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D27 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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
53
Grants FY2025still arriving
17
States reached
$750k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Public Benefit$880kArts & Culture$835kEnvironment$812kHousing & Shelter$792kHealth$547kCivil Rights$423kYouth Development$262kAnimals$260kOther$0
02FY2025 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k23 grants · $95k
  • $10k–50k28 grants · $400k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $750k
$10,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY PORTLAND METRO EAST$750,000
FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION IN$50,000
CENTER FOR HUMANE TECHNOLOGY$25,000
BRIDGEUSA GROUP$25,000
TIDELINES INSTITUTE$25,000
OREGON BALLET THEATRE$25,000
COMMON SENSE INSTITUTE$25,000
CIVICS LEARNING PROJECT$25,000
INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS$25,000
ONE TAIL AT A TIME - PDX$15,000
FOUNDATION AGAINST INTOLERANCE & RACISM INC$15,000
ADOPT ONE BLOCK$15,000
OREGON ZOO FOUNDATION$10,000
HEALING ADVOCACY FUND$10,000
SANDRA DAY OCONNOR INSTITUTE$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $360k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CUPCAKE GIRLS: $50k → 13%CUPCAKE GIRLS: $50k → 13%LARCHE NOAH SEALTH OF SEATTLE: $5k → 9%CUPCAKE GIRLS: $50k → 13%CUPCAKE GIRLS: $25k → 13%CUPCAKE GIRLS: $10k → 13%NORTHWEST BATTLE BUDDIES: $10k → 9%FREEDOM OF THE PRESS FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%FREEDOM OF THE PRESS FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%L'ARCHE INC: $10k → 14%LET GROW INC: $5k → 17%BRAVER ANGELS INC: $25k → 17%BRAVER ANGELS INC: $50k → 17%BRAVER ANGELS INC: $25k → 17%BRAVER ANGELS INC: $5k → 17%PORTLAND POLICE ASSOCIATION COVERFOUNDATION INC: $20k → 12%URBAN LEAGUE OF PORTLAND: $3k → 12%URBAN LEAGUE OF PORTLAND: $3k → 12%PORTLAND POLICE ASSOCIATION COVERFOUNDATION INC: $500 → 12%L ARCHE PORTLAND: $5k → 12%OREGON COMMUNITY WAREHOUSE INC: $3k → 12%OREGON COMMUNITY WAREHOUSE INC: $1k → 12%OREGON COMMUNITY WAREHOUSE INC: $1k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
VT
NH
WA
ID
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
PA
CA
UT
CO
VA
AZ
DC
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.5M · 89 repeat orgs$340k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

89 repeat relationships: 51 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

89
36

Total granted

$5.5M
$325k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
0%

Still filing today

93%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesAnimalsHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $360k · revenue +149%
  • CL
    Civics Learning Project
    5× · 2021–2025 · $225k · revenue +31%
  • CF
    Center for Humane Technology
    5× · 2021–2025 · $200k · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • TF
    THE FOREST PARK CONSERVANCYgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +89%
  • P
    PSFC
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue -41%
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -15%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Oregon Agricultural Trust

Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.

Environment
2
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
3
Oregon Justice Network

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…

Human Services
4
Oregon Public Broadcasting

Connecting people across oregon and the pacific northwest through the power of a shared story.

Arts & Culture
5
Oregon Restaurant and Lodging Association

Orla serves as the leading industry advocate, striving to protect, improve and promote oregon hospitality.

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6
Oregon Research Institute

Oregon research institute is an independent behavioral sciences research center dedicated to understanding human behavior and improving the quality of human life through the prevention and treatment of health, educational, and social…

Social Science
7
Portland Business Alliance

To ensure economic prosperity in the portland region by providing strong leadership, partnership, and programs that encourage business growth and vitality.

