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Energy Trust of Oregon Inc

Energy trust provides comprehensive, sustainable energy efficiency, conservation and renewable energy solutions to those we serve.

$318k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$95k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
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 FY2022–2024.

Environment$176kEmployment$109kHousing & Shelter$108kCommunity Improvement$95kArts & Culture$33kHuman Services$20kYouth Development$10kInternational$10k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $110k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $201k
$37,615
Median grant
1
States reached
$96M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOME PERFORMANCE GUILD OF OREGON$95,000
ENERCITY COLLABORATIVE$54,400
GREEN NW$51,500
NAMC OREGON$37,615
PACIFIC CREST AFFORDABLE HOUSING$31,000
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON$22,917
LEVER ARCHITECTURE PC$18,947
ZIMMER GUNSUL FRASCA ARCHITECTS$6,429
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 (FY22–23, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COMMON CONNECTIONS: $10k → 18%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICE: $10k → 12%GROWING GARDENS: $10k → 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 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 Advantage

Earth advantage is focused on advancing a more informed and humane housing market.we work to ensure the us housing market recognizes the elements of homes that create climate risk and values the characteristics of homes that provide (see…

Housing & Shelter
2
Oregon Energy Systems Technology and Research
Environment
3
Earth Day Oregon
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4
Nw Energy Coalition

The NW Energy Coalition is an alliance of over 100 environmental, civic, and human service organizations, utilities, and businesses in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia, plus many individual members. The NW Energy…

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5
Welcome Home Coalition

Welcome Home is a diverse coalition in the Portland metropolitan region that uses its collective resources to create healthy communities by ensuring everyone has an affordable and stable home. We use community education and collaboration…

Community Improvement
6
Oregon Human Development Corporation

To promote economic and social advancement of farmworkers and disadvantaged individuals through the provision of education, training, advocacy and services that enhance self-sufficiency.

Human Services
7
Portland Energy Conservation Inc
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8
Central Washington Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

We increase access to economic opportunities for business owners, entrepreneurs, and individuals in Central Washington by connecting and providing them with resources, representation, and opportunities to build community.

Community Improvement
9
Taking Ownership

Taking Ownership is a community and reparations-based organization in Portland, Oregon founded with the intention to activate and utilize community members and their resources for equitable change. Together we renovate and revive…

Community Improvement
10
House Our Neighbors

House Our Neighbors envisions a future where all people can afford to live and thrive in vibrant, cohesive, and climate resilient communities. To achieve this, we develop, advocate, and mobilize for policy to realize social housing for the…

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11
Rohingya Youth Association of Portland

To support Rohingya and Burmese immigrant and refugee families to become independent empowered and established in their new environment.

Arts & Culture
12
Neighborhood Economic Develop Corp

Nedco collaboratively builds human capital assets to strengthen neighborhoods and broaden participation in community ownership and governance. nedco is committed to projects that strengthen low-income households and the neighborhoods in…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Metropolitan Family Service and the most unlike its peers is All Ages Music Portland dba Friends of Noise. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyRiver & Forest ConservationHealthcare Professional Ass…Early Childhood & Family Su…Industry Trade AssociationsFaith-Based Social ServicesCommunity Theater & Perform…Supportive Housing Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 19 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%8%<5yr14%32%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr19%24%20–35yr11%20%35–55yr14%4%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%28%<5yr14%31%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr19%16%20–35yr11%15%35–55yr14%3%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 28% 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%0/31
the rest of the field
12%
1,589/12,917

