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Advantis Credit Union

To improve the financial lives of our members.

$302k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$41k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Food & Nutrition$295kHuman Services$197kHealth$96kHousing & Shelter$94kCommunity Improvement$84kYouth Development$75kMembership Benefit$53kInternational$52kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 13 grants below total $191,707 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $301,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $109,793 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $167k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SUNSHINE DIVISION$41,250
URBAN LEAGUE$30,757
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF PORTLAND$22,500
WORLDWIDE FOUNDATION$17,000
CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK HOSPITALS$15,000
YOUTH MUSIC PROJECT$10,000
OUTSIDE IN$10,000
GIRLS BUILD$10,000
GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC$10,000
WITH LOVE OREGON$8,000
CLACKAMAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE$6,150
THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$5,850
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS COLUMBIA NW$5,200
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 (FY19–24, $129k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $10k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $15k → 14%WITH LOVE OREGON: $8k → 8%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $10k → 8%NORTHWEST CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%URBAN LEAGUE: $31k → 12%STORE TO DOOR: $20k → 12%HOLLYWOOD SENIOR CENTER INC: $10k → 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.

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.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 7% of Advantis Credit Union’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. Read by recipient address, 78% of the giving stays in OR; read by stated purpose it is 85% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Advantis Credit Unionlessmore 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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$710k · 12 repeat orgs$409k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
32

Total granted

$710k
$328k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+46%

Still filing today

83%
94%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEnvironmentHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementEducationOther

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

  • SD
    SUNSHINE DIVISION INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $244k · revenue +69%
  • CM
    CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK
    5× · 2017–2024 · $172k · revenue +31%
  • GC
    GOWEST CREDIT UNION ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2017–2023 · $70k · revenue +145%

Funded once

  • GF
    GOWEST FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +870%
  • HS
    HUMAN SOLUTIONS INC DBA OUR JUST FUTUREgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $21k · revenue +27%
  • IMPACT NWgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +51%

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.

1
Portland Business Alliance

To ensure economic prosperity in the portland region by providing strong leadership, partnership, and programs that encourage business growth and vitality.

Community Improvement
2
The Wallace Medical Concern

We partner with our community to make good health possible for all. wallace serves individuals and families who face barriers to care throughout the east multnomah county in the portland metropolitan area.

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3
Oregon Center for Public Policy

The oregon center for public policy's mission is to achieve economic justice for all oregonians through research, analysis, and advocacy. ocpp works to change policies that foster economic security and stability for all oregonians. we do…

Employment
4
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
5
Oregon Restaurant and Lodging Association

Orla serves as the leading industry advocate, striving to protect, improve and promote oregon hospitality.

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6
Oregon Justice Network

Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…

Human Services
7
Citizens Utility Board

As directed by oregon voters in 1984, the oregon citizens' utility board (cub) represents the interests of oregon's residential utility customers before administrative, judicial, and legislative bodies. cub works at the intersection of…

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8
Building Changes

Building changes advances equitable responses to homelessness in washington state, with a focus on children, youth, and families. we work at the intersection of housing, education, and health systems, partnering with communities and public…

Health
9
City Club of Portland

To inform its members and the community in public matters and to arouse in them the realization of the obligations of citizenship.

Community Improvement
10
LArche Portland

At l'arche portland people with and without developmental disabilities create home and build community together. we nurture long-term mutual relationships that reveal the gifts of people with developmental disabilities. in doing so we…

Human Services
11
Portland Farmers Market

Pfm operates world-class farmers markets that contribute to the success of local food growers and producers and create vibrant community gatherings. as a trade association, success for our vendors is our primary objective. listening and…

Community Improvement
12
United Way of the Columbia-Willamette

At United Way of the Columbia-Willamette (UWCW), we envision an Oregon and Southwest Washington where every child and family - regardless of geography, race, or family incomehas a stable foundation and access to the resources and support…

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sunshine Division Inc and the most unlike its peers is Youth Music Project. 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 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr19%31%20–35yr12%24%35–55yr14%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr19%21%20–35yr12%32%35–55yr14%33%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/50
the rest of the field
13%
1,007/7,912

