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Cascade Heritage Foundation

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$44k
Granted FY2019
15
Grants FY2019
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
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 FY20172019.

Youth Development$15kHuman Services$11kCrime & Legal$10kPhilanthropy$7kArts & Culture$6kEmployment$1kHousing & Shelter$1kPublic Benefit$500Other$0
02FY2019 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k14 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CASA$10,000
GREATER BEND ROTARY FOUNDATION$5,300
DAWNS HOUSE$5,000
Individual grant recipient$4,000
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN$4,000
SAVING GRACE$4,000
DESCHUTES HISTORICAL SOCIETY$3,800
FAMILY ACCESS NETWORK$2,000
CAMPFIRE$1,000
UNITED WAY$1,000
HEART OF OREGON$1,000
SHAFER MUSEUM$1,000
THRIVE CENTRAL OREGON$1,000
Individual grant recipient$500
OSU FOUNDATION$101
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:

Your human-services grants (FY19–19, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SAVING GRACE: $4k → 10%FAMILY ACCESS NETWORK: $2k → 10%THRIVE CENTRAL OREGON: $1k → 10%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 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
Grace Roots

To promote the health and safety of our community by offering a continuum of services to opiate and high risk drug dependent individuals.

Health
2
Restoration House Inc

Restoration House provides save, supervised housing for men with significant behavioral health needs, creating a stable environment where structure, accountability, and wraparound services support personal growth and long-term recovery.…

Health
3
New Freedom Lane County

The mission of New Freedom Lane County is to provide housing and trauma-informed services to youth-survivors of commercial sexual exploitation in Lane County, OR. The vision of New Freedom Lane County is to promote youth empowerment and…

Health
4
Oregon Energy Systems Technology and Research
Environment
5
Youth Empowerment Shelter

To provide youth in crisis a place of physical and emotional safety while assisting them to build positive relationships and develop their individual potentials.

Youth Development
6
Carry It Forward

The name "Carry It Forward" is meant to highlight the mutual benefits ofdirect service to our unhoused neighbors. Our work is designed to reducesuffering by meeting basic human needs while developing a sustainable modelfor incorporating…

Human Services
7
Turning Point Program

It is the mission, duty and purpose of Turning Point Program to address, educate, coordinate, and provide aid and relief to persons fleeing and healing from Domestic Violence (DV) in the state of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, with…

8
Herding Dog Rescue of Central Oregon

Our mission is to help herding dogs who are abandoned, neglected and abused or simply in the wrong home into a loving appropriate home.

Animals
9
Home Share Oregon

To connect homeowners with a spare bedroom to rent and home seekers in need of affordable housing

Housing & Shelter
10
Opportunity Oregon Inc

Our mission is to find employment for justice-involved individuals through prison outreach, employer education & business development services. We partner with the Oregon department of corrections and justice-oriented organizations. We…

Crime & Legal
11
Eastern Oregon Health and Wellness Inc

Eastern oregon health & wellness provides recovery housing and outpatient services that support individuals and families impacted by substance use disorder through safe housing, trauma-informed care, and community-based support.

Health
12
Bend-Redmond Habitat for Humanity

Seeking to put God's love into action, Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. Bend-Redmond Habitat for Humanity adheres…

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Thrive Central Oregon and the most unlike its peers is Bend Sister City Foundation. 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

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CASA — $10,000 · OtherCASAGREATER BEND ROTARY FOUNDATION — $5,300 · OtherGREATER BEND ROTARY FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient — $4,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN — $4,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE CHILDRENDESCHUTES HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $3,800 · OtherDESCHUTES HISTORICAL SOCIETYJ BAR J YOUTH SERVICES INC — $2,000 · OtherJ BAR J YOUTH SERVICES INC+6 more — $5,000 · Other+6 moreDAWNS HOUSE CORPORATION LLC — $7,000 · PhilanthropyDAWNS HOUSE COR…SAVING GRACE — $4,000 · Human ServicesSAVING GRACEFamily Access Network Foundation — $2,000 · Human ServicesFamily Access N…THRIVE CENTRAL OREGON — $1,000 · Human ServicesTHRIVE CENTRAL …BEND SISTER CITY FOUNDATION — $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentHEART OF OREGON CORPS INC — $1,000 · EmploymentOregon State University Foundation — $101 · Education
Other$34,100Philanthropy$7,000Human Services$7,000Youth Development$3,000Employment$1,000Education$101

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSAVING GRACE — $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFamily Access Network Foundation — $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHEART OF OREGON CORPS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOregon State University Foundation — $101 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.

  • Who funds DAWNS HOUSE CORPORATION LLC
  • Who funds SAVING GRACE
  • Who funds BEND SISTER CITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Family Access Network Foundation
  • Who funds J BAR J YOUTH SERVICES INC
  • Who funds THRIVE CENTRAL OREGON
  • Who funds HEART OF OREGON CORPS INC
  • Who funds Oregon State University Foundation

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.

United Way of Deschutes CountyOR17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Deschutes County · The Anjulicia Foundation · The Roundhouse Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · St Charles Health System Inc · The Collins Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · Neighborimpact · Lamb Foundation · Braemar Charitable Trust · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc

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 Cascade Heritage 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 28%
  • J Bar J Youth Services Inc71% of income from government
  • Saving Grace48% of income from government
  • Heart of Oregon Corps Inc28% of income from government
  • Dawns House Corporation Llc27% of income from government
  • Thrive Central Oregon12% of income from government
  • Oregon State University Foundation0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 19 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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