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Evergreen Business Capital Foundation at a glance

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Evergreen Business Capital 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.

$100k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Community Improvement$446kEducation$59kEnvironment$44kHuman Services$39kHealth$35kHousing & Shelter$20kFood & Nutrition$8kYouth Development$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EVERGREEN BUSINESS CAPITAL COMMUNITY FINANCE$100,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY19–22, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Adelante Mujeres: $10k → 8%ADELANTE MUJERES: $10k → 8%ADELANTE MUJERES: $10k → 8%ADELANTE MUJERES: $9k → 8%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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$617k · 20 repeat orgs$54k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
9

Total granted

$617k
$54k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+108%

Still filing today

55%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
Community ImprovementEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentHealthFood & NutritionOther
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

  • VENTURES
    6× · 2017–2022 · $55k · revenue +65%
  • ADELANTE MUJERES
    4× · 2019–2022 · $39k · revenue +229%
  • ME
    MICRO ENTERPRISE SERVICES OF OREGON
    3× · 2020–2022 · $30k · revenue +300%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • TB
    TILLAMOOK BAY COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • UC
    UMPQUA COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2018 · $9k
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
Collaborative Economic Development

To accelerate inclusive economic prosperity in lane county, oregon

Employment
2
Economic Development for Central Oregon Inc

Lead the diversification of central oregon's economy through marketing, targeted recruitment, business expansion, formation of effective public/private partnerships and venture coaching for early stage companies.

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3
Cowlitz Economic Development Council

Foster Growth in the Community

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4
Eugene Area Chamber of Commerce

The mission of the eugene area chamber of commerce is to promote a healthy local economy by influencing business success, public policy, and community development.

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5
Greater Eastern Oregon Development Corporation

The greater eastern oregon development corporation is a regional economic development corporation charged with supporting job creation by helping to create, retain, and expand businesses in the region. this is accomplished, in part, by…

Community Improvement
6
Albina Opportunities Corporation Dba Ascent Funding

To create financial equity and jobs in the portland area through lending and business guidance to minority-owned, women-owned, disadvantaged, and low income business communities. ascent funding was founded to address financial…

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7
Community Credit Lab

To support equitable access to economic opportunities for immigrants, refugees, low-income, marginalized, and underserved communities in king county and the united states.

Human Services
8
Central Washington Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

We increase access to economic opportunities for business owners, entrepreneurs, and individuals in Central Washington by connecting and providing them with resources, representation, and opportunities to build community.

Community Improvement
9
Columbia Pacific Economic Developme

The columbia pacific economic development district is to diversify and expand the economic base of the district by actively supporting existing businesses and promoting new business development.

Community Improvement
10
Washington African American Chamber of Commerce

WAACOC nonprofit organization focuses on promoting economic development by providing crucial business development and technical assistance services. Through strategic partnerships and targeted programs we support entrepreneurs and small…

Human Services
11
Community Enterprise Development Services

Community enterprise development services' mission is to support the american dream of financial self-sufficiency, by assisting refugees, immigrants, and those from underserved communities in metro denver who desire to own or strengthen…

Human Services
12
Edc Team Jefferson

EDC Team Jefferson focuses on high-leverage, place-based activities that improve the economic well-being and quality of life for people in Jefferson County, and the living systems in which we are embedded.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ventures; the most unlike its peers is Project Feast. 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

15 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. 15 of the 29 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
9/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EVERGREEN BUSINESS CAPITAL COMMUNITY FINANCE: $200,000 · Community ImprovementEVERGREEN BUSINESS CAPITAL COMMUNITY FINANCESPRUCE ROOT INC: $25,000 · Community ImprovementSPRUCE ROOT INCCENTER FOR INCLUSIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP: $23,500 · Community ImprovementCENTER FOR INCLUSIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIPCOMMUNITY LENDINGWORKS: $16,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY LENDINGWORKSTABOR 100 INC: $30,000 · OtherTABOR 100 INCHACIENDA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $20,000 · OtherHACIENDA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CO…LEWIS-CLARK STATE COLLEGE: $18,500 · OtherLEWIS-CLARK STATE COLLEGEASCENT FUNDING: $15,000 · OtherASCENT FUNDINGCHEMEKETA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $15,000 · OtherCHEMEKETA COMMUNITY COLLEGEOREGON ASSOCIATION OF MINORITY ENTREPRENEURS: $14,000 · OtherOREGON ASSOCIATION OF MINORITY EN…ALASKA SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT: $12,500 · OtherALASKA SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENTOREGON ASSOCIATION OF MINORITY ENTREPRENEURS - GROUP: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherTILLAMOOK BAY COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $10,000 · OtherUMPQUA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $9,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $8,000 · Other+5 more: $23,500 · Other+5 moreVENTURES: $55,000 · EducationVENTURESROGUE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $3,000 · EducationLANE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $2,500 · EducationADELANTE MUJERES: $39,000 · Human ServicesENVIRONMENTAL COALITION OF SOUTH SEATTLE: $38,000 · EnvironmentGLOBAL TO LOCAL HEALTH INITIATIVE: $35,000 · HealthMICRO ENTERPRISE SERVICES OF OREGON: $30,000 · EmploymentProject Feast: $8,000 · Food & Nutrition
Community Improvement$264,500Other$195,500Education$60,500Human Services$39,000Environment$38,000Health$35,000Employment$30,000Food & Nutrition$8,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEVERGREEN BUSINESS CAPITAL COMMUNITY FINANCE: $200,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetVENTURES: $55,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetADELANTE MUJERES: $39,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL COALITION OF SOUTH SEATTLE: $38,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetGLOBAL TO LOCAL HEALTH INITIATIVE: $35,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetMICRO ENTERPRISE SERVICES OF OREGON: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTABOR 100 INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSPRUCE ROOT INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCENTER FOR INCLUSIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP: $23,500 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetHACIENDA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetProject Feast: $8,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetROGUE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLANE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 EVERGREEN BUSINESS CAPITAL COMMUNITY FINANCE ↗
  • Who funds VENTURES ↗
  • Who funds ADELANTE MUJERES ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL COALITION OF SOUTH SEATTLE ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL TO LOCAL HEALTH INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds MICRO ENTERPRISE SERVICES OF OREGON ↗
  • Who funds TABOR 100 INC ↗
  • Who funds SPRUCE ROOT INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR INCLUSIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP ↗
  • Who funds HACIENDA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY LENDINGWORKS ↗
  • Who funds OREGON ASSOCIATION OF MINORITY ENTREPRENEURS - GROUP ↗
  • Who funds Project Feast ↗
  • Who funds ROGUE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LANE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Umpqua Bank Charitabl…Seattle FoundationWashington State Micr…Northwest Area Founda…Credit Unions in the …The Norcliffe Foundat…The Oregon Community …Meyer Memorial TrustJpmorgan Chase Founda…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …
Umpqua Bank Charitable FoundationOR17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Washington State Microenterprise Association · Northwest Area Foundation · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · The Norcliffe Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Evergreen Business Capital Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Evergreen Business Capital Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 43%
  • Hacienda Community Development Corporation: 48% of income from government
  • Community Lendingworks: 43% of income from government
  • Adelante Mujeres: 31% of income from government
  • Micro Enterprise Services of Oregon: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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.
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How do I get to Evergreen Business Capital Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Evergreen Business Capital 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 29 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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