· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FATHERS HEART STREET MINISTRY | $22,000 |
| MERCY CORPS | $22,000 |
| HEIFER INTERNATIONAL | $22,000 |
| MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL | $11,000 |
| ESTACADA FOOD BANK | $11,000 |
| OREGON FOOD BANK | $11,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $11,000 |
| SPRINGWATER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $8,800 |
| EMMANUEL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $8,000 |
| CHI ALPHA CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP | $6,600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $1,000 |
| OPB | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION | $150 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%- WLWEST LINN FOOD PANTRYone grant, 2024 · $1k
OUTSIDE INgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +95%
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 37 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Varitz Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Varitz Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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