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Erwin Family Foundation at a glance

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Erwin Family Foundation

$28k
Granted FY2023
4
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
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 2023.

International$125kYouth Development$113kEducation$70kReligion$46kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kPhilanthropy$9kHealth$8kRecreation & Sports$2kOther$0
02FY2023 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k3 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$7,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$721
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Bend Seventh-Day Adventist Church$15,000
Big Lake Youth Camp$7,500
Battle Ground HealthCare$3,000
Vital Life Foundation$2,500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Extreme Mobility Camps Inc: $2k → 10%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 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
Mid-Columbia Medical Center

Living God's love by inspiring health, wholeness, and hope.

Health
2
Northwest Medical Foundation Tillamook

Living God's love by inspiring health, wholeness and hope.

Health
3
Western Health Resources

Living God's love by inspiring health, wholeness and hope.

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4
Adventist Health Clearlake Hospital Inc

Living God's love by inspiring health, wholeness and hope.

Health
5
Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital and Medical Center

Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital and Medical Center (LGSHMC), founded in 1875 is one of the earliest hospitals in the Pacific Northwest. LGSHMC provides acute and tertiary care in Portland, OR with 539 licensed beds. LGSHMC provides a…

Health
6
Adventist Health Mendocino Coast

Living God's love by inspiring health, wholeness and hope.

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7
Christian Health Care Center

Christian Health Care Center is a skilled nursing facility which provides housing services designed to meet the needs of older residents of Lynden Washington regardless of their ability to pay.

Health
8
Legacy Salmon Creek Hospital

Legacy Salmon Creek Hospital (LSCH), established in 2005, provides acute and critical care in Vancouver, with 165 licensed beds. LSCH operates adult, pediatric, and OB/GYN hospitalist programs, as well as four primary care physician…

Health
9
Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center

Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center (LMHMC) was founded in 1922 and is a community hospital in Gresham, Oregon with 115 licensed beds. LMHMC offers a wide range of services including family birth, diagnostic services, cancer treatment,…

Health
10
Adventist Health Delano

Living God's love by inspiring health, wholeness, and hope.

Health
11
White Memorial Medical Center dba Adventist Health White Memorial

Living Gods love by inspiring health, wholeness and hope.

Health
12
Feather River Hospital

Living God's love by inspiring health, wholeness and hope.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Portland Adventist Medical Center; the most unlike its peers is Extreme Mobility Camps Inc. 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

8 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. 8 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BIG LAKE YOUTH CAMP: $112,500 · OtherBIG LAKE YOUTH CAMPBend Adventist Church: $30,000 · OtherBend Adventist ChurchAdventist Development and Relief Ag: $25,000 · OtherAdventist Development and Relief AgBend Seventh-Day Adventist Church: $15,000 · OtherBend Seventh-Day Adventist ChurchOregon Conference of SDA: $10,000 · OtherCOLUMBIA ADVENTIST ACADEMY: $8,000 · Other+5 more: $12,500 · Other+5 moreINTERNATIONAL CHILDRENS CARE INC: $125,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL CHILDRENS CARE INCWALLA WALLA UNIVERSITY: $41,000 · EducationWALLA WALLA…VITAL LIFE A MARQUIS AND CONSONUS FOUNDATION: $8,500 · PhilanthropyPortland Adventist Medical Center: $5,000 · HealthBATTLE GROUND HEALTHCARE: $3,000 · HealthEXTREME MOBILITY CAMPS INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesCOURTS FOR KIDS: $500 · Youth Development
Other$213,000International$125,000Education$41,000Philanthropy$8,500Health$8,000Human Services$2,000Youth Development$500

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 budgetINTERNATIONAL CHILDRENS CARE INC: $125,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetVITAL LIFE A MARQUIS AND CONSONUS FOUNDATION: $8,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPortland Adventist Medical Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBATTLE GROUND HEALTHCARE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEXTREME MOBILITY CAMPS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $1,000 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.

  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL CHILDRENS CARE INC ↗
  • Who funds WALLA WALLA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds VITAL LIFE A MARQUIS AND CONSONUS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Portland Adventist Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds BATTLE GROUND HEALTHCARE ↗
  • Who funds EXTREME MOBILITY CAMPS INC ↗
  • Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
  • Who funds COURTS FOR KIDS ↗

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.

The Oregon Community …Versacare IncAmerican Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Oregon Community FoundationOR14.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · Versacare Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Erwin Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Erwin Family Foundation. 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%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Portland Adventist Medical Center: 0% 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)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Erwin Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Erwin Family Foundation 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 18 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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