· Private foundation
The Newcomb Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k27 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON GIFT SERVI | $10,000 |
| SEVA FOUNDATION | $6,250 |
| TIBETAN NUNS PROJECT | $6,250 |
| VOICES UNLIMITED | $3,000 |
| YOUTH RIGHTS JUSTICE | $2,500 |
| NATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH AND FAMILY CE | $2,000 |
| PORTLAND STREET MEDICINE | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| COLON CANCER FAMILY REGISTRY | $1,250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,250 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD COLUMBIA WILLAME | $1,000 |
| BIENESTAR | $1,000 |
| UNITED INDIANS OF ALL TRIBES FOUNDA | $1,000 |
| INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
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 (FY19–19, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.
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 +36% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- SFSEVA FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $24k · revenue +61%
- TITEENS IN PUBLIC SERVICE5× · 2019–2023 · $23k · revenue +23%
- VUVOICES UNLIMITED6× · 2019–2024 · $18k · revenue +192% · 63% of their budget
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $5k
- ASAMERICAN SOCIETY OF PREVENTATIVE ONone grant, 2019 · $3k
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD - NYCone grant, 2019 · $2k
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.
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…
Next up amplifies the voice of diverse youth to achieve a more just oregon
The oregon center for public policy's mission is to achieve economic justice for all oregonians through research, analysis, and advocacy. ocpp works to change policies that foster economic security and stability for all oregonians. we do…
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…
Connect immigrants to legal, social, and interpretation services.
See schedule oneighborhood partnerships, inc. (np or the organization) is an oregon non-profit corporation founded in 1989 whose mission is to help create a better oregon, one in which we all have access to opportunity, stability, and what…
Equip the public and public decision-makers with the policy research and practical tools they need to embed the values of fairness, care, and opportunity into the foundations of Washington's economy.
Oregon tilth is a leading nonprofit certifier, educator and advocate for sustainable organic agriculture and products since 1974. the organizations mission to make the food system and agriculture biologically sound and socially equitable…
Next up amplifies the voice and leadership of diverse young people to achieve a more just and equitable oregon.
RE Sources mobilizes people of Northwest Washington to build just and thriving communities and to protect the land, water, and climate on which we all depend.
The Northwest Network of Bisexual Trans Lesbians and Gay Survivors of Abuse supports queer and trans survivors in reconnecting to their self-determination through advocacy-based counseling and community education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Native American Youth and Family Center and the most unlike its peers is Voices Unlimited. 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 40 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 6% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 54 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 SEVA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEENS IN PUBLIC SERVICE ↗
- Who funds VOICES UNLIMITED ↗
- Who funds TIBETAN NUNS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds UNITED INDIANS OF ALL TRIBES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SEQUOIA MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND STREET MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Oregon Inc ↗
- Who funds BIENESTAR INC ↗
- Who funds Oregon Natural Resources Council Fund Oregon Wild ↗
- Who funds WaterWatch of Oregon ↗
- Who funds INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Transition Projects Inc ↗
- Who funds LArche Portland ↗
- Who funds BIRD ALLIANCE OF OREGON INC ↗
- Who funds EQUITABLE GIVING CIRCLE ↗
- Who funds Alaska Native Heritage Center Inc ↗
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: The Oregon Community Foundation · The Collins Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Seattle Foundation · The Jackson Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Larson Legacy · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · Juan Young Trust · The Autzen Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation 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 Newcomb 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.
- WaterWatch of Oregon — 61% of income from government
- LArche Portland — 59% of income from government
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Portland Street Medicine — 32% of income from government
- Transition Projects Inc — 29% of income from government
- Native American Youth and Family Center — 23% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- Sequoia Mental Health Services Inc — 12% of income from government
- Bienestar Inc — 8% of income from government
- Community Transitional School — 7% of income from government
- Oregon Natural Resources Council Fund Oregon Wild — 2% of income from government
- Oregon Public Broadcasting — 1% of income from government
- Bird Alliance of Oregon Inc — 0% of income from government
- All Classical Public Media Inc — 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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