· Private foundation
The Kayser Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k44 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GONZAGA UNIVERSITY DMK SCHOLARSHIP | $30,000 |
| NORTH CLACKAMAS SOCCER CLUB | $2,000 |
| CLACKAMAS SERVICE CENTER INC | $1,000 |
| ST AGNES SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| URBAN ALCHEMY | $1,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS OREGON INC | $1,000 |
| HOSPITAL DE LA FAMILIA FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| THE AUTISM SOCIETY OF OREGON | $1,000 |
| TIBA FOUNDATION | $900 |
| KQED INC | $600 |
| PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO | $500 |
| PARK THEATER TRUST | $500 |
| PANCAN | $500 |
| MOLLY SMILES FOUNDATION INC | $500 |
| SOAR INC | $500 |
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, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 14% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 27 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, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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
CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY2× · 2020–2023 · $75k · revenue +36%- TPTHE PEREGRINE FUND INC2× · 2020–2021 · $10k · revenue +39%
- CMChoose Mental Health3× · 2022–2024 · $8k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $8k
- SAST ALPHONSUSone grant, 2020 · $5k
- HFHONORHEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -30%
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.
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
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…
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
To preserve and enhance the quality of life at home, with dignity and care.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
Rogue Climate's mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change including low-income, rural, youth, seniors & communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs &…
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…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
Support significant improvements in health care delivery and outcomes within the context of nonprofit, charitable ownership.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mcdowell Sonoran Conservancy and the most unlike its peers is The Hillcrest Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
73 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. 73 of the 129 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 CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE PEREGRINE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Choose Mental Health ↗
- Who funds NORTH CLACKAMAS SOCCER CLUB ↗
- Who funds HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Hospital De La Familia Foundation ↗
- Who funds Tiba Foundation ↗
- Who funds ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds North Clackamas Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL FRIENDS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LARIMER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FIRST GRADUATE ↗
- Who funds World Scholarship Initiative ↗
- Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE SISTERHOOD OF SOBRIETY ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds Clackamas Service Center ↗
- Who funds URBAN ALCHEMY ↗
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: Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Oregon Community Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · Clark Foundation · The Jackson Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Hoover Family Foundation · The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Care Foundation · The Reser Family Foundation · Juan Young Trust · The Collins 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 Kayser 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.
- Rogue Action Center — 29% of income from government
- Human Solutions Inc Dba Our Just Future — 17% of income from government
- Clackamas Service Center — 9% of income from government
- William Temple House — 0% of income from government
- In a Landscape — 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.