Community Improvement
8
American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon Inc

We believe that the freedoms of press, speech, assembly, and religion, and the rights to due process, equal protection and privacy, are fundamental to a free people. We advance civil liberties and civil rights by activities that include…

—
9
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
10
Portland Public Library

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…

Education
11
Rogue Climate

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 &…

Education
12
Our Oregon

Promote economic and social fairness by working in coalition open a broad range of issues and activities in the public arena

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 1000 Friends of Oregon; the most unlike its peers is Every Org. 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

117 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 117 of the 130 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
115/117
Grantees still filing
70/117
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $225,000 · Arts & CultureINTERLOCHEN CEN…OREGON BALLET THEATRE: $175,000 · Arts & CultureOREGON BALLET T…CONFLUENCES INC CONFLUENCE PROJECT: $105,000 · Arts & CultureCONFLUENCES INC…FRIENDS OF SARAH MCLACHLAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC SOCIETY INC: $95,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF SARA…PORTLAND PIANO INTERNATIONAL: $90,000 · Arts & CulturePORTLAND PIANO …OREGON JEWISH MUSEUM AND CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST EDUCATION: $35,000 · Arts & Culture+12 more: $91,500 · Arts & Culture+12 moreHABITAT FOR HUMANITY PORTLAND METRO EAST: $760,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HU…+2 more: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterTIDELINES INSTITUTE: $200,000 · EducationTIDELINES INS…THE NEWS LITERACY PROJECT INC: $135,000 · EducationTHE NEWS LITE…BridgeUSA Group: $125,000 · EducationBridgeUSA Gro…ICIVICS INC: $85,000 · EducationICIVICS INCWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 · EducationWIKIMEDIA FOU…HETERODOX ACADEMY: $45,000 · EducationHETERODOX ACA…UATX: $30,000 · Education+5 more: $32,000 · EducationCivics Learning Project: $225,000 · Crime & LegalCivics Lea…Oregon Crime Victims Law Center: $140,000 · Crime & LegalOregon Cri…Healing Advocacy Fund: $110,000 · Crime & LegalHealing Ad…Pacific Legal Foundation: $60,000 · Crime & LegalPacific Le…+1 more: $15,000 · Crime & LegalAdopt One Block: $165,000 · EnvironmentAdopt One…North Coast Land Conservancy Inc: $110,000 · EnvironmentNorth Coa…Magic Canoe: $50,000 · EnvironmentMagic Can…THE FOREST PARK CONSERVANCY: $50,000 · EnvironmentTHE FORES…1000 FRIENDS OF OREGON: $47,500 · Environment1000 FRIE…AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH STUDIES PR: $17,500 · Environment+8 more: $73,500 · Environment+8 moreFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC: $360,000 · Civil RightsCOMPASSION & CHOICES: $60,000 · Civil RightsFOUNDATION AGAINST INTOLERANCE & RACISM INC: $40,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $2,500 · Civil RightsTHE CUPCAKE GIRLS: $185,000 · Human ServicesBraver AngelsInc: $105,000 · Human ServicesPORTLAND POLICE ASSOCIATION COVER FOUNDATION: $20,500 · Human Services+8 more: $54,500 · Human ServicesCenter for Humane Technology: $200,000 · OtherCenter for Humane TechnologyPORTLAND VA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $125,000 · OtherPORTLAND VA RESEARCH FOUNDATIONONE TAIL AT A TIME - PDX: $95,000 · OtherWILD SALMON CENTER: $110,000 · OtherWILD SALMON CENTERFINAL EXIT NETWORK INC: $110,000 · OtherFINAL EXIT NETWORK INCTHE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $75,000 · OtherTAX FOUNDATION: $130,000 · OtherTAX FOUNDATIONSANDRA DAY O'CONNOR INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY: $110,000 · OtherSANDRA DAY O'CONNOR INSTITUTE FOR …WE BELONG PDX: $75,000 · OtherTRUSTLAB: $100,000 · OtherTRUSTLABECKHART TOLLE FOUNDATION: $65,000 · Other+52 more: $611,500 · Other+52 more
Arts & Culture$816,500Housing & Shelter$785,000Education$707,000Crime & Legal$550,000Environment$513,500Civil Rights$462,500Human Services$365,000Other$1,806,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY PORTLAND METRO EAST: $760,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC: $360,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetINTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $225,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCivics Learning Project: $225,000 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetCenter for Humane Technology: $200,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetTIDELINES INSTITUTE: $200,000 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetTHE CUPCAKE GIRLS: $185,000 over 5y, 6.5% of budgetOREGON BALLET THEATRE: $175,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetAdopt One Block: $165,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetOregon Crime Victims Law Center: $140,000 over 5y, 9.4% of budgetTHE NEWS LITERACY PROJECT INC: $135,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetTAX FOUNDATION: $130,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetBridgeUSA Group: $125,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetPORTLAND VA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetHealing Advocacy Fund: $110,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetNorth Coast Land Conservancy Inc: $110,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetSANDRA DAY O'CONNOR INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY: $110,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetWILD SALMON CENTER: $110,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFINAL