· Public charity
Elevate Oregon
Elevating potential, building sustained relationships with urban youth, and charting paths to brighter futures.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $147,264 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $188,586 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $41,322 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MENTAL HEALTH & ADDICTION OF OREGON | $35,000 |
| COLUMBIA SLOUGH WATERSHED COUNCIL | $27,264 |
| FRIENDS OF BASEBALL | $25,000 |
| ECUMENICAL MINISTRIES OF OREGON | $25,000 |
| PROJECT 48 INC | $25,000 |
| THE PATHFINDERS NETWORK | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $71k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those 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.
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.
Introduce at-risk youth to outdoor activities
Homeless services
Portland activities & athletics league (paal) builds partnerships among youth, the law enforcement community, service professionals, and the community at large. paal fosters an environment of safety, trust and belonging as we inspire youth…
To provide resources and funding to formerly incarcerated individuals.
Develop educational network to communicate historical and scientific information empasizing natural and cultural resources to pacific northwest.
Connecting court-involved youth to their internal power.
Recovery housing and services
The Portland Parks Conservancy's mission is to enhance Portland's parks and recreational programs by raising philantropic capital and engaging the community.
To eliminate racism, empower women and promote peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.
To help empower african americans and others achieve equality in education, employment, and economic security.
Over the next five years, portland trails will work to transform greater portland into a regional hub of connectivity and sustainability. by facilitating the expansion and enhancement of our trail network, we will foster inclusive…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mental Health Association of Oregon and the most unlike its peers is Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 11 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 PROJECT 48 INC ↗
- Who funds Mental Health Association of Oregon ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA SLOUGH WATERSHED COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN NATURE PARTNERS PDX ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BASEBALL ↗
- Who funds ROSE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORAT ↗
- Who funds MARIE LAMFROM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds The Waterstrong Initiative ↗
- Who funds Pathfinders of Oregon ↗
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 · Juan Young Trust · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Worksystems Inc · The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Care Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Autzen Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Elevate 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.
- Pathfinders of Oregon — 57% of income from government
- Mental Health Association of Oregon — 41% of income from government
- Urban Nature Partners Pdx — 34% of income from government
- Project 48 Inc — 23% of income from government
- Columbia Slough Watershed Council Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Waterstrong Initiative — 3% of income from government
- Rose Community Development Corporat — 1% 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.