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Clark Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
114
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$4.9MArts & Culture$1.6MHealth$1.1MHuman Services$1.1MAnimals$813kReligion$783kFood & Nutrition$773kYouth Development$438kOther$0
02FY2024 · 114 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k48 grants · $142k
  • $10k–50k59 grants · $1.0M
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $500k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST MARY'S ACADEMY$150,000
PROVIDENCE ST VINCENT MEDICAL FOUND$100,000
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIV FOUNDA$50,000
OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$50,000
DRESS FOR SUCCESS$50,000
ST ANDREWS NATIVITY SCHOOL$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND$50,000
PORTLAND ART MUSEUM$40,000
DE LA SALLE NORTH CATHOLIC HIGH$34,200
OUR JUST FUTURE$30,000
BLANCHET HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY$25,000
OREGON COAST AQUARIUM$25,000
MEALS ON WHEELS$25,000
LIVING DESERET$25,000
MUSIC WORKSHOP$25,000
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:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $815k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YOUTH VILLAGES OREGON: $10k → 8%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER PORTLA: $10k → 8%YOUTH VILLAGES OREGON: $5k → 8%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER PORTLA: $10k → 8%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER PORTLA: $10k → 8%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER PORTLA: $10k → 8%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $20k → 8%YWCA OF GREATER PORTLAND: $30k → 12%ADELANTE MUJERES: $10k → 8%YWCA OF GREATER PORTLAND: $25k → 12%ADELANTE MUJERES: $10k → 8%YWCA OF GREATER PORTLAND: $25k → 12%ADELANTE MUJERES: $10k → 8%ADELANTE MUJERES: $5k → 8%FRIENDLY HOUSE: $10k → 12%FRIENDLY HOUSE: $10k → 12%FRIENDLY HOUSE: $10k → 12%FRIENDLY HOUSE: $10k → 12%FRIENDLY HOUSE: $10k → 12%FRIENDLY HOUSE: $10k → 12%FRIENDLY HOUSE: $10k → 12%IMPACT NW: $20k → 12%IMPACT NW: $15k → 12%IMPACT NW: $15k → 12%LINNTON COMMUNITY CENTER: $20k → 12%LINNTON COMMUNITY CENTER: $20k → 12%LINNTON COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 12%LINNTON COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 12%PEACE IN SCHOOLS: $10k → 12%PEACE IN SCHOOLS: $10k → 12%STORE TO DOOR: $15k → 12%STORE TO DOOR: $15k → 12%STORE TO DOOR: $15k → 12%STORE TO DOOR: $10k → 12%STORE TO DOOR: $10k → 12%STORE TO DOOR: $10k → 12%STORE TO DOOR: $10k → 12%DRESS FOR SUCCESS: $50k → 12%DRESS FOR SUCCESS: $25k → 12%DRESS FOR SUCCESS: $25k → 12%DRESS FOR SUCCESS: $25k → 12%DRESS FOR SUCCESS: $25k → 12%JANUS YOUTH PROGRAMS: $7k → 12%YWCA OF GREATER PORTLAND: $30k → 12%YWCA OF GREATER PORTLAND: $30k → 12%YWCA OF GREATER PORTLAND: $25k → 12%YWCA OF GREATER PORTLAND: $25k → 12%YWCA OF GREATER PORTLAND: $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.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
MI
NY
OR
IN
PA
CA
CO
VA
DC

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$13M · 131 repeat orgs$480k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.

131 repeat relationships — 78 still active in FY2024, 53 since wound down; 36 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

131
45

Total granted

$13M
$305k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+2%

Still filing today

62%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • EH
    EDISON HIGH SCHOOL
    6× · 2017–2023 · $510k · revenue +28%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND
    8× · 2017–2024 · $490k · revenue +7%
  • Oregon State University Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · $400k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • Friends of Hopewell House dba Hopewell Housegraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +170%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +86%

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
Trillium Family Services

Building brighter futures with children and families.

Housing & Shelter
2
Our Children Oregon

Our children oregon's mission is to be a voice and force for the common good for all oregon children, ensuring all children have the resources and opportunities they need to reach their full potential. we elevate data and the voices of…

Philanthropy
3
Family and Community Together

Fact oregon empowers families, youth, and communities to navigate disability systems, advocating together for disability justice and policy change so that people with disabilities have what they need to thrive at home, in school, and in…

Human Services
4
Urban League of Portland Inc

To help empower african americans and others achieve equality in education, employment, and economic security.

Human Services
5
Oregon Public Health Association

Advocate for policies that protect and promote healthy and health equity for all people in oregon and provide learning, collaboration and leadership opportunities for public health professionals and the broader community.

Health
6
Oregon Center for Public Policy

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…

Employment
7
Jubilee Hall Pdx
Employment
8
The Campbell Institute

Children's institute's mission is to leverage research, practice, policy, and advocacy to shift systems toward justice for families so that all of oregon's children, prenatal to grade 5, have access to opportunity.

Unclassified
9
Careoregon Inc

To inspire and partner to create quality and equity in individual and community health.

Health
10
Portland Community Media

Open signal's mission is to nurture the change-making power of community media in service of a just and equitable world.

