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Eton Lane Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$293k
Granted FY2025still arriving
42
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192025.

Education$1.3MReligion$337kInternational$70kHealth$64kFood & Nutrition$47kHuman Services$41kRecreation & Sports$30kAnimals$24kOther$0
02FY2025 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k29 grants · $88k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $205k
$5,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SETON CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL$25,000
ABBEY FOUNDATION OF OREGON$25,000
ST ANTHONY CATHOLIC SCHOOL$25,000
LA SALLE CATHOLIC COLLEGE PREP$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND$20,000
SETON CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL$15,000
CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL$15,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
DE LA SALLE N CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
CONGREGATION OF HOLY CROSS US PROVINCE$10,000
EOHSJ VICE GOV GENERAL NORTH AMERICA$10,000
EASTERN OREGON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$10,000
EQUESTRIAN ORDER HOLY SEPULCHRE$10,000
OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY$5,000
UNBOUND$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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $118k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%QUEEN OF PEACE FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%Unbound: $5k → 16%QUEEN OF PEACE FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%UNBOUND: $5k → 16%QUEEN OF PEACE FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%UNBOUND: $5k → 16%QUEEN OF PEACE FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%UNBOUND: $5k → 16%QUEEN OF PEACE FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%UNBOUND: $5k → 16%UNBOUND: $5k → 16%UNBOUND: $5k → 16%CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF LANE COUNTY: $1k → 15%Catholic Community Services of Lane County: $1k → 15%CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF LANE COUNTY: $1k → 15%STANDUP GIRLCOM FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%STANDUP GIRLCOM FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%STANDUP GIRLCOM FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%Standup Girlcom Foundation: $3k → 14%STANDUP GIRLCOM FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%STANDUP GIRLCOM FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%STANDUP GIRLCOM FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $5k → 9%ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $5k → 9%ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $5k → 9%ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $5k → 9%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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 edge
repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.9M · 50 repeat orgs$93k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +1% since the first grant, against -9% for the ones you funded once.

50 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
21

Total granted

$1.9M
$68k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
-9%

Still filing today

32%
14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthAnimalsYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther

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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND
    7× · 2019–2025 · $152k · revenue +16%
  • EO
    EASTERN OREGON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $67k · revenue +1%
  • SF
    STANDUPGIRLCOM FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $25k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • SE
    ST ELIZABETH ANN SETON CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2019 · $11k
  • CO
    Carmel of Maria Regina
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • ST
    St Theresa School
    one grant, 2019 · $5k

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

04Your 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
Oregon Center for Public Policy

The oregon center for public policy's mission is to achieve economic justice for all oregonians through research, analysis, and advocacy. ocpp works to change policies that foster economic security and stability for all oregonians. we do…

Employment
2
Portland State University Foundation

Portland state university foundation is responsible for raising and managing private resources to advance psu's priorities and mission to be a leading urban university.

3
Oregon Food Bank

To eliminate hunger and its root causes...because no one should be hungry.

4
University of Oregon Foundation

The purpose and mission of the foundation are, acting on its own or through affiliates, to support and assist the university of oregon in its activities by management and administration of foundation assets representing privately donated…

Education
5
U of O Foundation Supporting Organization

See schedule othe purpose and mission of the organization is to support and assist the university of oregon foundation in its activities by management and administration of organization assets representing privately donated funds, by…

Education
6
The Oregon Community Foundation

The mission of The Oregon Community Foundation is to improve lives of all Oregonians through the power of philanthropy.

Philanthropy
7
Port Angeles Food Bank

Nourishing our community. the port angeles food bank is the main food bank in clallam county, providing food to 13 other area pantries and meal programs as well as providing food to over 5,000 individuals per month.

Food & Nutrition
8
Oregon Cancer Foundation

Our mission is to empower, strengthen and sustain those impacted by cancer in our community through education, support and financial assistance.

Health
9
Portland Farmers Market

Pfm operates world-class farmers markets that contribute to the success of local food growers and producers and create vibrant community gatherings. as a trade association, success for our vendors is our primary objective. listening and…

Community Improvement
10
Columbia Pacific Food Bank

Columbia pacific food bank is the regional food distribution center for columbia county, oregon and local food pantry for the community of saint helens.

