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Dream Envision Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$631k
Granted FY2024still arriving
36
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$135k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$2.8MAnimals$992kPhilanthropy$170kCrime & Legal$100kHuman Services$75kHealth$54kPublic Safety & Disaster$20kFood & Nutrition$19kOther$0
02FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k19 grants · $63k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $184k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $385k
$7,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY$135,000
ON THE INSIDE$50,000
LITERARY ARTS INC$50,000
THE PHILLIP FAMILY FOUNDATION$50,000
PORTLAND CENTER STAGE$50,000
BROADWAY ROSE THEATRE$50,000
THE THEATRE CO$35,000
PORTLAND PLAYHOUSE$25,000
CRANE THEATER$15,000
TRIANGLE PRODUCTIONS$15,000
PROFILE THEATRE$15,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
ORPHEOUS PDX$15,000
COHO PRODUCTIONS$15,000
LOCAL THEATRE COMPANY$12,550
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 (FY23–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CLACKAMAS WOMENS SERVICES: $2k → 8%CLACKAMAS WOMENS SERVICES: $1k → 8%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

MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
NV
IA
CA
CO
AZ
DC
HI
AL
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.1M · 53 repeat orgs$154k to everyone else

53 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
34

Total granted

$4.1M
$126k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+26%

Still filing today

64%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
Arts & CultureAnimalsPhilanthropyEducationCrime & LegalHealthOther
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

  • OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $779k · revenue +26%
  • THE PORTLAND PLAYHOUSE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $450k · revenue +23%
  • Coho Productions Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $172k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • CT
    CRONE THEATER
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • NE
    NEW EXPRESSIVE WORKS
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -37%
  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +38%
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
Artists Repertory Theatre

Artists repertory theatre's mission is to produce intimate, provacative theatre and provide a home for a diverse community of artists and audiences to take creative risks.

Arts & Culture
2
Third Rail Repertory Theatre

The mission of third rail repertory theatre is to provide a dynamic artistic home for theatre audiences in portland by fostering a professional local company, which, through collaboration and discipline, brings to life exceptional stories…

Arts & Culture
3
Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Inc
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4
Future Prairie

Founded in January 2018, Future Prairie is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit queer artist collective in Portland, Oregon. We pay LGBTQIA+ Oregon-based artists to design, curate, and produce art projects that showcase new and better dreams of the…

—
5
A Contemporary Theatre Inc

Organization mission: act is a contemporary theatre where artistic ambition and civic engagement unite. organization vision: act envisions a world where the power of theatre expands our collective understanding of community and our own…

Arts & Culture
6
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Inc

To create rousing, visceral, enlightening theatre experiences that galvanize diverse artists and audiences to engage with our world in unexpected and often challenging ways.

Arts & Culture
7
Theatre Company

Our mission is to enliven our community by transforming found spaces with bold, theatrical endeavors. We place an emphasis on partnering with local businesses all over PDX to serve as venues for our productions

Arts & Culture
8
On the Boards

On the Boards' mission is to invest in leading contemporary performing artists near and far and connect them to a diverse range of communities interested in forward-thinking art and ideas.

—
9
Women's Project & Productions Inc

Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…

Arts & Culture
10
Theatre Diaspora

Theatre Diaspora is Oregon's only professional Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) theatre company, committed to portraying authentic AAPI cultural, historical, and social perspectives to reach broad audiences.…

—
11
Oregon Contemporary Theatre

Oregon contemporary theatre creates outstanding performances and programs that inspire curiosity, challenge expectation, encourage dialogue and support positive change.

Arts & Culture
12
Lively Productions

Lively productions presents new work for the stage by emerging artists, and seeks to create innovative theatrical opportunities in a world increasingly defined by real time interactions and new technologies

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Portland Center Stage; the most unlike its peers is Phillips Family Foundation. 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

53 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 53 of the 93 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/53
Grantees still filing
35/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PORTLAND CENTER STAGE: $613,450 · Arts & CulturePORTLAND CENTER STAGETHE PORTLAND PLAYHOUSE: $450,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PORTLAND PLAYHOUSECoho Productions Inc: $171,935 · Arts & CultureCoho Productions IncPORTLAND OPERA ASSOCIATION INC: $130,600 · Arts & CulturePORTLAND OPERA ASSOCIATION INCTRIANGLE PRODUCTIONS: $120,000 · Arts & CultureTRIANGLE PRODUCTIONSON THE INSIDE: $100,000 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $75,000 · Arts & Culture+17 more: $254,600 · Arts & Culture+17 moreTHE THEATRE CO: $147,500 · OtherTHE THEATRE COBROADWAY ROSE THEATRE COMPANY: $107,050 · OtherBROADWAY ROSE THEATRE COM…LITERARY ARTS INC: $100,000 · OtherLITERARY ARTS INCIndividual grant recipient: $80,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipien…NORTHWEST THEATRE COLLABORATIVE: $67,520 · OtherNORTHWEST THEATRE COLLABO…CRANE THEATER CO: $60,000 · OtherCRANE THEATER COTHIRD RAIL: $60,000 · OtherTHIRD RAILSOUL BOX PROJECT: $42,300 · Other+42 more: $299,350 · Other+42 moreOREGON HUMANE SOCIETY: $778,600 · AnimalsOREGON HUMANE SOCIETYTHE PONGO FUND: $151,500 · AnimalsTHE PONGO FUND+5 more: $10,000 · AnimalsPhillips Family Foundation: $150,000 · PhilanthropyBROADWAY ROSE THEATRE CO: $100,000 · PhilanthropyPILE OF PUPPIES: $35,500 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $375 · PhilanthropyShaking the Tree Inc: $59,000 · EducationStreet Books: $11,000 · EducationVALOR CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $3,000 · EducationPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE INC: $16,200 · HealthCARE CHEST OF SIERRA NEVADA: $1,000 · HealthAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 · Human ServicesCLACKAMAS WOMEN'S SERVICES: $3,000 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$1,915,585Other$963,720Animals$940,100Philanthropy$295,875Education$73,000Health$17,200Human Services$13,000

