· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k33 grants · $127k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Nature Conservancy | $29,500 |
| Doctors Without Borders | $9,000 |
| Central City Concern | $8,000 |
| World Food Program USA | $8,000 |
| American Red Cross | $6,500 |
| Oregon Food Bank | $6,000 |
| Mercy Corps | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $5,500 |
| Good Shepherd Food Bank (Maine) | $4,200 |
| Union of Concerned Scientists | $4,000 |
| Innocence Project | $4,000 |
| Virginia Garcia Memorial Foundation | $4,000 |
| Philabundance | $4,000 |
| Meals on Wheels People | $4,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 14% of The Scudder Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 28% of the giving stays in OR; by stated purpose, 35%.
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 +59% since the first grant, against -37% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
29 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. 29 of the 40 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Scudder Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Scudder Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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