· Private foundation
The Renaissance Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k139 grants · $635k
- $10k–50k71 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k12 grants · $958k
- $250k+6 grants · $1.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF OREGON | $405,501 |
| OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY | $379,980 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN | $340,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND | $275,000 |
| PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY | $273,863 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250,000 |
| STAND FOR CHILDREN | $215,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO | $116,298 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $82,500 |
| ELIZABETH CITY STATE UNIVERSITY | $68,500 |
| WESTERN OREGON UNIVERSITY | $65,000 |
| OREGON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $65,000 |
| LINFIELD UNIVERSITY | $62,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON | $62,500 |
| SOUTHERN OREGON UNIVERSITY | $60,002 |
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 (FY20–24, $288k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 32% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
262 repeat relationships: 189 still active in FY2024, 73 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $386k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE5× · 2020–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +26%
STAND FOR CHILDREN INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +1%- UOUNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND5× · 2020–2024 · $657k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- SFSTAND FOR CHILDRENone grant, 2020 · $170k
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +38%
PORTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +10%
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 University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.
How this is measured
223 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. 223 of the 364 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds STAND FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DEPAUL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Linfield University ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Stillman College ↗
- Who funds WARNER PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds REED INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Renaissance Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Renaissance Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Friends of Trees: 100% of income from government
- Klamath Bird Observatory: 100% of income from government
- Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
- Artists Repertory Theatre: 48% of income from government
- Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
- Portland YouthBuilders: 35% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
- College Dreams Inc: 23% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank: 21% of income from government
- Willamette Valley Law Project Dba Pcun Foundation: 18% of income from government
- The Freshwater Trust: 17% of income from government
- Warner Pacific University: 14% of income from government
- Ecotrust: 14% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
- Bradley Angle: 10% of income from government
- Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
- Growing Gardens: 6% of income from government
- Portland Community College Foundation Inc: 5% of income from government
- The Contingent: 5% of income from government
- University of Miami: 5% of income from government
- Linfield University: 4% of income from government
- Babson College: 3% of income from government
- Bushnell University Fka Northwest Christian University: 3% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
- Corban University: 3% of income from government
- Pacific University: 2% of income from government
- George Fox University: 2% of income from government
- Constructing Hope Pre-Apprenticeship Program: 2% of income from government
- Lewis & Clark College: 2% of income from government
- Casa for Children Inc: 2% of income from government
- Chess for Success: 2% of income from government
- Willamette University: 1% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
- University of Portland: 1% of income from government
- All Ages Music Portland dba Friends of Noise: 1% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
- Portland Art Museum: 1% of income from government
- Reed Institute: 1% of income from government
- Bentley University: 1% of income from government
- Oregon Public Broadcasting: 1% of income from government
- Lesley University: 1% of income from government
- William Temple House: 0% of income from government
- The Campbell Institute: 0% of income from government
- Oregon Business Academy: 0% of income from government
- Trinity College: 0% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees: 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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