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Earth Day Oregon

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$500
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$500
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 FY2023–2025.

Environment$27kFood & Nutrition$4kRecreation & Sports$3kEducation$2kYouth Development$2kAnimals$1kArts & Culture$500Crime & Legal$250Other$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$500
Median grant
1
States reached
$4k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CASCADIANOW (DBA CASCADIA STACK)$500
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 (FY23–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 58% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ADVENTURES WITHOUT LIMITS: $500 → 8%ADVENTURES WITHOUT LIMITS: $500 → 8%FARMERS ENDING HUNGER: $500 → 14%HOME LIFE INC: $125 → 18%GREEN LENTS: $500 → 12%GROWING GARDENS: $250 → 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.

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.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$18k · 18 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
56

Total granted

$18k
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
0%

Still filing today

83%
95%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’23’24’25
EnvironmentHuman ServicesAnimalsFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentEducationOther

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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF OUTDOOR SCHOOL
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1k · revenue +58%
  • UW
    UMPQUA WATERSHEDS
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1k · revenue +9%
  • EN
    ECO-SCHOOL NETWORK
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • GL
    GREEN LENTS
    one grant, 2024 · $500 · revenue 0%
  • WILDLIFE CENTER OF THE NORTH COAST
    one grant, 2024 · $500 · revenue 0%
  • TW
    Think Wildgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $500 · revenue +86%

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
Earth Day Oregon
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2
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
3
Oregon Websites and Watershed Project Inc

Develop educational network to communicate historical and scientific information empasizing natural and cultural resources to pacific northwest.

Environment
4
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
5
Cascadia Wildlands

Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…

Environment
6
Greater Oregon City Watershed Council

To conserve, enhance and protect the quality and ecological integrity of the watersheds by providing a cooperative forum to promote and facilitate integrated watershed management.

Environment
7
The Wetlands Conservancy Inc

Founded in 1981, the wetlands conservancy is dedicated to working in partnership with communities statewide to permanently protect, conserve and restore oregon's greatest wetlands.

Environment
8
Idaho Forest Restoration Partnership
Environment
9
Oregon Energy Systems Technology and Research
Environment
10
Northwest Environmental Advocates

Work through advocacy and education to use federal environmental laws such as the Clean Water Act to protect and restore water quality and habit in the Pacific Northwest and nationwide.

Environment
11
Northwest Environmental Defense Center

Nedc's mission is to work toward a future in which the pacific northwest leads the nation in developing, implementing & enforcing strong laws and regulations that protect the environment & human health, and where our governments &…

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12
Center for Sustainable Economy

Promoting economic sustainability

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 1000 Friends of Oregon and the most unlike its peers is Foodwaves. 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 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%0%<5yr14%16%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr19%45%20–35yr12%17%35–55yr15%0%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr14%21%5–10yr19%28%10–20yr19%39%20–35yr12%12%35–55yr15%0%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/71
the rest of the field
12%
1,913/16,266

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

69 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. 69 of the 74 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/69
Grantees still filing
38/69
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UMPQUA WATERSHEDS — $1,000 · EnvironmentUMPQUA WATERSHEDSWILLAMETTE RESOURCES AND EDUCATIONAL NETWORK — $1,000 · EnvironmentWILLAMETTE RESOURCES AND EDUCATIONAL NETWORKECO-SCHOOL NETWORK — $1,000 · EnvironmentECO-SCHOOL NETWORKECOLOGY IN CLASSROOMS AND OUTDOORS — $1,000 · EnvironmentECOLOGY IN CLASSROOMS AND OUTDOORSTualatin Riverkeepers Inc — $1,000 · EnvironmentTualatin Riverkeepers IncPOLLINATOR PROJECT ROGUE VALLEY — $1,000 · EnvironmentPOLLINATOR PROJECT ROGUE VALLEY+29 more — $10,625 · Environment+29 moreCONSCIOUS GROWTH — $1,000 · OtherCONSCIOUS GROWTHCASCADIANOW (DBA CASCADIA STACK) — $1,000 · OtherCASCADIANOW (DBA CASCADIA STACK)PORTLAND FRUIT TREE PROJECT — $1,000 · OtherPORTLAND FRUIT TREE PROJECTFRIENDS OF FALL CREEK WATERSHED INC — $1,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF FALL CREEK WATERSHED INCNORTHWEST EARTH INSTITUTE — $500 · OtherEARTHBOUND JOURNAL — $500 · OtherFRIENDS OF CASCADE-SISKIYOU NATIONAL MONUMENT — $500 · OtherTHE STREET TRUST COMMUNITY FUND — $500 · OtherKLAMATH LAKE LAND TRUST — $500 · OtherNECANICUM WATERSHED COUNCIL — $500 · OtherORCAN (OREGON CLIMATE & AGRICULTURE NETWORK) — $500 · OtherFRIENDS OF GATEWAY GREEN — $1,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF GATEWAY GREENNorthwest Trail Alliance Inc — $500 · OtherLLOYD ECODISTRICT — $1,000 · OtherLLOYD ECODISTRICTCascade Pacific RC&D Area — $500 · Other350 DESCHUTES 350Deschutes — $1,000 · Other350 DESCHUTES 350DeschutesCOLUMBIA INSIGHT — $500 · Other+4 more — $1,000 · Other+4 moreADVENTURES WITHOUT LIMITS — $1,000 · Human ServicesGREEN LENTS — $500 · Human ServicesFARMERS ENDING HUNGER — $500 · Human ServicesGrowing Gardens — $250 · Human ServicesHOME LIFE INC — $125 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF OUTDOOR SCHOOL — $1,000 · EducationWind & Oar Boat School — $1,000 · EducationGROW PORTLAND — $1,000 · Food & NutritionFOODWAVES — $500 · Food & NutritionKINDNESS FARM — $500 · Food & NutritionST JOHNS SWAPNPLAY — $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentURBAN NATURE PARTNERS PDX — $500 · Youth DevelopmentCamp Fire Central Oregon — $500 · Youth DevelopmentWILDLIFE CENTER OF THE NORTH COAST — $500 · AnimalsThink Wild — $500 · AnimalsNative Fish Society Inc — $500 · AnimalsCASCADES RAPTOR CENTER — $250 · AnimalsWILD SALMON CENTER — $125 · Animals
Environment$16,625Other$13,000Human Services$2,375Education$2,000Food & Nutrition$2,000Youth Development$2,000Animals$1,875

