· Private foundation
Alton F Baker Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC | $7,500 |
| UNITED WAY OF LANE COUNTY | $7,500 |
| VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC | $5,000 |
| LOOKING GLASS COMMUNITY SERVICES | $4,600 |
| EMERALD MEDIA GROUP INC | $4,000 |
| JOURNALISTIC LEARNING INITIATIVE | $4,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
11 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- ECEUGENE CIVIC ALLIANCE3× · 2018–2020 · $15k · revenue +100%
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF EUGENE3× · 2018–2020 · $15k · revenue +158%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC2× · 2020–2025 · $13k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM & COMMUNICATIONone grant, 2017 · $10k
EUGENE BALLET COMPANYone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +18%- WBWHITE BIRD CLINICgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +110%
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.
Lane Community College Education Association is the union that represents 200 full-time and 375 part-time faculty members at Lane Community College in Eugene, Oregon. LCCEA is an affiliated unit of the Oregon Education Association (OEA)…
To meet the workforce needs of employers and individuals through partnerships and innovations in lane county, oregon.
Building brighter futures with children and families.
Laurel hill center is committed to helping people with psychiatric disabilities make choices and acquire skills that increase their self-reliance and ability to live and work in the community.
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.
Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…
Shangri-la provides long- and short-term housing, supports and employment training to adults with disabilities, primary development disabilities and mental illness, and to adults with barriers to self-sufficiency.
To help empower african americans and others achieve equality in education, employment, and economic security.
Eastern oregon health & wellness provides recovery housing and outpatient services that support individuals and families impacted by substance use disorder through safe housing, trauma-informed care, and community-based support.
To achieve justice for the low income communities of oregon by providing a full range of the highest quality civil legal services.
The mission of laguna beach community clinic (lbcc) is to provide excellent medical care regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
We offer our homeless neighbors accessible whole-person care to improve and support health, and to bridge a gap in trust between people and systems.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sheltercare and the most unlike its peers is Journalistic Learning Initiative. 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 34 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% 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 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.
23 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. 23 of the 32 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 UNITED WAY OF LANE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds EUGENE CIVIC ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF EUGENE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GREENHILL HUMANE SOCIETY SPCA ↗
- Who funds LANE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EUGENE BALLET COMPANY ↗
- Who funds WHITE BIRD CLINIC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds PEACEHEALTH SACRED HEART MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHELTERCARE ↗
- Who funds SQUAREONE VILLAGES ↗
- Who funds LOOKING GLASS COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds JOURNALISTIC LEARNING INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds EMERALD MEDIA GROUP ↗
- Who funds PEARL BUCK CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SOUTH WILLAMETTE VALLEY HONOR FLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR COMMUNITY COUNSELING ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF EMERALD VALLEY ↗
- Who funds SMART READING ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN AFFORDABLE HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE JOHN G SHEDD INSTITUTE FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds SERENITY LANE HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Chambers Family Foundation · The Woodard Family Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · United Way of Lane County · Lane Community Health Council · Food for Lane County · Reed Family Foundation Inc · Pacificsource Foundation for Health Improvement · PeaceHealth · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Haugland Family Foundation Fka Rosaria P Haugland 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 Alton F Baker Family 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.
- Pearl Buck Center Incorporated — 76% of income from government
- Friends of the Child Advocacy Center Inc — 33% of income from government
- United Way of Lane County — 31% of income from government
- White Bird Clinic — 29% of income from government
- Metropolitan Affordable Housing Corporation — 24% of income from government
- Looking Glass Community Services — 18% of income from government
- Sheltercare — 18% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Clubs of Emerald Valley — 15% of income from government
- Smart Reading — 3% of income from government
- Squareone Villages — 2% of income from government
- Greenhill Humane Society Spca — 1% of income from government
- Volunteers in Medicine Clinic — 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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Alton F Baker Family Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Alton F Baker Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.