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Entrepreneurs Foundation of the Northwest

To help small companies give back to the community.

$81k
Granted FY2020
5
Grants FY2020
1
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fund
0165% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20192020.

Recreation & Sports$250kHuman Services$65kYouth Development$50kAnimals$5kOther$202k
02FY2020 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VETERAN'S LEGACY$40,000
A FAMILY PLACE (LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTHWEST)$20,000
NEWBERG EDUCATION FOUNDATION$10,000
NEWBERG ANIMAL SHELTER FRIENDS$5,000
FISH FOOD PANTRY (NEWBERG FISH EMERGENCY SERVICE)$5,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 62% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%VETERAN'S LEGACY: $40k → 15%A FAMILY PLACE (LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTHWEST): $20k → 11%FISH FOOD PANTRY (NEWBERG FISH EMERGENCY SERVICE): $5k → 11%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
Northeast Oregon Network

Northeast Oregon Network (the Organization) is a non-profit organization established to create a healthier Oregon by reducing barriers for both residents and regional systems that support their health. The Organization fulfills its mission…

Health
2
Eugene Christian School

To assist families by proving a Christ-centered bible-based education that inspires each student to have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and pursue excellence in moral character, academics, and service to others.

Education
3
Eastern Oregon University Foundation

Established in 1964 for the philanthropic benefit of Eastern Oregon University, the Foundation raises funds to support the mission of Eastern Oregon University.

Education
4
Legal Aid Services of Oregon

The primary purpose of legal aid services of oregon shall be to achieve justice for the low-income communities of oregon by providing a full range of the highest quality civil legal services.

Crime & Legal
5
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)…

6
Northeast Oregon Economic Development District

The mission of NEOEDD is to contribute to a vibrant rural economy by providing consulting, training, financing, referrals and other assistance to businesses, entrepreneurs, local governments and non-profit organizations in Northeast Oregon.

Religion
7
Nonprofit Association of Oregon

The mission of the nonprofit association of oregon is to strengthen the collective voice, leadership, and capacity of nonprofits to enrich the lives of all oregonians.

Community Improvement
8
Cascades Academy of Central Oregon

Cascades academy is an engaged, vibrant community that weaves challenging academics with experiential learning to inspire socially responsible individuals ready for a diverse and changing world.

Education
9
Reedsport Community Charter School

Reedsport community charter school's mission is to provide community based, technology-infused, problem-solving curriculum to students in grades 7 through 12 and living within the reedsport school district on the southern oregon coast.

10
Linc Nw

To provide innovative collaborative solutions to economic, social, environmental, and spiritual challenges in the Pacific Northwest and beyond.

Religion
11
North Clackamas Education Foundation

NCEF raises community funds to bridge the gap between North Clackamas School District (NCSD) funding and the unmet needs of it's students. It's mission is to ensure NCSD students are engaged in school and ready to learn. Key investment…

Education
12
Oregon Dog Rescue

Conduct rescue of dogs, facilitate adoptions of same. provide emergency vet services for dogs needing rescue

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Newberg Education Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Boy Scouts of America. 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

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Chehalem Center Association dba Chehalem Cultural Center — $250,000 · Recreation & SportsChehalem Center Association dba Chehalem Cultural…OREGON ENTREPRENEURS FORUM — $142,239 · OtherOREGON ENTREPRENEURS FORUMLINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · OtherLINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INCNEWBERG EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $10,000 · OtherVETERANS LEGACY — $40,000 · Human ServicesVETERANS LEG…Lutheran Community Services Northwest — $20,000 · Human ServicesLutheran Com…NEWBERG FISH EMERGENCY SERVICE — $5,000 · Human ServicesNEWBERG FISH…BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOY SCOUT…NEWBERG ANIMAL SHELTER FRIENDS — $5,000 · Animals
Recreation & Sports$250,000Other$202,239Human Services$65,000Youth Development$50,000Animals$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetChehalem Center Association dba Chehalem Cultural Center — $250,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetOREGON ENTREPRENEURS FORUM — $142,239 over 1y, 15% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVETERANS LEGACY — $40,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetLutheran Community Services Northwest — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEWBERG EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetNEWBERG FISH EMERGENCY SERVICE — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNEWBERG ANIMAL SHELTER FRIENDS — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

Austin Family FoundationOR13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Austin Family Foundation · 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 Entrepreneurs Foundation of the Northwest 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
202122232425
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Veterans Legacy63% of income from government
  • Oregon Entrepreneurs Forum1% of income from government
  • Newberg Animal Shelter Friends0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Entrepreneurs Foundation of the Northwest?

Find your warmest path to Entrepreneurs Foundation of the Northwest through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 9 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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