· Private foundation
Benge 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PORTLAND FRIENDS OF THE DHAMMA | $3,100 |
| SANGHATA FOUNDATION | $2,600 |
| DESCHUTES LAND TRUST | $1,000 |
| OREGON NATURAL DESERT ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| NEIGHBOR IMPACT | $1,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF CENTRAL OREGON | $500 |
| FAMILY KITCHEN | $500 |
| VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE | $500 |
| SAVING GRACE | $500 |
| LATINO COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION | $500 |
| KIDS CENTER | $500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $500 |
| FRIENDSHIP FOUNDATION | $500 |
| CENTRAL OREGON TRAIL ASSOCIATION | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $350 |
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, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +41% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 4 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, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- ONOREGON NATURAL DESERT ASSOCIATION6× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +18%
- NNEIGHBORIMPACT5× · 2020–2025 · $5k · revenue +115%
- DLDeschutes Land Trust6× · 2020–2025 · $5k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- NINEIGHBOR IMPACT FOOD BANKone grant, 2022 · $1k
- SGSaving Graceone grant, 2020 · $500
- DCDeschutes County Search and Rescue Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $500 · revenue +28%
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.
Our mission is to help herding dogs who are abandoned, neglected and abused or simply in the wrong home into a loving appropriate home.
To conserve and restore wild and working lands in oregons high desert for wildlife and people, and provide common ground to improve climate resilience, wildlife connectivity, habitat restoration, innovative grazing practices, cultural…
Rescue, rehabilitate and rehome companion animals
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
Oregon Wild works to protect and restore Oregon's wildlands, wildlife and waters as an enduring legacy for future generations.
To help homeless small animals in the state of Oregon by providing adequate shelter and veterinary care.
Providing legal advocacy to underserved communities
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…
Advocate for victims of crime within the criminal justice system and protective order cases; provide referrals to social-service agencies that can help crime victims recover. the center's services are available statewide at no cost to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Deschutes Land Trust and the most unlike its peers is Sanghata Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 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 OREGON NATURAL DESERT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORIMPACT ↗
- Who funds Deschutes Land Trust ↗
- Who funds FAMILY KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds KIDS INTERVENTION AND DIAGNOSTIC SERVICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SANGHATA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAVING GRACE ↗
- Who funds LATINO COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF CENTRAL OREGON ↗
- Who funds CHANGING PATTERNS INC ↗
- Who funds Bend Endurance Academy ↗
- Who funds Deschutes County Search and Rescue Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
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 · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Oregon Community Foundation · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · Sorlie Family Foundation · Bend Foundation · United Way of Deschutes County · Barbara Emily Knudson Foundation · The Anjulicia Foundation · The Collins Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Autzen 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 Benge 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.
- Neighborimpact — 68% of income from government
- Saving Grace — 48% of income from government
- Deschutes Land Trust — 46% of income from government
- Latino Community Association — 11% of income from government
- Oregon Natural Desert Association — 9% 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.