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The Kinsman Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
104
Grants FY2025
96
Organizations funded FY2024
22%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$80,000
Organizations funded a year
96 to 104
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$19M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 22% of the organizations The Kinsman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $216k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyAnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving100$1.2M23%
FY202496$1.2M22%
FY2023103$1.2M25%
FY2022104$1.2M20%
FY202197$1.2M23%
FY2020101$1.1M22%
FY2019102$1.2M26%
FY201898$1.2M33%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$6.2MAnimals$1.6MHealth$770kRecreation & Sports$567kScience & Tech$316kEnvironment$279kEducation$258kCommunity Improvement$225kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
WA
MN
NY
OR
CA
UT
CO
VA
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 257 grantees
All grantees of The Kinsman Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Oregon Health & Science University Foundation$720,00090%
Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine$316,000911%
Restore Oregon Inc$305,50079%
Portland Center Stage$207,50091%
Literary Arts Inc$190,00091%
Old Church Society Inc$187,98786%
Oregon Public Broadcasting$187,50090%
Wildlife Center of the North Coast$186,000925%
Friends of Santiam Pass Ski Lodge$185,000819%
Bird Alliance of Oregon Inc$185,00091%
Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc$180,00090%
Miracle Theatre Group$172,50093%
Oregon Council for the Humanities$159,00091%
Cascades Raptor Center$158,00095%
Artists Repertory Theatre$152,50091%
Imago the Theatre Mask Ensemble$144,50095%
Chintimini Wildlife Center$140,00095%
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art$135,00091%
Profile Theatre Project$129,00093%
Third Rail Repertory Theatre$128,50094%
Rowena Wildlife Clinic$126,700914%
Nonprofit Association of Oregon$124,50091%
American Wildlife Foundation$120,000829%
Badger Run Wildlife Rehab$120,000924%
Forests Forever Inc$117,771510%
Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts$115,50098%
Oregon Coast Aquarium Inc$108,00090%
Blue Mountain Wildlife$108,00096%
Camp Fire Columbia$105,00041%
Portland Revels$105,00095%
Stumptown Stages$104,50095%
Hand 2 Mouth$103,00098%
Mount Angel Abbey$100,0003n/a
Triangle Productions$92,50095%
Fishtrap Inc$90,00093%
Astoria Arts and Movement Center$84,5006n/a
Jacknife-Zion-Horseheaven Historical Society$80,390421%
Vintage High School Music Boosters$80,00045%
Oregon Contemporary Theatre$77,00082%
Liberty Restoration Inc$75,00034%
Cumberland Community Events Center$75,000330%
Turtle Ridge Wild Life Center$72,000418%
Portland Actors Conservatory$70,00092%
Mark Prairie Historical Society$65,000371%
Bag and Baggage Productions$65,00092%
Creswell Heritage Foundation$63,000432%
The Portland Playhouse$62,50091%
Upward Bound Camp for Persons With Special Ne$60,00046%
Vancouver National Historic Reserve Trust$60,00050%
Coho Productions Inc$60,00093%
Alberta Abbey Foundation$55,00052%
National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States$50,00050%
The Willamette Heritage Center$50,00043%
Portland Art Museum$50,00050%
Sowelu Theater$47,500940%
Josephy Center for Arts and Culture$47,00092%
CRAG Rats$45,000210%
Stages of Life$45,000939%
Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble$45,00094%
Poetry Northwest$45,0009n/a
East Washington County Shelter Partnership Council Inc$45,00061%
Bosco-Milligan Foundation Architectural Heritage Center$41,70045%
Alex Rovello Memorial Foundation$41,000719%
Santiam Heritage Foundation$40,750417%
Molalla Area Historical Society$40,3005n/a
University of Portland$40,00080%
Film Forever Northwest dba Hollywood Theatre$40,00011%
Hawkwatch International Inc$40,00080%
Maxville Heritage Interpretive Center$40,00026%
Klamath Bird Observatory$40,00081%
Oregon Arts Watch$40,00085%
Powerhouse Center on the Bull Run Incorporated$40,000233%
Benton County Historical Society$35,00024%
Risk-Reward$35,00077%
Confluences Inc Confluence Project$34,50032%
Nordic Northwest$32,50021%
Whiteside Theatre Foundation$31,00029%
Applegate House Heritage Arts and Education Inc$30,0001n/a
Columbia Arts$30,00063%
Lakewood Theatre Company$30,00060%