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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFRIENDS OF OUTDOOR SCHOOL — $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUMPQUA WATERSHEDS — $1,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWILLAMETTE RESOURCES AND EDUCATIONAL NETWORK — $1,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetECO-SCHOOL NETWORK — $1,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGROW PORTLAND — $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF GATEWAY GREEN — $1,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetECOLOGY IN CLASSROOMS AND OUTDOORS — $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLLOYD ECODISTRICT — $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budget350 DESCHUTES 350Deschutes — $1,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPORTLAND FRUIT TREE PROJECT — $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTualatin Riverkeepers Inc — $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPOLLINATOR PROJECT ROGUE VALLEY — $1,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetADVENTURES WITHOUT LIMITS — $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWind & Oar Boat School — $1,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetST JOHNS SWAPNPLAY — $1,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGREEN LENTS — $500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWILDLIFE CENTER OF THE NORTH COAST — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThink Wild — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST EARTH INSTITUTE — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOUTDOOR EDUCATION ADVENTURES — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNeighbors for Clean Air — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOODWAVES — $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetURBAN NATURE PARTNERS PDX — $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWILD RIVERS LAND TRUST — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNative Fish Society Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Fire Central Oregon — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Hells Canyon Council — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFARMERS ENDING HUNGER — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNorthwest Trail Alliance Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBARK — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSolar Oregon — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPACIFIC RIVERS — $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKINDNESS FARM — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOREGON GARDEN FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBIA INSIGHT — $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCascade Pacific RC&D Area — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBIA SLOUGH WATERSHED COUNCIL INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE STREET TRUST COMMUNITY FUND — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCORVALLIS ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKLAMATH LAKE LAND TRUST — $500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF MALHEUR NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNECANICUM WATERSHED COUNCIL — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Coalition of Oregon Land Trusts — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget350PDX — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCRAG LAW CENTER — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColumbia Riverkeeper — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLower Columbia Estuary Partnership — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION OF COMMUNITIES OF COLOR — $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Oregon Community …Meyer Memorial TrustThe Collins FoundationThe Autzen FoundationThe Roundhouse Founda…Gray Family FoundationThe Bullitt FoundationJubitz Family Foundat…The Burning FoundationThe Healy FoundationPatagoniaorgSeeding Justice
The Oregon Community FoundationOR81.9× affinity59 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Collins Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · The Roundhouse Foundation · Gray Family Foundation · The Bullitt Foundation · Jubitz Family Foundation · The Burning Foundation · The Healy Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Seeding Justice

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 Earth Day Oregon 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 · 220%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 18%
  • Friends of Trees — 100% of income from government
  • Necanicum Watershed Council — 100% of income from government
  • Institute for Applied Ecology — 99% of income from government
  • Home Life Inc — 95% of income from government
  • Foodwaves — 54% of income from government
  • Wild Salmon Center — 49% of income from government
  • Umpqua Watersheds — 41% of income from government
  • Adventures Without Limits — 39% of income from government
  • Green Lents — 38% of income from government
  • Grow Portland — 36% of income from government
  • Urban Nature Partners Pdx — 34% of income from government
  • Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership — 29% of income from government
  • Native Fish Society Inc — 27% of income from government
  • Willamette Resources and Educational Network — 22% of income from government
  • Trailkeepers of Oregon — 19% of income from government
  • The Coalition of Oregon Land Trusts — 18% of income from government
  • Corvallis Environmental Center — 18% of income from government
  • Coalition of Communities of Color — 15% of income from government
  • Columbia Slough Watershed Council Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Familias en Accion — 8% of income from government
  • McKenzie River Trust — 8% of income from government
  • Think Wild — 7% of income from government
  • The Street Trust Community Fund — 6% of income from government
  • Growing Gardens — 6% of income from government
  • Walla Walla Basin Watershed Foundation — 4% of income from government
  • Bark — 2% of income from government
  • Oregon Natural Resources Council Fund Oregon Wild — 2% of income from government
  • Columbia Riverkeeper — 1% of income from government
  • Tualatin Riverkeepers Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Oregon Garden Foundation — 0% of income from government
  • Community Energy Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
22get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
5rely 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 Earth Day Oregon?

Find your warmest path to Earth Day Oregon 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 74 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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