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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.

$368k
Granted FY2017
10
Grants FY2017
1
States reached
$24k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

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

9
’17
1
’18
4
’19

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Environment$277kAnimals$9kRecreation & Sports$9kCommunity Improvement$9k
02FY2017 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $98,789, the rows itemized in this filing. The $368,254 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $269,465 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2017

  • Under $10k9 grants · $75k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $24k
$9,272
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%BICYCLE TRANSPORTATION ALLIANCE: $9k → 12%MCKENZIE RIVER TRUST: $7k → 15%EARTHSHARE WASHINGTON: $8k → 9%EARTHSHARE NATIONAL: $137k → 8%AUDUBON SOCIETY OF PORTLAND: $9k → 12%MCKENZIE RIVER TRUST: $6k → 15%EARTHSHARE WASHINGTON: $7k → 9%EARTH SHARE NATIONAL: $23k → 8%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $24k → 12%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $7k → 12%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $7k → 12%SIERRA CLUB OREGON CHAPTER: $5k → 12%1000 FRIENDS OF OREGON: $10k → 12%OREGON STATE PARKS FOUNDATION: $9k → 12%FRIENDS OF THE COLUMBIA GORGE: $6k → 12%FRIENDS OF THE COLUMBIA GORGE: $5k → 12%OREGON WILD: $9k → 12%OREGON WILD: $6k → 12%FRIENDS OF TREES: $10k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$54k · 4 repeat orgs$52k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
6

Total granted

$54k
$52k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
0%

Still filing today

100%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • ON
    Oregon Natural Resources Council Fund Oregon Wild
    2× · 2017–2019 · $15k · revenue +21%
  • EW
    EARTHSHARE WASHINGTON
    2× · 2018–2019 · $15k · revenue -89%
  • MR
    McKenzie River Trust
    2× · 2017–2019 · $13k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • 1F
    1000 FRIENDS OF OREGONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +102%
  • FO
    Friends of Trees
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • BIRD ALLIANCE OF OREGON INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $9k · revenue +99%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Oregon Agricultural Trust

Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.

Environment
2
Friends of the Columbia Gorge Land Trust

Friends of the columbia gorge land trust works to preserve scenic gorge landscapes, safeguard sensitive habitats, steward vital gorge lands, and strengthen community connections.

Environment
3
Washington Forest Law Center

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.

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4
Cascadia Wildlands

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…

Environment
5
Earth Day Oregon
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6
Western Rivers Conservancy

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…

Environment
7
The Wetlands Conservancy Inc

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.

Environment
8
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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9
350PDX

Building a diverse grassroots movement to address the causes of climate disruption through justice-based solutions by inspiring, training and mobilizing people to act.

Environment
10
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
11
Oregon Climate Trust

The climate trust pioneers accessible carbon market solutions that benefit our climate through good land stewardship.

Environment
12
Washington Water Trust

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…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 1000 Friends of Oregon; 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.
04the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EARTHSHARE: $160,336 · EnvironmentEARTHSHAREOregon Natural Resources Council Fund Oregon Wild: $15,091 · EnvironmentOregon Natural Resources Council Fund Oregon WildEARTHSHARE WASHINGTON: $15,060 · EnvironmentEARTHSHARE WASHINGTONMcKenzie River Trust: $12,907 · EnvironmentMcKenzie River Trust1000 FRIENDS OF OREGON: $9,832 · EnvironmentFriends of Trees: $9,590 · EnvironmentBIRD ALLIANCE OF OREGON INC: $9,320 · Environment+1 more: $5,144 · EnvironmentTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $38,088 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYFriends of the Columbia Gorge: $11,183 · OtherFriends of the Columbia G…OREGON PARKS FOREVER: $9,169 · OtherOREGON PARKS FOREVERTHE STREET TRUST COMMUNITY FUND: $9,146 · OtherTHE STREET TRUST COMMUNIT…
Environment$237,280Other$67,586

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEARTHSHARE: $160,336 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $38,088 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHSHARE WASHINGTON: $15,060 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetMcKenzie River Trust: $12,907 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of the Columbia Gorge: $11,183 over 2y, 0.4% of budget1000 FRIENDS OF OREGON: $9,832 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFriends of Trees: $9,590 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBIRD ALLIANCE OF OREGON INC: $9,320 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $5,144 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Meyer Memorial TrustThe Oregon Community …The Collins FoundationEarth Day OregonKohnstamm Family Foun…D27 FoundationRose E Tucker Charita…The Jackson FoundationThe Bullitt FoundationThe Nature ConservancyPatagoniaorgVanguard Charitable E…
Meyer Memorial TrustOR19.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Environmental Federation of Oregon dba EarthShare Oregon funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Environmental Federation of Oregon dba EarthShare Oregon. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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Find your warmest path to Environmental Federation of Oregon dba EarthShare Oregon 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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