· 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 Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, 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 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 · 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 |
| WYCLIFFE BIBLE | $16,500 |
| ROOTED CHURCH | $13,500 |
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 (FY17–23, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 39 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
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 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 ↗
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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Rawson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Rawson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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