· Private foundation
The Sophron 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MCAULIFFE-SHEPARD DISCOVERY CENTER | $17,000 |
| PROJECT LEMONADE | $12,000 |
| LORTON COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER | $11,000 |
| NORTHWEST CHILDREN'S THEATER | $2,500 |
| KGW SCHOOL SUPPLIES DRIVE | $2,050 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $2,000 |
| BRADLEY ANGLE | $1,962 |
| COMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL SCHOOL | $1,196 |
| OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY | $1,031 |
| IMPACT NW | $1,000 |
| BEAVERTON EDUCATION FUND | $988 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE | $988 |
| HOLY TRINITY FOOD CLOSET | $988 |
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, $59k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +82% since the first grant, against +57% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 8 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- MDMCAULIFFE-SHEPARD DISCOVERY CENTER CORP7× · 2017–2025 · $66k · revenue +87%
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OREGON2× · 2017–2018 · $30k · revenue +59%- LCLorton Community Action Center Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $25k · revenue +82%
Funded once
- JAJUST ASK TRAFFICKING PREVENTIONone grant, 2021 · $13k
- AUAINSWORTH UNITED CHURCH OF CHRISTone grant, 2022 · $10k
- TNTHE NEXT DOOR INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +99%
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.
To provide youth in crisis a place of physical and emotional safety while assisting them to build positive relationships and develop their individual potentials.
A family for every child (affec) is dedicated to finding permanent and loving adoptive families for waiting foster children. to accomplish our mission, we focus on finding loving and permanent families for children who the foster care…
Opportunity house empowers individuals to improve their lives. we provide security stability, safety, and community to our clients.
The mission of the organization is to ensure safety and stability for people who are battered, abused, homeless or at risk; to create public awareness about the epidemic of violence; and to mobilize the community to prevent violence and…
Safehouse denver assists adult, children, and youth in reclaiming their right to a life free from domestic violence. the agency provides a broad spectrum of culturally competent, trauma-informed services, including but not limited to,…
Covenant house washington, dc ("chw") provides shelter, crisis care, community services, and outreach services to youth in the washington dc area.
In 34 cities across five countries, covenant house builds bridges to hope for young people facing homelessness and survivors of human trafficking. we meet their immediate needs for food, clothing, protection, and medical and mental health…
Helping kids be kids, and supporting families when they need us most. morrison serves over 8,000 youth and families annually through ten distinct programs designed to meet the needs of our clients.
Positive change for thriving communities: to empower people to work toward social and economic independence, otherwise improving the lives of those served by the corporation, under relevant community services block grant programs.
Our mission is to protect, shelter, and empower survivors of domestic violence - offering safety, support, and resources with compassion and trauma-informed care.
Partners with young people, families and the community to break the cycle of homelessness through outreach, housing, prevention, education and employment.
Friendship Place is a leader in the Washington, DC, metro area in developing solutions to homelessness that have measurable results and a lasting impact. Friendship Place's mission is to empower people who are experiencing or at risk of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Impact Nw and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 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 45 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) — 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 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.
26 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. 26 of the 41 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 MCAULIFFE-SHEPARD DISCOVERY CENTER CORP ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OREGON ↗
- Who funds Lorton Community Action Center Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT LEMONADE INC ↗
- Who funds OZONE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Bradley Angle ↗
- Who funds THE NEXT DOOR INC ↗
- Who funds THE TANZANIAN CHILDRENS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GOOD SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds WAKEUP BEAVERTON ↗
- Who funds NEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOLHOUSE SUPPLIES INC ↗
- Who funds Shelter House Inc ↗
- Who funds OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds IMPACT NW ↗
- Who funds SUNSTONE WAY ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds THE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds THE LAMB CENTER ↗
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 · Juan Young Trust · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · The Robert D and Marcia H Randall Charitable Trust · The Reser Family Foundation · The Collins Foundation · Wheeler Foundation · The Holzman Foundation · The Jackson Foundation · Onpoint Community Credit Union · United Way of the Columbia-Willamette
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 Sophron 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.
- Neighborhood House Inc — 53% of income from government
- The Next Door Inc — 39% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Native American Youth and Family Center — 23% of income from government
- New Avenues for Youth Inc — 20% of income from government
- Project Lemonade Inc — 15% of income from government
- Raphael House of Portland — 10% of income from government
- Bradley Angle — 10% of income from government
- Impact Nw — 8% of income from government
- Community Transitional School — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Friends of the Children-Portland — 5% of income from government
- The Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization — 4% 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.