOR GAY LESBIAN PEOPL | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 43% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 5% of The Hackborn Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 66% of the giving stays in ID; by stated purpose, 63%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.
29 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IFIDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE9× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +48%
- BIBALLET IDAHO INC9× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +62%
- TPTHE PEREGRINE FUND INC9× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +122%
Funded once
- WCWASSMUTH CENTERone grant, 2019 · $3k
- PFPROJECT FLUXone grant, 2024 · $3k
- BSBoise State University Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +182%
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.
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.
Develop educational network to communicate historical and scientific information empasizing natural and cultural resources to pacific northwest.
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 &…
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…
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.
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 tilth is a leading nonprofit certifier, educator and advocate for sustainable organic agriculture and products since 1974. the organizations mission to make the food system and agriculture biologically sound and socially equitable…
In 2024, IAF Pacific continued its work of connecting and strengthening broad-based alliances throughout the Pacific region.Through its Building Partnerships for Collaborative Action initiativethe organization supported Indigenous and…
Oregon Wild works to protect and restore Oregon's wildlands, wildlife and waters as an enduring legacy for future generations.
Building a diverse grassroots movement to address the causes of climate disruption through justice-based solutions by inspiring, training and mobilizing people to act.
To increase equitable access to healthful food and strengthen communities by empowering neighbors to share in the harvest and care of city-grown produce.
How this is measured
24 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. 24 of the 41 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds IDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE ↗
- Who funds BALLET IDAHO INC ↗
- Who funds THE PEREGRINE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY PORTLAND METRO EAST ↗
- Who funds LIFES KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE DISCOVERY CENTER OF IDAHO INC ↗
- Who funds LEARNING LAB INC ↗
- Who funds IDAHO SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds ST ALPHONSUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Oregon State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST ABORTION ACCESS FUND ↗
- Who funds BOISE PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MILLS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds BLACK OREGON LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Womens Foundation of Oregon ↗
- Who funds KINDNESS FARM ↗
- Who funds PEAR ↗
- Who funds Boise State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND CHILD ART STUDIO ↗
- Who funds WOODHAVEN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Northwest Documentary Arts & Media ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Hackborn Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hackborn Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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