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Bollier Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$544k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Education$1.6MHuman Services$79kPhilanthropy$51kHousing & Shelter$46kYouth Development$20kHealth$14kScience & Tech$13kFood & Nutrition$9kOther$0
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $118k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $102k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GONZAGA UNIVERSITY$300,000
GONZAGA UNIVERSITY$52,000
GONZAGA UNIVERSITY$50,000
ASSISTANCE LEAQUE BEND$25,000
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SACRAMENTO$25,000
EVERY CHILD CENTRAL OREGON$15,000
PATH HOME$12,500
MY FATHER'S HOUSE$10,000
THE HACK FOUNDATION$10,000
OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$10,000
DE LASALLE NORTH CATHOLIC$10,000
SHEPARD'S HOUSE MINISTRIES$5,346
COUNCIL ON AGING OF CENTRAL OREGON$5,000
CENTRAL OREGON DISABILITIES SUPPORT NETWORK$5,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%EVERY CHILD CENTRAL OREGON: $15k → 10%COUNCIL ON AGING OF CENTRAL OREGON: $5k → 10%COUNCIL ON AGING OF CENTRAL OREGON: $3k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 8% of Bollier Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Bollier Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.7M · 14 repeat orgs$111k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
18

Total granted

$1.7M
$61k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+20%

Still filing today

64%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterArts & CultureEducationAnimalsOther

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

  • CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +40%
  • PH
    PATH HOME
    3× · 2022–2024 · $40k · revenue +25%
  • AL
    ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF BEND
    2× · 2023–2024 · $35k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • DL
    DE LA SALLE NORTH CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • SS
    SHINNING STAR FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $8k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $5k

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

04Your field

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.

1
Oregon Agricultural Trust

Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.

Environment
2
Oregon Restaurant and Lodging Association

Orla serves as the leading industry advocate, striving to protect, improve and promote oregon hospitality.

3
Citizens Utility Board

As directed by oregon voters in 1984, the oregon citizens' utility board (cub) represents the interests of oregon's residential utility customers before administrative, judicial, and legislative bodies. cub works at the intersection of…

4
Oregon Primary Care Association

Leading the transformation of primary care to achieve health equity for all.

Health
5
The Arc Oregon

The arc of oregon, together with its network of members and affiliated chapters, advocates for the rights and full community participation of all children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

6
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals
7
Oregon Research Institute

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…

Social Science
8
Oregon Council for Behavioral Health

We provide a voice for an effective and accessible behavioral health system of care for Oregonians.

Community Improvement
9
One Community Health

Advance health and social justice for all members of our community.

10
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
11
Technology Association of Oregon

To support our members and promote the growth and quality of oregon's technology industry by providing opportunities for business and professional development through networking and informational programs.

12
Oregon Justice Network

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…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oregon Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is Beavers Charitable Trust. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyDisability & Vulnerable Pop…Family Philanthropic Founda…Animal Rescue and AdoptionHawaiian Cultural & Communi…Oregon Policy & Advocacy Or…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 47 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr15%4%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr19%15%20–35yr11%27%35–55yr13%42%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr15%1%5–10yr20%3%10–20yr19%3%20–35yr11%4%35–55yr13%89%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/26
the rest of the field
13%
1,413/11,064

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.

05the grantee network

22 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 41 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
14/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY — $1,452,000 · EducationCORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITYCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SACRAMENTO — $75,500 · OtherCALIFORNIA ST…ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF BEND — $35,000 · OtherASSISTANCE LE…DE LA SALLE NORTH CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL — $25,000 · OtherDE LA SALLE N…DE LASALLE NORTH CATHOLIC — $20,000 · OtherDE LASALLE NO…ADVOCATES FOR LIFE SKILLS AND OPPORTUNITIES — $8,539 · OtherSHINNING STAR FOUNDATION — $7,500 · Other+23 more — $49,846 · Other+23 moreBEAVERS CHARITABLE TRUST — $26,000 · PhilanthropyTHE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $20,000 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $3,000 · PhilanthropyMAUI UNITED WAY — $2,000 · PhilanthropyPATH HOME — $39,500 · Housing & ShelterMY FATHERS HOUSE — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterEVERY CHILD CENTRAL OREGON — $15,000 · Human ServicesCOUNCIL ON AGING OF CENTRAL OREGON — $7,500 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE HACK FOUNDATION D/B/A HACK CLUB — $10,000 · Science & TechMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $5,000 · International
Education$1,452,000Other$221,385Philanthropy$51,000Housing & Shelter$49,500Human Services$27,500Science & Tech$10,000International$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY — $1,452,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPATH HOME — $39,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF BEND — $35,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetBEAVERS CHARITABLE TRUST — $26,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEVERY CHILD CENTRAL OREGON — $15,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetMY FATHERS HOUSE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE HACK FOUNDATION D/B/A HACK CLUB — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL ON AGING OF CENTRAL OREGON — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOREGON FOOD BANK — $6,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLANCHET HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY — $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC — $2,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON DOG RESCUE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEASTER SEALS OF OREGON — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI UNITED WAY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEASTER SEALS INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDisabled American Veterans — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Oregon Community FoundationOR20.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · Braemar Charitable Trust · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Collins Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Bollier 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 21%
  • Easter Seals of Oregon77% of income from government
  • Council On Aging of Central Oregon43% of income from government
  • Oregon Food Bank21% of income from government
  • The Oregon Community Foundation2% of income from government
  • Oregon Public Broadcasting1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Bollier Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Bollier Family Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 41 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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