Wallowa History Center Inc$30,000214%
Willamette Community & Grange Hall Historic Bldg$30,000310%
Think Wild$30,00062%
Lgbtq Community Center Fund$30,00022%
Whitman County Historical Society$30,00024%
Ten Fifteen Productions$30,00027%
Southern Oregon Friends of Hospice$29,90031%
Astoria Downtown Development Association$29,50027%
Columbia Gorge Orchestra Association$29,25064%
Friends of Mildred Kanipe Memorial Park Association Inc$26,2002n/a
Polk County Historical Society$25,00057%
Ashland Parks Foundation$25,00013%
Western Seminary$25,0003n/a
Marylhurst University$25,00010%
On Golden Rescue$25,00014%
Oysterville Restoration Foundation$25,0001n/a
Lord and Schryver Conservancy$24,000318%
Native Bird Care of Sisters Oregon$23,6908n/a
Tillamook County Habitat for Humanity$22,50022%
Jpr Foundation Inc$22,00020%
Umatilla County Historical Society$21,50026%
Weston Area Development Association$20,700111%
Geercrest Farm & Historical Society$20,115425%
The Oaks Park Association$20,00010%
Central Lutheran Church$20,0001n/a
Lewis & Clark College$20,00020%
Girls Inc of the Pacific Northwest$20,00021%
Friends of Historic Forest Grove Inc$20,0001n/a
Mount Hood Towne Hall Association$20,000129%
Helix Advancement Partnership Network$20,000218%
Friends of the Historic Carus Schoolhouse$20,0001n/a
The Angels in the Outfield$20,00042%
Southern Oregon Historical Society Inc$19,95022%
Neskowin Coast Foundation$19,00071%
Boom Arts Inc$19,00044%
Cannon Beach Historical Society$19,00028%
Association of Small Foundations$18,00090%
Covenant Presbyterian Church$18,0001n/a
Willamalane Park and Rec Dist$17,0002n/a
Friends of the Historic Union Community Hall$16,90026%
Waldorf Association of Portland Inc$15,00020%
Little Theatre on the Bay$15,00012%
Jefferson Historical Society & Museum$15,000123%
Historic Elsinore Theatre Inc$15,00012%
Oysterville Community Club$15,0001n/a
Washington State University Foundation$15,0002n/a
Tillicum Foundation$15,00012%
Vancouver Avenue First Baptist Church$15,0001n/a
Friends of Hopewell House dba Hopewell House$15,00011%
Wallowa Band Nez Perce Trail Interpretive Center$15,00017%
Willamette Falls Heritage Foundation$15,0001n/a
Friends of NCRD$15,0001n/a
Crossroads Creative & Performing Arts Center Inc$14,95032%
The Orlo Foundation$14,2001n/a
Calyx Inc$14,000216%
Happy Valley Elementary PTO$13,000211%
Eastern Oregon Regional Theater Inc$12,820212%
The Friends of Skamokawa Foundation$12,6002n/a
Portland Mountain Rescue$12,500111%
Dogs for the Deaf Inc Dba Dogs for Better Lives$12,50010%
Friends of Yamhelas Westsider Trail$12,500318%
McLoughlin Memorial Association$12,500123%
Friends of the Oregon Caves and Chateau$12,5002n/a
Clackamas County Historical Society$12,500111%
Davids Chair Outdoor Mobility Systems$12,50014%
Pacifica a Garden in the Siskiyous$12,00013%
Friends of Fish Lake$12,0003n/a
Drexel H Foundation$12,0001n/a
The Living New Deal Project$11,50022%
Ontario Oregon Basque Club Inc$10,9711n/a
Yamhill County Casa Program$10,60031%
Oregon Black Pioneers Corporation$10,00014%
Chehalem Center Association dba Chehalem Cultural Center$10,00020%
YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC MEDFORD dba RV FAMILY YMCA$10,00010%
Columbia Theatre Association for the Performing Arts$10,00011%
Butte Creek Mill Foundation$10,00022%
Original Practice Shakespeare Festival$10,00035%
Tillamook Animal Shelter Inc$10,0001n/a
Mount Tabor Dance Community$10,0001n/a
Portland Parks Foundation$10,00011%
Playa$10,00023%
Kenton Action Plan$10,0001n/a
Wallowa Resources Inc$10,00010%
EASTERN OREGON REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL dba ART CENTER EAST$10,00013%
Friends of Timberline$10,00024%
Elk Rock Garden Foundation$10,0001n/a
Ashland New Plays Festival$10,00025%
Pittock Mansion Society$10,00011%
Peter Britt Gardens Music and Arts Festival Association$10,00010%
Oakland Museum Historical Society Inc$9,9001n/a
Flora School Education Center$9,7002n/a
Independent Publishing Resource Center Inc$9,50021%
High Desert Museum$9,00020%
Operation Tiny Home$8,00012%
Egyptian Theatre Preservation Assoc$8,00023%
The Arts Council of Pendleton Inc$7,89321%
Portland Area Theatre Alliance$7,50014%
Gladstone Education Foundation$7,5003n/a
Northwest Theatre Workshop$7,5003n/a
United Way of Jackson County Inc$7,50050%
International Museum of Carousel Art$7,5001100%
Mountain Top Wildlife$7,50013%
