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Deacon Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$371k
Granted FY2024still arriving
127
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 FY2017–2024.

Human Services$339kHealth$305kHousing & Shelter$263kAnimals$203kYouth Development$174kFood & Nutrition$167kEducation$106kEnvironment$101kOther$0
02FY2024 · 127 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k118 grants · $273k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $98k
$1,500
Median grant
11
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDSHIP ADVENTURES$13,000
GROWING VETERANS$13,000
MONTLEY ZOO ANIMAL RESCUE$11,000
MARY'S PLACE$10,500
BRIDGE RECEIVING CENTER$10,000
CASA FOR CHILDREN INC$10,000
UPPER ROOM DINING HALL$10,000
PLYMOUTH HOUSING$10,000
SKY VALLEY FOOD BANK$10,000
COMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL SCHOOL$9,000
ROSE HAVEN$9,000
BLANCHET HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY$8,000
VETERANS GOLF PARK FOR DISABLED VETS DBA VETERANS COMMUNITY CENTER$8,000
WOMEN'S WISDOM ART$8,000
SNOWLINE HEALTH$8,000
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, $292k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%SNOWLINE HEALTH: $8k → 8%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF THE CENTRAL COAST: $4k → 13%GROWING VETERANS: $8k → 13%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $5k → 8%GROWING VETERANS: $13k → 12%WASHINGTON KIDS IN TRANSITION: $5k → 9%EVERY BODY ATHLETICS: $4k → 8%NEXT DOOR (SOLUTIONS TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE): $4k → 8%GOOD DOG AUTISM COMPANIONS: $8k → 11%PATHWAYS TO RECREATION INC: $3k → 12%NORTHWEST CHILDREN'S OUTREACH: $4k → 8%BELLA SMILES FOR DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES: $3k → 9%INTERVAL HOUSE: $5k → 14%INTERVAL HOUSE: $5k → 14%OMBUDSMAN SERVICES OF SAN MATEO COUNTY INC: $8k → 7%WISEPLACE: $7k → 10%SUPPORTING THE TAYLOR HOUSE: $8k → 6%OMBUDSMAN SERVICES OF SAN MATEO COUNTY INC: $6k → 7%YOUTH HOMES INC: $5k → 9%WISEPLACE: $5k → 10%INTERVAL HOUSE: $4k → 14%WISEPLACE: $5k → 10%SOUTH ASIAN HELPLINE AND REFERRAL AGENCY (SAHARA): $3k → 14%WISEPLACE: $4k → 10%WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES: $4k → 9%WISEPLACE: $3k → 10%EVERY BODY ATHLETICS: $5k → 8%WELLSPRING WOMEN'S CENTER: $5k → 12%CATERINA'S CLUB: $8k → 10%SACRAMENTO LOAVES & FISHES: $9k → 12%FRIENDSHIP ADVENTURES: $13k → 9%FRIENDSHIP ADVENTURES: $3k → 9%REFUGEE WOMEN'S ALLIANCE: $8k → 9%HOPE CENTERS UNITED DBA FOLSOM'S HOPE: $8k → 12%HART OF FOLSOM: $7k → 12%WASHINGTON KIDS IN TRANSITION: $8k → 9%SACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME: $3k → 12%FRIENDLY HOUSE: $4k → 12%BRIDGE RECEIVING CENTER: $10k → 9%BRIDGE RECEIVING CENTER: $5k → 9%SAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE: $5k → 12%FULL LIFE CARE: $4k → 9%REAL CHANGE HOMELESS EMPOWERMENT PROJECT: $4k → 9%AMARA: $2k → 9%STORE TO DOOR: $3k → 12%BLACK PARENT INITIATIVE: $2k → 12%RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND: $5k → 12%RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND: $2k → 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
ID
MT
MN
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MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
NC
DC
HI
OK
GA
TX
FL

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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.3M · 151 repeat orgs$775k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

151 repeat relationships — 47 still active in FY2024, 104 since wound down; 56 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

151
296

Total granted

$1.3M
$608k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+18%

Still filing today

77%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $167k 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 ServicesHealthAnimalsEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentOther

