Oregon · Private foundation
The Renaissance Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $4.7M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 228
- Grants FY2024
- 227
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $405,501
- Organizations funded a year
- 130 to 237
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 36
- Total assets, FY2024
- $8.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 11% of the organizations The Renaissance Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $129k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 214 | $4.5M | 12% |
| FY2023 | 227 | $4.9M | 11% |
| FY2022 | 237 | $4.4M | 15% |
| FY2021 | 236 | $4.0M | 57% |
| FY2020 | 130 | $2.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lewis & Clark College | $2,655,042 | 5 | 0% |
| Stand for Children Inc | $1,022,500 | 5 | 4% |
| University of Portland | $657,246 | 5 | 0% |
| University of Michigan | $335,600 | 5 | 30% |
| Pacific University | $281,300 | 5 | 0% |
| Depaul University | $258,445 | 5 | 0% |
| Oregon Food Bank | $233,000 | 5 | 0% |
| George Fox University | $225,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Linfield University | $187,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Loyola University of Chicago | $179,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 223 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 126 recipients with no EIN on record ($9.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Renaissance Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: The Oregon Community Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Juan Young Trust · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Collins Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · The Jackson Foundation · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · The Reser Family Foundation · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · Wheeler Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Renaissance Foundation
- How much does The Renaissance Foundation give?
- The Renaissance Foundation reported 228 grants totaling $4,677,293 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 130 and 237 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Renaissance Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (79%), Youth Development (6%), Health (3%).
- Who are The Renaissance Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Lewis & Clark College ($2.7M), Stand for Children Inc ($1.0M), University of Portland ($657k).
- Does The Renaissance Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Renaissance Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Renaissance Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Oregon Community Foundation, Meyer Memorial Trust, Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust.
- Where is The Renaissance Foundation based?
- The Renaissance Foundation is based in OR.
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