· Private foundation
The Kinsman Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k47 grants · $211k
- $10k–50k56 grants · $922k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $80,000 |
| RESTORE OREGON INC | $40,000 |
| LITERARY ARTS INC | $33,250 |
| ON GOLDEN RESCUE | $25,000 |
| RESTORE OREGON INC | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS OF SANTIAM PASS SKI LODGE | $25,000 |
| OREGON INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND MEDICINE | $24,000 |
| OLD CHURCH SOCIETY INC | $20,000 |
| UPWARD BOUND CAMP FOR PERSONS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS INC | $20,000 |
| BIRD ALLIANCE OF OREGON INC | $20,000 |
| NORDIC NORTHWEST | $20,000 |
| OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| PORTLAND CENTER STAGE | $20,000 |
| OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING | $20,000 |
| CRAG RATS | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +30% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.
154 repeat relationships: 77 still active in FY2025, 77 since wound down; 23 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $212k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $720k · revenue +91%- OIOREGON INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND MEDICINE9× · 2017–2025 · $316k · revenue +7%
LITERARY ARTS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $190k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- FFFilm Forever Northwest dba Hollywood Theatregraduatedone grant, 2019 · $40k · revenue +97%
- EDEPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF EASTERN OREGONone grant, 2022 · $35k
- AHAPPLEGATE HOUSE HERITAGE ARTS AND EDUCATION INCone grant, 2021 · $30k
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.
Preserve, promote and celebrate our local history
To promote the arts in wallowa county, oregon.
The mission for the central oregon center for the arts is to champion an inclusive, vibrant center for the arts that brings transformative and diverse cultural performances and experiences to central oregon during all seasons
Develop educational network to communicate historical and scientific information empasizing natural and cultural resources to pacific northwest.
Historical museum
Education, promotion, and support for public and private historic preservation activities in Lake Oswego, Oregon.
Provide dramatic art performance and education.
Oregon Origins Project's mission is to explore the ancient origins of the state of Oregon through creative expression, by presenting events which engage artists, Indigenous culture bearers, scientists, and others to share artistic,…
The Pacific County Historical Society & Museum Foundation was formed to create a museum displaying antiques and memorabilia which presents the heritage of Pacific County. The organization promotes tourism in the County and provides…
How this is measured
220 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 220 of the 296 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OREGON INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds RESTORE OREGON INC ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND CENTER STAGE ↗
- Who funds LITERARY ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds OLD CHURCH SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE CENTER OF THE NORTH COAST ↗
- Who funds Friends of Santiam Pass Ski Lodge ↗
- Who funds BIRD ALLIANCE OF OREGON INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE THEATRE GROUP ↗
- Who funds OREGON COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIES ↗
- Who funds CASCADES RAPTOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds Artists Repertory Theatre ↗
- Who funds IMAGO THE THEATRE MASK ENSEMBLE ↗
- Who funds CHINTIMINI WILDLIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
- Who funds Profile Theatre Project ↗
- Who funds THIRD RAIL REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds ROWENA WILDLIFE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Nonprofit Association of Oregon ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BADGER RUN WILDLIFE REHAB ↗
- Who funds FORESTS FOREVER INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON CENTER FOR THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS ↗
- Who funds OREGON COAST AQUARIUM INC ↗
- Who funds Blue Mountain Wildlife ↗
- Who funds CAMP FIRE COLUMBIA ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND REVELS ↗
- Who funds Stumptown Stages ↗
- Who funds HAND 2 MOUTH ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE PRODUCTIONS ↗
- Who funds Fishtrap Inc ↗
- Who funds ASTORIA ARTS AND MOVEMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds JACKNIFE-ZION-HORSEHEAVEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Vintage High School Music Boosters ↗
