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Bland Family Foundation Attn Ryan Easley
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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k71 grants · $274k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $210k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PROVIDENT | $30,000 |
| FRIENDS OF BELLEFONTAINE CEMETERY | $25,000 |
| PONGO FUND | $15,000 |
| SAVE THE BAY | $15,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO HERITAGE | $15,000 |
| MUTTVILLE SENIOR DOG RESCUE | $14,000 |
| CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $12,750 |
| ACLU OF MISSOURI FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| ST LOUIS FOOD RESCUE | $11,000 |
| FRIENDS OF AMERICAN SONG ARCHIVES | $10,000 |
| PEDAL FOR THE CAUSE | $10,000 |
| OREGON ZOO FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| ST LOUIS MERCANTILE LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL PEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION | $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 (FY20–25, $142k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 70% 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.
101 repeat relationships — 72 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 14 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k 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
- PIProvident Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $178k · revenue +39%
- TPTHE PONGO FUND6× · 2020–2025 · $125k · revenue +7%
- WSWATKINSON SCHOOL6× · 2020–2025 · $87k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF THE GENEVA OFFICE BUILDING AND POWER HOUSEone grant, 2022 · $45k
- SFSan Francisco Architectural Heritagegraduatedone grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue +263%
- UUNRAVELone grant, 2023 · $10k · 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.
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
The Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland nurtures the connection between people and pets to advance animal welfare and improve the quality of life in our community.
Pfm operates world-class farmers markets that contribute to the success of local food growers and producers and create vibrant community gatherings. as a trade association, success for our vendors is our primary objective. listening and…
The saint louis zoo association was established to support and enhance the saint louis zoo by providing facilities, funds, and advice. the association provides direct financial support to the zoo for renovations, new facilities, programs,…
Portland Public Library is a welcoming cultural center that brings people together and connects them with trusted resources, ideas, experiences, and information. We build a stronger community by inspiring learning, creativity, and…
Shelter Animal Resource Alliance rescues, assists, and advocates for shelter animals in Lane County by developing and implementing programs designed to increase the number of animals adopted into permanent, loving homes and decrease the…
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
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 aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
Orla serves as the leading industry advocate, striving to protect, improve and promote oregon hospitality.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sunshine Division Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sunnyside Street Dogs I. 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 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% 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.
98 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. 98 of the 153 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 Provident Inc ↗
- Who funds THE PONGO FUND ↗
- Who funds WATKINSON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds 640 Heritage Preservation Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE OREGON ZOO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PETER & PAUL COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BELLEFONTAINE CEMETERY ↗
- Who funds Save The Bay ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HEARING & SPEECH ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds San Francisco Architectural Heritage ↗
- Who funds KIDS WIN MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds National Network of Abortion Funds ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds WRITE AROUND PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds JAMAA BIRTH VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Abortion Action Missouri Foundation ↗
- Who funds ARCHCITY DEFENDERS ↗
- Who funds SHERWOOD FOREST CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CITY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood Great Rivers-Missouri ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL RHINO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF AMERICAN SONG ARCHIVES INC ↗
- Who funds Lydia's House Inc ↗
- Who funds Little Sisters of The Poor ↗
- Who funds PROJECT POOCH ↗
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: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · St Louis Community Foundation · Trio Foundation of St Louis · The Oregon Community Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Autzen Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Larson Legacy · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · The Reser Family Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Joseph & Florence Roblee 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 Bland Family Foundation Attn Ryan Easley 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.
- Project Hope of Eastern Connecticut — 100% of income from government
- Chrysalis Center Inc — 93% of income from government
- Outside in — 33% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- The Freshwater Trust — 17% of income from government
- Ethos Inc — 13% of income from government
- Write Around Portland — 6% of income from government
- Ride Connection Inc — 4% of income from government
- Join — 4% of income from government
- Hartford Stage Company Inc — 3% of income from government
- Smart Reading — 3% of income from government
- Watkinson School — 2% of income from government
- Forge City Works Inc — 1% of income from government
- Greenhill Humane Society Spca — 1% of income from government
- Pear — 1% of income from government
- William Temple House — 0% of income from government
- Bird Alliance of Oregon 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.
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