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The Standard Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$170k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2024
5
Organizations funded FY2023
40%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$60,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 10
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$3.0M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 40% of the organizations The Standard Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
EmploymentHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving4$145k75%
FY20235$165k40%
FY20223$100k33%
FY20215$155k80%
FY20203$75k67%
FY201910$175kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Philanthropy$350kEducation$250kCommunity Improvement$100kHuman Services$85kInternational$60kPublic Benefit$60kHousing & Shelter$55kRecreation & Sports$50kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 16 grantees
All grantees of The Standard Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Portland State University Foundation$125,00040%
De la Salle North Catholic High School$100,0002n/a
Micro Enterprise Services of Oregon$100,00020%
Junior Achievement of Oregon and Sw Washington Inc$65,00022%
Stone Ridge Foundation National Center for Healthy Veterans$60,00011%
Blanchet House of Hospitality$50,00021%
Camp Fire Columbia$35,00010%
New Avenues for Youth Inc$30,00020%
Albertina Kerr Centers Foundation$25,00011%
Phame Academy$25,00011%
Youth Villages Inc$25,00010%
United Way of Central Virginia Inc$25,00011%
Quadriplegics United Against Dependency Inc$15,00010%
Pear$10,00011%
Mercy Corps$10,00010%
My Sisters Place Inc$10,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($105k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Standard Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPortland State University Foundation: $125,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMicro Enterprise Services of Oregon: $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJunior Achievement of Oregon and Sw Washington Inc: $65,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetStone Ridge Foundation National Center for Healthy Veterans: $60,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBlanchet House of Hospitality: $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCamp Fire Columbia: $35,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNew Avenues for Youth Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAlbertina Kerr Centers Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPhame Academy: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetYouth Villages Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of Central Virginia Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetQuadriplegics United Against Dependency Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPear: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMercy Corps: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMy Sisters Place Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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 FoundationOR22.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Collins Foundation · Onpoint Community Credit Union · Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Autzen Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Tides Foundation

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.

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How do I get to The Standard Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Standard Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Standard Charitable Foundation

How much does The Standard Charitable Foundation give?
The Standard Charitable Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $170,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 10 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does The Standard Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (31%), Education (22%), Community Improvement (9%).
Who are The Standard Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Portland State University Foundation ($125k), De la Salle North Catholic High School ($100k), Micro Enterprise Services of Oregon ($100k).
Does The Standard Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Standard Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Standard Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Oregon Community Foundation, OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation, The Collins Foundation.
Where is The Standard Charitable Foundation based?
The Standard Charitable Foundation is based in OR.

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 25 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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