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Boyer Foundation
Its FY2023 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k5 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $201k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $230k
- $250k+1 grant · $638k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WATER WATCH OF OREGON | $637,581 |
| CENTRAL OREGON LANDWATCH | $230,000 |
| TURNEFFE ATOLL TRUST | $23,000 |
| SMITH RIVER ALLIANCE | $22,500 |
| OREGON DESERT LAND TRUST | $20,000 |
| ROGUE CLIMATE | $17,500 |
| CRAG LAW CENTER | $16,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND | $15,000 |
| PREDATOR DEFENSE | $11,500 |
| GREENPEACE FUND | $11,000 |
| SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST | $11,000 |
| CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY | $11,000 |
| AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION | $11,000 |
| WESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY | $10,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +44% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250 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
- WOWaterWatch of Oregon7× · 2017–2023 · $938k · revenue +328% · 25% of their budget
- COCENTRAL OREGON LANDWATCH7× · 2017–2023 · $620k · revenue +91%
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED4× · 2020–2023 · $35k · revenue +121%
Funded once
- EOEASTERN OREGON LAND TRUSTone grant, 2021 · $3k
Oregon Parks Forevergraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +44%- OWOREGON WILDLIFE HERITAGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -10%
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.
Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…
Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Wildlands Network works to reconnect, restore and rewild North America so that life-in all its diversity-can thrive.
Wwt's mission is to protect and restore water in rivers and streams across washington state. washington water trust restores and protects water in rivers and streams and promotes sustainable freshwater management in washington, and, more…
The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.
The California Wilderness Coalition protects the natural landscapes that make California unique, providing clean air and water, a home to wildlife, and a place for recreation and spiritual renewal.
Public interest law firm - the western environmental law center uses the power of the law to foster thriving, resilient western u.s. lands, waters, wildlife, and communities in the face of a changing climate. we envision a thriving west,…
The Idaho Wildlife Federation (IWF) promotes the conservation of Idaho's wildlife heritage and legacy of sporting opportunities for the current and future generations.
The foundation works with diverse groups representing many interests to acquire and restore critical wildlife habitat and protecting species
Oregon Wild works to protect and restore Oregon's wildlands, wildlife and waters as an enduring legacy for future generations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Western Rivers Conservancy and the most unlike its peers is Think Wild. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 32 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 WaterWatch of Oregon ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL OREGON LANDWATCH ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Smith River Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds OREGON DESERT LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Rogue Climate ↗
- Who funds CRAG LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds PREDATOR DEFENSE ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds GREENPEACE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Think Wild ↗
- Who funds SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Oregon Parks Forever ↗
- Who funds OREGON WILDLIFE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIVING LANDS & WATERS ↗
- Who funds WINDWARD FUND ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC ↗
- Who funds WILD SALMON CENTER ↗
- Who funds OREGON NATURAL DESERT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS 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 Oregon Community Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Brainerd Foundation · The Lazar Foundation · Aria Foundation Co Tg Tax & Accounting Services LLC · The Burning Foundation · The Kirby-Jones Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · Head & Heart Foundation Tr 12319 · Resources Legacy Fund · The Roundhouse 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 Boyer 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.
- WaterWatch of Oregon — 61% of income from government
- Wild Salmon Center — 49% of income from government
- Oregon Wildlife Heritage Foundation — 16% of income from government
- Oregon Natural Desert Association — 9% of income from government
- Rogue Climate — 7% of income from government
- Think Wild — 7% of income from government
- Western Rivers Conservancy — 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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