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Cascadia 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $69k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OREGON BALLET THEATRE | $30,000 |
| OREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| PORTLAND ART MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET | $10,000 |
| ALL CLASSICAL PUBLIC MEDIA INC | $7,000 |
| OREGON FOOD BANK INC | $6,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE | $5,000 |
| LINN BENTON FOOD SHARE | $5,000 |
| A CONTEMPORARY THEATRE | $5,000 |
| OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING | $3,000 |
| BALLARD FOOD BANK | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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.
27 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
OREGON BALLET THEATRE8× · 2017–2024 · $161k · revenue +31%
PORTLAND ART MUSEUM8× · 2017–2024 · $81k · revenue +3%
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2023 · $43k · revenue +102%
Funded once
- ACAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $6k
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.
Pbo creates transformative experiences for musicians and listeners who share in the exploration and celebration of historically inspired music. the professional orchestra presents world-class performances on period instruments for up to…
To present symphonic music of the highest quality in a distinctive way for the cultural enrichment, education, engagement and enjoyment of the people of our community.
The oregon shakespeare festival creates world-class theater, revealing our collective humanity through illuminating interpretations of new and classic plays, and inspiring a love of our art form for current and future generations.
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.
Enriching lives through the power of music, presenting a diverse range of orchestral repertoire at the highest level of artistic excellence, and providing musical education opportunities for children and adults.
Portland Public Library is a welcoming cultural center that brings people together and connects them with trusted resources, ideas, experiences, and information. We build a stronger community by inspiring learning, creativity, and…
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
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…
Pacific science center (pacsci) ignites curiosity in every child and fuels a passion for discovery, experimentation, and critical thinking in all of us.
As directed by oregon voters in 1984, the oregon citizens' utility board (cub) represents the interests of oregon's residential utility customers before administrative, judicial, and legislative bodies. cub works at the intersection of…
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…
Greater portland landmarks uses portland's heritage - its buildings, places, culture, and stories - as a catalyst for connection, affordability, and resilience. we engage the community to learn from its history, preserve special places,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oregon Historical Society and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Timberline. 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 52 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
25 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. 25 of the 28 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 OREGON BALLET THEATRE ↗
- Who funds OREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds LINN BENTON FOOD SHARE ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Columbia Gorge ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE INC ↗
- Who funds ALL CLASSICAL PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds A CONTEMPORARY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HIGH DESERT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Oregon State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds SMART READING ↗
- Who funds BALLARD FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CHAMBER MUSIC NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF TIMBERLINE ↗
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: The Oregon Community Foundation · The Jackson Foundation · The Collins Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Care Foundation · Ronald W Naito Md Foundation · The Reser Family Foundation · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · Juan Young Trust · Meyer Memorial Trust · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust
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 Cascadia 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.
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- High Desert Museum — 11% of income from government
- Oregon Historical Society — 10% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of the Columbia Willamette Inc — 7% of income from government
- Community Outreach Inc — 7% of income from government
- Smart Reading — 3% of income from government
- Chamber Music Northwest — 3% of income from government
- Portland Art Museum — 1% of income from government
- Oregon Public Broadcasting — 1% of income from government
- All Classical Public Media Inc — 0% of income from government
- Oregon Ballet Theatre — 0% of income from government
- Oregon Symphony Association — 0% of income from government
- Oregon State University Foundation — 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.
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