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The Kayser Family Foundation at a glance

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The Kayser Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$50k
Granted FY2024still arriving
45
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$135kHealth$26kInternational$13kEnvironment$13kHuman Services$9kAnimals$8kRecreation & Sports$8kArts & Culture$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k44 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
$250
Median grant
9
States reached
$493k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GONZAGA UNIVERSITY DMK SCHOLARSHIP$30,000
NORTH CLACKAMAS SOCCER CLUB$2,000
THE AUTISM SOCIETY OF OREGON$1,000
CLACKAMAS SERVICE CENTER INC$1,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS OREGON INC$1,000
URBAN ALCHEMY$1,000
ST AGNES SCHOOL$1,000
HOSPITAL DE LA FAMILIA FOUNDATION$1,000
TIBA FOUNDATION$900
KQED INC$600
PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO$500
MOLLY SMILES FOUNDATION INC$500
WORLD SCHOLARSHIP INITIATIVE$500
PARK THEATER TRUST$500
PANCAN$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BEYOND FISTULA: $250 → 8%ALEXANDRIA HOUSE: $250 → 14%JOHN 316 MISSION: $250 → 14%INSIDE OUT RE-ENTRY SERVICES INC: $259 → 15%CHOOSE MENTAL HEALTH: $4k → 8%EVERY BODY ATHLETICS: $300 → 8%CHOOSE MENTAL HEALTH: $4k → 8%CLACKAMAS SERVICE CENTER INC: $1k → 8%CHOOSE MENTAL HEALTH: $250 → 8%DAVIS STREET COMMUNITY CENTER: $100 → 10%FRIENDS OF ROWENZORI FOUNDATION: $100 → 9%WORLD SCHOLARSHIP INITIATIVE: $500 → 8%WORLD SCHOLARSHIP INITIATIVE: $500 → 8%WORLD SCHOLARSHIP INITIATIVE: $500 → 8%THE JEREMY WILSON FOUNDATION: $200 → 12%FAMILIES FIRST IN ESSEX COUNTY: $250 → 13%FAMILIES FIRST IN ESSEX COUNTY: $250 → 13%FAMILIES FIRST IN ESSEX COUNTY INC: $200 → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
IL
MI
NY
OR
IN
PA
CA
UT
CO
NE
AZ
NC
DC
HI
OK
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$130k · 30 repeat orgs$111k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
69

Total granted

$130k
$71k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+19%

Still filing today

80%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthAnimalsArts & CultureInternationalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2020–2023 · $75k · revenue +36%
  • TP
    THE PEREGRINE FUND INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $10k · revenue +39%
  • CM
    Choose Mental Health
    3× · 2022–2024 · $8k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $8k
  • SA
    ST ALPHONSUS
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • HF
    HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -30%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
2
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
3
LArche Portland

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…

Human Services
4
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

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.

Philanthropy
5
Senior Life Resources Northwest

To preserve and enhance the quality of life at home, with dignity and care.

Human Services
6
Marin Humane Society

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.

Animals
7
Oregon Agricultural Trust

Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.

Environment
8
Rogue Climate

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 &…

Education
9
Oregon Research Institute

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…

Social Science
10
The Water Research Foundation

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…

Environment
11
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals
12
Western Healthconnect

Support significant improvements in health care delivery and outcomes within the context of nonprofit, charitable ownership.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mcdowell Sonoran Conservancy; 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.
04the grantee network

73 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. 73 of the 129 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/73
Grantees still filing
43/73
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GONZAGA UNIVERSITY DMK SCHOLARSHIP: $30,000 · OtherGONZAGA UNIVERSITY DMK SCHOLARSHIPTHE PEREGRINE FUND INC: $10,000 · OtherTHE PEREGRINE FUND INCIndividual grant recipient: $7,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientST ALPHONSUS: $5,000 · Other+83 more: $59,258 · Other+83 moreCORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY: $75,000 · EducationCORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITYNORTH CLACKAMAS SOCCER CLUB: $6,000 · EducationNORTH CLACKAMAS SOCCER CLUB+6 more: $10,364 · Education+6 moreChoose Mental Health: $7,500 · Human ServicesWorld Scholarship Initiative: $1,500 · Human ServicesClackamas Service Center: $1,000 · Human ServicesFAMILIES FIRST IN ESSEX COUNTY INC: $700 · Human ServicesTHE O'CONNOR HOUSE: $500 · Human Services+9 more: $1,959 · Human ServicesHONORHEALTH FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $4,000 · HealthPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $1,258 · HealthTHE SISTERHOOD OF SOBRIETY: $1,250 · HealthMolly Smiles Foundation Inc: $500 · Health+2 more: $200 · HealthHospital De La Familia Foundation: $3,450 · InternationalTiba Foundation: $3,100 · InternationalWORLD VISION INC: $936 · International+2 more: $350 · InternationalBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LARIMER COUNTY: $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentFIRST GRADUATE: $1,750 · Youth DevelopmentThe Guardsmen: $790 · Youth DevelopmentANIMAL FRIENDS ALLIANCE: $2,000 · AnimalsTRI LAKES HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $675 · AnimalsArizona Humane Society: $550 · AnimalsTHE OREGON ZOO FOUNDATION: $250 · AnimalsCATS MEOW CAT RESCUE: $250 · Animals
Other$111,758Education$91,364Human Services$13,159Health$12,208International$7,836Youth Development$4,540Animals$3,725

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PEREGRINE FUND INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChoose Mental Health: $7,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetNORTH CLACKAMAS SOCCER CLUB: $6,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetHONORHEALTH FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHospital De La Familia Foundation: $3,450 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTiba Foundation: $3,100 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SCHOOL: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Clackamas Education Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $2,464 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LARIMER COUNTY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL FRIENDS ALLIANCE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFIRST GRADUATE: $1,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWorld Scholarship Initiative: $1,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $1,258 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SISTERHOOD OF SOBRIETY: $1,250 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKQED INC: $1,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN ALCHEMY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Olympics Oregon Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM SOCIETY OF OREGON: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetClackamas Service Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $936 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP: $900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Guardsmen: $790 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILIES FIRST IN ESSEX COUNTY INC: $700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRI LAKES HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $675 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetADIRONDACK FOUNDATION: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LAKE PLACID ASSOCIATION FOR MUSIC DRAMA AND ART INC: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetArizona Humane Society: $550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $550 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Park Theater Trust: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMolly Smiles Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSOAR Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE O'CONNOR HOUSE: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMCDOWELL SONORAN CONSERVANCY: $500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION: $425 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILIES FIRST INC: $375 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM: $375 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hillcrest Fund Inc: $350 over 2y, 9.9% of budgetEVERY BODY ATHLETICS: $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINSIDE OUT RE-ENTRY SERVICES: $259 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROSE HAVEN CIC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEYOND FISTULA: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Marie Lamfrom Charita…The Oregon Community …OCF Joseph E Weston P…Maybelle Clark Macdon…Clark FoundationThe Jackson FoundationKaiser Foundation Hos…Hoover Family Foundat…The Harold & Arlene S…The Reser Family Foun…Juan Young TrustThe Collins Foundation
Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation TrustOR21.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Kayser Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kayser Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 129 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home