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Erath Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $276k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JACKSON COUNTY 4-H MASTER GARDENER AND AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION SERVICE CNT | $200,000 |
| AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY | $75,556 |
| UNION GOSPEL MISSION | $10,000 |
| DOUGLAS HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL GRAPE RESEARCH ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $5,000 |
| A FAMILY PLACE | $5,000 |
| AHIVOY | $2,000 |
| YAMHILL COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP (YCAP) | $1,500 |
| CANBY CENTER | $1,500 |
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 (FY18–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of those 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.
16 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 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, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $208k 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
- ARAgricultural Research Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $860k · revenue +10%
- LULinfield University5× · 2017–2022 · $69k · revenue +3%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC6× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- WVWILLAMETTE VALLEY WINERIES ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue 0%
- WVWILLAMETTE VALLEY WINE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +132% · 25% of their budget
- YCYAMHILL CARLTON FFA ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2018 · $30k
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.
Orla serves as the leading industry advocate, striving to protect, improve and promote oregon hospitality.
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
Oregon research institute is an independent behavioral sciences research center dedicated to understanding human behavior and improving the quality of human life through the prevention and treatment of health, educational, and social…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Life science washington is a non-profit trade and professional association dedicated to promoting innovation and responsible growth in the life sciences and biomedical industries in the state of washington. promotion and education are…
To support our members and promote the growth and quality of oregon's technology industry by providing opportunities for business and professional development through networking and informational programs.
Oregon journalism project's mission is to inform, engage, and empower oregonians with the kind of data-driven and solution-seeking investigative reporting that makes a significant impact at the state and local levels - serving no agenda…
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
The mission of WorldOregon is to engage Oregonians with the world and broaden public awareness and understanding of international affairs.
To build and enhance the competitiveness of Washington State's film and associated creative industry. We accomplish this by marketing and managing the state's production incentive program, representing the state in national and…
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
To produce, in a humanistic tradition, health care professionals and biomedical knowledge that will enhance and extend the quality of life in our communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Immigration Law Center and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Yamhelas Westsider Trail. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
20 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. 20 of the 30 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 Agricultural Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds Oregon State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds Linfield University ↗
- Who funds WILLAMETTE VALLEY WINERIES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WILLAMETTE VALLEY WINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Lutheran Community Services Northwest ↗
- Who funds OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING ↗
- Who funds AHIVOY ↗
- Who funds Kapi'olani Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds WALK IN THE PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CONTINGENT ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL GRAPE RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF YAMHELAS WESTSIDER TRAIL ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds REACH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds LITERARY ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds CaringBridge ↗
- Who funds THE CANBY CENTER ↗
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 · Juan Young Trust · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Erath Family Foundation 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.
- Ahivoy — 29% of income from government
- Reach Community Development Inc — 18% of income from government
- Literary Arts Inc — 10% of income from government
- The Contingent — 5% of income from government
- Linfield University — 4% of income from government
- Oregon Public Broadcasting — 1% of income from government
- Oregon State University Foundation — 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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