· Private foundation
Donald N McGregor Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k1 grant · $2k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $17k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $17,000 |
| LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE | $1,500 |
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 (FY19–19, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- OHOREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY8× · 2017–2024 · $121k · revenue +38%
THE DOUGY CENTER INC2× · 2017–2020 · $6k · revenue +181%- CLCOLUMBIA LEARNING CENTER2× · 2017–2019 · $5k · revenue ×31
Funded once
VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA OF OREGON INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $14k · revenue +52%- CFCORNERSTONE FELLOWSHIPone grant, 2019 · $5k
CASCADE AIDS PROJECTgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +349%
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.
Cascades academy is an engaged, vibrant community that weaves challenging academics with experiential learning to inspire socially responsible individuals ready for a diverse and changing world.
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…
Helping kids be kids, and supporting families when they need us most. morrison serves over 8,000 youth and families annually through ten distinct programs designed to meet the needs of our clients.
Youth progress is a nonprofit organization that is licensed as a child caring agency (cca) to serve youth ages 12-25 in the custody of the oregon youth authority (oya) or the oregon department of human services (dhs). youth progress uses…
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.
The university of portland, an independently governed catholic university guided by the congregation of holy cross, addresses significant questions of human concern through interdisciplinary studies of the arts, sciences, and humanities…
At l'arche portland people with and without developmental disabilities create home and build community together. we nurture long-term mutual relationships that reveal the gifts of people with developmental disabilities. in doing so we…
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…
Next up amplifies the voice and leadership of diverse young people to achieve a more just and equitable oregon.
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…
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.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Our House of Portland Inc and the most unlike its peers is Columbia Learning Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 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 HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OUR HOUSE OF PORTLAND INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA OF OREGON INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOUGY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CASCADE AIDS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MY FATHERS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER WE ARE GREATER THAN ↗
- Who funds TRILLIUM FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds REED INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CHESS FOR SUCCESS ↗
- Who funds NEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND OPERA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
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 · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · The Jackson Foundation · Wheeler Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Care Foundation · Juan Young Trust · The Collins Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Meyer Memorial Trust · Helen B Sutherland 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 Donald N McGregor 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.
- Portland Opera Association Inc — 28% of income from government
- Cascade Aids Project — 19% of income from government
- New Avenues for Youth Inc — 12% of income from government
- Together We Are Greater Than — 8% of income from government
- Trillium Family Services — 3% of income from government
- Lewis & Clark College — 2% of income from government
- The Dougy Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Reed Institute — 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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