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The Rivinus Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Rivinus Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$46k
Granted FY2023
7
Grants FY2023
5
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Food & Nutrition$61kHealth$58kEducation$52kInternational$47kYouth Development$29kPublic Safety & Disaster$26kEnvironment$19kHuman Services$14kOther$0
02FY2023 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$6,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$885k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SIMPLE POSITIVE PLAY$6,500
ONE PULSE FOUNDATION$6,500
FOOD FOR PEOPLE$6,500
YACHATS FOOD PANTRY$6,500
CENTER FOR WILDLIFE INC$6,500
OREGON FOOD BANK$6,500
KIDS FIRST$6,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 74% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%OXFAM SYRIAN REFUGEE CRISIS FUND: $5k → 16%CITIZEN SCHOOLS OF CALIFORNIA: $7k → 7%NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION: $8k → 10%SLO NOOR FOUNDATION: $7k → 12%AFGHAN GIRLS SCHOOL: $7k → 14%DIRECT RELIEF: $6k → 14%FOOD BANK OF HUMBODT COUNTY: $6k → 18%INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE: $8k → 17%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY HOUSTON AFFILIATE: $7k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS BAHAMA RELIEF (RESTRICTED): $6k → 14%ONE PULSE FOUNDATION: $7k → 13%SIMPLE POSITIVE PLAY: $7k → 5%LAUNCHCODE: $5k → 21%GIRLS BUILD: $7k → 8%OREGON FOOD BANK: $7k → 12%YACHATS FOOD PANTRY: $7k → 15%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 22%RIGHT SHARING OF WORLD RESOURCES: $6k → 18%CAMPFIRE SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $7k → 9%CENTER FOR WILDLIFE INC: $7k → 9%CITIZEN SCHOOLS OF CALIFORNIA SOBRATO CENTER FOR NON PROFITS: $6k → 7%TURTLE CONSERVANCY: $6k → 10%FOOD BANK OF HUMBOLDT COUNTY: $6k → 18%NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL: $6k → 17%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF OREGON & SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON: $6k → 12%WHITEBIRD CLINIC: $11k → 15%RIGHT SHARING OF WORLD RESOURCES: $6k → 18%SNOHOMISH COUNTY MAKING STRIDES AGAINST BREAST CANCER: $6k → 9%CITIZEN SCHOOLS OF CALIFORNIA - SOBRATO CENTER FOR NON PROFITS: $6k → 7%GROWN IN LA: $7k → 14%RAINFOREST ALLIANCE: $8k → 17%OREGON FOOD BANK: $6k → 12%OPHELIAS PLACE: $8k → 15%AMERICN CANCER SOCIETY - SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $6k → 9%GARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $6k → 14%NATURAL RESURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL: $6k → 17%NW OREGON RED CROSS: $6k → 12%WHITEBIRD CLINIC: $7k → 15%MONROE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $8k → 9%KIDS FIRST: $7k → 15%SKY VALLEY FOOD BANK: $6k → 9%OREGON SPECIAL OLYMPICS: $6k → 12%WHITEBIRD CLINIC: $6k → 15%MINDS MATTER PORTLAND: $6k → 12%WHITEBIRD CLINIC: $6k → 15%SPECIAL OLYMPICS: $7k → 12%MERCY CORPS: $7k → 12%IRCO: $8k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
CA
MO
AZ
DC
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

40%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$149k · 10 repeat orgs$227k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +70% since the first grant, against +47% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
33

Total granted

$149k
$201k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%
+47%

Still filing today

50%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthInternationalYouth DevelopmentAnimalsEducationFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • WB
    WHITE BIRD CLINIC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $34k · revenue +110%
  • FF
    FOOD FOR PEOPLE INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $20k · revenue +23%
  • OREGON FOOD BANK
    3× · 2017–2023 · $17k · revenue +70%

Funded once

  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue -4%
  • MB
    MONROE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB
    one grant, 2022 · $8k
  • THE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +56%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
2
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
3
The Global FoodBanking Network

To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.