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

  • FS
    FosterHope Sacramento
    7× · 2018–2024 · $46k · revenue +211%
  • KA
    Kids & Art Foundation
    5× · 2020–2024 · $32k · revenue +199%
  • RV
    RETURNING VETERANS PROJECT
    7× · 2017–2024 · $31k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • CC
    Childrens Center
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +5%
  • FL
    FOOD LIFELINE
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -1%
  • SO
    Sentinels of Freedom Scholarship Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -47%

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
Impact Nw

Impact nw prevents homelessness by supporting people as they navigate their journey to stability and strength. founded in portland in 1966, impact nw now serves 26,944 people a year in the greater portland, oregon metro area, including…

Human Services
2
Network Services

Network services has been serving homeless families in the puget sound area since 1990, with a focus on families with children. network services aims to break the cycle of homelessness by providing assistance to families with children to…

Human Services
3
Port Angeles Food Bank

Nourishing our community. the port angeles food bank is the main food bank in clallam county, providing food to 13 other area pantries and meal programs as well as providing food to over 5,000 individuals per month.

Food & Nutrition
4
Haven Inc

To empower survivors to heal and engage all individuals and communities to address and prevent sexual assault and intimate partner violence

Crime & Legal
5
Pet Orphans of Southern California

In addition to rescue and adoption, pet orphans provides a wide range of services including education, medical/financial, spay/neuter, and training assistance.

Animals
6
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
7
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
8
Sheltercare

Sheltercare offers a variety of housing and support services for people who are homeless or those facing homelessness with a committed focus on the community's most vulnerable individuals dealing with psychiatric disabilities, acquired…

Housing & Shelter
9
Saving Grace

Saving grace offers safety, hope, and healing to survivors of intimiate partner violence and sexual assault and engages central oregon to build life free from violence.

Human Services
10
Building Changes

Building changes advances equitable responses to homelessness in washington state, with a focus on children, youth, and families. we work at the intersection of housing, education, and health systems, partnering with communities and public…

Health
11
Shelter Animal Resource Alliance

Shelter Animal Resource Alliance rescues, assists, and advocates for shelter animals in Lane County by developing and implementing programs designed to increase the number of animals adopted into permanent, loving homes and decrease the…

Animals
12
New Narrative

From clinical care and peer support programs to housing, we provide resources so people seeking mental health care can develop the tools to thrive, not just survive.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Families Forward and the most unlike its peers is The Emma Zen Foundation. 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 backsteadyAnimal Rescue and ShelterCommunity Food PantriesEquine Therapy ProgramsCancer Support ServicesDevelopmental Disabilities …Food Banks and PantriesEnvironmental Conservation …Youth Sports ProgramsCommunity Arts CentersHealth Access Advocacy and …Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Affordable Housing Construc…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Volunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Military Veterans SupportChristian Youth CampsFaith-Based Social ServicesLocal Food System Organizat…Affordable Housing Developm…Independent K-12 SchoolsSchool District FoundationsSchool Parent OrganizationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community FoundationsLocal History MuseumsPolicy Research and AdvocacyChristian Missionary Organi…Immigrant Worker SupportPregnancy Support ServicesWomen & Girls Leadership De…Domestic Violence ServicesYouth Development ServicesYouth Development CentersCommunity Foundations
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 29 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%2%<5yr15%6%5–10yr20%23%10–20yr17%32%20–35yr11%22%35–55yr13%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%1%<5yr15%6%5–10yr20%32%10–20yr17%29%20–35yr11%22%35–55yr13%10%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.8%3/391
the rest of the field
14%
26,000/186,587