Food & Nutrition
11
Oregon Restaurant and Lodging Association

Orla serves as the leading industry advocate, striving to protect, improve and promote oregon hospitality.

12
The Oregon Community Foundation Trust

The oregon community foundation trust is a supporting organization of the oregon community foundation (ocf). the trust makes grants that further the mission of ocf which is to improve the lives of all oregonians through the power of…

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Providence Portland Medical Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAnimal Rescue and AdoptionPublic University Foundatio…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Senior Support ServicesPregnancy Support ServicesFood Pantries & AssistanceVolunteer Fire DepartmentsChristian Missionary Organi…Government Accountability R…Cancer Support Organizations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 61 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%3%<5yr13%0%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr19%14%20–35yr12%14%35–55yr16%55%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr19%4%20–35yr12%7%35–55yr16%69%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 3% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/35
the rest of the field
11%
2,771/25,396

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.

04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 76 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
10/21
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LASALLE CATHOLIC COLLEGE PREPARATORY INC — $344,192 · OtherLASALLE CATHOLIC COLLEGE PREPARATORY INCSETON CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL — $180,000 · OtherSETON CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLST ANTHONY CATHOLIC SCHOOL — $139,727 · OtherST ANTHONY CATHOLIC SCHOOLTHE ABBEY FOUNDATION OF OREGON — $128,000 · OtherTHE ABBEY FOUNDATION OF OREGONCENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL — $70,000 · OtherDE LA SALLE N CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL — $55,000 · Other+56 more — $618,875 · Other+56 moreUNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND — $152,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF …EASTERN OREGON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $67,200 · EducationEASTERN OREGON…CARROLL COLLEGE — $21,000 · EducationCARROLL COLLEG…+1 more — $6,000 · EducationQUEEN OF PEACE FOUNDATION — $35,000 · Human ServicesUnbound — $35,000 · Human ServicesSTANDUPGIRLCOM FOUNDATION INC — $24,500 · Human ServicesSAINT FRANCES CABRINI CHARITABLE SERVICES — $20,000 · Human Services+1 more — $3,000 · Human ServicesPROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $38,900 · Health+1 more — $1,000 · HealthOREGON HUMANE SOCIETY — $23,500 · AnimalsCASCADE PACIFIC COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $10,701 · Youth DevelopmentMEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC — $4,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,535,794Education$246,200Human Services$117,500Health$39,900Animals$23,500Youth Development$10,701Food & Nutrition$4,000

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND — $152,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ABBEY FOUNDATION OF OREGON — $128,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetEASTERN OREGON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $67,200 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetPROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $38,900 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetQUEEN OF PEACE FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetUnbound — $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSTANDUPGIRLCOM FOUNDATION INC — $24,500 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetOREGON HUMANE SOCIETY — $23,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCARROLL COLLEGE — $21,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFRANCIS CENTER — $20,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetSAINT FRANCES CABRINI CHARITABLE SERVICES — $20,000 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetCASCADE PACIFIC COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $10,701 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetREGIS ST MARY FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF LANE COUNTY INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCLARK COUNTY FOOD BANK — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLANCHET HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Lakeview Community Pool — $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANNON BEACH FIRE & RESCUE ASSOCIATION — $500 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND
  • Who funds THE ABBEY FOUNDATION OF OREGON
  • Who funds EASTERN OREGON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds PROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds QUEEN OF PEACE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Unbound
  • Who funds STANDUPGIRLCOM FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY
  • Who funds CARROLL COLLEGE
  • Who funds FRANCIS CENTER
  • Who funds SAINT FRANCES CABRINI CHARITABLE SERVICES
  • Who funds CASCADE PACIFIC COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA

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.

OCF Joseph E Weston Public FoundationOR31.8× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Lane Werner Family Foundation · Gelco Charitable Foundation · Bp Lester & Regina John Foundation · JTMF Foundation · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · Juan Young Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Eton Lane 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 70%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Providence Portland Medical Foundation5% of income from government
  • University of Portland1% of income from government
  • Oregon Public Broadcasting1% of income from government
  • Francis Center0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Eton Lane Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Eton Lane 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 76 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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