· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $184k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $385k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY | $135,000 |
| BROADWAY ROSE THEATRE | $50,000 |
| LITERARY ARTS INC | $50,000 |
| PORTLAND CENTER STAGE | $50,000 |
| THE PHILLIP FAMILY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| ON THE INSIDE | $50,000 |
| THE THEATRE CO | $35,000 |
| PORTLAND PLAYHOUSE | $25,000 |
| PROFILE THEATRE | $15,000 |
| ORPHEOUS PDX | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| COHO PRODUCTIONS | $15,000 |
| TRIANGLE PRODUCTIONS | $15,000 |
| CRANE THEATER | $15,000 |
| LOCAL THEATRE COMPANY | $12,550 |
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 (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. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +23% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY8× · 2017–2024 · $779k · revenue +26%
THE PORTLAND PLAYHOUSE8× · 2017–2024 · $450k · revenue +23%
Coho Productions Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $172k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- NENEW EXPRESSIVE WORKSone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -15%
- CTCRONE THEATERone grant, 2023 · $15k
- IRInternational Rescue Committee INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +38%
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.
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.
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…
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…
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…
To create rousing, visceral, enlightening theatre experiences that galvanize diverse artists and audiences to engage with our world in unexpected and often challenging ways.
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
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.
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…
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.…
Oregon contemporary theatre creates outstanding performances and programs that inspire curiosity, challenge expectation, encourage dialogue and support positive change.
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
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Portland Center Stage and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
53 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. 53 of the 93 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 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 LITERARY ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds ON THE INSIDE ↗
- Who funds BROADWAY ROSE THEATRE CO ↗
- 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 ↗
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 · 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
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 Dream Envision 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.
- 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
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.