International
4
International Medical Corps

To save lives & relieve suffering through health interventions & related activities that strengthen communities affected by conflict, natural disasters & disease outbreaks.

International
5
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
6
Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment
7
World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals

To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.

International
8
Water for People

Water for people exists to develop high quality water and sanitation, accessible to all, and sustained by strong communities, businesses, and governments, working in ten countries; guatemala, honduras, tanzania, peru, bolivia, uganda,…

International
9
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
10
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
11
International Development Enterprises

See schedule o for a more detailed description of ide's mission statement and achievements.

International
12
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oregon Food Bank; the most unlike its peers is Rainforest Alliance Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 47 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
21/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OREGON FOOD BANK: $17,100 · OtherOREGON FOOD BANKAFGHAN GIRLS SCHOOL: $11,600 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $11,600 · OtherCITIZEN SCHOOLS OF CALIFORNIA: $11,600 · OtherCITIZEN SCHOOLS OF CALIFORNIA SOBRATO CENTER FOR NON PROFITS: $11,300 · OtherSIMPLE POSITIVE PLAY: $9,000 · OtherMONROE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $8,000 · OtherTHE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION: $8,000 · OtherRAINFOREST ALLIANCE INC: $8,000 · Other+23 more: $129,382 · Other+23 moreWHITE BIRD CLINIC: $34,100 · HealthWHITE BIRD CLINI…NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION: $8,000 · HealthNATIONAL DISASTE…SLO NOOR FOUNDATION A NON-PROFIT CORPORATION: $6,600 · HealthSLO NOOR FOUNDAT…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF OREGON AND SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON: $5,700 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD …Mercy Corps: $11,600 · InternationalMercy Corp…RIGHTSHARINGOFWORLDRESOURCES INC: $11,300 · InternationalRIGHTSHARI…International Rescue Committee INC: $8,000 · InternationalInternatio…DIRECT RELIEF: $5,600 · InternationalDIRECT REL…OPHELIA'S PLACE: $8,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP FIRE SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $6,600 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS BUILD: $6,600 · Youth DevelopmentFOOD FOR PEOPLE INC: $20,100 · Food & NutritionTHE CENTER FOR WILDLIFE: $6,500 · AnimalsTURTLE CONSERVANCY: $5,600 · AnimalsAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $6,600 · Human Services
Other$225,582Health$54,400International$36,500Youth Development$21,200Food & Nutrition$20,100Animals$12,100Human Services$6,600

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWHITE BIRD CLINIC: $34,100 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD FOR PEOPLE INC: $20,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOREGON FOOD BANK: $17,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Corps: $11,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRIGHTSHARINGOFWORLDRESOURCES INC: $11,300 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPHELIA'S PLACE: $8,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAINFOREST ALLIANCE INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP FIRE SNOHOMISH COUNTY: $6,600 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $6,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS BUILD: $6,600 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSLO NOOR FOUNDATION A NON-PROFIT CORPORATION: $6,600 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetONEPULSE FOUNDATION INC: $6,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR WILDLIFE: $6,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $6,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF OREGON AND SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON: $5,700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $5,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINDS MATTER OF PORTLAND INC: $5,600 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSKY VALLEY FOOD BANK: $5,600 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTURTLE CONSERVANCY: $5,600 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $5,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $5,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LAUNCHCODE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

The Oregon Community …Marie Lamfrom Charita…The Roundhouse Founda…Juan Young TrustThe Collins FoundationM J Murdock Charitabl…The Ford Family Found…The Blackbaud Giving …Enterprise Holdings F…Renaissance Charitabl…Charities Aid Foundat…Raymond James Charita…
The Oregon Community FoundationOR17.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Roundhouse Foundation · Juan Young Trust · The Collins Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · The Ford Family Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Rivinus Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Rivinus Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 29%
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • Friends of the Child Advocacy Center Inc: 33% of income from government
  • White Bird Clinic: 29% of income from government
  • Ophelia's Place: 22% of income from government
  • Oregon Food Bank: 21% of income from government
  • The Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 47 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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