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

25 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. 25 of the 31 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
11/25
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HOME PERFORMANCE CONTRACTORS GUILD OF OREGON — $95,000 · OtherHOME PERFORMANCE CONTRACTORS GUILD OF OREGONPACIFIC CREST AFFORDABLE HOUSING — $31,000 · OtherPACIFIC CREST AFFORDABLE HOUSINGOREGON STATE UNIVERSITY — $22,917 · OtherOREGON STATE UNIVERSITYLEVER ARCHITECTURE PC — $18,947 · OtherLEVER ARCHITECTURE PCBLACK COMMUNITY OF PORTLAND — $10,000 · OtherAFRICAN AMERICAN ALLIANCE FOR HOMEOWNERSHIP — $10,000 · OtherCommunity Energy Project Inc — $10,000 · OtherSOLARIZE ROGUE — $10,000 · OtherEthiopian and Eritrean Cultural and Resource Cente — $10,000 · OtherAll Ages Music Portland dba Friends of Noise — $10,000 · OtherYOUTH ORGANIZED & UNITED HELP — $10,000 · OtherPHILIPPINE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF OREGON — $10,000 · Other350 DESCHUTES 350Deschutes — $10,000 · Other+2 more — $13,234 · OtherENERCITY COLLABORATIVE — $54,400 · EducationENERCITY COLLABORATIV…GREEN NW — $51,500 · EducationGREEN NWNAMC OREGON — $37,615 · EmploymentNAMC OREGONLATINOBUILT FOUNDATION — $20,000 · EmploymentLATINOBUILT…UMPQUA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP — $20,000 · Housing & ShelterNORTHWEST HOUSING ALTERNATIVES — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterBIENESTAR INC — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterSolar Oregon — $10,000 · EnvironmentLAKE COUNTY RESOURCE INITIATIVE — $10,000 · EnvironmentTHE SUSTAINABLE LIVING CENTER — $8,372 · EnvironmentSeeds for the Sol Inc — $8,320 · EnvironmentCOMMON CONNECTIONS — $10,000 · Human ServicesGrowing Gardens — $10,000 · Human ServicesMetropolitan Family Service — $10,000 · Human ServicesLLOYD ECODISTRICT — $10,000 · Community ImprovementNORTHWEST NATIVE CHAMBER — $10,000 · Community Improvement
Other$271,098Education$105,900Employment$57,615Housing & Shelter$40,000Environment$36,692Human Services$30,000Community Improvement$20,000

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 budgetENERCITY COLLABORATIVE — $54,400 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetGREEN NW — $51,500 over 1y, 95% of budgetNAMC OREGON — $37,615 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetLATINOBUILT FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetUMPQUA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSolar Oregon — $10,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetLLOYD ECODISTRICT — $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetNORTHWEST HOUSING ALTERNATIVES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAKE COUNTY RESOURCE INITIATIVE — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetAFRICAN AMERICAN ALLIANCE FOR HOMEOWNERSHIP — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetYOUTH ORGANIZED & UNITED HELP — $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetBIENESTAR INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEthiopian and Eritrean Cultural and Resource Cente — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMON CONNECTIONS — $10,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetPHILIPPINE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF OREGON — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCommunity Energy Project Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAll Ages Music Portland dba Friends of Noise — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNORTHWEST NATIVE CHAMBER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget350 DESCHUTES 350Deschutes — $10,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetGrowing Gardens — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMetropolitan Family Service — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SUSTAINABLE LIVING CENTER — $8,372 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHACIENDA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $6,805 over 1y, 0.1% 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 Collins FoundationMeyer Memorial TrustThe Oregon Community …Seeding JusticeUmpqua Bank Charitabl…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Worksystems IncEarth Day OregonOnpoint Community Cre…United Way of the Col…Hillman Family Founda…Marie Lamfrom Charita…
The Collins FoundationOR39× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Collins Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Oregon Community Foundation · Seeding Justice · Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Worksystems Inc · Earth Day Oregon · Onpoint Community Credit Union · United Way of the Columbia-Willamette · Hillman Family Foundations · 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 Energy Trust of Oregon 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Philippine American Chamber of Commerce of Oregon — 86% of income from government
  • Lake County Resource Initiative — 48% of income from government
  • Hacienda Community Development Corporation — 48% of income from government
  • Metropolitan Family Service — 29% of income from government
  • African American Alliance for Homeownership — 17% of income from government
  • Umpqua Community Development Corp — 12% of income from government
  • Ethiopian and Eritrean Cultural and Resource Cente — 12% of income from government
  • Bienestar Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Growing Gardens — 6% of income from government
  • Youth Organized & United Help — 3% of income from government
  • Latinobuilt Foundation — 1% of income from government
  • All Ages Music Portland dba Friends of Noise — 1% of income from government
  • Northwest Housing Alternatives — 1% of income from government
  • Community Energy Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.

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 31 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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