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Bollier Family Foundation at a glance

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Bollier 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.

$713k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$552k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$1.6MHuman Services$79kPhilanthropy$51kHousing & Shelter$46kYouth Development$20kHealth$14kScience & Tech$13kFood & Nutrition$9kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $64k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $98k
  • $250k+1 grant · $552k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GONZAGA UNIVERSITY$552,000
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE BEND$25,000
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SACRAMENTO$25,000
EVERY CHILD CENTRAL OREGON$15,000
DE LASALLE NORTH CATHOLIC$12,500
MY FATHER'S HOUSE$10,000
PATH HOME$10,000
CENTRAL OREGON DISABILITIES SUPPORT NETWORK$5,000
THE BEACON HOUSE ASSOCIATION OF SAN PEDRO$5,000
COUNCIL ON AGING OF CENTRAL OREGON$5,000
THE HACK FOUNDATION$5,000
MAUI FOOD BANK$5,000
SHEPARD'S HOUSE MINISTRIES$5,000
HEART OF OREGON$5,000
OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BLACK STUDENT SUCCESS COMMUNITY GAP$5,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%EVERY CHILD CENTRAL OREGON: $15k → 10%EVERY CHILD CENTRAL OREGON: $15k → 10%COUNCIL ON AGING OF CENTRAL OREGON: $5k → 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
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
IL
OR
IA
CA
CO
KY
MD
HI
GA
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 8% of Bollier Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Bollier Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 23 repeat orgs$85k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
16

Total granted

$2.4M
$56k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+38%

Still filing today

70%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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 ServicesPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterArts & CultureFood & 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

  • CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +40%
  • AL
    ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF BEND
    3× · 2023–2025 · $60k · revenue +4%
  • PH
    PATH HOME
    4× · 2022–2025 · $50k · revenue +25%

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
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
Oregon Restaurant and Lodging Association

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

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2
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
3
Oregon Primary Care Association

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

Health
4
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
5
One Community Health

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

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6
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.

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7
Digital Harbor Foundation

Democratizing societal and economic well-being through digital equity for everyone, increased diversity in the tech sector, innovative education, and technology for the public good

Education
8
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
9
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
10
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…

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11
Habitat for Humanity of Orange County Inc

Habitat for humanity's mission is to give witness to the christian gospel by working with god's people to build decent habitats for those who are inadequately sheltered in orange county.

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12
Homeward Bound Inc

Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oregon Food Bank; 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.
05the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 50 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
17/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY: $2,004,000 · EducationCORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITYCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SACRAMENTO: $100,500 · OtherCALIFORNIA STA…ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF BEND: $60,000 · OtherASSISTANCE LEA…DE LASALLE NORTH CATHOLIC: $32,500 · OtherDE LASALLE NOR…DE LA SALLE NORTH CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $25,000 · OtherDE LA SALLE NO…+32 more: $110,735 · Other+32 morePATH HOME: $49,500 · Housing & ShelterMY FATHERS HOUSE: $20,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $1,000 · Housing & ShelterBEAVERS CHARITABLE TRUST: $26,000 · PhilanthropyTHE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,000 · PhilanthropyFOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC: $3,000 · PhilanthropyMAUI UNITED WAY: $2,000 · PhilanthropyEVERY CHILD CENTRAL OREGON: $30,000 · Human ServicesCOUNCIL ON AGING OF CENTRAL OREGON: $12,500 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE HACK FOUNDATION D/B/A HACK CLUB: $15,000 · Science & TechMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $10,000 · International
Education$2,004,000Other$328,735Housing & Shelter$70,500Philanthropy$54,000Human Services$47,500Science & Tech$15,000International$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY: $2,004,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF BEND: $60,000 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetPATH HOME: $49,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetEVERY CHILD CENTRAL OREGON: $30,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetBEAVERS CHARITABLE TRUST: $26,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMY FATHERS HOUSE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HACK FOUNDATION D/B/A HACK CLUB: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL ON AGING OF CENTRAL OREGON: $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON FOOD BANK: $7,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BEACON HOUSE ASSOCIATION OF SAN PEDRO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEASTER SEALS OF OREGON: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON DOG RESCUE: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBLANCHET HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC: $2,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MOLES: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAUI UNITED WAY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEASTER SEALS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDisabled American Veterans: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER: $300 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.

The Oregon Community …Braemar Charitable Tr…Maybelle Clark Macdon…OCF Joseph E Weston P…The Collins FoundationMarie Lamfrom Charita…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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 Bollier Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bollier Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • Easter Seals of Oregon: 77% of income from government
  • Council On Aging of Central Oregon: 43% of income from government
  • Oregon Food Bank: 21% of income from government
  • The Oregon Community Foundation: 2% of income from government
  • Oregon Public Broadcasting: 1% 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, 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.
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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 50 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home