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Edwards Lienhart Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$89k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$219kArts & Culture$101kEnvironment$63kScience & Tech$30kCrime & Legal$27kCivil Rights$20kHuman Services$15kPhilanthropy$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PORTLAND ART MUSEUM$20,000
PORTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATI$15,000
LITERARY ARTS$15,000
1000 FRIENDS OF OREGON$10,000
CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE$9,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUST$5,000
NORTH BY NORTHEAST COMMUNITY$2,000
PORTLAND JAPANESE GARDEN$2,000
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER$2,000
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION$1,000
PORTLAND CENTER STAGE$1,000
SIGHTLINE INSTITUTE$1,000
WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY$1,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LAWYERS' COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS: $10k → 14%OREGON ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $10k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $4k → 15%SEATTLE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 9%PACIFIC NORTHWEST COLLEGE OF ART: $5k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $4k → 15%SEATTLE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 9%WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $4k → 15%PACIFIC NORTHWEST COLLEGE OF ART: $5k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $4k → 15%PACIFIC NORTHWEST COLLEGE OF ART: $5k → 12%WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 12%DAVID DOUGLAS SCHOOL DISTRICT: $9k → 12%DAVID DOUGLAS SCHOOL DISTRICT: $9k → 12%DAVID DOUGLAS SCHOOL DISTRICT: $9k → 12%NORTH BY NORTHEAST COMMUNITY: $5k → 12%NORTH BY NORTHEAST COMMUNITY: $5k → 12%PORTLAND ART MUSEUM: $20k → 12%LITERARY ARTS: $15k → 12%LITERARY ARTS: $10k → 12%LITERARY ARTS: $10k → 12%CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE: $9k → 12%CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE: $9k → 12%CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE: $9k → 12%LITERARY ARTS: $5k → 12%LITERARY ARTS: $5k → 12%UNITED WAY OF COLUMBIA-WILLAMETTE: $5k → 12%UNITED WAY OF COLUMBIA-WILLAMETTE: $5k → 12%LITERARY ARTS: $5k → 12%UNITED WAY OF COLUMBIA-WILLAMETTE: $5k → 12%OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUST: $5k → 12%OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUST: $5k → 12%OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUST: $5k → 12%OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUST: $5k → 12%OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUST: $5k → 12%OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUST: $5k → 12%1000 FRIENDS OF OREGON: $10k → 12%1000 FRIENDS OF OREGON: $10k → 12%1000 FRIENDS OF OREGON: $5k → 12%1000 FRIENDS OF OREGON: $5k → 12%PORTLAND OPPORTUNITIES INDUSTRIALIZ: $5k → 12%PORTLAND OPPORTUNITIES INDUSTRIALIZ: $5k → 12%PORTLAND OPPORTUNITIES INDUSTRIALIZ: $5k → 12%PORTLAND OPPORTUNITIES INDUSTRIALIZ: $5k → 12%PORTLAND OPPORTUNITIES INDUSTRIALIZ: $5k → 12%PORTLAND OPPORTUNITIES INDUSTRIALIZ: $5k → 12%OREGON BALLET THEATER: $5k → 12%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.
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$501k · 19 repeat orgs$46k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against -22% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
4

Total granted

$501k
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
-22%

Still filing today

74%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’23’24
EnvironmentArts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationHuman ServicesCrime & LegalOther
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

  • PORTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $110k · revenue +32%
  • 1F
    1000 FRIENDS OF OREGON
    6× · 2018–2024 · $50k · revenue +92%
  • LITERARY ARTS INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $50k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • OE
    Oregon Environmental Council
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -22%
  • LC
    Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -56%
  • OREGON BALLET THEATRE
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +11%
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
Portland State University Foundation

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.

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2
350PDX

Building a diverse grassroots movement to address the causes of climate disruption through justice-based solutions by inspiring, training and mobilizing people to act.

Environment
3
Lewis & Clark College

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…

Education
4
Lane Community College Education Association

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)…

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5
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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6
Oregon Energy Systems Technology and Research
Environment
7
University of Portland

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…

Education
8
Western Rivers Conservancy

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…

Environment
9
Oregon Center for Public Policy

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…

Employment
10
Oregon Public Broadcasting

Connecting people across oregon and the pacific northwest through the power of a shared story.

Arts & Culture
11
Portland Business Alliance

To ensure economic prosperity in the portland region by providing strong leadership, partnership, and programs that encourage business growth and vitality.

Community Improvement
12
Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Oregon Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
15/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY: $53,000 · OtherPORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITYLITERARY ARTS INC: $50,000 · OtherLITERARY ARTS INCIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE CAMPBELL INSTITUTE: $27,000 · OtherTHE CAMPBELL INSTITUTEDAVID DOUGLAS SCHOOL DISTRICT: $27,000 · OtherDAVID DOUGLAS SCHOOL DISTRICTNORTH BY NORTHEAST COMMUNITY: $15,000 · OtherNORTH BY NORTHEAST COMMUNITYPACIFIC NORTHWEST COLLEGE OF ART: $15,000 · OtherPACIFIC NORTHWEST COLLEGE OF ARTSEATTLE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · OtherLawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law: $10,000 · Other+2 more: $2,000 · OtherPORTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $110,000 · PhilanthropyPORTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEG…United Way of the Columbia-Willamette: $15,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of the Columbi…1000 FRIENDS OF OREGON: $50,000 · Environment1000 FRIENDS OF…JAPANESE GARDEN SOCIETY OF OREGON: $12,000 · EnvironmentJAPANESE GARDEN…Oregon Environmental Council: $10,000 · EnvironmentOregon Environm…+1 more: $2,000 · EnvironmentOREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY: $30,000 · Arts & CultureOREGON MUSEUM…PORTLAND ART MUSEUM: $20,000 · Arts & CulturePORTLAND ART …PORTLAND CENTER STAGE: $11,000 · Arts & CulturePORTLAND CENT…OREGON BALLET THEATRE: $5,000 · Arts & CultureOREGON BALLET…UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationWILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY: $9,000 · EducationIMPACT NW: $10,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $10,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$239,000Philanthropy$125,000Environment$74,000Arts & Culture$66,000Education$24,000Human Services$10,000Crime & Legal$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPORTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $110,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budget1000 FRIENDS OF OREGON: $50,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetLITERARY ARTS INC: $50,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetOREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CAMPBELL INSTITUTE: $27,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPORTLAND ART MUSEUM: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPACIFIC NORTHWEST COLLEGE OF ART: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of the Columbia-Willamette: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJAPANESE GARDEN SOCIETY OF OREGON: $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPORTLAND CENTER STAGE: $11,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetIMPACT NW: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOregon Environmental Council: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY: $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOREGON BALLET THEATRE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSightline Institute: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $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 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 PACIFIC NORTHWEST COLLEGE OF ART ↗
  • Who funds United Way of the Columbia-Willamette ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JAPANESE GARDEN SOCIETY OF OREGON ↗
  • Who funds PORTLAND CENTER STAGE ↗
  • Who funds IMPACT NW ↗
  • Who funds Oregon Environmental Council ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • 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 ↗

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 Collins FoundationMeyer Memorial TrustThe Jackson FoundationThe Harold & Arlene S…Maybelle Clark Macdon…Rose E Tucker Charita…Oregon Jewish Communi…Ronald W Naito Md Fou…Juan Young TrustRegional Arts & Cultu…Marie Lamfrom Charita…
The Oregon Community FoundationOR27.8× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Edwards Lienhart Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edwards Lienhart Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 25 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home