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Brenden 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.
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
- $50k–250k3 grants · $370k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SILVER FALLS SCHOOL DISTRICT | $570,000 |
| BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| MILITARY WARRIORS SUPPORT FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| SANTIAM HOSPITAL & CLINICS | $200,000 |
| CHILDREN'S CANCER ASSOCIATION | $120,000 |
| SILVER CREEK FELLOWSHIP | $50,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $640k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
10 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k 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
- BNBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +9%
- SMSANTIAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL2× · 2022–2023 · $750k · revenue +212%
- MFMARION-POLK FOOD SHARE INC6× · 2017–2023 · $575k · revenue +62%
Funded once
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1.2M · revenue +101%
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1.0M · revenue +156%- WRWillamette Regional Educationone grant, 2021 · $500k
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.
We, saint alphonsus health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. saint alphonsus medical center-ontario is a member of saint…
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…
To support salem health, salem health west valley and related organizations.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
We, saint alphonsus health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. saint alphonsus regional medical center is a member of saint…
We conduct fundamental infectious disease research to generate critical new knowledge about pathogens and their interactions with see schedule o for continuationhumans to enable the discovery and development of novel interventions,…
To improve the health and well-being of the people and communities we serve.
The salem health foundation is dedicated to raising, managing and distributing funds to help salem health achieve its mission of improving the health and well-being of the people and community it serves.
We, sartori health care foundation and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. sartori health care foundation is a member of trinity health.
The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.
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,…
We, saint alphonsus health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.saint alphonsus medical center-baker city is a member of saint…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Oregon Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Melanoma Kills Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 21 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 BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Children's Cancer Association ↗
- Who funds SANTIAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds MARION-POLK FOOD SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds SILVERTON AREA COMMUNITY AID INC ↗
- Who funds MILITARY WARRIORS SUPPORT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOERNBECHER CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HARMONY HILL OF UNION ↗
- Who funds THE SILVER FOX FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds THE GILBERT HOUSE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds ISAAC'S ROOM ↗
- Who funds MELANOMA KILLS INC ↗
- Who funds ABC HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS 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 · Maps Community Foundation · United Way of the Mid-Willamette Valley · Salem Health · Juan Young Trust · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · A J Frank Family Foundation · Ralph Hull Foundation · Freres Foundation · Marion-Polk Food Share Inc
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 Brenden 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.
- Family Building Blocks Inc — 68% of income from government
- Abc House Inc — 25% of income from government
- Isaac's Room — 5% of income from government
- Marion-Polk Food Share Inc — 5% of income from government
- Oregon Health & Science University Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Santiam Memorial Hospital — 1% of income from government
- Global Empowerment Mission Inc — 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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