Arts & Culture
11
Friends of the Children-Portland

Friends - portland commits to standing alongside our community's youth as they work to overcome barriers to their success. each child receives 1:1 support and guidance from a salaried, professional mentor (called a friend), from…

Youth Development
12
Earth Day Oregon
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lifeworks Nw and the most unlike its peers is Linton Community Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCultural Heritage Organizat…Community Mental Health & R…Disability Employment & Lif…Alternative Elementary Scho…Affordable Housing OperatorsProfessional Trade Associat…Labor Union OrganizationsFaith-Based Spiritual Devel…Companion Animal Rescue and…Pacific Northwest Conservat…Black Community Advocacy & …River & Maritime Industry A…Theater & Performance Arts
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%3%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr19%30%20–35yr11%24%35–55yr14%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr19%17%20–35yr11%28%35–55yr14%47%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/141
the rest of the field
13%
1,280/10,206

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

130 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. 130 of the 212 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
31
Early backer (in before they grew)
128/130
Grantees still filing
96/130
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DE LA SALLE NORTH CATHOLIC HIGH — $782,550 · OtherDE LA SALLE NORTH CATHOLIC HIGHST MARYS ACADEMY — $574,000 · OtherST MARYS ACADEMYEDISON HIGH SCHOOL — $510,000 · OtherEDISON HIGH SCHOOLST THOMAS MORE SCHOOL — $500,000 · OtherST THOMAS MORE SCHOOLJESUIT HIGH SCHOOL — $500,000 · OtherJESUIT HIGH SCHOOL+127 more — $5,900,575 · Other+127 moreOREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING — $200,000 · Arts & CultureOREGON PU…PORTLAND ART MUSEUM — $185,000 · Arts & CulturePORTLAND …OREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $142,000 · Arts & CultureOREGON SY…Music Workshop — $116,000 · Arts & CultureMusic Wor…OREGON BALLET THEATRE — $100,000 · Arts & CultureOREGON BA…OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $80,000 · Arts & CultureOREGON HI…COASTER THEATRE PRODUCTIONS — $80,000 · Arts & CultureCOASTER T…BEAVERTON ARTS FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 · Arts & CulturePORTLAND CENTER STAGE — $40,000 · Arts & Culture+11 more — $144,500 · Arts & Culture+11 moreUNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND — $490,000 · EducationOregon State University Foundation — $400,000 · EducationSMART READING — $60,000 · EducationTHE PARK ACADEMY — $50,000 · Education+4 more — $16,000 · EducationYWCA OF GREATER PORTLAND — $215,000 · Human ServicesDress for Success Oregon — $150,000 · Human ServicesSTORE TO DOOR — $90,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDLY HOUSE INC — $70,000 · Human ServicesIMPACT NW — $65,000 · Human ServicesLinton Community Center — $55,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT LEMONADE INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER PORTLAND — $40,000 · Human ServicesADELANTE MUJERES — $35,000 · Human ServicesRAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND — $30,000 · Human Services+8 more — $87,500 · Human ServicesTHE OREGON ZOO FOUNDATION — $360,000 · AnimalsDOVE LEWIS EMERGENCY ANIMAL HOSPITAL INC — $175,000 · AnimalsOREGON HUMANE SOCIETY — $150,000 · AnimalsOREGON COAST AQUARIUM INC — $125,000 · AnimalsPROVIDENCE ST VINCENT MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $300,000 · HealthLIFEWORKS NW — $70,000 · HealthSt Charles Foundation Inc — $50,000 · HealthFORA HEALTH INC — $35,000 · Health+9 more — $72,500 · HealthGIRL SCOUTS OF OREGON & SW WASHINGTON INC — $200,000 · Youth DevelopmentFull Circle Programs — $117,000 · Youth DevelopmentPortland YouthBuilders — $32,500 · Youth DevelopmentGirls Inc of the Pacific Northwest — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN — $15,000 · Youth Development
Other$8,767,125Arts & Culture$1,127,500Education$1,016,000Human Services$887,500Animals$810,000Health$527,500Youth Development$384,500

