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Bruce and Mary Stevenson Foundation Inc at a glance

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Bruce and Mary Stevenson Foundation Inc

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.

$197k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$1.7MArts & Culture$645kHealth$205kHuman Services$151kPhilanthropy$105kFood & Nutrition$66kCrime & Legal$61kAnimals$49kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $17k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $180k
$8,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MARYHILL MUSEUM OF ART$80,000
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$50,000
PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$50,000
PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION$8,000
SKYLINE FOUNDATION$5,000
SKYLINE FOUNDATION$2,000
WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION$1,000
FREEDOM FOUNDATION$1,000
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, $113k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%ELIZABETH STONE HOUSE: $1k → 16%WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION: $10k → 8%WASHINGTON GOREGE ACTION PROGRAM: $10k → 10%WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION: $10k → 8%WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION: $10k → 8%WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION: $5k → 8%ELIZABETH STONE HOUSE: $1k → 16%HOOD RIVER VALLEY ADULT CENTER: $10k → 10%WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION: $5k → 8%WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION: $1k → 8%FRIENDLY HOUSE: $10k → 12%FRIENDLY HOUSE: $10k → 12%FRIENDLY HOUSE: $10k → 12%FRIENDLY HOUSE: $10k → 12%FRIENDLY HOUSE: $10k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
WA
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
CA
MD
DC
GA
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 45 repeat orgs$473k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +91% since the first grant, against -7% for those funded once.

45 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
55

Total granted

$2.5M
$473k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+91%
-7%

Still filing today

58%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureAnimalsCrime & LegalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • MARYHILL MUSEUM OF ART
    5× · 2020–2025 · $460k · revenue +147%
  • PU
    PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2025 · $100k · revenue +112%
  • WS
    WHITE SALMON VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $62k · revenue +110%

Funded once

  • MM
    MARYHILL MUSEUM
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • MM
    MARYHILL MUSEUM ENDOWMENT FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • HR
    HOOD RIVER COUNTY LIBRARY FDTN
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -29%
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
Oregon Agricultural Trust

Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.

Environment
2
University Cooperative School

We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.

—
3
Portland State University Foundation

Portland state university foundation is responsible for raising and managing private resources to advance psu's priorities and mission to be a leading urban university.

—
4
Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences

Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences educates and trains health care professionals emphasizing service among rural and medically under-served communities throughout the Northwest.

Education
5
Portland Business Alliance

To ensure economic prosperity in the portland region by providing strong leadership, partnership, and programs that encourage business growth and vitality.

Community Improvement
6
Museum of Northwest Art

The museum of northwest art collects, preserves, interprets and exhibits art created in the pacific northwest, supports artists, and strives to integrate art into the lives of all people. the museum is free and open to the public seven…

Arts & Culture
7
Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council

The Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council is a local nonprofit organization that strives to enhance and restore habitat for fish and wildlife our community and for future generations. Our Board of Directors consists of seven members with…

Environment
8
Fsc I&P

Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…

Philanthropy
9
Seattle University

Seattle University is dedicated to educating the whole person, to professional formation, and to empowering leaders for a just and humane world.

—
10
Friends of the Columbia Gorge

Ensuring the gorge remains a vibrant, living place wondrous, wild, and accessible for all is at the core of what we do. friends of the columbia gorge works to protect, preserve, and steward the columbia gorge for future generations.

—
11
Senior Life Resources Northwest

To preserve and enhance the quality of life at home, with dignity and care.

Human Services
12
Oregon Research Institute

Oregon research institute is an independent behavioral sciences research center dedicated to understanding human behavior and improving the quality of human life through the prevention and treatment of health, educational, and social…

Social Science
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Islandwood; the most unlike its peers is Stonehouse 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

