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The Standard Charitable Foundation at a glance

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The Standard Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$170k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $110k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
National Center for Healthy Veterans$60,000
Camp Fire Columbia$35,000
Junior Achievement of Oregon and Southwest Washington$25,000
Blanchet House of Hospitality$25,000
Hillsboro Community Foundation$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%YOUTH VILLAGES: $25k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 12% of The Standard Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 86% of the giving stays in OR; by stated purpose, 81%.

The Standard Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$470k · 6 repeat orgs$345k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
13

Total granted

$470k
$225k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+21%

Still filing today

83%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalPhilanthropyHealthHousing & ShelterEmploymentPublic BenefitOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • PS
    PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2022 · $125k · revenue +9%
  • BLANCHET HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +86%
  • NA
    NEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INC
    2× · 2019–2023 · $30k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • AK
    ALBERTINA KERR CENTERS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -74%
  • PA
    PHAME ACADEMY
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -33%
  • YOUTH VILLAGES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +66%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Elevate Oregon

Elevating potential, building sustained relationships with urban youth, and charting paths to brighter futures.

Youth Development
2
Oregon Progress Forum

Next up amplifies the voice and leadership of diverse young people to achieve a more just and equitable oregon.

Environment
3
LArche Portland

At l'arche portland people with and without developmental disabilities create home and build community together. we nurture long-term mutual relationships that reveal the gifts of people with developmental disabilities. in doing so we…

Human Services
4
Building Changes

Building changes advances equitable responses to homelessness in washington state, with a focus on children, youth, and families. we work at the intersection of housing, education, and health systems, partnering with communities and public…

Health
5
Portland Public Library

Portland Public Library is a welcoming cultural center that brings people together and connects them with trusted resources, ideas, experiences, and information. We build a stronger community by inspiring learning, creativity, and…

Education
6
University of Oregon Foundation

The purpose and mission of the foundation are, acting on its own or through affiliates, to support and assist the university of oregon in its activities by management and administration of foundation assets representing privately donated…

Education
7
Friends of the Children-Portland

Friends - portland commits to standing alongside our community's youth as they work to overcome barriers to their success. each child receives 1:1 support and guidance from a salaried, professional mentor (called a friend), from…

Youth Development
8
New Progressive Network

Next up amplifies the voice of diverse youth to achieve a more just oregon

Civil Rights
9
Family Forward Oregon

We work collectively to educate and advocate for systems that elevate the vital work of care and caregiving in its many forms within our community.

Human Services
10
Oregon Justice Network

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…

Human Services
11
Outside the Frame

Outside the frame trains homeless and marginalized youth to be the directors of their own films and lives.

Arts & Culture
12
The Vermont Community Foundation

The vermont community foundation helps to build philanthropic resources to sustain healthy and vital vermont communities. the foundation connects and mobilizes people through giving to multiply the impact of philanthropy.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is My Sisters Place Inc; the most unlike its peers is Quadriplegics United Against Dependency Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 25 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
9/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $125,000 · OtherPORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONDE LA SALLE NORTH CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $100,000 · OtherDE LA SALLE NORTH CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLTHE HILLSBORO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherTHE HILLSBORO COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONBLANCHET HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY: $50,000 · OtherBLANCHET HOUSE OF HOSPITALITYCAMP FIRE COLUMBIA: $35,000 · OtherCAMP FIRE COLUMBIANEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INC: $30,000 · OtherNEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INCJunior Achievement of Oregon and Southwest Washington: $25,000 · OtherPHAME ACADEMY: $25,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC: $25,000 · OtherWestchester Community Foundation: $25,000 · Other+5 more: $65,000 · Other+5 moreTHE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $250,000 · PhilanthropyTHE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATI…ALBERTINA KERR CENTERS FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropyALBERTINA KERR CENTERS FOUNDA…THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDA…MICRO ENTERPRISE SERVICES OF OREGON: $100,000 · EmploymentMICRO ENT…JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF OREGON AND SW WASHINGTON INC: $65,000 · InternationalMercy Corps: $10,000 · InternationalSTONE RIDGE FOUNDATION NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTHY VETERANS: $60,000 · Public BenefitYOUTH VILLAGES INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesQuadriplegics United Against Dependency Inc: $15,000 · HealthPEAR: $10,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$555,000Philanthropy$300,000Employment$100,000International$75,000Public Benefit$60,000Human Services$25,000Health$15,000Housing & Shelter$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of 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 budgetTHE HILLSBORO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 2.5% 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 budgetTHE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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
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.

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 …OCF Joseph E Weston P…The Collins FoundationOnpoint Community Cre…Umpqua Bank Charitabl…Meyer Memorial TrustThe Autzen FoundationHillman Family Founda…Marie Lamfrom Charita…M J Murdock Charitabl…The Blackbaud Giving …Tides Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Standard Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Standard Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • New Avenues for Youth Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Micro Enterprise Services of Oregon: 5% of income from government
  • The Oregon Community Foundation: 2% of income from government
  • Pear: 1% of income from government
  • Phame Academy: 0% of income from government
  • Portland State University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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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.

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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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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