· Private foundation
The Shauna M and Kevin B Flanigan Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $222k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OREGON FOOD BANK | $40,000 |
| OUTWARD BOUND CALIFORNIA | $20,000 |
| WASHINGTON GORGE ACTION PROGRAMS | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| COLUMBIA RIVERKEEPER | $20,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $19,000 |
| DZI FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| MERCY CORPS | $15,000 |
| OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING | $13,000 |
| FRIENDS OF TYRON CREEK STATE PARK | $10,000 |
| OREGON JOURNALISM PROJECT | $10,000 |
| PROPUBLICA | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF FROG FERRY | $10,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF SW WASHINGTON | $6,000 |
| WILD LILAC CHILD DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY | $6,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $159k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
36 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
- DFDZI FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $111k · revenue +114%
- CRColumbia Riverkeeper8× · 2017–2025 · $106k · revenue +92%
- NONorthwest Outward Bound School6× · 2017–2023 · $98k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $25k
- SSSKIFF SAILING FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $23k · revenue -80%
- DDDIG DEEPone grant, 2020 · $22k · revenue -54%
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.
Rogue Climate's mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change including low-income, rural, youth, seniors & communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs &…
Oregon Wild works to protect and restore Oregon's wildlands, wildlife and waters as an enduring legacy for future generations.
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…
The council is organized to foster partnerships for clean water, healthy streams, and abundant fisheries in the Clackamas Watershed
The mission of WorldOregon is to engage Oregonians with the world and broaden public awareness and understanding of international affairs.
Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
Translating science into action to save Southern Resident killer whales from extinction.
Oikonos studies and protects imperiled ecosystems by engaging diverse communities through innovative scientific and artistic collaborations.
To foster community pride and involvement in the oregon zoo and to secure financial support for the zoo's conservation, education and animal well-being programs.
Discover Your Northwest promotes the discovery of northwest public lands, enriches the experience of visitors and builds community stewardship of these special places today and for generations to come.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oregon Public Broadcasting and the most unlike its peers is Carbon Tax Center. 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 27 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
45 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. 45 of the 57 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 DZI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Columbia Riverkeeper ↗
- Who funds Northwest Outward Bound School ↗
- Who funds OUTWARD BOUND CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF OUTDOOR SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE MARSHALL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CHASING TWO RABBITS AT ONCE ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
- Who funds OREGON NEWSPAPERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BARK ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON GORGE ACTION PROGRAMS ↗
- Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING ↗
- Who funds RIVERDALE SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Friends of Tryon Creek ↗
- Who funds OREGON COAST AQUARIUM INC ↗
- Who funds SKIFF SAILING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DIG DEEP ↗
- Who funds ONE COMMUNITY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds OREGON YOUTH SAILING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OREGON ENERGY FUND ↗
- Who funds Colorado Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds Oregon State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds Black Rock Mountain Bike Assoc ↗
- Who funds Wind & Oar Boat School ↗
- Who funds RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds LEACH GARDEN FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM 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: The Oregon Community Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Jackson Foundation · Ronald W Naito Md Foundation · Juan Young Trust · Meyer Memorial Trust · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · The Collins Foundation · Earth Day Oregon · Gray Family Foundation · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · The Roundhouse 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 Shauna M and Kevin B Flanigan Family Foundation 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.
- Disability Rights Oregon — 84% of income from government
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Friends of Zenger Farm — 28% of income from government
- Oregon Coast Aquarium Inc — 24% of income from government
- Native American Youth and Family Center — 23% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- One Community Health — 13% of income from government
- Raphael House of Portland — 10% of income from government
- Bark — 2% of income from government
- Wild Lilac Child Development Community — 1% of income from government
- Columbia Riverkeeper — 1% of income from government
- Oregon Public Broadcasting — 1% of income from government
- Oregon State University Foundation — 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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