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The Varitz 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 $10k8 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MERCY CORPS | $22,000 |
| HEIFER INTERNATIONAL | $22,000 |
| FATHERS HEART STREET MINISTRY | $22,000 |
| OREGON FOOD BANK | $11,000 |
| MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL | $11,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $11,000 |
| ESTACADA FOOD BANK | $11,000 |
| SPRINGWATER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $8,800 |
| EMMANUEL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $8,000 |
| CHI ALPHA CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP | $6,600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| OPB | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION | $150 |
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, $180k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 18% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
30 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- MCMercy Corps9× · 2017–2025 · $210k · revenue +19%
- FHFathers Heart Street Ministry9× · 2017–2025 · $148k · revenue ×29
OREGON FOOD BANK8× · 2017–2025 · $81k · revenue +70%
Funded once
NEIGHBORS FOR KIDSgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +57%
OUTSIDE INgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +95%- OEOREGON ENERGY FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +264%
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.
Wwt's mission is to protect and restore water in rivers and streams across washington state. washington water trust restores and protects water in rivers and streams and promotes sustainable freshwater management in washington, and, more…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.
We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).
Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…
The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.
Oregon environmental council champions equitable, innovative, and collaborative solutions to oregons environmental challenges for today and future generations.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
The Chile-California Council is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to developing and promoting joint endeavors and cooperative relations between Chile and California, as well as individuals, legal entities and other institutions in…
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
We safeguard the earth: its people, its plants and animals, and (see schedule o) the natural systems on which all life depends. we work to restore the integrity of the elements that sustain life - air, land, and water - to defend…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oregon Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is Fathers Heart Street Ministry. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% 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 12% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 37 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 Mercy Corps ↗
- Who funds Fathers Heart Street Ministry ↗
- Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Central City Concern ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CLACKAMAS VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds Clackamas County Historical Society ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds WILLAMETTE RIVERKEEPER ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds OUTSIDE IN ↗
- Who funds OREGON ENERGY FUND ↗
- Who funds OREGON COAST AQUARIUM INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WILLAMETTE FALLS HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Juan Young Trust · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Collins Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Varitz 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.
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Willamette Riverkeeper — 42% of income from government
- Outside in — 33% of income from government
- Oregon Coast Aquarium Inc — 24% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- Medical Teams International — 14% of income from government
- Central City Concern — 10% of income from government
- Neighbors for Kids — 8% of income from government
- Clackamas Volunteers in Medicine — 7% of income from government
- Portland Community College Foundation Inc — 5% 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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