- Who funds OREGON CONTEMPORARY THEATRE ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Kinsman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kinsman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Klamath Bird Observatory: 100% of income from government
- Maxville Heritage Interpretive Center: 100% of income from government
- Wallowa Resources Inc: 100% of income from government
- Little Theatre on the Bay: 62% of income from government
- Yamhill Community Action Partnership: 61% of income from government
- Oregon Council for the Humanities: 55% of income from government
- Weston Area Development Association: 53% of income from government
- Artists Repertory Theatre: 48% of income from government
- Crag Rats: 41% of income from government
- Pacific Railroad Preservation Association Incorporated: 38% of income from government
- Upward Bound Camp for Persons With Special Ne: 30% of income from government
- Oregon Coast Aquarium Inc: 24% of income from government
- Risk-Reward: 22% of income from government
- Oregon Wildlife Heritage Foundation: 16% of income from government
- Oregon Arts Watch: 13% of income from government
- Old Church Society Inc: 12% of income from government
- The Portland Playhouse: 11% of income from government
- Friends of the Historic Union Community Hall: 11% of income from government
- Friends of the Oregon Caves and Chateau: 11% of income from government
- United Way of Jackson County Inc: 11% of income from government
- High Desert Museum: 11% of income from government
- Whiteside Theatre Foundation: 10% of income from government
- Literary Arts Inc: 10% of income from government
- Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble: 9% of income from government
- Columbia Arts: 8% of income from government
- Forests Forever Inc: 7% of income from government
- Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad: 7% of income from government
- Josephy Center for Arts and Culture: 7% of income from government
- Think Wild: 7% of income from government
- The Arts Council of Pendleton Inc: 6% of income from government
- Nonprofit Association of Oregon: 6% of income from government
- Miracle Theatre Group: 6% of income from government
- Portland Institute for Contemporary Art: 5% of income from government
- Coho Productions Inc: 5% of income from government
- Playa: 5% of income from government
- Third Rail Repertory Theatre: 5% of income from government
- Fishtrap Inc: 5% of income from government
- Oregon Contemporary Theatre: 5% of income from government
- Oregon Center for Contemporary Art Inc: 4% of income from government
- Southern Oregon Historical Society Inc: 4% of income from government
- Liberty Restoration Inc: 4% of income from government
- Girls Inc of the Pacific Northwest: 4% of income from government
- Albany Regional Museum Corporation: 3% of income from government
- Historic Elsinore Theatre Inc: 3% of income from government
- Portland Revels: 3% of income from government
- Yamhill County Casa Program: 3% of income from government
- Eastern Oregon Regional Arts Council dba Art Center East: 3% of income from government
- Triangle Productions: 2% of income from government
- Neskowin Coast Foundation: 2% of income from government
- Profile Theatre Project: 2% of income from government
- Ashland New Plays Festival: 2% of income from government
- Lewis & Clark College: 2% of income from government
- Restore Oregon Inc: 2% of income from government
- Bosco-Milligan Foundation Architectural Heritage Center: 1% of income from government
- Young Mens Christian Assoc Medford dba Rv Family Ymca: 1% of income from government
- Columbia Gorge Orchestra Association: 1% of income from government
- University of Portland: 1% of income from government
- Alberta Abbey Foundation: 1% of income from government
- Boom Arts Inc: 1% of income from government
- Portland Actors Conservatory: 1% of income from government
- Portland Art Museum: 1% of income from government
- Independent Publishing Resource Center Inc: 1% of income from government
- Portland Center Stage: 1% of income from government
- Oregon Health & Science University Foundation: 1% of income from government
- Stumptown Stages: 1% of income from government
- Crossroads Creative & Performing Arts Center Inc: 1% of income from government
- Blue Mountain Wildlife: 1% of income from government
- PassinArt - a Theater Company: 1% of income from government
- Oregon Public Broadcasting: 1% of income from government
- Oregon Black Pioneers Corporation: 0% of income from government
- The Willamette Heritage Center: 0% of income from government
- Bird Alliance of Oregon Inc: 0% of income from government
- Clackamas Community College Foundation: 0% of income from government
- Southern Oregon Friends of Hospice: 0% of income from government
- Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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