· Public charity
Family Forward Oregon
We work collectively to educate and advocate for systems that elevate the vital work of care and caregiving in its many forms within our community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $71k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITE OREGON | $71,026 |
| PCUN | $20,050 |
| THE CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE | $10,230 |
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 (FY20–21, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +173% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- ACAPANO COMMUNITIES UNITED FUND4× · 2017–2022 · $256k · revenue +9%
- CFCENTER FOR INTERCULTURAL ORGANIZING7× · 2017–2024 · $243k · revenue +173%
- IBIMAGINE BLACK3× · 2021–2023 · $110k · revenue +201%
Funded once
- COCAUSA OF OREGONone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue -100%
- BRBASIC RIGHTS EDUCATION FUNDone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +6%
- OCOREGON CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICYgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +109%
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.
Promote the advancement of minority civic rights through education and empowerment and bringing a voice to the issues that uniquely impact communities of color.
unite oregon action works across urban and rural divides to build a unified political, intercultural movement for justice in oregon. we are led by people of color, immigrants and refugees, rural communities, and people experiencing poverty.
Our children oregon's mission is to be a voice and force for the common good for all oregon children, ensuring all children have the resources and opportunities they need to reach their full potential. we elevate data and the voices of…
In 2024, IAF Pacific continued its work of connecting and strengthening broad-based alliances throughout the Pacific region.Through its Building Partnerships for Collaborative Action initiativethe organization supported Indigenous and…
The Northwest Progressive Institute is a social welfare organization working to raise everyone's equality of life through insightful research and imaginative advocacy. NPI's projects and publications promote policy development based on…
Latino network action fund seeks to create a more representative democracy in oregon.
Coalition for racial and educational justice (formerly oregon campus compact) provides civic and community engagement as a core educational approach for student development as citizens, leaders, and lifelong learners.
To help empower african americans and others achieve equality in education, employment, and economic security.
Building a diverse grassroots movement to address the causes of climate disruption through justice-based solutions by inspiring, training and mobilizing people to act.
To foster bridges of care, uniting and empowering Black, Indigenous, and Pacific Islander communities in the West Portland Metro Area through education, mentorship, and cultural advocacy.
Promote economic and social fairness by working in coalition open a broad range of issues and activities in the public arena
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Alliance of Tenants and the most unlike its peers is The Campbell Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 11 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 THE CAMPBELL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds APANO COMMUNITIES UNITED FUND ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR INTERCULTURAL ORGANIZING ↗
- Who funds IMAGINE BLACK ↗
- Who funds WILLAMETTE VALLEY LAW PROJECT DBA PCUN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IMAGINE BLACK FUTURES ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF TENANTS ↗
- Who funds CAUSA OF OREGON ↗
- Who funds BASIC RIGHTS EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds OREGON CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY ↗
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: Seeding Justice · The Collins Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Oregon Community Foundation · Northwest Health Foundation Fund II · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Social Justice Fund Northwest · Northwest Health Foundation · Oregon Consumer Justice · Careoregon Inc · Service Employees International Union · James F & Marion L Miller 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 Family Forward Oregon 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.
- Community Alliance of Tenants — 100% of income from government
- Center for Intercultural Organizing — 28% of income from government
- Willamette Valley Law Project Dba Pcun Foundation — 18% of income from government
- The Campbell Institute — 0% of income from government
- Basic Rights Education Fund — 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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