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The Zephyr Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

$92k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Environment$740kArts & Culture$279kEducation$63kInternational$48kAnimals$41kHealth$32kReligion$27kFood & Nutrition$24kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATURE CONSERVANCY$60,000
MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO$20,000
OREGON CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART INC$7,000
BEAVER INSTITUTE INC$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.

area typical 8%BEAVER INSTITUTE INC: $5k → 12%UNITED HELP UKRAINE: $2k → 8%MARYS PLACE SEATTLE: $2k → 9%AYCO: $1k → 12%PORTLAND REFUGEE SUPPORT GROUP: $1k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
NH
WA
MN
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
CA
CO
VA
MD
DC

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.

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Where the work is directed

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

About 9% of The Zephyr Charitable Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

The Zephyr Charitable Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 45 repeat orgs$111k to everyone else

45 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 42 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
48

Total granted

$1.1M
$106k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+52%

Still filing today

78%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEnvironmentAnimalsHuman ServicesEducationInternationalOther

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

  • WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $305k · revenue +62%
  • NF
    NORTHWEST FILM FORUM
    4× · 2020–2023 · $65k · revenue +42%
  • PORTLAND INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
    5× · 2017–2022 · $34k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • HISPANIC FEDERATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +187%
  • HB
    HUBBARD BROOK RESEARCH FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +71%
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DA
    one grant, 2024 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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Western Rivers Conservancy

Western rivers conservancy's mission is to protect outstanding river ecosystems in the western united states. continued on schedule o.we acquire land to conserve critical habitat, provide public access for compatible use and enjoyment, and…

Environment
2
350PDX

Building a diverse grassroots movement to address the causes of climate disruption through justice-based solutions by inspiring, training and mobilizing people to act.

Environment
3
Northwest Environmental Defense Center

Nedc's mission is to work toward a future in which the pacific northwest leads the nation in developing, implementing & enforcing strong laws and regulations that protect the environment & human health, and where our governments &…

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4
Nw Energy Coalition

The NW Energy Coalition is an alliance of over 100 environmental, civic, and human service organizations, utilities, and businesses in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia, plus many individual members. The NW Energy…

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5
Fsc I&P

Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…

Philanthropy
6
Magic Canoe

Magic Canoe is a champion of a reimagined future that is driven by local-based bottom-up regenerative solutions for a more equitable and healthier bioregion that is Salmon Nation.

Environment
7
Oregon Agricultural Trust

Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.

Environment
8
Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council

The Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council is a local nonprofit organization that strives to enhance and restore habitat for fish and wildlife our community and for future generations. Our Board of Directors consists of seven members with…

Environment
9
Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation

The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.

Animals
10
Oregon Natural Resources Council Fund Oregon Wild

Oregon Wild works to protect and restore Oregon's wildlands, wildlife and waters as an enduring legacy for future generations.

Environment
11
Rogue Climate

Rogue Climate's mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change including low-income, rural, youth, seniors & communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs &…

Education
12
Grist Magazine Inc

Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oregon Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is Bridges Collaborative Care Clinic. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Policy Research and AdvocacyDance Arts OrganizationsCommunity Arts CentersYouth Mentoring ProgramsFood Banks and PantriesYouth Development ServicesImmigrant Worker SupportHealth Access Advocacy and …Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Affordable Housing Developm…Animal Rescue and ShelterCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%6%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr13%44%35–55yr16%24%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/88
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,477

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.

