· Private foundation
Bob Fessler Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $53k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ABBEY FOUNDATION OF OREGON | $50,000 |
| CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| CHESTERTON ACADEMY OF THE ROGUE VALLEY | $12,500 |
| ST MARY'S CATHOLIC CHURCH | $10,000 |
| SILVERTON HEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MT ANGEL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $9,500 |
| BLANCHET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $6,070 |
| SACRED HEART CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| OREGON FFA FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| GERVAIS HIGH SCHOOL | $1,500 |
| FRIENDS OF SILVERTON FFA ALUMNI | $1,500 |
| KENNEDY HIGH SCHOOL | $1,100 |
| MARION POLK FOOD SHARE | $1,000 |
| ST LUKE CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| THE PREGNANCY CENTER | $1,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
30 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 14 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- SHSILVERTON HEALTH FOUNDATION8× · 2018–2025 · $83k · revenue +33%
- CYCATHOLIC YOUTH ORGANIZATION3× · 2017–2019 · $40k · revenue +64%
- HFHOLY FAMILY ACADEMY4× · 2021–2025 · $31k · revenue +139%
Funded once
- MAMT ANGEL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIPone grant, 2022 · $13k
- ONOREGON NURSERIES FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +52%
- SLST LUKE CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $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.
To increase public awareness and support for the benedictine sisters of mt angel, oregon.
The oregon community foundation trust is a supporting organization of the oregon community foundation (ocf). the trust makes grants that further the mission of ocf which is to improve the lives of all oregonians through the power of…
Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center (LMHMC) was founded in 1922 and is a community hospital in Gresham, Oregon with 115 licensed beds. LMHMC offers a wide range of services including family birth, diagnostic services, cancer treatment,…
Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital and Medical Center (LGSHMC), founded in 1875 is one of the earliest hospitals in the Pacific Northwest. LGSHMC provides acute and tertiary care in Portland, OR with 539 licensed beds. LGSHMC provides a…
To do our part for a stronger and healthier oregon by supporting and encouraging students along their personal continuums of medical education.continued on schedule o.oregon medical education foundation (omef) also strives to be good…
Santiam hospital & clinics foundation mission is to support santiam hospital and clinics to:- provide healthcare where people live, work, and play;(continued on schedule o)- stay abreast and/or ahead of current healthcare trends in people,…
To promote agricultural education throughout the state of oregon.
Legacy Health Foundation (LHF) was incorporated on August 21, 2013. The mission of the foundation is to foster charitable giving as well as community commitment and involvement to support the founding principles, mission and vision of…
Legacy Meridian Park Hospital (LMPH), established in 1973, is a community hospital in Tualatin, OR, south of Portland with 150 licensed beds. LMPH serves the needs of the fast growing communities of Tualatin, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sherwood,…
The mission of The Oregon Community Foundation is to improve lives of all Oregonians through the power of philanthropy.
Through Silverton Health we come together to improve the health of our communities. Recognizing our responsibility for careful use of resources, it is our mission to encourage wellness and deliver quality health care, to organize ourselves…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Abbey Foundation of Oregon and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Silverton Ffa Alumni. 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 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 59 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 ABBEY FOUNDATION OF OREGON ↗
- Who funds SILVERTON HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC YOUTH ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds MT ANGEL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOLY FAMILY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds FR BERNARD YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Oregon State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds Chesterton Academy of the Rogue Valley ↗
- Who funds SONSHINE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds MT ANGEL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SILVERTON FFA ALUMNI ↗
- Who funds OREGON NURSERIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE BENEDICTINE NURSING CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MT ANGEL HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds DOERNBECHER CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OREGON FFA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Blanchet Community Foundation East Salem Community Center ↗
- Who funds OREGON GARDEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RANDALL CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KIDS SAFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SILVERTON BEARCATS VOLLEYBALL ↗
- Who funds MARION-POLK FOOD SHARE INC ↗
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 Salem Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Gelco Charitable Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Maps Community Foundation · Onpoint Community Credit Union · Juan Young Trust · Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · Land O'Lakes Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving 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 Bob Fessler 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.
- Marion-Polk Food Share Inc — 5% of income from government
- Oregon Garden Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Randall Childrens Hospital Foundation — 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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