41 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. 41 of the 102 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/41
Grantees still filing
29/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BILLINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL: $943,200 · OtherBILLINGS MIDDLE SCHOOLSKYLINE FOUNDATION: $87,500 · Other+72 more: $884,535 · Other+72 moreHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $300,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGEPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · EducationPRAGER UNIVERSITY …WHITE SALMON VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $62,250 · EducationWHITE SALMON VALLE…HOOD RIVER COUNTY LIBRARY FDTN: $25,000 · Education+5 more: $44,500 · Education+5 moreMARYHILL MUSEUM OF ART: $460,000 · Arts & CultureMARYHILL MUSEUM OF…PERFORMING ARTS INITIATIVE: $40,000 · Arts & CulturePERFORMING ARTS IN…+3 more: $14,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesWARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC: $41,000 · Human ServicesWASHINGTON GORGE ACTION PROGRAMS: $10,000 · Human ServicesUnited Help Ukraine Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesHOOD RIVER SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesPacific Legal Foundation: $43,000 · Crime & LegalTHE NEXT DOOR INC: $20,000 · Crime & LegalWOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $16,000 · AnimalsTHE OREGON ZOO FOUNDATION: $15,000 · AnimalsOREGON HUMANE SOCIETY: $6,000 · AnimalsTHE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY: $5,000 · AnimalsUNITED WAY OF THE COLUMBIA GORGE: $20,000 · PhilanthropyFISH: $20,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,915,235Education$531,750Arts & Culture$514,000Human Services$123,000Crime & Legal$63,000Animals$42,000Philanthropy$40,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBILLINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL: $943,200 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetMARYHILL MUSEUM OF ART: $460,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $300,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSKYLINE FOUNDATION: $87,500 over 6y, 12% of budgetWHITE SALMON VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $62,250 over 3y, 21% of budgetEDISON HIGH SCHOOL: $54,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation: $43,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC: $41,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetPERFORMING ARTS INITIATIVE: $40,000 over 4y, 34% of budgetHOOD RIVER COUNTY LIBRARY FDTN: $25,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetTAKE THE LEAD INC: $24,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE NEXT DOOR INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE COLUMBIA GORGE: $20,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetFISH: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $16,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OREGON ZOO FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHORIZON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $12,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBALLARD FOOD BANK: $11,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMaris Place: $11,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetDance Fremont: $10,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetFORT VANCOUVER REGIONAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWASHINGTON GORGE ACTION PROGRAMS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUnited Help Ukraine Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOOD RIVER SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLITERACY SOURCE A COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER: $7,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLIFEWORKS NW: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON HUMANE SOCIETY: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISLANDWOOD: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBIA ARTS: $3,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSTONEHOUSE INC: $3,000 over 3y, 46% of budgetROXBURY STONE HOUSE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPORTLAND BAROQUE ORCHESTRA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFREEDOM FROM RELIGION FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBIA LAND TRUST: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds BILLINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds MARYHILL MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SKYLINE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WHITE SALMON VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EDISON HIGH SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDLY HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds Pacific Legal Foundation ↗
  • Who funds WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC ↗
  • Who funds PERFORMING ARTS INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds HOOD RIVER COUNTY LIBRARY FDTN ↗
  • Who funds Black Mamas Matter Alliance Inc ↗
  • Who funds TAKE THE LEAD INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NEXT DOOR INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE COLUMBIA GORGE ↗
  • Who funds FISH ↗
  • Who funds WOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds THE OREGON ZOO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HORIZON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds BALLARD FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds Maris Place ↗

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.

Stevenson Campbell Fo…Greenfish FoundationThe Oregon Community …Meyer Memorial TrustThe Swigert FoundationMarie Lamfrom Charita…Rose E Tucker Charita…Juan Young TrustThe Autzen FoundationM J Murdock Charitabl…Gorge Community Found…The Firstenburg Found…
Stevenson Campbell FoundationWA22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Stevenson Campbell Foundation · Greenfish Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Swigert Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · Juan Young Trust · The Autzen Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Gorge Community Foundation · The Firstenburg 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 Bruce and Mary Stevenson Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bruce and Mary Stevenson Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • The Next Door Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Roxbury Stone House Inc: 29% of income from government
  • Columbia Arts: 8% of income from government
  • Lifeworks Nw: 8% of income from government
  • Warrior Canine Connection Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Friendly House Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Portland Baroque Orchestra: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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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Find your warmest path to Bruce and Mary Stevenson Foundation Inc 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 102 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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