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

368 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. 368 of the 507 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
82
Early backer (in before they grew)
355/368
Grantees still filing
242/368
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FosterHope Sacramento — $46,350 · OtherFosterHope SacramentoRETURNING VETERANS PROJECT — $30,850 · Other+97 more — $713,020 · Other+97 moreHART OF FOLSOM — $27,750 · Human ServicesHART OF FOLSOMWISEPLACE — $24,000 · Human ServicesWISEPLACEGROWING VETERANS — $20,500 · Human ServicesGROWING VETERANSBRIDGE RECEIVING CENTER — $19,600 · Human ServicesBRIDGE RECEIVING C…SACRAMENTO LOAVES & FISHES — $17,750 · Human ServicesSACRAMENTO LOAVES …FRIENDSHIP ADVENTURES — $15,750 · Human ServicesINTERVAL HOUSE — $14,000 · Human ServicesAGEUP INC — $13,500 · Human ServicesWASHINGTON KIDS IN TRANSITION — $12,500 · Human ServicesRAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND — $10,700 · Human ServicesEVERY BODY ATHLETICS — $10,500 · Human Services+21 more — $117,025 · Human Services+21 moreMotley Zoo Animal Rescue — $18,840 · AnimalsMotley Zoo…Left Behind K9 Rescue — $17,070 · AnimalsLeft Behin…UNDERDOG ANIMAL RESCUE — $13,700 · AnimalsUNDERDOG A…All About Equine Animal Rescue Inc — $12,000 · AnimalsAll About …SR3 Sealife Response Rehabilitation and Research — $11,500 · AnimalsSR3 Sealif…All Animal Rescue & Friends — $11,000 · AnimalsAll Animal…Joybound People and Pets FKA Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation — $8,810 · AnimalsFOSTERS & PAWS — $7,700 · AnimalsLAPCATS INC — $7,600 · AnimalsA PASSION FOR PAWS RESCUE INC — $7,400 · AnimalsPixie Project Inc — $7,100 · AnimalsBLACKBERRY CREEK FARM ANIMAL SANCTUARY — $7,000 · AnimalsCENTRAL CALIFORNIA LABRADOR RETRIEVER RESCUE — $6,500 · AnimalsNORCAL BULLY BREED RESCUE — $6,000 · AnimalsTHE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY — $6,000 · AnimalsR&R NEW OPTIONS EQUINE — $6,000 · Animals+3 more — $13,000 · Animals+3 moreKids & Art Foundation — $31,900 · HealthKids & Art…FRIENDS OF LEAPS & BOUNDS PEDIATRIC THERAPY INC — $16,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF…NAMI OREGON — $9,850 · HealthNAMI OREGO…KINSHIP HOUSE — $9,000 · HealthKINSHIP HO…THE HEALING CENTER — $8,500 · HealthKEATON'S CHILD CANCER ALLIANCE — $8,250 · HealthLines for Life — $8,100 · HealthKIWANIS FAMILY HOUSE — $8,000 · HealthRoanoke Park Counseling — $7,500 · HealthNATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC — $6,690 · HealthRonald McDonald House Charities of Western Washington & Alaska — $6,000 · HealthEaster Seals Washington — $6,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $5,750 · Health+8 more — $31,610 · Health+8 moreCOMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL SCHOOL — $45,520 · EducationCOMMUNITY…Constructing Hope Pre-Apprenticeship Program — $25,000 · EducationConstruct…916 INK — $20,000 · Education916 INKPROJECT LIFELONG — $15,000 · EducationPROJECT L…SCHOOL ON WHEELS INC — $14,000 · EducationSCHOOL ON…Sentinels of Freedom Scholarship Foundation — $10,000 · EducationSentinels…Placer High School Music Boosters Club — $8,350 · EducationNORTHWEST EDUCATION ACCESS — $8,000 · Education+3 more — $14,000 · Education+3 moreMaris Place — $25,500 · Youth DevelopmentSOUL RIVER INC — $21,150 · Youth DevelopmentPortland YouthBuilders — $20,134 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GARDEN GROVE INC — $17,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS BUILD — $11,500 · Youth DevelopmentKIDPOWER TEENPOWER FULLPOWER International — $10,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $8,500 · Youth DevelopmentSHINE TOGETHER INC — $4,000 · Youth DevelopmentREBUILDING TOGETHER SACRAMENTO — $25,479 · Housing & ShelterROSE HAVEN CIC — $16,120 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY PORTLAND METRO EAST — $12,832 · Housing & ShelterCOCOON HOUSE — $10,500 · Housing & ShelterCOLETTE'S CHILDREN'S HOME INC — $10,500 · Housing & ShelterPLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterPLACER FAMILY HOUSING NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION — $8,000 · Housing & ShelterTINY PINE FOUNDATION — $7,000 · Housing & ShelterBRIDGES TO HOUSING INC — $6,000 · Housing & ShelterGRANDMA'S HOUSE OF HOPE — $3,750 · Housing & Shelter
Other$790,220Human Services$303,575Animals$167,220Health$163,150Education$159,870Youth Development$118,284Housing & Shelter$110,181

