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Brilliance Labs
The christ-centered mission of BRILLIANCE LABS is to catalyze innovation and strategic investment for the flourishing of under-resourced and multi-ethnic communities in portland and worldwide (continued on schedule o)supporting new churches, social enterprises, and faith-based ventures that represent and serve them
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $24,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $73,607 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $49,607 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SANCTUARY INN | $6,000 |
| WE BELONG PDX | $6,000 |
| REFUGEE CARE COLLECTIVE | $6,000 |
| ONE HOPE FELLOWSHIP | $6,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 81% 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.
4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 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, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- OHONE H O P E FELLOWSHIP4× · 2022–2025 · $25k
- CTCOMMUNITY TOGETHER PAMOJA HOUSE2× · 2023–2024 · $14k · revenue +28%
WE BELONG PDX2× · 2024–2025 · $12k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- JHJUBILEE HALL PDXgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue +536% · 30% of their budget
- TCThrive Church Plantinggraduatedone grant, 2024 · $7k · revenue +81%
- HSHOLLA SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $7k · revenue +46%
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.
ReVillage's mission is to support all Central Oregon families by promoting affordable, accessible and equitable childcare cooperatives; essential for fostering a thriving community.
Welcome Home is a diverse coalition in the Portland metropolitan region that uses its collective resources to create healthy communities by ensuring everyone has an affordable and stable home. We use community education and collaboration…
To embrace, equip, and empower immigrants through access to culturally informed essential services, and facilitate covnnections to grow deeper roots and thrive in Spokane.
Theatre Diaspora is Oregon's only professional Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) theatre company, committed to portraying authentic AAPI cultural, historical, and social perspectives to reach broad audiences.…
Housing for college fraternity
The mission of Oakland Bloom is to advance food and economic justice community power and resilience with working-class immigrant and diaspora chef-entrepreneurs. Oakland Bloom does this through stewarding Open Test Kitchen as a kitchen and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is We Belong Pdx and the most unlike its peers is Thrive Church Planting. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2020–2025.
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 2020–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 12 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 COMMUNITY TOGETHER PAMOJA HOUSE ↗
- Who funds WE BELONG PDX ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE HALL PDX ↗
- Who funds Thrive Church Planting ↗
- Who funds HOLLA SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SANCTUARY INN INC ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE CARE COLLECTIVE NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN FAMILY HOLISTIC HEALTH ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF OREGON ↗
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 · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · 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 Brilliance Labs 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.
- African Family Holistic Health Organization — 76% of income from government
- Holla School — 15% of income from government
- Community Development Corporation of Oregon — 7% 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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