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Fairbridge Foundation at a glance

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Fairbridge Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$536k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through 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 2024.

Human Services$2.6MHousing & Shelter$895kEducation$562kRecreation & Sports$100kArts & Culture$10kCrime & Legal$10kEmployment$10kInternational$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $106k
  • $250k+1 grant · $400k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FINANCIAL BEGINNINGS$400,000
SALVATION ARMY$105,600
LAKE OSWEGO SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION$10,000
INSTRUMENTAL HORIZONS$10,000
COMPREHENSIVE RISK REDUCTION FOUNDATIONS$10,000
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 (FY17–25, $3.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%4WORD: $10k → 14%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 8%FINANCIAL BEGINNINGS: $300k → 12%FINANCIAL BEGINNINGS: $275k → 12%FINANCIAL BEGINNINGS: $500k → 12%FINANCIAL BEGINNINGS: $210k → 12%FINANCIAL BEGINNINGS: $500k → 12%FINANCIAL BEGINNINGS: $160k → 12%FINANCIAL BEGINNINGS: $500k → 12%FINANCIAL BEGINNINGS: $160k → 12%FINANCIAL BEGINNINGS: $400k → 12%ALBERTINA KERR CENTER: $1k → 12%STORE TO DOOR: $5k → 12%STORE TO DOOR: $5k → 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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.6M · 11 repeat orgs$187k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
11

Total granted

$4.6M
$177k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+22%

Still filing today

55%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • FINANCIAL BEGINNINGS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +142% · 68% of their budget
  • READING RESULTS
    4× · 2017–2021 · $380k · revenue +52%
  • Oregon State University Foundation
    2× · 2017–2021 · $120k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • LP
    LArche Portland
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -3%
  • FT
    FACE TO FACE PORTLAND
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
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 Research Institute

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…

Social Science
2
Foundations for a Better Oregon

Foundations for a better oregon advances oregon's commitment to supporting every child to learn, grow, and thrive. we build bridges between community, policymakers, and philanthropy, setting a foundation for shared vision and collective…

Education
3
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.

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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
Impact Public Schools

The mission of Impact Public Schools is to prepare a diverse student population to succeed in college and impact communities as the next generation of equity-driven, innovative leaders. (Continued on Schedule O)Impact Public Schools makes…

Education
6
Reading Partners

To ensure that every student can become a confident, independent, and lifelong reader by partnering with schools and communities to provide personalized, evidence-based literacy support and individualized instruction. the organization…

Education
7
Arcadia University

Arcadia university's pioneering, global, integrated, liberal arts, and professional learning experience cultivates leaders who are intellectually fearless and uniquely prepared for life and work. our highly regarded, values-based learning…

Education
8
School's Out Washington

School's out washington (sowa) drives positive systemic change so that all washington's children and youth, particularly those furthest from justice, have access to a robust ecosystem of high-quality expanded learning programs.

Youth Development
9
Onegoal

Onegoal (the organization") is a nonprofit organization incorporated on june 13, 2003 to provide underserved students with the resources, support, and network to earn a postsecondary degree.

Youth Development
10
Oregon Public Broadcasting

Connecting people across oregon and the pacific northwest through the power of a shared story.

Arts & Culture
11
Kessler Foundation Inc

Kessler Foundation advances rehabilitation research that leads to real-world solutions for people with disabilities, creating new possibilities for restoring function, promoting independence, and improving quality of life. We envision a…

Human Services
12
Springboard Collaborative

Springboard collaborative combines targeted student instruction with parent training in an incentivized system that closes the literacy gap, by transferring the summer from a barrier into a springboard for financially disadvantaged…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social Venture Partners Portland; the most unlike its peers is Comprehensive Risk Reduction Foundation. 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

14 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. 14 of the 23 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FINANCIAL BEGINNINGS: $3,005,000 · Human ServicesFINANCIAL BEGINNINGS+5 more: $41,000 · Human ServicesSALVATION ARMY: $950,400 · OtherSALVATION ARMYREADING RESULTS: $380,000 · OtherREADING RESULTSIndividual grant recipient: $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $52,000 · Other+7 more: $57,750 · OtherOregon State University Foundation: $120,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $51,250 · EducationNine Gates Programs Inc: $10,000 · HealthCOMPREHENSIVE RISK REDUCTION FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthPLAY IT FORWARD: $10,000 · Arts & CultureSOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS PORTLAND: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Human Services$3,046,000Other$1,540,150Education$171,250Health$20,000Arts & Culture$10,000Philanthropy$5,000

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 budgetFINANCIAL BEGINNINGS: $3,005,000 over 9y, 68% of budgetREADING RESULTS: $380,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetOregon State University Foundation: $120,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $51,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE OSWEGO SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLArche Portland: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSTORE TO DOOR: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budget4WORD: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPLAY IT FORWARD: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNine Gates Programs Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCOMPREHENSIVE RISK REDUCTION FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALBERTINA KERR CENTERS: $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 FINANCIAL BEGINNINGS ↗
  • Who funds READING RESULTS ↗
  • Who funds Oregon State University Foundation ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LAKE OSWEGO SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LArche Portland ↗
  • Who funds STORE TO DOOR ↗
  • Who funds 4WORD ↗
  • Who funds PLAY IT FORWARD ↗
  • Who funds Nine Gates Programs Inc ↗
  • Who funds COMPREHENSIVE RISK REDUCTION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
  • Who funds SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS PORTLAND ↗
  • Who funds ALBERTINA KERR CENTERS ↗

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 …The Jackson FoundationMeyer Memorial TrustMarie Lamfrom Charita…Juan Young TrustThe Collins FoundationThe Autzen FoundationThe Holzman FoundationRose E Tucker Charita…Oregon Jewish Communi…Heffernan Group Found…OCF Joseph E Weston P…
The Oregon Community FoundationOR20.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · The Jackson Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Juan Young Trust · The Collins Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · The Holzman Foundation · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · Oregon Jewish Community Foundation · Heffernan Group Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public 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 Fairbridge Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fairbridge Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Albertina Kerr Centers: 74% of income from government
  • LArche Portland: 59% of income from government
  • Play It Forward: 30% of income from government
  • Financial Beginnings: 1% of income from government
  • Oregon State University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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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How do I get to Fairbridge Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Fairbridge 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 23 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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