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Andersen Construction Foundation
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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $66k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $157k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY | $40,000 |
| GIRLS BUILD | $37,000 |
| DEVELOP SUSTAINABILITY | $25,000 |
| THE FOUNDATION FOR TACOMA STUDENTS | $25,000 |
| REMOTE ENERGY | $10,000 |
| OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| JACKSON STREET YOUTH SERVICES | $10,000 |
| KENYA KEYS | $7,511 |
| ACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF OREGON | $5,500 |
| SAWHORSE REVOLUTION | $5,500 |
| POIC AND ROSEMARY ANDERSON HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| VIETNAM WAR MEMORIAL FUND | $5,000 |
| WE BELONG PDX | $5,000 |
| LINES FOR LIFE | $5,000 |
| NOOKSACK INDIAN TRIBE | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $71k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 58% 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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 14 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, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $98k 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
GIRLS BUILD5× · 2018–2024 · $96k · revenue +125%- AMACE Mentor Program of Oregon Inc7× · 2018–2024 · $67k · revenue +25%
- TYTHE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOISE CITY IDAHO3× · 2022–2024 · $53k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $74k
- ECEMBRACE COMPASSIONone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -37% · 38% of their budget
- PIPORTLAND INTERSCHOLASTIC LEAGUE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $32k · revenue -46%
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.
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…
Our children oregon's mission is to be a voice and force for the common good for all oregon children, ensuring all children have the resources and opportunities they need to reach their full potential. we elevate data and the voices of…
Oregon research institute is an independent behavioral sciences research center dedicated to understanding human behavior and improving the quality of human life through the prevention and treatment of health, educational, and social…
To support public policies that will help oregon's economy and create new family supporting jobs in oregon.
Friends - portland commits to standing alongside our community's youth as they work to overcome barriers to their success. each child receives 1:1 support and guidance from a salaried, professional mentor (called a friend), from…
Youth progress is a nonprofit organization that is licensed as a child caring agency (cca) to serve youth ages 12-25 in the custody of the oregon youth authority (oya) or the oregon department of human services (dhs). youth progress uses…
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…
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…
To ensure economic prosperity in the portland region by providing strong leadership, partnership, and programs that encourage business growth and vitality.
The arc of oregon, together with its network of members and affiliated chapters, advocates for the rights and full community participation of all children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Impact nw prevents homelessness by supporting people as they navigate their journey to stability and strength. founded in portland in 1966, impact nw now serves 26,944 people a year in the greater portland, oregon metro area, including…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Native American Youth and Family Center and the most unlike its peers is Backyard Artists. 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 24 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
101 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. 101 of the 172 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 GIRLS BUILD ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM HAS A FACE ↗
- Who funds ACE Mentor Program of Oregon Inc ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOISE CITY IDAHO ↗
- Who funds EMBRACE COMPASSION ↗
- Who funds MARY'S PLACE SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds Portland YouthBuilders ↗
- Who funds Constructing Hope Pre-Apprenticeship Program ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND INTERSCHOLASTIC LEAGUE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds APPRENTICESHIP AND NONTRADITIONAL EMPLOYMENT FOR WOMEN ↗
- Who funds MAURICE LUCAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REMOTE ENERGY ↗
- Who funds Develop Sustainability ↗
- Who funds Oregon Tradeswomen Inc ↗
- Who funds Lines for Life ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR TACOMA STUDENTS ↗
- Who funds ELSO INC ↗
- Who funds Oregon State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds SELF ENHANCEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds IDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WE BELONG PDX ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAYFIELD LAKE YOUTH CAMP ↗
- Who funds A FAMILY FOR EVERY CHILD ↗
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 · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Meyer Memorial Trust · Juan Young Trust · The Collins Foundation · Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation · Onpoint Community Credit Union · The Reser Family Foundation · 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 Andersen Construction 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.
- Elso Inc — 100% of income from government
- Vietnam War Memorial Fund — 100% of income from government
- Oregon Supported Living Prgm — 93% of income from government
- Edwards Center Inc — 79% of income from government
- Lines for Life — 70% of income from government
- Jackson Street Youth Shelter Inc — 59% of income from government
- Oregon Tradeswomen Inc — 46% of income from government
- Portland YouthBuilders — 35% of income from government
- A Family for Every Child — 33% of income from government
- Relief Nursery Inc — 30% of income from government
- Native American Youth and Family Center — 23% of income from government
- With Love Oregon Inc — 16% of income from government
- Habitat for Humanity Portland Metro East — 14% of income from government
- Self Enhancement Inc — 14% of income from government
- Rural Development Initiatives Inc — 11% of income from government
- Central City Concern — 10% of income from government
- Raphael House of Portland — 10% of income from government
- Portland Interscholastic League Foundation — 8% of income from government
- Portland Community College Foundation Inc — 5% of income from government
- Providence Portland Medical Foundation — 5% of income from government
- The Contingent — 5% of income from government
- Food for Lane County — 5% of income from government
- Oregon Museum of Science and Industry — 4% of income from government
- Tuality Healthcare Foundation — 3% of income from government
- Columbia River Maritime Museum — 3% of income from government
- Smart Reading — 3% of income from government
- George Fox University — 2% of income from government
- Constructing Hope Pre-Apprenticeship Program — 2% of income from government
- Neurotherapeutic Pediatric Therapies Inc — 2% of income from government
- Oregon Health & Science University Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Oregon State University Foundation — 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.
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