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetEDISON HIGH SCHOOL — $510,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND — $490,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetOregon State University Foundation — $400,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OREGON ZOO FOUNDATION — $360,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetPROVIDENCE ST VINCENT MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $300,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetOREGON FOOD BANK — $255,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL — $230,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetYWCA OF GREATER PORTLAND — $215,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF OREGON & SW WASHINGTON INC — $200,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetOREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING — $200,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPORTLAND ART MUSEUM — $185,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetHUMAN SOLUTIONS INC DBA OUR JUST FUTURE — $180,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetDOVE LEWIS EMERGENCY ANIMAL HOSPITAL INC — $175,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetST ANDREW LEGAL CLINIC — $170,300 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetLIVING DESERT THE — $160,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC — $160,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetOREGON HUMANE SOCIETY — $150,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetDress for Success Oregon — $150,000 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetOREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $142,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF ZENGER FARM — $135,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetOREGON COAST AQUARIUM INC — $125,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetFull Circle Programs — $117,000 over 7y, 24% of budgetMusic Workshop — $116,000 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetOREGON BALLET THEATRE — $100,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetSTORE TO DOOR — $90,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetEMANUEL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $90,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetTUCKER MAXON SCHOOL — $80,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetOREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $80,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCOASTER THEATRE PRODUCTIONS — $80,000 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetUKANDU — $70,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetFRIENDLY HOUSE INC — $70,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetLIFEWORKS NW — $70,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Broadcasting Northwest Inc dba Mater Dei Radio — $65,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetCASA FOR CHILDREN INC — $65,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetIMPACT NW — $65,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF OREGON AND SW WASHINGTON INC — $60,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetSMART READING — $60,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetLA PINE COMMUNITY KITCHEN — $55,000 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetURBAN GLEANERS — $55,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLinton Community Center — $55,000 over 4y, 6.4% of budgetBLANCHET HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY — $55,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSt Charles Foundation Inc — $50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE PARK ACADEMY — $50,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetPROJECT LEMONADE INC — $50,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetPORTLAND TENNIS & EDUCATION — $50,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetNORTHWEST HOUSING ALTERNATIVES — $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHEART OF OREGON CORPS INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER PORTLAND — $40,000 over 4y, 1.8% 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 EDISON HIGH SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND ↗
  • Who funds Oregon State University Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE OREGON ZOO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PROVIDENCE ST VINCENT MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds YWCA OF GREATER PORTLAND ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF OREGON & SW WASHINGTON INC ↗
  • Who funds OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING ↗
  • Who funds PORTLAND ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds HUMAN SOLUTIONS INC DBA OUR JUST FUTURE ↗
  • Who funds DOVE LEWIS EMERGENCY ANIMAL HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds ST ANDREW LEGAL CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds LIVING DESERT THE ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC ↗
  • Who funds OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Dress for Success Oregon ↗
  • Who funds OREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF ZENGER FARM ↗
  • Who funds OREGON COAST AQUARIUM INC ↗
  • Who funds Full Circle Programs ↗
  • Who funds Music Workshop ↗
  • Who funds OREGON BALLET THEATRE ↗

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.

OCF Joseph E Weston P…Marie Lamfrom Charita…Juan Young TrustMaybelle Clark Macdon…The Autzen FoundationThe Oregon Community …The Jackson FoundationThe Reser Family Foun…Hillman Family Founda…The Collins FoundationThe Harold & Arlene S…Rose E Tucker Charita…
OCF Joseph E Weston Public FoundationOR135.6× affinity70 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Juan Young Trust · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · The Autzen Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Jackson Foundation · The Reser Family Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · The Collins Foundation · The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Care Foundation · Rose E Tucker Charitable 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 Clark 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 · 410%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Morrison Child and Family Services — 91% of income from government
  • Community Action Organization — 67% of income from government
  • Janus Youth Programs Inc — 46% of income from government
  • Kindred Partners — 42% of income from government
  • Portland YouthBuilders — 35% of income from government
  • Clackamas Women's Services — 33% of income from government
  • Portland Street Medicine — 32% of income from government
  • Adelante Mujeres — 31% of income from government
  • Partners for a Hunger Free Oregon — 31% of income from government
  • Transition Projects Inc — 29% of income from government
  • Heart of Oregon Corps Inc — 28% of income from government
  • Friends of Zenger Farm — 28% of income from government
  • Oregon Coast Aquarium Inc — 24% 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
  • Project Lemonade Inc — 15% of income from government
  • Ywca of Greater Portland — 15% of income from government
  • Medical Teams International — 14% of income from government
  • Cascade Aids Project — 13% of income from government
  • High Desert Museum — 11% of income from government
  • My Voice Music Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Oregon Historical Society — 10% of income from government
  • Raphael House of Portland — 10% of income from government
  • Music Workshop — 10% of income from government
  • Hollywood Senior Center dba Community for Positive Aging — 9% of income from government
  • Lifeworks Nw — 8% of income from government
  • Impact Nw — 8% of income from government
  • The Shadow Project — 8% of income from government
  • Community Transitional School — 7% of income from government
  • Girl Scouts of Oregon & Sw Washington Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Girls Inc of the Pacific Northwest — 4% of income from government
  • The Boys & Girls Aid Society of Oregon — 3% of income from government
  • Smart Reading — 3% of income from government
  • Chamber Music Northwest — 3% of income from government
  • Friendly House Inc — 3% of income from government
  • St Andrew Legal Clinic — 2% of income from government
  • Casa for Children Inc — 2% of income from government
  • High Desert Chamber Music Inc — 1% of income from government
  • University of Portland — 1% of income from government
  • Sarah Bellums Bakery & Workshop — 1% of income from government
  • Northwest Housing Alternatives — 1% of income from government
  • Portland Art Museum — 1% of income from government
  • Portland Center Stage — 1% of income from government
  • Broadway Rose Theatre Co — 1% of income from government
  • Oregon Public Broadcasting — 1% of income from government
  • Portland Jazz Festival Incorporated — 0% of income from government
  • William Temple House — 0% of income from government
  • Bird Alliance of Oregon Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Beaverton Arts Foundation 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
41get no government money at all
24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Clark Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Clark Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 212 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines