· Private foundation
The Janet and Earl Seekins 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Boundless Freedom Project | $8,000 |
| Winterhaven School | $4,500 |
| Civics Learning Project | $4,500 |
| WO Smith Music School | $3,750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| A Place Called Home | $3,500 |
| Kids Center | $3,500 |
| Tower Theatre Foundation | $3,500 |
| Minds Matter | $3,250 |
| Central City Concern | $3,250 |
| Blanchet House | $3,000 |
| Garden School Foundation | $3,000 |
| Statement Arts | $2,500 |
| Zen Caregiving Project | $2,500 |
| Downtown Women's Center | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 51% of those 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 100% of The Janet and Earl Seekins Family 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, 62% of the giving stays in OR; read by stated purpose it is 0% — 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +75% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 4 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- TTTOWER THEATRE FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $29k · revenue +59%
- SASTATEMENT ARTS INC7× · 2018–2024 · $26k · revenue +83%
- CLCivics Learning Project6× · 2019–2024 · $23k · revenue +105%
Funded once
SMART READINGone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -15%- NFNashville Food Projectone grant, 2019 · $5k
- YFYellowhammer Fundgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue +75%
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 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…
Outside the frame trains homeless and marginalized youth to be the directors of their own films and lives.
At l'arche portland people with and without developmental disabilities create home and build community together. we nurture long-term mutual relationships that reveal the gifts of people with developmental disabilities. in doing so we…
Disability rights washington's mission is to advance the dignity, equality, and self determination of people with disabilities. we work to pursue justice on matters related to human and legal rights.
Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…
Seattle jobs initiative (sji) creates opportunities for people to support themselves and their families through living-wage careers.
Building changes advances equitable responses to homelessness in washington state, with a focus on children, youth, and families. we work at the intersection of housing, education, and health systems, partnering with communities and public…
Pathways kitchen helps justice-impacted youth thrive over survive by providing training, work opportunities and individualized support to ensure they can chart their own path forward
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
To build a thriving, just and empowered pacific northwest using capital, relationships and voice.
From clinical care and peer support programs to housing, we provide resources so people seeking mental health care can develop the tools to thrive, not just survive.
Our mission is to break the cycle of addiction and trauma for women, children, and families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Building Beats Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Dunaway Foundation. 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 26 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% 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 14% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 58 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 TOWER THEATRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STATEMENT ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Civics Learning Project ↗
- Who funds KIDS INTERVENTION AND DIAGNOSTIC SERVICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds BOUNDLESS FREEDOM PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Oregon Tradeswomen Inc ↗
- Who funds TOOLS & TIARAS INC ↗
- Who funds Central City Concern ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds BLANCHET HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY ↗
- Who funds DUNAWAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds A WAY HOME FOR DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds BK ROT INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDING BEATS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds A PLACE CALLED HOME ↗
- Who funds ZEN HOSPICE PROJECT DBA ZEN CAREGIVING PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SMART READING ↗
- Who funds Yellowhammer Fund ↗
- Who funds Worthy Beyond Purpose Inc ↗
- Who funds STREET DOG HERO ↗
- Who funds MINDS MATTER OF PORTLAND INC ↗
- Who funds THE HARMONY PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds ROSE HAVEN CIC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF CENTRAL OREGON ↗
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 Autzen Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Anjulicia Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Roundhouse Foundation · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · Helen M Clabough Charitable Foundation · Willard L & Ruth P Eccles Foundation · United Way of Deschutes County · St Charles Health System Inc · The Ford Family Foundation · DeLeone Charitable 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 Janet and Earl Seekins 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.
- Saving Grace — 48% of income from government
- Oregon Tradeswomen Inc — 46% of income from government
- Central Oregon Veterans Ranch — 45% of income from government
- Central City Concern — 10% of income from government
- Tower Theatre Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
- Smart Reading — 3% of income from government
- Casa of Central Oregon — 2% of income from government
- Oregon Public Broadcasting — 1% of income from government
- Rutgers 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.