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Alton F Baker Family Foundation at a glance

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Alton F Baker Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$33k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$78kHuman Services$28kHealth$22kArts & Culture$21kRecreation & Sports$15kHousing & Shelter$13kEducation$13kCrime & Legal$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$831k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%LOOKING GLASS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 15%EUGENE FAMILY YMCA: $5k → 15%EUGENE FAMILY YMCA: $5k → 15%EUGENE FAMILY YMCA: $5k → 15%SERENITY LANE HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $200 → 15%SOUTH WILLAMETTE VALLEY HONOR FLIGHT: $3k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$152k · 11 repeat orgs$68k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
17

Total granted

$152k
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+110%

Still filing today

73%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF EUGENE
    3× · 2018–2020 · $15k · revenue +158%
  • EC
    EUGENE CIVIC ALLIANCE
    3× · 2018–2020 · $15k · revenue +100%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC
    2× · 2020–2025 · $13k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM & COMMUNICATION
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • WB
    WHITE BIRD CLINICgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +110%
  • PS
    PEACEHEALTH SACRED HEART MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -11%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Lane Community College Education Association

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)…

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2
Lane Workforce Partnership

To meet the workforce needs of employers and individuals through partnerships and innovations in lane county, oregon.

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3
Trillium Family Services

Building brighter futures with children and families.

Housing & Shelter
4
Laurel Hill Center

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.

Health
5
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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6
Lewis & Clark College

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…

Education
7
Shangri-La Corporation

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.

Human Services
8
Urban League of Portland Inc

To help empower african americans and others achieve equality in education, employment, and economic security.

Human Services
9
Eastern Oregon Health and Wellness Inc

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.

Health
10
Oregon Law Center

To achieve justice for the low income communities of oregon by providing a full range of the highest quality civil legal services.

Crime & Legal
11
Laguna Beach Community Clinic

The mission of laguna beach community clinic (lbcc) is to provide excellent medical care regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

Health
12
Portland Street Medicine

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.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sheltercare; 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.
04the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 32 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
14/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF LANE COUNTY: $77,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF LANE COUNTYUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM & COMMUNICATION: $10,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION…ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $5,000 · OtherST VINCENT DE PAULVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE: $4,100 · OtherVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINESQUARE 1 VILLAGES: $2,500 · OtherBLOODWORKS: $2,000 · OtherCENTER FOR COMMUNITY COUNSELING: $2,000 · OtherGREENHILL HUMANE SOCIETY SPCA: $10,600 · OtherGREENHILL HUMANE SOCIETY SPCASHELTERCARE: $5,000 · OtherSHELTERCARESQUAREONE VILLAGES: $4,800 · OtherSQUAREONE VILLAGESEUGENE BALLET COMPANY: $5,000 · OtherEUGENE BALLET COMPANYEMERALD MEDIA GROUP: $4,000 · OtherEMERALD MEDIA GROUP+7 more: $5,000 · Other+7 moreYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF EUGENE: $15,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S…LOOKING GLASS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $4,600 · Human ServicesLOOKING GLA…SOUTH WILLAMETTE VALLEY HONOR FLIGHT INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesSOUTH WILLA…+1 more: $200 · Human ServicesLANE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $7,500 · EducationJOURNALISTIC LEARNING INITIATIVE: $4,000 · EducationPEARL BUCK CENTER INCORPORATED: $4,000 · EducationSMART READING: $1,500 · EducationEUGENE CIVIC ALLIANCE: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC: $5,000 · HealthWHITE BIRD CLINIC: $5,000 · HealthPEACEHEALTH SACRED HEART MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $12,500 · Community Improvement
Philanthropy$77,500Other$60,000Human Services$22,300Education$17,000Recreation & Sports$15,000Health$15,000Community Improvement$12,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF LANE COUNTY: $77,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF EUGENE: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEUGENE CIVIC ALLIANCE: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGREENHILL HUMANE SOCIETY SPCA: $10,600 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLANE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWHITE BIRD CLINIC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEACEHEALTH SACRED HEART MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEUGENE BALLET COMPANY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSHELTERCARE: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSQUAREONE VILLAGES: $4,800 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLOOKING GLASS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $4,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMERALD MEDIA GROUP: $4,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJOURNALISTIC LEARNING INITIATIVE: $4,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPEARL BUCK CENTER INCORPORATED: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY COUNSELING: $2,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF EMERALD VALLEY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSMART READING: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN AFFORDABLE HOUSING CORPORATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Oregon Community …Chambers Family Found…The Woodard Family Fo…The Ford Family Found…United Way of Lane Co…Lane Community Health…Food for Lane CountyReed Family Foundatio…Pacificsource Foundat…PeaceHealthMeyer Memorial TrustThe Haugland Family F…
The Oregon Community FoundationOR39.9× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Alton F Baker Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alton F Baker Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 18%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
4report 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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