· Private foundation
Tykeson Family Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k43 grants · $108k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $205k
- $50k–250k20 grants · $2.1M
- $250k+11 grants · $3.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN | $500,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| PROVIDENCE MONTANA HEALTH FOUNDATION | $260,000 |
| THE LENFEST INSTITUTE FOR JOURNALISM | $250,000 |
| MOUNTAIN HOME | $250,000 |
| HIGH DESERT MUSEUM | $250,000 |
| MONTANA CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| MISSOULA FAMILY YMCA | $250,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA | $250,000 |
| PARTNERS HOPE FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| DESCHUTES PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| PARTNERS IN CARE | $200,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| FRIENDS OF MISSOULA PARKS | $188,312 |
| INNOVATION LAW LAB | $150,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $4.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 35% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of Tykeson Family Charitable Trust’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.
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.
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.
71 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $986k 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
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +65%- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF EUGENE4× · 2020–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +103%
- SCSHODAIR CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $750k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- LSLOWELL SCHOOL PTAone grant, 2021 · $250k
- JHJOHN H SHEDD INSTITUTE FOR THE ARTSone grant, 2020 · $200k
- ECEAST CASCADE WORKSone grant, 2020 · $50k
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.
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
The mission of the montana land reliance (mlr) is to partner with landowners to provide permanent protection for private lands that are significant for agricultural production, fish and wildlife habitat, and open space.
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 &…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…
The minnesota land trust protects and restores minnesota's most vital natural lands in order to provide wildlife habitat, clean water, outdoor experiences and scenic beauty for generations to come.
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hearts and Horses Foundation. 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.
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 32 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
118 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. 118 of the 148 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 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF EUGENE ↗
- Who funds GREATER MISSOULA FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE JOHN G SHEDD INSTITUTE FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds St Charles Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN CARE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF LANE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SHODAIR CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Oregon State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - MONTANA ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN HOME MONTANA INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds DESCHUTES PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE LENFEST INSTITUTE FOR JOURNALISM SPECIAL ASSET FUND OF TPF ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF BEND INC ↗
- Who funds KLCC PUBLIC RADIO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC OF THE CASCADES ↗
- Who funds CONNECTED LANE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds RELIEF NURSERY INC ↗
- Who funds STAND FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA BUTTERFLY HOUSE AND INSECTARIUM ↗
- Who funds ST PATRICK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HIGH DESERT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds GARDEN CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MISSOULA PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds CONEJO VALLEY SENIOR CONCERNS INC ↗
- Who funds Family Access Network Foundation ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BAGS OF LOVE ↗
- Who funds Innovation Law Lab ↗
- Who funds PEARL BUCK CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
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: The Oregon Community Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Chambers Family Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · The Ford Family Foundation · The Roundhouse Foundation · Sample Foundation Inc · Reed Family Foundation Inc · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Collins Foundation · The Bill & Rosemary Gallagher 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 Tykeson Family Charitable Trust 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.
- Northwest Youth Corps — 100% of income from government
- Pearl Buck Center Incorporated — 76% of income from government
- Neighborimpact — 68% of income from government
- United Way of Lane County — 31% of income from government
- Relief Nursery Inc — 30% of income from government
- White Bird Clinic — 29% of income from government
- Connected Lane County — 17% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Clubs of Bend Inc — 16% of income from government
- Medical Teams International — 14% of income from government
- Latino Community Association — 11% of income from government
- High Desert Museum — 11% of income from government
- McKenzie River Trust — 8% of income from government
- St Vincent De Paul Society of Lane County Inc — 7% of income from government
- Food for Lane County — 5% of income from government
- Oregon Contemporary Theatre — 5% of income from government
- Volunteers in Medicine Clinic of the Cascades — 3% of income from government
- Color Outside the Lines — 3% of income from government
- Deschutes Public Library Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Klcc Public Radio Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Oregon Natural Resources Council Fund Oregon Wild — 2% of income from government
- Oregon Public Broadcasting — 1% of income from government
- Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc — 0% of income from government
- Oregon State University Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Serenity Lane — 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.