The People's Nonprofit Accelerator$7,50050%
Western Railway Preservation Society$7,500270%
Little Theatre of Walla Walla$7,18122%
Forever Wild Wildlife Rescue$6,9001n/a
Oregon Society of Artists$6,00031%
Forward Stride$5,00010%
Down to Earth Nonprofit$5,00022%
Theatre Company$5,00015%
Oregon Center for Contemporary Art Inc$5,00011%
Maryhill Museum of Art$5,00011%
Abernethy PTA$5,0001n/a
Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad$5,00010%
Lane County Historical Society$5,00011%
Oregon Cartoon Institute$5,0001n/a
Clackamas Community College Foundation$5,00020%
Oregon Nordic Club$5,00018%
PARTNERS FOR THE PAC dba Charlene Larsen Center for the Performing Arts$5,00017%
Yamhill Community Action Partnership$5,00010%
Richard Ehrlich Family Foundation$5,0001n/a
New York Aikikai Ltd$5,00011%
Northwest Children's Theater and School Inc$5,00020%
Seaside Museum & Historical Society$5,0001n/a
Friends of Sp4449 Inc$5,000112%
Community Center for the Performing Arts$5,00011%
Clackamas County 4-H Association Inc$5,00013%
Canby Historical Society$5,000130%
Arts Midwest Incorporated$5,00010%
PassinArt - A Theater Company$5,00011%
Japanese American Museum of Oregon$5,00011%
Mt Hood Cultural Center and Museum$5,00011%
Albany Regional Museum Corporation$5,00011%
Malheur Country Historical Society$5,0001n/a
Northwest Alliance for Alternative Media&Education$5,00011%
Oregon Wildlife Heritage Foundation$5,00010%
North Clackamas FFA Alumni$5,0001n/a
Greater Prairie City Community Association$5,00015%
Knappton Cove Heritage Center$5,0001n/a
Artists and Athletes of Faith$5,0001n/a
Pacific Railroad Preservation Association Incorporated$5,00019%
Leach Garden Friends$5,00010%
Vanport Placemarking Project$5,0001n/a
Fonograf Editions$5,0001n/a
Jane a Theater Company$5,0002n/a
Echo Heritage Association$4,9501n/a
Gresham Historical Society$4,50011%
Wildlife Images Rehabilitation & Education$4,50020%
Amphibious Forces Memorial Museum Inc$4,50017%
Friends of Notre-Dame de Paris Inc$4,50010%
McKee Bridge Historical Society$4,5001n/a
Coos County Logging Museum Inc$4,0001n/a
Juliette's House$4,00011%
Jacksonville Community Center$3,78012%
Candid$3,50070%
Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Miner$3,00011%
Jacksonville Boosters Foundation Inc$3,0001n/a
Trailkeepers of Oregon$3,0001n/a
Power House Theatre Walla Walla$3,00010%
Nonprofit Network of Southwest Washington$3,0001n/a
Media Institute for Social Change$3,0001n/a
Northwest Film Forum$3,00010%
Stella Historical Society$2,5001n/a
Save The PT Boat Inc$2,5001n/a
In a Landscape$2,50011%
Signal Fire$2,5001n/a
Cerimon House$2,5001n/a
Oregon Trail Education Foundation$2,5001n/a
Portland Metro Arts$2,50010%
Tavern Books$2,50014%
Four Rivers Cultural Center and Museum$2,00010%
Ecology in Classrooms and Outdoors$2,00010%
Arts Alliance of Yamhill Co$1,90013%
Cc Stern Type Foundry$1,5001n/a
Rainier Oregon Historical Museum$1,25011%
Blue Mountain Resourceconservation and Development Council$1,0001n/a
GuideStar USA Inc$1,00020%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($720k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Kinsman Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 12 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 198 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOregon Health & Science University Foundation: $720,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetOregon Institute of Science and Medicine: $316,000 over 9y, 11% of budgetRestore Oregon Inc: $305,500 over 7y, 8.8% of budgetPortland Center Stage: $207,500 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetLiterary Arts Inc: $190,000 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetOld Church Society Inc: $187,987 over 8y, 5.8% of budgetOregon Public Broadcasting: $187,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetWildlife Center of the North Coast: $186,000 over 9y, 25% of budgetFriends of Santiam Pass Ski Lodge: $185,000 over 8y, 19% of budgetBird Alliance of Oregon Inc: $185,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetOregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc: $180,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMiracle Theatre Group: $172,500 over 9y, 3.3% of budgetOregon Council for the Humanities: $159,000 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetCascades Raptor Center: $158,000 over 9y, 4.8% of budgetArtists Repertory Theatre: $152,500 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetImago the Theatre Mask Ensemble: $144,500 over 9y, 4.8% of budgetChintimini Wildlife Center: $140,000 over 9y, 5.1% of budgetPortland Institute for Contemporary Art: $135,000 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetProfile Theatre Project: $129,000 over 9y, 3.2% of budgetThird Rail Repertory Theatre: $128,500 over 9y, 4.2% of budgetRowena Wildlife Clinic: $126,700 over 9y, 14% of budgetNonprofit Association of Oregon: $124,500 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetAmerican Wildlife Foundation: $120,000 over 8y, 29% of budgetBadger Run Wildlife Rehab: $120,000 over 9y, 24% of budgetForests Forever Inc: $117,771 over 5y, 9.6% of budgetOregon Center for the Photographic Arts: $115,500 over 9y, 7.9% of budgetOregon Coast Aquarium Inc: $108,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetBlue Mountain Wildlife: $108,000 over 9y, 5.6% of budgetCamp Fire Columbia: $105,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetPortland Revels: $105,000 over 9y, 5.0% of budgetStumptown Stages: $104,500 over 9y, 4.7% of budgetHand 2 Mouth: $103,000 over 9y, 7.7% of budgetTriangle Productions: $92,500 over 9y, 4.6% of budgetFishtrap Inc: $90,000 over 9y, 2.5% of budgetJacknife-Zion-Horseheaven Historical Society: $80,390 over 4y, 21% of budgetVintage High School Music Boosters: $80,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetOregon Contemporary Theatre: $77,000 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetLiberty Restoration Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetCumberland Community Events Center: $75,000 over 3y, 30% of budgetTurtle Ridge Wild Life Center: $72,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetPortland Actors Conservatory: $70,000 over 9y, 2.0% of budgetMark Prairie Historical Society: $65,000 over 3y, 71% of budgetBag and Baggage Productions: $65,000 over 9y, 2.0% of budgetCreswell Heritage Foundation: $63,000 over 4y, 32% of budgetThe Portland Playhouse: $62,500 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetUpward Bound Camp for Persons With Special Ne: $60,000 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetVancouver National Historic Reserve Trust: $60,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCoho Productions Inc: $60,000 over 9y, 2.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 198.

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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.

James F & Marion L Miller FoundationOR110.1× affinity60 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: James F & Marion L Miller Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Roundhouse Foundation · The Collins Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · Regional Arts & Culture Council · The Jackson Foundation · Braemar Charitable Trust · Juan Young Trust · The Reser Family 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.

Compare The Kinsman Foundation with peer funders

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How do I get to The Kinsman Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Kinsman Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Kinsman Foundation

How much does The Kinsman Foundation give?
The Kinsman Foundation reported 104 grants totaling $1,212,840 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 96 and 104 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Kinsman Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (58%), Animals (14%), Health (7%).
Who are The Kinsman Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Oregon Health & Science University Foundation ($720k), Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine ($316k), Restore Oregon Inc ($306k).
Does The Kinsman Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Kinsman Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Kinsman Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include James F & Marion L Miller Foundation, The Autzen Foundation, The Oregon Community Foundation.
Where is The Kinsman Foundation based?
The Kinsman Foundation is based in OR.

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 296 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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