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Bend Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $337k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HIGH DESERT MUSEUM | $200,000 |
| CITY OF BEND - ROUNDABOUT ART | $136,500 |
| HEART OF OREGON CORPS | $15,000 |
| CENTRAL OREGON COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–23, $192k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
31 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 1 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
HIGH DESERT MUSEUM8× · 2017–2024 · $680k · revenue +274%
Oregon State University Foundation5× · 2018–2022 · $510k · revenue +27%- AIART IN PUBLIC PLACES INC4× · 2017–2023 · $327k · revenue +9% · 50% of their budget
Funded once
- BPBEND PARK AND RECREATIONone grant, 2022 · $137k
- MMBSEFone grant, 2019 · $52k
J BAR J YOUTH SERVICES INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +76%
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.
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
To support public policies that will help oregon's economy and create new family supporting jobs in oregon.
Orla serves as the leading industry advocate, striving to protect, improve and promote oregon hospitality.
We provide a voice for an effective and accessible behavioral health system of care for Oregonians.
Promote economic and social fairness by working in coalition open a broad range of issues and activities in the public arena
Cascades academy is an engaged, vibrant community that weaves challenging academics with experiential learning to inspire socially responsible individuals ready for a diverse and changing world.
Develop tourism industry in bend,oregon
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…
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…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Oregon Environmental Center Inc Dba - the Environmental Center and the most unlike its peers is The 1017 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 28 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
45 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. 45 of the 66 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 HIGH DESERT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Oregon State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds ART IN PUBLIC PLACES INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL OREGON ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER INC DBA - THE ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN CARE ↗
- Who funds BEND SCIENCE STATION ↗
- Who funds BETHLEHEM INN ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL OREGON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CASCADE SCHOOL OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds TOWER THEATRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds J BAR J YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds St Charles Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds DESCHUTES RIVER CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MOSAIC COMMUNITY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds HEART OF OREGON CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds KIDS INTERVENTION AND DIAGNOSTIC SERVICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Deschutes Land Trust ↗
- Who funds BENDFILM INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE MEADOWS ↗
- Who funds THE GIVING PLATE ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL OREGON FUSE INC ↗
- Who funds LATINO COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds OREGON ADAPTIVE SPORTS ↗
- Who funds DESCHUTES CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SFF PRESENTS ↗
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 Roundhouse Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Anjulicia Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · United Way of Deschutes County · St Charles Health System Inc · Helen M Clabough Charitable Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · M J Murdock 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 Bend 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.
- Deschutes River Conservancy — 100% of income from government
- J Bar J Youth Services Inc — 71% of income from government
- Neighborimpact — 68% of income from government
- Kor Community Land Trust Dba Rootedhomes — 63% of income from government
- Deschutes Land Trust — 46% of income from government
- Bridge Meadows — 36% of income from government
- Central Oregon Fuse Inc — 28% of income from government
- Heart of Oregon Corps Inc — 28% of income from government
- Family Resource Center of Central Oregon — 22% of income from government
- Thrive Central Oregon — 12% of income from government
- Latino Community Association — 11% of income from government
- High Desert Museum — 11% of income from government
- Scalehouse — 10% of income from government
- Mosaic Community Health — 8% of income from government
- Tower Theatre Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
- Bendfilm Inc — 3% of income from government
- Smart Reading — 3% of income from government
- Central Oregon Environmental Center Inc Dba - the Environmental Center — 0% of income from government
- Bethlehem Inn — 0% 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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