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%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFosterHope Sacramento — $46,350 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL SCHOOL — $45,520 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetKids & Art Foundation — $31,900 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetRETURNING VETERANS PROJECT — $30,850 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetHART OF FOLSOM — $27,750 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetMaris Place — $25,500 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER SACRAMENTO — $25,479 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetConstructing Hope Pre-Apprenticeship Program — $25,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetWISEPLACE — $24,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSOUL RIVER INC — $21,150 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetGROWING VETERANS — $20,500 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetPortland YouthBuilders — $20,134 over 6y, 0.2% of budget916 INK — $20,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBRIDGE RECEIVING CENTER — $19,600 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetMotley Zoo Animal Rescue — $18,840 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetSACRAMENTO LOAVES & FISHES — $17,750 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLeft Behind K9 Rescue — $17,070 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GARDEN GROVE INC — $17,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCONSERVATION NW — $17,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetROSE HAVEN CIC — $16,120 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCRACKED POTS INC — $16,060 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF LEAPS & BOUNDS PEDIATRIC THERAPY INC — $16,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFRIENDSHIP ADVENTURES — $15,750 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER SEATTLE — $15,600 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT LIFELONG — $15,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetFROM MADDIS CLOSET — $14,610 over 4y, 17% of budgetEMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY — $14,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERVAL HOUSE — $14,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EMMA ZEN FOUNDATION — $14,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetSCHOOL ON WHEELS INC — $14,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUNDERDOG ANIMAL RESCUE — $13,700 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetGIVING CHILDREN HOPE — $13,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSUNSHINE DIVISION INC — $13,540 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC — $13,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAGEUP INC — $13,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY PORTLAND METRO EAST — $12,832 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON KIDS IN TRANSITION — $12,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetAll About Equine Animal Rescue Inc — $12,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC — $11,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSR3 Sealife Response Rehabilitation and Research — $11,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGIRLS BUILD — $11,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetAll Animal Rescue & Friends — $11,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetColumbia Gorge Refuge Stewards — $11,000 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetRAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND — $10,700 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFriends of Trees — $10,520 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOCOON HOUSE — $10,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEVERY BODY ATHLETICS — $10,500 over 3y, 1.3% 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.

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…Sacramento Region Com…Juan Young TrustMeyer Memorial TrustWheeler FoundationThe Jackson FoundationThe Collins FoundationThe Autzen FoundationThe Oregon Community …The Harold & Arlene S…Teichert Foundation
OCF Joseph E Weston Public FoundationOR71.1× affinity43 shared granteesties to 9 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 · Sacramento Region Community Foundation · Juan Young Trust · Meyer Memorial Trust · Wheeler Foundation · The Jackson Foundation · The Collins Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Care Foundation · Teichert Foundation

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 Deacon Charitable 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 · 210%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Friends of Trees — 100% of income from government
  • Lines for Life — 70% of income from government
  • Call to Safety — 61% of income from government
  • Neighborhood House Inc — 53% of income from government
  • Black Parent Initiative — 45% of income from government
  • Portland YouthBuilders — 35% of income from government
  • Transition Projects Inc — 29% of income from government
  • Liberty House — 23% of income from government
  • Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
  • New Avenues for Youth Inc — 20% of income from government
  • Ac Portland — 14% of income from government
  • Habitat for Humanity Portland Metro East — 14% of income from government
  • My Voice Music Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Raphael House of Portland — 10% of income from government
  • Bradley Angle — 10% of income from government
  • Nami Oregon — 10% of income from government
  • Lifeworks Nw — 8% of income from government
  • Community Transitional School — 7% of income from government
  • Growing Gardens — 6% of income from government
  • The Contingent — 5% of income from government
  • Friendly House Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Constructing Hope Pre-Apprenticeship Program — 2% of income from government
  • Casa for Children Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Metropolitan Youth Symphony — 1% of income from government
  • Cracked Pots Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Childrens Center — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
21get no government money at all
66report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely 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 Deacon Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Deacon Charitable 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 507 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