· Private foundation
Ellen M & Peter M Klein Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MITTLEMAN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $2,000 |
| TEMPLE B'NAI ABRAHAM | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION | $1,250 |
| PORTLAND JEWISH ACADEMY | $1,000 |
| UJA OF GREATER METRO WEST | $1,000 |
| LGBT CENTER | $500 |
| LIFT URBAN PORTLAND | $500 |
| DICKINSON COLLEGE FUND | $500 |
| NATL COUN OF JEWISH WOMEN | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| EASTERN PA TRANS EQUITY | $500 |
| STONE SOUP PDX | $500 |
| GAMUT CLASSIC THEATRE GROUP | $300 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $250 |
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 (FY25–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 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.
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.
24 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- MJMITTLEMAN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $11k · revenue +22%
- PJPORTLAND JEWISH ACADEMY9× · 2017–2025 · $8k · revenue +38%
- RSRIVERDALE SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $3k · revenue +0%
Funded once
- JGJCF GREATER METRO WESTone grant, 2017 · $1k
- OJOREGON JEWISH MUSEUM AND CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST EDUCATIONone grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue +22%
- NCNATIONAL CENTER FRO TRANSGENDERone grant, 2021 · $500
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.
To provide programming and support to undergraduate and graduate students in the greater portland, oregon area. to enrich the lives of jewish undergraduate and graduate students in the greater portland, oregon and southwest washington area…
Portland Public Library is a welcoming cultural center that brings people together and connects them with trusted resources, ideas, experiences, and information. We build a stronger community by inspiring learning, creativity, 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…
Orla serves as the leading industry advocate, striving to protect, improve and promote oregon hospitality.
We believe that the freedoms of press, speech, assembly, and religion, and the rights to due process, equal protection and privacy, are fundamental to a free people. We advance civil liberties and civil rights by activities that include…
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.
To inform its members and the community in public matters and to arouse in them the realization of the obligations of citizenship.
The oregon law foundation builds a fairer legal system and supports justice for all in oregon by:-ensuring access to civil legal help for people with low incomes, or who experience other systemic barriers;-promoting the accessibility of…
The graduate employee union is committed to establishing a powerful, democratic, transparent organization of graduate assistants advocating for fair wages, workplace protections, and healthcare. vision: we strive to work with the…
Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…
Basic rights oregon will ensure that all lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender oregonians experience equality by building a broad and inclusive politically powerful movement, shifting public opinion, and achieving policy victories.
The aclu foundation of oregon is dedicated to preserving and defending civil liberties and civil rights.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Lawyers' Campaign for Equal Justice and the most unlike its peers is Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 32 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 MITTLEMAN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND JEWISH ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds RIVERDALE SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LAWYERS' CAMPAIGN FOR EQUAL JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds URBAN GLEANERS ↗
- Who funds EQUALITY PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds OREGON JEWISH MUSEUM AND CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds EASTERN PA TRANS EQUITY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Lift Urban Portland ↗
- Who funds STONE SOUP PDX ↗
- Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
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 Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Care Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Portland · The Holzman Foundation · Jay and Diane Zidell Charitable Foundation · Oregon Jewish Community Foundation · Juan Young Trust · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Ellen M & Peter M Klein Foundation Inc 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.
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- Stone Soup Pdx — 20% of income from government
- Mittleman Jewish Community Center — 2% 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.