· Private foundation
Edwards Lienhart Family 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PORTLAND ART MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| LITERARY ARTS | $15,000 |
| PORTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATI | $15,000 |
| 1000 FRIENDS OF OREGON | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE | $9,000 |
| OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUST | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| NORTH BY NORTHEAST COMMUNITY | $2,000 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $2,000 |
| PORTLAND JAPANESE GARDEN | $2,000 |
| PORTLAND CENTER STAGE | $1,000 |
| SIGHTLINE INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of your 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 +32% since the first grant, against -22% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
PORTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC6× · 2018–2024 · $110k · revenue +32%- 1F1000 FRIENDS OF OREGON6× · 2018–2024 · $50k · revenue +92%
LITERARY ARTS INC6× · 2018–2024 · $50k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- OEOregon Environmental Councilone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -22%
- LCLawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Lawone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -56%
OREGON BALLET THEATREone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +11%
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.
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.
Building a diverse grassroots movement to address the causes of climate disruption through justice-based solutions by inspiring, training and mobilizing people to act.
Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…
Lane Community College Education Association is the union that represents 200 full-time and 375 part-time faculty members at Lane Community College in Eugene, Oregon. LCCEA is an affiliated unit of the Oregon Education Association (OEA)…
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 &…
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…
Western rivers conservancy's mission is to protect outstanding river ecosystems in the western united states. continued on schedule o.we acquire land to conserve critical habitat, provide public access for compatible use and enjoyment, and…
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…
Connecting people across oregon and the pacific northwest through the power of a shared story.
To ensure economic prosperity in the portland region by providing strong leadership, partnership, and programs that encourage business growth and vitality.
Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities accredits institutions of higher education by applying evidence-informed standards and processes to support continuous improvements and promote equitable student achievement and success.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Oregon Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Seattle University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 25 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 PORTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds 1000 FRIENDS OF OREGON ↗
- Who funds LITERARY ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY ↗
- Who funds THE CAMPBELL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds United Way of the Columbia-Willamette ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC NORTHWEST COLLEGE OF ART ↗
- Who funds JAPANESE GARDEN SOCIETY OF OREGON ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND CENTER STAGE ↗
- Who funds IMPACT NW ↗
- Who funds Oregon Environmental Council ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law ↗
- Who funds WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds OREGON BALLET THEATRE ↗
- Who funds Sightline Institute ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
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 Collins Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Jackson Foundation · The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Care Foundation · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · Oregon Jewish Community Foundation · Ronald W Naito Md Foundation · Juan Young Trust · Regional Arts & Culture Council · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust
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 Edwards Lienhart Family 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.
- United Way of the Columbia-Willamette — 25% of income from government
- Literary Arts Inc — 10% of income from government
- Impact Nw — 8% of income from government
- Portland Community College Foundation Inc — 5% of income from government
- Oregon Museum of Science and Industry — 4% of income from government
- Willamette University — 1% of income from government
- Portland Art Museum — 1% of income from government
- Portland Center Stage — 1% of income from government
- The Campbell Institute — 0% of income from government
- Oregon Ballet Theatre — 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.