· Private foundation
The Rawson Family 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
64% of The Rawson Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 12 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The Rawson Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $570k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k2 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $414k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $140k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LONE TREE CAMPS | $75,000 |
| REAL LIFE CHURCH | $64,500 |
| CROSS TOWN | $48,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,803 |
| RETURNING HOME | $37,500 |
| TURNING POINT | $37,000 |
| ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION FOR OUTREACH | $34,000 |
| DESERT SPRINGS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $30,946 |
| SONOMA SPRINGS CHURCH | $30,500 |
| COLLEGE HEIGHTS KINDERGARTEN | $27,000 |
| MISSION LUTHERAN SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-ALAMOGORD | $17,500 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-LAS CRUCE | $16,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $16,500 |
| ROOTED CHURCH | $13,500 |
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 (FY17–23, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, 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.
31 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2023, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
- MVMESILLA VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL4× · 2022–2025 · $69k · revenue +12%
- AFAMISTAD FAMILY SERVICES INC2× · 2022–2023 · $23k · revenue +478%
- TCTHE CALL2× · 2022–2023 · $23k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $30k
- FBFIRST BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $6k
- LCLIGHTHOUSE CHAPEL INTERNATIONALone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
The mission is to provide a biblically based classical college preparatory education that inspires a passion for excellence a heart of grace and the character of Christ.
Christian education
Dallas Christian is a college preparatory school committed to Biblical values where students are prepared for Christ-centered lives of purpose, service and leadership.
Christian day school with pre-k thru 12
Christian day school
To operate a private christian school for kindergarten through grade twelve.
To provide christian education to students from preschool through high school
Education - private christian school grades k-12
To educate children in a sound christian based environment. the education will be holistic in its approach.
North clackamas christian school partners with christian parents in providing their students with a biblically-based education that pursues excellence in spiritual, academic, artistic, & athletic programs, training them to serve christ…
To provide christian based classical eduation
Christian School grades k-8
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Desert Springs Christian Academy and the most unlike its peers is Bible Studies By Mail. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 39 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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds LONE TREE INC ↗
- Who funds RETURNING HOME INC ↗
- Who funds MESILLA VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DESERT SPRINGS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE HEIGHTS KINDERGARTEN INC ↗
- Who funds AMISTAD FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE CALL ↗
- Who funds CASA DE PEREGRINOS ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds Oak Grove Classical Academy ↗
- Who funds BIBLE STUDIES BY MAIL ↗
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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Rawson Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.