EXIT NETWORK INC: $110,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetCONFLUENCES INC CONFLUENCE PROJECT: $105,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetBraver AngelsInc: $105,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetTRUSTLAB: $100,000 over 2y, 79% of budgetFRIENDS OF SARAH MCLACHLAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC SOCIETY INC: $95,000 over 5y, 28% of budgetONE TAIL AT A TIME - PDX: $95,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetPORTLAND PIANO INTERNATIONAL: $90,000 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetICIVICS INC: $85,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWE BELONG PDX: $75,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetTHE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetECKHART TOLLE FOUNDATION: $65,000 over 5y, 33% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation: $60,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOMPASSION & CHOICES: $60,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMagic Canoe: $50,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetUNITED CHARITABLE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE FOREST PARK CONSERVANCY: $50,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetCOMMON SENSE INSTITUTE: $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budget1000 FRIENDS OF OREGON: $47,500 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetHETERODOX ACADEMY: $45,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE OREGON ZOO FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION AGAINST INTOLERANCE & RACISM INC: $40,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetOREGON JEWISH MUSEUM AND CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST EDUCATION: $35,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetPSFC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUATX: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetElectronic Frontier Foundation Inc: $22,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPORTLAND POLICE ASSOCIATION COVER FOUNDATION: $20,500 over 2y, 23% of budgetFOOD & WATER WATCH: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNCH'I WANA HOUSING: $20,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetDOVE LEWIS EMERGENCY ANIMAL HOSPITAL INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Oregon Community …The Jackson FoundationThe Harold & Arlene S…The Collins FoundationMeyer Memorial TrustMaybelle Clark Macdon…Marie Lamfrom Charita…Juan Young TrustRose E Tucker Charita…OCF Joseph E Weston P…The Autzen FoundationOregon Jewish Communi…
The Oregon Community FoundationOR65.3× affinity53 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · The Jackson Foundation · The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Care Foundation · The Collins Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Juan Young Trust · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · Oregon Jewish Community Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization D27 Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from D27 Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 220%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Friends of Trees: 100% of income from government
  • Oregon Crime Victims Law Center: 100% of income from government
  • LArche Portland: 59% of income from government
  • Wild Salmon Center: 49% of income from government
  • The Next Door Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Bridge Meadows: 36% of income from government
  • Portland Va Research Foundation: 34% of income from government
  • Urban League of Portland Inc: 33% of income from government
  • Oregon Community Warehouse Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Xerces Society Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Oregon Food Bank: 21% of income from government
  • New Avenues for Youth Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Habitat for Humanity Portland Metro East: 14% of income from government
  • Icivics Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Cascade Aids Project: 13% of income from government
  • Oregon Historical Society: 10% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of the Columbia Willamette Inc: 7% of income from government
  • North Coast Land Conservancy Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Portland Institute for Contemporary Art: 5% of income from government
  • Solve: 5% of income from government
  • Oregon Museum of Science and Industry: 4% of income from government
  • Smart Reading: 3% of income from government
  • White Bird: 2% of income from government
  • The Oregon Community Foundation: 2% of income from government
  • The Dougy Center Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Pear: 1% of income from government
  • Portland Art Museum: 1% of income from government
  • Oregon Health & Science University Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • Caldera: 1% of income from government
  • Portland Youth Philharmonic Association: 0% of income from government
  • In a Landscape: 0% of income from government
  • Bird Alliance of Oregon Inc: 0% of income from government
  • All Classical Public Media Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Oregon Ballet Theatre: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
22get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to D27 Foundation?

Find your warmest path to D27 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 130 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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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 endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home