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The Taylor-Schale Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Taylor-Schale 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.

$131k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$125kHealth$35kArts & Culture$33kHousing & Shelter$33kHuman Services$30kYouth Development$18kPhilanthropy$15kPublic Benefit$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $56k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $75k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Flagler College Inc$18,000
Whatcom Community College Foundation$12,500
Kulshan Community Land Trust$12,500
Portland Community College Foundation Inc$12,000
Town of Canton NC$10,000
Portland State University Foundation$10,000
Raphael House of Portland$5,500
Oregon Health and Science University Foundation$5,000
Treehouse of Tallahassee Inc$5,000
Interlochen Center for the Arts$5,000
Drive Fore the Future Foundation$5,000
Episcopal School of Jacksonville Inc$5,000
Epilepsy Alliance of Florida$5,000
Broadway Rose Theater Co$5,000
Sound Equine Options$2,500
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 (FY23–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%The Oasis Center for Women & Girls Inc: $5k → 19%Raphael House of Portland: $6k → 12%Treehouse of Tallahassee Inc: $5k → 19%Project Lemonade Inc: $3k → 12%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
MI
OR
PA
CA
NC
FL
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 6% of The Taylor-Schale Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Taylor-Schale 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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$214k · 11 repeat orgs$115k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
13

Total granted

$214k
$64k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+46%

Still filing today

73%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyAnimalsHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • FC
    FLAGLER COLLEGE INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $28k · revenue +11%
  • WC
    WHATCOM COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $23k · revenue +26%
  • PORTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $22k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE CHILDRENgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +76%
  • OO
    OPERATION OF HOPE WORLDWIDE
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
  • TO
    THE OASIS CENTER FOR WOMEN & GIRLS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +71%
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
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
2
University Cooperative School

We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.

—
3
Independent Colleges of Washington

Independent colleges of washington is the leading advocate for not-for-profit, private campuses in washington state.

Education
4
Pacific University

A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.

Education
5
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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6
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
7
Wallin Education Partners

To ensure college and career success for high-potential students from low-income backgrounds, and through our efforts help build diverse, equitable, and vibrant communities. we do this through a comprehensive model of financial aid and…

Education
8
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
9
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
10
The Campbell Institute

Children's institute's mission is to leverage research, practice, policy, and advocacy to shift systems toward justice for families so that all of oregon's children, prenatal to grade 5, have access to opportunity.

Unclassified
11
Lowell School

Lowell school (the school) provides educational services to approximately 314 students in grades pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. the school strives to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive learning environment, and offers a…

Education
12
Youth Progress Association

Youth progress is a nonprofit organization that is licensed as a child caring agency (cca) to serve youth ages 12-25 in the custody of the oregon youth authority (oya) or the oregon department of human services (dhs). youth progress uses…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the Big Bend Inc; the most unlike its peers is Operation of Hope Worldwide. 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

27 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. 27 of the 36 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/27
Grantees still filing
15/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $30,000 · OtherPORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $11,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientEPILEPSY FLORIDA INC: $10,000 · OtherEPILEPSY FLORIDA INCTown of Canton NC: $10,000 · OtherTown of Canton NCIndividual grant recipient: $7,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDrive Fore the Future Foundation: $5,000 · OtherBroadway Rose Theater Co: $5,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF HAYWOOD COUNTY INC: $5,000 · OtherLIGHTHOUSE MISSION MINISTRIES: $5,000 · OtherWomens Foundation of Oregon: $5,000 · OtherEpilepsy Alliance of Florida: $5,000 · OtherADAPTIVE RIDING INSTITUTE DBA HORSES OF HOPE OREGON: $5,000 · OtherOPERATION OF HOPE WORLDWIDE: $5,000 · OtherDrive Fore the Future: $5,000 · Other+6 more: $13,000 · Other+6 moreFLAGLER COLLEGE INC: $28,000 · EducationFLAGLER COLLEGE INCWHATCOM COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $22,500 · EducationWHATCOM COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOU…EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF JACKSONVILLE INC: $20,000 · EducationEPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF JACKSONVI…OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVE…PORTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $22,000 · PhilanthropyPORTLAND C…UNITED WAY OF THE BIG BEND INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY…THE PEARL FUND: $3,500 · PhilanthropyTHE PEARL …KULSHAN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $22,500 · Housing & ShelterKULSHAN C…ROSE HAVEN CIC: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterROSE HAVE…INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $25,000 · Arts & CultureRAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND: $5,500 · Human ServicesTHE OASIS CENTER FOR WOMEN & GIRLS INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesTREEHOUSE OF TALLAHASSEE INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT LEMONADE INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentGirls Inc of the Pacific Northwest: $5,000 · Youth Development
Other$127,000Education$85,500Philanthropy$30,500Housing & Shelter$27,500Arts & Culture$25,000Human Services$18,000Youth Development$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFLAGLER COLLEGE INC: $28,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWHATCOM COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $22,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetKULSHAN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $22,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetPORTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $22,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEPILEPSY FLORIDA INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND: $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION OF HOPE WORLDWIDE: $5,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTHE OASIS CENTER FOR WOMEN & GIRLS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetROSE HAVEN CIC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetADAPTIVE RIDING INSTITUTE DBA HORSES OF HOPE OREGON: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF HAYWOOD COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWomens Foundation of Oregon: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTREEHOUSE OF TALLAHASSEE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE BIG BEND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGirls Inc of the Pacific Northwest: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE PEARL FUND: $3,500 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetTHE BELLINGHAM PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHOPE FOR HORSES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPROJECT LEMONADE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOUND EQUINE OPTIONS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% 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 …Mount Baker FoundationUmpqua Bank Charitabl…Meyer Memorial TrustPuget Sound Energy Fo…Marie Lamfrom Charita…Enterprise Holdings F…Seattle FoundationUnited Way WorldwideThe Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…Renaissance Charitabl…
The Oregon Community FoundationOR15.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · Mount Baker Foundation · Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Seattle Foundation · United Way Worldwide · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Taylor-Schale Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Taylor-Schale Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Project Lemonade Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Raphael House of Portland: 10% of income from government
  • Epilepsy Florida Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Portland Community College Foundation Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Adaptive Riding Institute Dba Horses of Hope Oregon: 5% of income from government
  • Girls Inc of the Pacific Northwest: 4% of income from government
  • Oregon Health & Science University Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • Womens Foundation of Oregon: 0% of income from government
  • United Way of the Big Bend Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Portland State University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
8report 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.

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 36 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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