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Bruce and Susan Kilgore Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$634k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$209k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Food & Nutrition$834kEnvironment$340kHousing & Shelter$111kArts & Culture$25kHealth$15kReligion$15kInternational$13kRecreation & Sports$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $559k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLAY STREET TABLE$209,347
WILLAMETTE RIVER PRESERVATION TRUST$200,000
OREGON FOOD BANK INC$150,000
WILLAMETTE RIVERKEEPER$20,000
OCEAN CONSERVANCY INC$10,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY - OREGON CHAPTER$10,000
COLUMBIA RIVERKEEPER$10,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY PORTLAND METRO EAST$10,000
BIRD ALLIANCE OF OREGON INC$5,000
HEIFER INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION$5,000
FRIENDS OF TRYON CREEK PARK$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%RE-VOLV: $10k → 10%PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $10k → 17%HEIFER INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%LAKE OSWEGO MEAL NETWORK ADVISORY BOARD: $5k → 8%COLUMBIA RIVERKEEPER: $10k → 10%THE STREET TRUST COMMUNITY FUND: $2k → 12%WILLAMETTE RIVERKEEPER: $20k → 15%TULALIP FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%RE-VOLV: $1k → 10%PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $5k → 17%FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $3k → 14%WILLAMETTE RIVER PRESERVATION TRUST: $200k → 8%COLUMBIA RIVERKEEPER: $10k → 10%OREGON FOOD BANK INC: $150k → 12%OCEAN CONSERVANCY INC: $10k → 14%NORTHWEST HOUSING ALTERNATIVES INC: $40k → 8%COLUMBIA RIVERKEEPER: $2k → 10%OREGON FOOD BANK INC: $150k → 12%OCEAN CONSERVANCY INC: $5k → 14%OREGON FOOD BANK INC: $150k → 12%OCEAN CONSERVANCY INC: $1k → 14%OREGON FOOD BANK INC: $25k → 12%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY PORTLAND METRO EAST: $10k → 12%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY PORTLAND METRO EAST: $10k → 12%FUND FOR PORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $4k → 12%BIRD ALLIANCE OF OREGON INC: $5k → 12%PORTLAND AUDUBON SOCIETY: $2k → 12%PORTLAND AUDUBON SOCIETY: $2k → 12%WILLAMETTE RIVERKEEPER: $10k → 12%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY - OREGON CHAPTER: $10k → 12%WILLAMETTE RIVERKEEPER: $10k → 12%COLUMBIA RIVERKEEPER: $10k → 12%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY - OREGON CHAPTER: $5k → 12%WILLAMETTE RIVERKEEPER: $5k → 12%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY - OREGON CHAPTER: $5k → 12%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY - OREGON CHAPTER: $2k → 12%WILLAMETTE RIVERKEEPER: $2k → 12%ST STEPHENS EPISCOPAL PARISH: $10k → 12%ST STEPHENS EPISCOPAL PARISH: $5k → 12%FRIENDS OF TRYON CREEK PARK: $5k → 12%FRIENDS OF TRYON CREEK PARK: $2k → 12%FRIENDS OF TRYON CREEK PARK: $2k → 12%CLAY STREET TABLE: $209k → 12%CLAY STREET TABLE: $75k → 12%CLAY STREET TABLE: $65k → 12%CLAY STREET TABLE: $5k → 12%COMMUNITY PARTNERS FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING: $25k → 12%HUMAN SOLUTIONS INC: $25k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.0M · 13 repeat orgs$337k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
9

Total granted

$1.0M
$132k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+17%

Still filing today

85%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $205k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentHousing & ShelterInternationalCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther

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

  • CS
    Clay Street Table
    3× · 2022–2024 · $354k · revenue +110% · 56% of their budget
  • WR
    WILLAMETTE RIVERKEEPER
    5× · 2020–2024 · $47k · revenue +47%
  • CR
    Columbia Riverkeeper
    4× · 2020–2024 · $32k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • NORTHWEST HOUSING ALTERNATIVES
    one grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +16%
  • HS
    HUMAN SOLUTIONS INC DBA OUR JUST FUTURE
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue 0%
  • CP
    Community Partners For Affordable Housinggraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +109%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Washington Water Trust

Wwt's mission is to protect and restore water in rivers and streams across washington state. washington water trust restores and protects water in rivers and streams and promotes sustainable freshwater management in washington, and, more…

Environment
2
Portland Trails

Over the next five years, portland trails will work to transform greater portland into a regional hub of connectivity and sustainability. by facilitating the expansion and enhancement of our trail network, we will foster inclusive…

Environment
3
Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment
4
Western Rivers Conservancy

Western rivers conservancy's mission is to protect outstanding river ecosystems in the western united states. continued on schedule o.we acquire land to conserve critical habitat, provide public access for compatible use and enjoyment, and…

Environment
5
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
6
350PDX

Building a diverse grassroots movement to address the causes of climate disruption through justice-based solutions by inspiring, training and mobilizing people to act.

