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Environmental Federation of Oregon dba EarthShare Oregon
Earthshare oregon connects oregonians at their workplaces with the leading environmental groups working locally in their community, statewide, and around the world.
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86% of Environmental Federation of Oregon dba EarthShare Oregon’s FY2019 grant dollars went to Earthshare, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2019 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2017, the last year Environmental Federation of Oregon dba EarthShare Oregon named its own grantees at scale: 9 organizations, $99k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $98,789 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $368,254 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $269,465 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.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k9 grants · $75k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $24k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $23,981 |
| 1000 FRIENDS OF OREGON | $9,832 |
| FRIENDS OF TREES | $9,590 |
| AUDUBON SOCIETY OF PORTLAND | $9,320 |
| OREGON WILD | $9,272 |
| OREGON STATE PARKS FOUNDATION | $9,169 |
| BICYCLE TRANSPORTATION ALLIANCE | $9,146 |
| MCKENZIE RIVER TRUST | $7,222 |
| FRIENDS OF THE COLUMBIA GORGE | $6,113 |
| SIERRA CLUB OREGON CHAPTER | $5,144 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2017, 1 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2017 (too recent to call). Read against FY2017, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2019, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
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
- ONOregon Natural Resources Council Fund Oregon Wild2× · 2017–2019 · $15k · revenue +21%
- EWEARTHSHARE WASHINGTON2× · 2018–2019 · $15k · revenue -89%
- MRMcKenzie River Trust2× · 2017–2019 · $13k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- 1F1000 FRIENDS OF OREGONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +102%
- FOFriends of Treesone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue 0%
BIRD ALLIANCE OF OREGON INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $9k · revenue +99%
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.
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
Friends of the columbia gorge land trust works to preserve scenic gorge landscapes, safeguard sensitive habitats, steward vital gorge lands, and strengthen community connections.
Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.
Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…
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…
Founded in 1981, the wetlands conservancy is dedicated to working in partnership with communities statewide to permanently protect, conserve and restore oregon's greatest wetlands.
Earthshare oregon connects oregonians at their workplaces with the leading environmental groups working locally in their community, statewide, and around the world.
Building a diverse grassroots movement to address the causes of climate disruption through justice-based solutions by inspiring, training and mobilizing people to act.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
The climate trust pioneers accessible carbon market solutions that benefit our climate through good land stewardship.
Wwt's mission is to protect and restore water in rivers and streams across washington state. washington water trust restores and protects water in rivers and streams and promotes sustainable freshwater management in washington, and, more…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 1000 Friends of Oregon and the most unlike its peers is The Street Trust Community Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 12 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 EARTHSHARE ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Oregon Natural Resources Council Fund Oregon Wild ↗
- Who funds EARTHSHARE WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds McKenzie River Trust ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Columbia Gorge ↗
- Who funds 1000 FRIENDS OF OREGON ↗
- Who funds Friends of Trees ↗
- Who funds BIRD ALLIANCE OF OREGON INC ↗
- Who funds THE STREET TRUST COMMUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
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: Meyer Memorial Trust · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Collins Foundation · Earth Day Oregon · Kohnstamm Family Foundation · D27 Foundation · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · The Jackson Foundation · The Bullitt Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · Patagoniaorg · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Environmental Federation of Oregon dba EarthShare 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.
- Friends of Trees — 100% of income from government
- McKenzie River Trust — 8% of income from government
- The Street Trust Community Fund — 6% of income from government
- Oregon Natural Resources Council Fund Oregon Wild — 2% of income from government
- Bird Alliance of Oregon Inc — 0% 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.
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