· Private foundation
The Trudy Scammon 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Doctors Without Borders | $100,000 |
| Clark County Food Bank | $100,000 |
| Anera | $25,000 |
| Janus Youth Programs | $25,000 |
| Southwest Medical Center Foundation | $10,000 |
| North Beach Citizens | $10,000 |
| The Evergreen State College Foundat | $7,500 |
| Ridgefield Boosters | $7,500 |
| Tukes Valley Middle School Band Boo | $5,000 |
| BGAFJROTC | $5,000 |
| BGHS Tigers Basketball Boosters | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $74k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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 +39% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 5 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- CCCLARK COUNTY FOOD BANK6× · 2020–2025 · $501k · revenue +69%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC3× · 2020–2025 · $220k · revenue +39%- JYJANUS YOUTH PROGRAMS INC2× · 2024–2025 · $50k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- LHLEGACY HEALTHgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +34%
- HIHIAS INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +60%
- NCNorth County Community Food Bankgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +33%
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.
Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital and Medical Center (LGSHMC), founded in 1875 is one of the earliest hospitals in the Pacific Northwest. LGSHMC provides acute and tertiary care in Portland, OR with 539 licensed beds. LGSHMC provides a…
Legacy Meridian Park Hospital (LMPH), established in 1973, is a community hospital in Tualatin, OR, south of Portland with 150 licensed beds. LMPH serves the needs of the fast growing communities of Tualatin, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sherwood,…
Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center (LMHMC) was founded in 1922 and is a community hospital in Gresham, Oregon with 115 licensed beds. LMHMC offers a wide range of services including family birth, diagnostic services, cancer treatment,…
LCSNW partners with individuals, families and communities for health, justice and hope. LCSNW provides a wide variety of social services in Oregon, Washington and Idaho and serves people of all ages, cultures and faiths.
Legacy Health Foundation (LHF) was incorporated on August 21, 2013. The mission of the foundation is to foster charitable giving as well as community commitment and involvement to support the founding principles, mission and vision of…
To provide high-quality, affordable health care services to improve the health of our members and the communities we serve.
Legacy Visiting Nurse Association (LVNA) provides palliative care to terminally ill patients and supportive services to patients, their families, and significant others, through an outpatient hospice program. The home hospice program…
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
To provide high-quality, affordable health care services to improve the health of our members and the communities we serve.
Seattle University is dedicated to educating the whole person, to professional formation, and to empowering leaders for a just and humane world.
Mission: Inspired by their history and values, Jewish Family Service supports the needs of Jewish individuals and families, refugees and immigrants, and the broader community to achieve well-being, health, and stability. From food security…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Clark County Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is Battle Ground High School Band Boosters. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 24 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 CLARK COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds JANUS YOUTH PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID ↗
- Who funds NORTH BEACH CITIZENS ↗
- Who funds LEGACY SALMON CREEK HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds Battle Ground High School Band Boosters ↗
- Who funds LEGACY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds THE EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RIDGEFIELD BOOSTERS ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds North County Community Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Charity Navigator ↗
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: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Trudy Scammon 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Janus Youth Programs Inc — 46% of income from government
- Legacy Health — 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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