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Boller Thomas Foundation of Oregon at a glance

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Boller Thomas Foundation of Oregon

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$29k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$32kReligion$19kInternational$19kAnimals$15kYouth Development$14kFood & Nutrition$11kHealth$10kHousing & Shelter$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k21 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$448k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AKRON CHRISTIAN REFORM CHURCH$10,031
GIRLS ON THE RUN OF SILICON VALLEY$1,777
FAITHHILL CHURCH$1,777
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$1,620
FAMILY PROMISE OF HAWAII$1,500
UCSF BENIOFF CHILDREN'S HOSPITALS FDN$1,280
COMMUNITY OUTREACH$1,185
THE CARING PLACE$1,185
MARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION$1,000
UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST TRANSITION HOUSE$1,000
SOUTH CORVALLIS FOOD BANK$1,000
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION$1,000
IHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC$1,000
NAGOMI FOSTER HOMES$814
INTERFAITH FOOD MINISTRY$750
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%WIND YOUTH SERVICES: $750 → 12%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC: $1k → 17%WOMENSPACE INC: $1k → 15%MAGGIE'S PLACE: $550 → 11%CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT: $1k → 14%HUSHABYE NURSERY: $600 → 11%FAMILY PROMISE OF HAWAII: $2k → 9%FAMILY PROMISE OF HAWAII: $1k → 9%FAMILY PROMISE OF HAWAII: $1k → 9%FAMILY PROMISE OF HAWAII: $750 → 9%FAMILY PROMISE OF HAWAII: $500 → 9%NAGOMI FOSTER HOMES: $814 → 9%NAGOMI FOSTER HOMES: $400 → 9%NAGOMI FOSTER HOMES: $400 → 9%NAGOMI FOSTER HOMES: $375 → 9%NAGOMI FOSTER HOMES: $250 → 9%NAGOMI FOSTER HOMES: $250 → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
HI
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$86k · 23 repeat orgs$58k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
44

Total granted

$86k
$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+9%

Still filing today

74%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthAnimalsInternationalFood & NutritionEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • GO
    GIRLS ON THE RUN OF SILICON VALLEY INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $17k · revenue +52%
  • SF
    SAMMIES FRIENDS
    4× · 2020–2023 · $10k · revenue +29%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • GC
    GEORGETOWN CARING PLACE
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +19%
  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY OF AUSTIN
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
  • ST
    SAVE THE CHILDREN
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Foundation for the Homeless Inc

Empowering families and individuals experiencing homelessness to build a future filled with dignity, opportunity, and lasting solutions.

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2
Casa Teresa Inc

To provide a temporary home and on-going support for pregnant women, and women with newborns over the age of 18 who are alone. counseling and educational programs prepare these women to make loving and informed decisions for themselves and…

Human Services
3
A Safe Place

Emergency shelter for victims of domestic violence.

—
4
Mary's Shelter

Believing in the value of every life, mary's path empowers vulnerable teen mothers in foster care and their babies to create lives of dignity, hope and self-sufficiency.

Human Services
5
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
6
Choices for Victims of Domestic Violence

To create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home health care…

Human Services
7
Network Services

Network services has been serving homeless families in the puget sound area since 1990, with a focus on families with children. network services aims to break the cycle of homelessness by providing assistance to families with children to…

Human Services
8
Lighthouse for the Homeless

The only free day shelter in the area comprised of a collection of community agencies and service providers, all focused on a single mission: ending homelessness in tarrant county.

Human Services
9
Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc

The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.

Human Services
10
San Francisco Network Ministries Housing Corporation

San Francisco Network Ministries Housing Corporation works to empower and support women who are experiencing housing instability and sexual exploitation or trafficking, by creating survivor-centered spaces, services advocacy and community…

Unclassified
11
Anacortes Family Center

The mission of the anacortes family center is to serve homeless women, children and families in crisis by providing shelter in addition to comprehensive transformational services to achieve long lasting personal success and…

Housing & Shelter
12
Columbus House Inc

Columbus house serves people experiencing homelessness or at imminent risk by providing life-saving outreach, shelter, and housing and by fostering their personal growth and independence. we advocate for and create affordable housing to…

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Koinonia Foster Homes Inc; the most unlike its peers is Spill the Tea Cafe. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

