· Private foundation
The Scudder 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k33 grants · $127k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Nature Conservancy | $29,500 |
| Doctors Without Borders | $9,000 |
| World Food Program USA | $8,000 |
| Central City Concern | $8,000 |
| American Red Cross | $6,500 |
| Mercy Corps | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| Oregon Food Bank | $6,000 |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $5,500 |
| Good Shepherd Food Bank (Maine) | $4,200 |
| Innocence Project | $4,000 |
| Virginia Garcia Memorial Foundation | $4,000 |
| Union of Concerned Scientists | $4,000 |
| Meals on Wheels People | $4,000 |
| Philabundance | $4,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $78k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 14% of The Scudder Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 28% of the giving stays in OR; read by stated purpose it is 35% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against -37% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC6× · 2019–2024 · $52k · revenue +79%
FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC6× · 2019–2024 · $47k · revenue +578%
Central City Concern6× · 2019–2024 · $44k · revenue +90%
Funded once
- GSGood Shepherd Food Bank (Maine)one grant, 2024 · $4k
- VGVIRGINIA GARCIA MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $4k · revenue -37%
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.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
To save lives & relieve suffering through health interventions & related activities that strengthen communities affected by conflict, natural disasters & disease outbreaks.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.
To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.
To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the World Food Program Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rivers & Birds Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 40 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 THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Central City Concern ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
- Who funds THE WALLACE MEDICAL CONCERN ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA GARCIA MEMORIAL HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA RIVER HEALTH ↗
- Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
- Who funds NORTH BY NORTHEAST COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds Amigos Bravos Inc ↗
- Who funds Rivers & Birds Inc ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HOMEFRONT INC ↗
- Who funds Main Line Animal Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds COMFORT ZONE CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA GARCIA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
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: Medical Teams International · Careoregon Inc · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · 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 Scudder Family Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- The Wallace Medical Concern — 27% of income from government
- Columbia River Health — 22% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center — 11% of income from government
- Central City Concern — 10% of income from government
- North By Northeast Community Health Center — 4% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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