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

49 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. 49 of the 50 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/49
Grantees still filing
36/49
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK — $171,912 · OtherCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORKGOWEST CREDIT UNION ASSOCIATION — $69,550 · OtherGOWEST CREDIT UNION ASSOCIATIONOUTSIDE IN — $30,000 · OtherOUTSIDE INSELF ENHANCEMENT INC — $20,000 · OtherPORTLAND RESCUE MISSION — $19,195 · OtherDOERNBECHER CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $17,176 · Other+20 more — $163,521 · Other+20 moreSUNSHINE DIVISION INC — $243,856 · Crime & LegalSUNSHINE DIVISION INCURBAN LEAGUE OF PORTLAND INC — $30,757 · Human ServicesURBAN LEAGUE OF…GOWEST FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Human ServicesGOWEST FOUNDATI…IMPACT NW — $20,000 · Human ServicesIMPACT NWGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesGUIDE DOGS FOR …STORE TO DOOR — $20,000 · Human ServicesSTORE TO DOORAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $15,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Nation…NORTHWEST ASSOCIATION FOR BLIND ATHLETES — $10,000 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST ASSOC…Hollywood Senior Center dba Community for Positive Aging — $10,000 · Human ServicesHollywood Senio…WITH LOVE OREGON INC — $8,000 · Human ServicesTHE CONTINGENT — $55,000 · Community ImprovementHUMAN SOLUTIONS INC DBA OUR JUST FUTURE — $20,740 · Community ImprovementWillamette Light Brigade — $8,500 · Community ImprovementBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PORTLAND METROPOLITAN AREA — $22,500 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS COLUMBIA NORTHW — $12,700 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS BUILD — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-PORTLAND — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentWORLDWIDE FOUNDATION FOR CREDIT UNIONS INC — $42,000 · InternationalMercy Corps — $10,000 · InternationalBIRD ALLIANCE OF OREGON INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentFriends of Trees — $10,000 · EnvironmentJohnson Creek Watershed Council — $8,345 · EnvironmentSOLVE — $6,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF ZENGER FARM — $5,314 · Environment
Other$491,354Crime & Legal$243,856Human Services$158,757Community Improvement$84,240Youth Development$55,200International$52,000Environment$39,659

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSUNSHINE DIVISION INC — $243,856 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK — $171,912 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGOWEST CREDIT UNION ASSOCIATION — $69,550 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CONTINGENT — $55,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWORLDWIDE FOUNDATION FOR CREDIT UNIONS INC — $42,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF PORTLAND INC — $30,757 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOUTSIDE IN — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGOWEST FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PORTLAND METROPOLITAN AREA — $22,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHUMAN SOLUTIONS INC DBA OUR JUST FUTURE — $20,740 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIMPACT NW — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSELF ENHANCEMENT INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTORE TO DOOR — $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetDOERNBECHER CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $17,176 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetClackamas Community College Foundation — $14,650 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS COLUMBIA NORTHW — $12,700 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetOUR HOUSE OF PORTLAND INC — $11,200 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBIRD ALLIANCE OF OREGON INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTransition Projects Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLANCHET HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST ASSOCIATION FOR BLIND ATHLETES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYOUTH MUSIC PROJECT — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGIRLS BUILD — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetProud Ground — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-PORTLAND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of Trees — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPATH HOME — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHollywood Senior Center dba Community for Positive Aging — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMercy Corps — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWillamette Light Brigade — $8,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetJohnson Creek Watershed Council — $8,345 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWITH LOVE OREGON INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOCCU FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetDOVE LEWIS EMERGENCY ANIMAL HOSPITAL INC — $7,459 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLGBTQ COMMUNITY CENTER FUND — $6,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCHELSEA HICKS FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetSOLVE — $6,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $5,850 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DOUGY CENTER INC — $5,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF ZENGER FARM — $5,314 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEAST WASHINGTON COUNTY SHELTER PARTNERSHIP COUNCIL INC — $5,160 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetEMANUEL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 …Marie Lamfrom Charita…OCF Joseph E Weston P…Onpoint Community Cre…The Collins FoundationThe Autzen FoundationJuan Young TrustThe Jackson FoundationMeyer Memorial TrustRose E Tucker Charita…Hillman Family Founda…Maybelle Clark Macdon…
The Oregon Community FoundationOR56.9× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Onpoint Community Credit Union · The Collins Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · Juan Young Trust · The Jackson Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · Hillman Family Foundations · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund

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 Advantis Credit Union 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 · 50%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Friends of Trees — 100% of income from government
  • Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
  • Outside in — 33% of income from government
  • Urban League of Portland Inc — 33% of income from government
  • Transition Projects Inc — 29% of income from government
  • Friends of Zenger Farm — 28% of income from government
  • Oregon Coast Aquarium Inc — 24% of income from government
  • Johnson Creek Watershed Council — 23% of income from government
  • Human Solutions Inc Dba Our Just Future — 17% of income from government
  • With Love Oregon Inc — 16% of income from government
  • Self Enhancement Inc — 14% of income from government
  • Proud Ground — 11% of income from government
  • Hollywood Senior Center dba Community for Positive Aging — 9% of income from government
  • Impact Nw — 8% of income from government
  • The Contingent — 5% of income from government
  • Friends of the Children-Portland — 5% of income from government
  • Solve — 5% of income from government
  • The Oregon Community Foundation — 2% of income from government
  • The Dougy Center Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Youth Music Project — 1% of income from government
  • Metropolitan Youth Symphony — 1% of income from government
  • William Temple House — 0% of income from government
  • Bird Alliance of Oregon Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Clackamas Community College Foundation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 50 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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