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Dale W and Elizabeth G Bargsten Charitable Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$120k
Granted FY2023
11
Grants FY2023
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
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 2023.

Human Services$53kEnvironment$50kEducation$15kHousing & Shelter$4kReligion$3kHealth$1kAnimals$500Recreation & Sports$500
02FY2023 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k7 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$2,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ABC HOUSE$50,158
GREENBELT LAND TRUST$25,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY$25,000
EAGLE BLUFF LEARNING CENTER$10,000
FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH$3,000
FISH OF ALBANY$2,000
BENTON HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$2,000
STOVE TEAM INTERNATIONAL$1,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$1,000
AUDUBON SOCIETY OF CORVALLIS$500
OREGON PARKS FOREVER$500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY21–23, $52k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ABC HOUSE: $50k → 13%ABC HOUSE: $2k → 13%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.
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 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 Natural Resources Council Fund Oregon Wild

Oregon Wild works to protect and restore Oregon's wildlands, wildlife and waters as an enduring legacy for future generations.

Environment
3
Clackamas River Basin Council Inc

The council is organized to foster partnerships for clean water, healthy streams, and abundant fisheries in the Clackamas Watershed

Environment
4
Southern Oregon Land Conservancy Inc

To conserve and enhance land in southern oregon to sustain our human and natural communities forever.

Environment
5
Deschutes Land Trust

To preserve and enhance natural ecosystems, scenic areas, open spaces, fish and wildlife habitat within deschutes basin.

Environment
6
Wallowa Land Trust

Our mission is to protect the rural nature of Wallowa County by working cooperatively with private landowners,indigenous people, local communities and governmental entities to conserve land.

Environment
7
Global Forest Generation

Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…

Environment
8
McKenzie River Trust

Acquire and manage land and conservation easements through purchase and donation to ensure long term conservation of clean water, fish and wildlife habitat, and other community values.

Environment
9
Great Peninsula Conservancy

Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.

Environment
10
Kennebunk Land Trust

Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.

Environment
11
Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council

The Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council is a local nonprofit organization that strives to enhance and restore habitat for fish and wildlife our community and for future generations. Our Board of Directors consists of seven members with…

Environment
12
Oregonians in Action

Land Use Issues

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greenbelt Land Trust; the most unlike its peers is The Nature Conservancy. 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 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. 8 of the 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
3/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ABC HOUSE INC: $52,158 · Human ServicesABC HOUSE INC+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $25,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYEAGLE BLUFF LEARNING CENTER: $15,000 · OtherEAGLE BLUFF LEARNING CENTERFIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $3,000 · OtherFIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCHBENTON HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $2,000 · Other+2 more: $1,500 · OtherGREENBELT LAND TRUST: $25,000 · EnvironmentGREENBELT LAND TRUST+1 more: $500 · EnvironmentFISH OF ALBANY INC: $2,000 · Housing & Shelter
Human Services$53,158Other$46,500Environment$25,500Housing & Shelter$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetABC HOUSE INC: $52,158 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetGREENBELT LAND TRUST: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBENTON HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFISH OF ALBANY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSTOVETEAM INTERNATIONAL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOregon Parks Forever: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 Bessemer Giving FundNJ13× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Dale W and Elizabeth G Bargsten Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dale W and Elizabeth G Bargsten Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 31%
  • Greenbelt Land Trust: 31% of income from government
  • Abc House Inc: 25% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 11 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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