· Private foundation
Bechen Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $34k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $299k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PORTLAND ART MUSEUM | $240,650 |
| OREGON ESPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $58,555 |
| OHSU FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN | $10,500 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $10,500 |
| SUNRIVER NATURE CENTER | $5,100 |
| OUTSIDE IN | $5,000 |
| WESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY | $2,000 |
| HOMESHARE OREGON | $2,000 |
| OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING | $1,000 |
| OREGON JOURNALISM PROJECT | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| DE LA SALLE NORTH CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| CROSSROAD CAMPUS | $500 |
| SIERR COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $300 |
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 (FY20–25, $77k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 3 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
PORTLAND ART MUSEUM6× · 2020–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +14%
HIGH DESERT MUSEUM5× · 2020–2024 · $146k · revenue +267%
Victory Academy Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $116k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- OCOHSU CENTER FOR WOMEN'S HEALTHone grant, 2022 · $15k
PROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +62%- OFOHSU FOUNDATION - CIRCLE OF GIVINGone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
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…
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…
Oregon Music Festival's mission is the performance, production, and promotion of classical music through orchestral, choral/orchestra, and chamber music.
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
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…
Orla serves as the leading industry advocate, striving to protect, improve and promote oregon hospitality.
Promote economic and social fairness by working in coalition open a broad range of issues and activities in the public arena
Oregon Arts Watch produces independent, professional arts and culture journalism and criticism that is transparent, fair and accurate.
Open signal's mission is to nurture the change-making power of community media in service of a just and equitable world.
The mission of The Oregon Community Foundation is to improve lives of all Oregonians through the power of philanthropy.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Elevate Oregon and the most unlike its peers is Home Share Oregon. 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 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 1% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 58 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 THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HIGH DESERT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Victory Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SIERRA SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Family Service ↗
- Who funds Childrens Literacy Project Formerly Known as BeUndivided ↗
- Who funds OREGON ADAPTIVE SPORTS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds OREGON TRAIL OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING ↗
- Who funds SMART READING ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDRENS COURSE INC ↗
- Who funds OUTSIDE IN ↗
- Who funds THE CROSSROADS CAMPUS ↗
- Who funds OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE OREGON ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity of La Pine Sunriver ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND CENTER STAGE ↗
- Who funds THE ULI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OREGON MUSIC EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy ↗
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: Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · The Oregon Community Foundation · Juan Young Trust · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Onpoint Community Credit Union · The Autzen Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Wheeler Foundation · The Holzman Foundation · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust
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 Bechen 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.
- Outside in — 33% of income from government
- Metropolitan Family Service — 29% of income from government
- Elevate Oregon — 28% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- High Desert Museum — 11% of income from government
- Providence Portland Medical Foundation — 5% of income from government
- Smart Reading — 3% of income from government
- Portland Art Museum — 1% of income from government
- Portland Center Stage — 1% of income from government
- Oregon Public Broadcasting — 1% of income from government
- Western Rivers Conservancy — 0% of income from government
- Oregon Symphony Association — 0% of income from government
- Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc — 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.