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Brenden Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$1.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$570k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$6.5MEducation$3.2MFood & Nutrition$935kHuman Services$280kReligion$143kPhilanthropy$121kInternational$100kYouth Development$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k3 grants · $370k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.3M
$250,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$31M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MILITARY WARRIORS SUPPORT FOUNDATION: $250k → 16%ABC HOUSE INC: $20k → 13%SILVERTON AREA COMMUNITY AID INC: $250k → 14%SILVERTON AREA COMMUNITY AID INC: $60k → 14%SILVERTON AREA COMMUNITY AID INC: $50k → 14%FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC: $10k → 14%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.
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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.0M · 10 repeat orgs$3.4M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
10

Total granted

$8.0M
$3.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+101%

Still filing today

60%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • BN
    BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +9%
  • SM
    SANTIAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
    2× · 2022–2023 · $750k · revenue +212%
  • MF
    MARION-POLK FOOD SHARE INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $575k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1.2M · revenue +101%
  • UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $1.0M · revenue +156%
  • WR
    Willamette Regional Education
    one grant, 2021 · $500k
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
Saint Alphonsus Medical Center - Ontario Inc

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…

Health
2
Silverton Health Dba Legacy Silverton Health

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…

Health
3
Salem Health Hospitals & Clinics

To support salem health, salem health west valley and related organizations.

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4
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
5
Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center Inc

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…

Health
6
Seattle Biomedical Research Institute

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,…

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7
Salem Health

To improve the health and well-being of the people and communities we serve.

Health
8
Salem Health Foundation

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.

Health
9
Sartori Health Care Foundation Inc

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.

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10
Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

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.

Health
11
Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center

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,…

Health
12
Saint Alphonsus Medical Center - Baker City Inc

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Oregon Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 21 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
11/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $2,600,000 · HealthBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATIONSANTIAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $750,000 · HealthSANTIAM MEMORIAL HOSPITALHARMONY HILL OF UNION: $150,000 · Health+1 more: $50,000 · HealthSILVER FALLS SCHOOL DISTRICT: $1,698,000 · OtherSILVER FALLS SCHOOL DISTRICTSANTIAM HOSPITAL & CLINICS: $700,000 · OtherSANTIAM HOSPITAL & CLINICSWillamette Regional Education: $500,000 · OtherWillamette Regional EducationDOERNBECHER CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $160,000 · OtherSILVER CREEK FELLOWSHIP: $143,000 · Other+2 more: $150,000 · OtherOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,200,000 · EducationOREGON HEALTH & SCIEN…UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF OREGON …Children's Cancer Association: $890,000 · Arts & CultureChildren'…THE GILBERT HOUSE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureSILVERTON AREA COMMUNITY AID INC: $360,000 · Human ServicesMILITARY WARRIORS SUPPORT FOUNDATION: $250,000 · Human Services+2 more: $30,000 · Human ServicesMARION-POLK FOOD SHARE INC: $575,124 · Food & NutritionTHE SILVER FOX FOUNDATION INC: $121,000 · Philanthropy
Health$3,550,000Other$3,351,000Education$2,200,000Arts & Culture$940,000Human Services$640,000Food & Nutrition$575,124Philanthropy$121,000

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 budgetBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $2,600,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,200,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetChildren's Cancer Association: $890,000 over 8y, 4.2% of budgetSANTIAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $750,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMARION-POLK FOOD SHARE INC: $575,124 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetSILVERTON AREA COMMUNITY AID INC: $360,000 over 3y, 9.8% of budgetDOERNBECHER CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $160,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHARMONY HILL OF UNION: $150,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetTHE SILVER FOX FOUNDATION INC: $121,000 over 2y, 53% of budgetGLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetISAAC'S ROOM: $50,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetTHE GILBERT HOUSE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $50,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetMELANOMA KILLS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetABC HOUSE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 Salem FoundationThe Oregon Community …Maps Community Founda…United Way of the Mid…Salem HealthJuan Young TrustOCF Joseph E Weston P…The Ford Family Found…A J Frank Family Foun…Ralph Hull FoundationFreres FoundationMarion-Polk Food Shar…
The Salem FoundationOR22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
3report 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 Brenden Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Brenden 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 21 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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