· Private foundation
Bruggere 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOERNBECHER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| MERCY CORPS | $4,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE | $3,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS OREGON | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| BLANCHET HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY | $2,000 |
| GIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE | $2,000 |
| CASA | $2,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF OREGON AND SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON | $2,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF PORTLAND | $2,000 |
| PROJECT LEMONADE | $2,000 |
| THE DOUGY CENTER | $2,000 |
| LUMINA HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE | $2,000 |
| OREGON CHILDRENS THEATER | $2,000 |
| UNION GOSPEL MISSION | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
20 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- MCMercy Corps4× · 2020–2024 · $8k · revenue +16%
OREGON FOOD BANK4× · 2020–2024 · $6k · revenue +7%- LHLUMINA HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE3× · 2021–2024 · $5k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- LFLOUISVILLE FILM SOCIETY INCone grant, 2020 · $9k
- LFLOUISIANA FILM SOCIETYone grant, 2021 · $4k
- OIOUTSIDE INone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
At l'arche portland people with and without developmental disabilities create home and build community together. we nurture long-term mutual relationships that reveal the gifts of people with developmental disabilities. in doing so we…
Mission: together we advance the quality of life for people with disabilities. vision: people of all abilities thrive in the world. values: impact- generate solutions that make a difference. choice - create opportunities for people to lead…
Rogue Climate's mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change including low-income, rural, youth, seniors & communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs &…
To support public policies that will help oregon's economy and create new family supporting jobs in oregon.
Orla serves as the leading industry advocate, striving to protect, improve and promote oregon hospitality.
The oregon center for public policy's mission is to achieve economic justice for all oregonians through research, analysis, and advocacy. ocpp works to change policies that foster economic security and stability for all oregonians. we do…
To provide exceptional reproductive and complementary health care services, honest education, and advocacy for all.
Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…
We partner with our community to make good health possible for all. wallace serves individuals and families who face barriers to care throughout the east multnomah county in the portland metropolitan area.
To ensure economic prosperity in the portland region by providing strong leadership, partnership, and programs that encourage business growth and vitality.
To provide patient-centered, quality-driven, whole-person healthcare services, accessible to everyone in our community.
Support significant improvements in health care delivery and outcomes within the context of nonprofit, charitable ownership.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters Columbia Northw and the most unlike its peers is Louisville Film Society Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
22 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. 22 of the 37 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 LOUISVILLE FILM SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS COLUMBIA NORTHW ↗
- Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds LUMINA HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE ↗
- Who funds TRILLIUM FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE MEADOWS ↗
- Who funds PROJECT LEMONADE INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOUGY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Special Olympics Oregon Inc ↗
- Who funds Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE INC ↗
- Who funds BLANCHET HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY ↗
- Who funds GIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF OREGON AND SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PORTLAND METROPOLITAN AREA ↗
- Who funds World Pulse Voices ↗
- Who funds OREGON ENERGY FUND ↗
- Who funds Proud Ground ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds WILSONVILLE COMMUNITY SHARING ↗
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: OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Oregon Community Foundation · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · Meyer Memorial Trust · Juan Young Trust · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · The Robert D and Marcia H Randall Charitable Trust · The Jackson Foundation · Onpoint Community Credit Union · The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Care Foundation · The Reser Family 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 Bruggere 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.
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Bridge Meadows — 36% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- Project Lemonade Inc — 15% of income from government
- Proud Ground — 11% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of the Columbia Willamette Inc — 7% of income from government
- Trillium Family Services — 2% of income from government
- The Dougy Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Global Empowerment Mission Inc — 0% 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.