52 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 52 of the 76 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/52
Grantees still filing
30/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AKRON CHRISTIAN REFORM CHURCH: $10,031 · OtherAKRON CHRISTIAN REFORM CHURCHUCC TRANSITION HOUSE: $4,750 · OtherUCC TRANSITION HOUSEHope Ranch Ministries: $3,950 · OtherHope Ranch MinistriesTHE SALVATION ARMY OF AUSTIN: $3,000 · OtherSAVE THE CHILDREN: $2,500 · OtherKOINONIA FOSTER HOMES INC: $2,350 · OtherInterfaith Food Ministry Nevada County: $2,385 · OtherMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC: $2,800 · OtherGEORGETOWN CARING PLACE: $3,000 · Other+37 more: $34,102 · Other+37 moreGIRLS ON THE RUN OF SILICON VALLEY INC: $17,487 · Recreation & SportsGIRLS ON THE …FAMILY PROMISE OF HAWAII: $4,750 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROM…NAGOMI FOSTER HOMES: $2,489 · Human ServicesNAGOMI FOST…Children of the Night: $1,245 · Human ServicesChildren of…WOMENSPACE: $1,200 · Human ServicesWOMENSPACEPUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesPUPPIES BEH…UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST TRANSITION HOUSE: $1,000 · Human ServicesUNITED CHUR…THE CARING PLACE: $800 · Human ServicesTHE CARING …WIND YOUTH SERVICES INC: $750 · Human ServicesHUSHABYE NURSERY: $600 · Human ServicesMAGGIE'S PLACE INC: $550 · Human ServicesONE SOURCE - EMPOWERING CAREGIVERS: $500 · Human ServicesMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $6,103 · InternationalMEDECINS SA…International Rescue Committee INC: $5,900 · InternationalInternation…AFS-USA INC: $1,000 · InternationalAFS-USA INCHORN OF AFRICA EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT FUND: $700 · InternationalPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $500 · InternationalSAMMIES FRIENDS: $9,909 · AnimalsSAMMIES FR…SAVE THE MANATEE CLUB INC: $1,850 · AnimalsSAVE THE M…ATHENS AREA HUMANE SOCIETY OF CLARKE COUNTY AND SPCA INC: $800 · AnimalsATHENS ARE…NORCAL GERMAN SHORTHAIRED POINTER RESCUE INC: $500 · Animals+1 more: $300 · AnimalsMARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $2,700 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CNTR FNDN: $2,393 · HealthTHE SETTLEMENT CLUB: $1,800 · HealthThe Against Malaria Foundation: $1,000 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INC: $800 · HealthHAWAII HEALTH & HARM REDUCTION CENTER: $500 · HealthUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $4,900 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $1,132 · Education
Other$68,868Recreation & Sports$17,487Human Services$14,884International$14,203Animals$13,359Health$9,193Education$6,032

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN OF SILICON VALLEY INC: $17,487 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetSAMMIES FRIENDS: $9,909 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $6,103 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $5,900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $4,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF HAWAII: $4,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGETOWN CARING PLACE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC: $2,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARY BRIDGE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $2,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNAGOMI FOSTER HOMES: $2,489 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CNTR FNDN: $2,393 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInterfaith Food Ministry Nevada County: $2,385 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKOINONIA FOSTER HOMES INC: $2,350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBear Yuba Land Trust: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSAVE THE MANATEE CLUB INC: $1,850 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SETTLEMENT CLUB: $1,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRESTORED TO FREEDOM INC: $1,580 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetIHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDOERNBECHER CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren of the Night: $1,245 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOMENSPACE: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY OUTREACH: $1,185 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $1,132 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Against Malaria Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEASTER SEALS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH CORVALLIS FOOD BANK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOREGON FOOD BANK: $900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACCESS INC: $875 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARENT TO PARENT OF MIAMI INC: $875 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetColumbus Organizing Project: $800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CARING PLACE: $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATHENS AREA HUMANE SOCIETY OF CLARKE COUNTY AND SPCA INC: $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWIND YOUTH SERVICES INC: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHORN OF AFRICA EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT FUND: $700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAGGIE'S PLACE INC: $550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFelix Gillet Institute: $500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII HEALTH & HARM REDUCTION CENTER: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONE SOURCE - EMPOWERING CAREGIVERS: $500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetNORCAL GERMAN SHORTHAIRED POINTER RESCUE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFood Bank of Nevada County: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEARTLAND HUMANE SOCIETY: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRENEWAL HOUSE INC: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPILL THE TEA CAFE: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Enterprise Holdings F…Dignity HealthBaird Foundation IncEast Bay Community Fo…Carmax FoundationThe Oregon Community …AbbVie FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…Silicon Valley Commun…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Verizon Foundation
Enterprise Holdings FoundationMO14.6× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Dignity Health · Baird Foundation Inc · East Bay Community Foundation · Carmax Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Boller Thomas Foundation of Oregon funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Boller Thomas Foundation of Oregon. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • Womenspace: 62% of income from government
  • Oregon Food Bank: 21% of income from government
  • Parent to Parent of Miami Inc: 13% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Boller Thomas Foundation of Oregon?

Find your warmest path to Boller Thomas Foundation of Oregon through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 76 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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