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The Marquis Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $234k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE DOUGY CENTER | $100,000 |
| SNOW CAP COMMUNITY CHARITIES | $40,000 |
| NE EMERGENCY FOOD PROGRAM | $30,000 |
| MY FATHER'S HOUSE | $30,000 |
| BYBEE LAKES HOPE CENTER | $25,000 |
| CLACKAMAS VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| WE SHINE INITIATIVE INC | $20,000 |
| CLACKAMAS WOMENS SERVICES | $17,250 |
| BLOOMIN BOUTIQUE | $16,500 |
| TUALATIN FOOD PANTRY | $10,000 |
| MAINSPRING PORTLAND - DBA FISH EMERGENCY SERVICES | $8,500 |
| SCHWAB CHARITABLE FOR ROBERT MESHER | $3,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $256k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +30% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $87k 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
THE DOUGY CENTER INC3× · 2023–2025 · $248k · revenue +83%
BLOOMIN BOUTIQUE5× · 2021–2025 · $88k · revenue +87%
Oregon Community Warehouse Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $81k · revenue +30%
Funded once
MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INCone grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue +15%
MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONALone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%- OBOPEN BIBLE STANDARD CHURCHES INCone grant, 2022 · $15k
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.
Clackamas service center is an inclusive, "one-stop" community center for individuals and families seeking food relief and resources for improved health, dignity, and stability.
Operation Nightwatch provides nighttime hospitality for Portland's unhoused population. For a few evenings a week, staff and volunteers at thehospitality center provide a safe place, food, socks, blankets, medical care, and welcome our…
Our village gardens brings a spirit of hope to the people by growing and sharing food, learning and teaching skills, and empowering community leadership.(continued on schedule o)our village gardens leverages community organizing, skill…
Sheltercare offers a variety of housing and support services for people who are homeless or those facing homelessness with a committed focus on the community's most vulnerable individuals dealing with psychiatric disabilities, acquired…
We partner with our community to make good health possible for all. wallace serves individuals and families who face barriers to care throughout the east multnomah county in the portland metropolitan area.
We offer our homeless neighbors accessible whole-person care to improve and support health, and to bridge a gap in trust between people and systems.
FISH of Orchards, Inc. is an emergency food and clothing bank located in east Clark County, WA.
To improve the health and wellness of the medically uninsured or critically underserved through the engagement of professionals, community partners, and dedicated volunteers.
Sea mar community health centers is a community-based organization committed to providing quality, comprehensive health, human, housing, educational, and cultural services to diverse communities, specializing in service to latinos.
Our central hub empowers oregon and southwest washington communities by helping people identify, navigate and connect with the local resources they need.
To provide compassion and support to individuals in need, regardless of race, origin, religion or gender.
Columbia pacific food bank is the regional food distribution center for columbia county, oregon and local food pantry for the community of saint helens.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sunshine Division Inc and the most unlike its peers is Clackamas Community College Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 23 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 THE DOUGY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE DIVISION INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOMIN BOUTIQUE ↗
- Who funds Oregon Community Warehouse Inc ↗
- Who funds CLACKAMAS VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds SNOWCAP COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA GARCIA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRANCIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds SELF ENHANCEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds MY FATHERS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds WESHINE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds CLACKAMAS WOMEN'S SERVICES ↗
- Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Clackamas Community College Foundation ↗
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: OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Careoregon Inc · Juan Young Trust · The Swigert Foundation · Onpoint Community Credit Union · The Autzen Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Lamb Foundation · The Larson Legacy · The Robert D and Marcia H Randall Charitable Trust
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 Marquis 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.
- Clackamas Women's Services — 33% of income from government
- Oregon Community Warehouse Inc — 24% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- Self Enhancement Inc — 14% of income from government
- Medical Teams International — 14% of income from government
- Clackamas Volunteers in Medicine — 7% of income from government
- The Dougy Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Francis Center — 0% of income from government
- Clackamas Community College 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.
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