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 budgetOREGON HUMANE SOCIETY: $778,600 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetPORTLAND CENTER STAGE: $613,450 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetTHE PORTLAND PLAYHOUSE: $450,000 over 8y, 5.1% of budgetCoho Productions Inc: $171,935 over 8y, 22% of budgetTHE PONGO FUND: $151,500 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetPhillips Family Foundation: $150,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetPORTLAND OPERA ASSOCIATION INC: $130,600 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTRIANGLE PRODUCTIONS: $120,000 over 8y, 7.0% of budgetON THE INSIDE: $100,000 over 2y, 52% of budgetBROADWAY ROSE THEATRE CO: $100,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetLITERARY ARTS INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $75,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetShaking the Tree Inc: $59,000 over 8y, 4.7% of budgetORPHEUSPDX: $45,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetADVANCE GENDER EQUITY IN THE ARTS: $40,600 over 7y, 6.9% of budgetPILE OF PUPPIES: $35,500 over 8y, 21% of budgetProfile Theatre Project: $30,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S DREAM FUND INC: $28,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCorrib Theatre: $27,500 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetPortland Experimental Theatre Ensemble: $22,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetTHEATRE VERTIGO INC: $20,000 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetOREGON FOOD BANK: $18,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMANY HATS COLLABORATION: $17,000 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE INC: $16,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW EXPRESSIVE WORKS: $15,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetBRIDGETOWN CONSERVATORY OF MUSICAL THEATRE: $12,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetStreet Books: $11,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $10,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHEATRE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWomens Foundation of Oregon: $7,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetBosco-Milligan Foundation Architectural Heritage Center: $6,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetOREGON DONKEY SANCTUARY NORTHWEST: $6,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetLOCAL THEATER COMPANY: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetClackamas Repertory Theatre: $3,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetVALOR CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCLACKAMAS WOMEN'S SERVICES: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget21TEN THEATRE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE OREGON ZOO FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHarpers Playground: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPlayWrite Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON CHILDREN'S THEATRE COMPANY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BUDDY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNational Assembly of State Arts Agencies Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARE CHEST OF SIERRA NEVADA: $1,000 over 1y, 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.

  • Who funds OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds PORTLAND CENTER STAGE ↗
  • Who funds THE PORTLAND PLAYHOUSE ↗
  • Who funds Coho Productions Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE PONGO FUND ↗
  • Who funds Phillips Family Foundation ↗
  • Who funds PORTLAND OPERA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds TRIANGLE PRODUCTIONS ↗
  • Who funds ON THE INSIDE ↗
  • Who funds BROADWAY ROSE THEATRE CO ↗
  • Who funds LITERARY ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
  • Who funds Shaking the Tree Inc ↗
  • Who funds ORPHEUSPDX ↗
  • Who funds ADVANCE GENDER EQUITY IN THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds PILE OF PUPPIES ↗
  • Who funds Profile Theatre Project ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S DREAM FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Corrib Theatre ↗
  • Who funds Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble ↗
  • Who funds THEATRE VERTIGO INC ↗
  • Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds MANY HATS COLLABORATION ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW EXPRESSIVE WORKS ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGETOWN CONSERVATORY OF MUSICAL THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds Street Books ↗

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 FoundationJames F & Marion L Mi…Regional Arts & Cultu…The Collins FoundationMarie Lamfrom Charita…The Autzen FoundationRonald W Naito Md Fou…Rose E Tucker Charita…The Harold & Arlene S…Meyer Memorial TrustCornell University Fo…
The Oregon Community FoundationOR48.1× affinity29 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 · James F & Marion L Miller Foundation · Regional Arts & Culture Council · The Collins Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Autzen Foundation · Ronald W Naito Md Foundation · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Care Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Cornell University 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 Dream Envision Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dream Envision Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 140%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Clackamas Women's Services: 33% of income from government
  • Many Hats Collaboration: 22% of income from government
  • Oregon Food Bank: 21% of income from government
  • The Portland Playhouse: 11% of income from government
  • Literary Arts Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble: 9% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of the Columbia Willamette Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Lake Oswego Preservation Society: 6% of income from government
  • Coho Productions Inc: 5% of income from government
  • New Expressive Works: 5% of income from government
  • Corrib Theatre: 4% of income from government
  • PlayWrite Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Advance Gender Equity in the Arts: 2% of income from government
  • Triangle Productions: 2% of income from government
  • Profile Theatre Project: 2% of income from government
  • Portland Opera Association Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Bosco-Milligan Foundation Architectural Heritage Center: 1% of income from government
  • Bridgetown Conservatory of Musical Theatre: 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
  • Womens Foundation of Oregon: 0% of income from government
  • Children's Dream Fund Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
14get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 93 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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