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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

$74k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
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04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Religion$31kHuman Services$27kYouth Development$17kHealth$13kFood & Nutrition$12kArts & Culture$7kCommunity Improvement$5k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $24,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $73,607 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $49,607 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$6,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SANCTUARY INN$6,000
REFUGEE CARE COLLECTIVE$6,000
ONE HOPE FELLOWSHIP$6,000
WE BELONG PDX$6,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%REFUGEE CARE COLLECTIVE: $6k → 8%Pamoja House: $7k → 8%HOLLA School: $7k → 12%Pamoja House: $7k → 8%AFRICAN FAMILY HOLISTIC HEALTH ORG: $5k → 12%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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$63k · 4 repeat orgs$48k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
6

Total granted

$63k
$36k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+81%

Still filing today

50%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesReligionEmploymentCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • OH
    ONE H O P E FELLOWSHIP
    4× · 2022–2025 · $25k
  • CT
    COMMUNITY TOGETHER PAMOJA HOUSE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $14k · revenue +28%
  • WE BELONG PDX
    2× · 2024–2025 · $12k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • JH
    JUBILEE HALL PDXgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue +536% · 30% of their budget
  • TC
    Thrive Church Plantinggraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $7k · revenue +81%
  • HS
    HOLLA SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $7k · revenue +46%
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.

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Home Court Nw
Recreation & Sports
2
Revillage

ReVillage's mission is to support all Central Oregon families by promoting affordable, accessible and equitable childcare cooperatives; essential for fostering a thriving community.

Youth Development
3
Kinfolk House
Arts & Culture
4
House of Refuge Faith Based
Human Services
5
Welcome Home Coalition

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…

Community Improvement
6
Earth Day Oregon
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7
Metro Portland New Car Dealers Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Manzanita House

To embrace, equip, and empower immigrants through access to culturally informed essential services, and facilitate covnnections to grow deeper roots and thrive in Spokane.

Arts & Culture
9
Theatre Diaspora

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.…

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10
Phi Kappa Psi - Oregon Alpha Chapter S&T Fraternity Management

Housing for college fraternity

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11
Floreciendo

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…

Employment
12
Seeds of the Beloved Community
Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is We Belong Pdx; 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.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2020–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2020 to 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.

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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
9/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ONE H O P E FELLOWSHIP: $24,500 · OtherONE H O P E FELLOWSHIPRIVER CITY CHURCH VANCOUVER: $12,000 · OtherRIVER CITY CHURCH VANCOUVERMISION HISPANA EL BUEN PASTOR: $6,000 · OtherMISION HISPANA EL BUEN PASTORCOMMUNITY TOGETHER PAMOJA HOUSE: $14,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY TOGETHER PAMOJA HOUSEHOLLA SCHOOL: $6,500 · Human ServicesHOLLA SCHOOLREFUGEE CARE COLLECTIVE NORTHWEST: $6,000 · Human ServicesREFUGEE CARE COLLECTIVE NORTHWES…AFRICAN FAMILY HOLISTIC HEALTH ORGANIZATION: $5,000 · Human ServicesAFRICAN FAMILY HOLISTIC HEALTH O…Thrive Church Planting: $6,500 · ReligionThrive Churc…SANCTUARY INN INC: $6,000 · ReligionSANCTUARY IN…WE BELONG PDX: $12,072 · Youth DevelopmentWE BELONG PD…JUBILEE HALL PDX: $7,000 · EmploymentCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF OREGON: $5,000 · Community Improvement
Other$42,500Human Services$31,500Religion$12,500Youth Development$12,072Employment$7,000Community Improvement$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY TOGETHER PAMOJA HOUSE: $14,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetWE BELONG PDX: $12,072 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetJUBILEE HALL PDX: $7,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetThrive Church Planting: $6,500 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetHOLLA SCHOOL: $6,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAFRICAN FAMILY HOLISTIC HEALTH ORGANIZATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF OREGON: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 …Marie Lamfrom Charita…Natl Christian Charit…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Oregon Community FoundationOR16.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · 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 Brilliance Labs funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brilliance Labs. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 Brilliance Labs?

Find your warmest path to Brilliance Labs 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 12 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 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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