05the grantee network

81 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. 81 of the 95 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
78/81
Grantees still filing
60/81
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE NATURE CONSERVANCY - OREGON CHAPTER — $121,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY - OREGON CHAPTERTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $120,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYNATURE CONSERVANCY — $80,000 · OtherNATURE CONSERVANCYKIAP-TU-WISH CHAPTER OF TROUT UNLIM — $25,000 · Other+43 more — $205,500 · Other+43 moreWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $305,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC+9 more — $33,500 · Environment+9 moreNORTHWEST FILM FORUM — $65,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHWEST FILM FORUMPORTLAND INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART — $34,000 · Arts & CulturePORTLAND INSTITUTE FOR…MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA — $32,400 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO…MINNESOTA BALLET THEATRE — $30,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA BALLET THEAT…OREGON CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART INC — $21,000 · Arts & CultureOREGON CENTER FOR CONT…OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING — $19,000 · Arts & CultureOREGON PUBLIC BROADCAS…ALL CLASSICAL PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureALL CLASSICAL PUBLIC M…Design Museum Foundation Inc — $13,000 · Arts & CultureOREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $12,000 · Arts & CulturePORTLAND ART MUSEUM — $9,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $7,000 · Arts & CultureNative Fish Society Inc — $32,100 · AnimalsOREGON HUMANE SOCIETY — $13,000 · AnimalsFeral Cat Coalition of Oregon — $8,000 · AnimalsTHE OREGON ZOO FOUNDATION — $5,000 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $3,000 · Animals+3 more — $2,500 · AnimalsSMART READING — $20,000 · EducationBIKE FARM INC — $11,500 · EducationUNITED PAWS OF TILLAMOOK — $9,000 · EducationWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $8,500 · Education+2 more — $2,000 · EducationMercy Corps — $14,000 · InternationalSEVA FOUNDATION — $9,000 · InternationalFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC — $6,500 · InternationalTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $6,500 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $6,500 · International+1 more — $500 · InternationalPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE INC — $15,000 · HealthNURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP — $1,500 · HealthBRIDGES COLLABORATIVE CARE CLINIC — $1,000 · HealthYouth Eastside Services — $1,000 · Health
Other$551,500Environment$338,500Arts & Culture$257,400Animals$63,600Education$51,000International$43,000Health$18,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $305,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $120,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST FILM FORUM — $65,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetPORTLAND INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART — $34,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA — $32,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNative Fish Society Inc — $32,100 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetMINNESOTA BALLET THEATRE — $30,000 over 4y, 41% of budgetKIAP-TU-WISH CHAPTER OF TROUT UNLIM — $25,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetOREGON CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART INC — $21,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetSMART READING — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING — $19,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENT OREGON RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER INC — $17,500 over 3y, 12% of budgetOREGON FOOD BANK — $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALL CLASSICAL PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Corps — $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON HUMANE SOCIETY — $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROCK PAPER SCISSORS COLLECTIVE — $13,000 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetDesign Museum Foundation Inc — $13,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetOREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTILLAMOOK COUNTY UNITED WAY — $12,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetPACIFIC NORTHWEST COLLEGE OF ART — $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHISPANIC FEDERATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEVA FOUNDATION — $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED PAWS OF TILLAMOOK — $9,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetPORTLAND ART MUSEUM — $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rivers Network — $9,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFeral Cat Coalition of Oregon — $8,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSISTERS OF THE ROAD INC — $8,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC — $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOUTSIDE IN — $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHUBBARD BROOK RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE OREGON ZOO FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMINDS MATTER OF THE TWIN CITIES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUDDHIST PEACE FELLOWSHIP — $4,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSolid Ground Washington — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEVERY MEAL — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUSA FOR UNFPA INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDENSHO — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRainforest Action Network — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPASSION & CHOICES — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Oregon Community …Maybelle Clark Macdon…Meyer Memorial TrustThe Collins FoundationMarie Lamfrom Charita…Seattle FoundationThe Autzen FoundationThe Larson LegacyPatagoniaorgHillman Family Founda…Rose E Tucker Charita…The Jackson Foundation
The Oregon Community FoundationOR29.9× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Collins Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Seattle Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · The Larson Legacy · Patagoniaorg · Hillman Family Foundations · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · The Jackson 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 Zephyr Charitable Foundation Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Ayco — 89% of income from government
  • WaterWatch of Oregon — 61% of income from government
  • Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
  • Outside in — 33% of income from government
  • Native Fish Society Inc — 27% of income from government
  • Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
  • Friends of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument — 13% of income from government
  • Design Museum Foundation Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of the Columbia Willamette Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Hubbard Brook Research Foundation — 6% of income from government
  • Portland Institute for Contemporary Art — 5% of income from government
  • Oregon Center for Contemporary Art Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Smart Reading — 3% of income from government
  • Pear — 1% of income from government
  • Portland Art Museum — 1% of income from government
  • Oregon Public Broadcasting — 1% of income from government
  • All Classical Public Media Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Oregon Symphony Association — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 95 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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