Environment
7
Oregon Environmental Council

Oregon environmental council champions equitable, innovative, and collaborative solutions to oregons environmental challenges for today and future generations.

Environment
8
Washington Coast Sustainable Salmon Foundation

The foundation board is comprised of members with diverse backgrounds and expertise who devote their shared commitment and passion to collectively support protection and restoration of the washington coast region salmon by providing…

Animals
9
Wild Salmon Rivers

To conserve functioning salmon/steelhead eco-system at watershed levels, integrate angling activities with basic scientific research, collect raw data, monitor environmental functions, salmon/steelhead population dynamics, public…

Environment
10
Wood River Land Trust Co

The wood river land trust's mission is to protect and sustain the treasured landscapes and life-giving waters of the wood river valley and to inspire love for this special place for generations to come.

Environment
11
Earth Day Oregon
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12
Oregon Tilth Inc

Oregon tilth is a leading nonprofit certifier, educator and advocate for sustainable organic agriculture and products since 1974. the organizations mission to make the food system and agriculture biologically sound and socially equitable…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oregon Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is Clay Street Table. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%9%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr18%32%20–35yr14%32%35–55yr15%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%41%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%3%10–20yr18%12%20–35yr14%42%35–55yr15%3%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 41% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/22
the rest of the field
12%
2,951/23,895

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 24 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
16/21
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

OREGON FOOD BANK — $475,000 · OtherOREGON FOOD BANKTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY - OREGON CHAPTER — $22,000 · Other+8 more — $58,000 · Other+8 moreClay Street Table — $354,347 · Food & NutritionClay Street TableWILLAMETTE RIVER PRESERVATION TRUST — $200,000 · EnvironmentWILLAMETTE RIVER PRESERVA…WILLAMETTE RIVERKEEPER — $47,000 · EnvironmentWILLAMETTE RIVERKEEPERColumbia Riverkeeper — $32,000 · EnvironmentColumbia RiverkeeperOCEAN CONSERVANCY — $16,100 · EnvironmentRE-VOLV — $11,000 · Environment+2 more — $9,300 · EnvironmentNORTHWEST HOUSING ALTERNATIVES — $40,000 · Housing & ShelterCommunity Partners For Affordable Housing — $25,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY PORTLAND METRO EAST — $21,000 · Housing & ShelterHUMAN SOLUTIONS INC DBA OUR JUST FUTURE — $25,000 · Community ImprovementTULALIP FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Arts & CulturePLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $15,000 · Health
Other$555,000Food & Nutrition$354,347Environment$315,400Housing & Shelter$86,000Community Improvement$25,000Arts & Culture$25,000Health$15,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetOREGON FOOD BANK — $475,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetClay Street Table — $354,347 over 3y, 56% of budgetWILLAMETTE RIVER PRESERVATION TRUST — $200,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetWILLAMETTE RIVERKEEPER — $47,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetNORTHWEST HOUSING ALTERNATIVES — $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetColumbia Riverkeeper — $32,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHUMAN SOLUTIONS INC DBA OUR JUST FUTURE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Partners For Affordable Housing — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTULALIP FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY PORTLAND METRO EAST — $21,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY — $16,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STREET TRUST COMMUNITY FUND — $12,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetRE-VOLV — $11,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetFriends of Tryon Creek — $9,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBIRD ALLIANCE OF OREGON INC — $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHEIFER INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLake Oswego Meal Network Advisory Board — $5,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetFUND FOR PORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Meyer Memorial TrustThe Oregon Community …The Collins FoundationMarie Lamfrom Charita…The Jackson FoundationMaybelle Clark Macdon…OCF Joseph E Weston P…United Way of the Col…Juan Young TrustSeattle FoundationClark FoundationThe Larson Legacy
Meyer Memorial TrustOR25.6× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Meyer Memorial Trust · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Collins Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Jackson Foundation · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · United Way of the Columbia-Willamette · Juan Young Trust · Seattle Foundation · Clark Foundation · The Larson Legacy

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 Bruce and Susan Kilgore 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Willamette Riverkeeper — 42% of income from government
  • Community Partners for Affordable Housing — 22% of income from government
  • Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
  • Human Solutions Inc Dba Our Just Future — 17% of income from government
  • Habitat for Humanity Portland Metro East — 14% of income from government
  • The Street Trust Community Fund — 6% of income from government
  • Northwest Housing Alternatives — 1% of income from government
  • Columbia Riverkeeper — 1% of income from government
  • Bird Alliance of Oregon Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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