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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.

$103k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$71k
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$528kCivil Rights$433kCrime & Legal$271kCommunity Improvement$172kArts & Culture$66kHousing & Shelter$33kEmployment$10k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $71k
$20,050
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITE OREGON$71,026
PCUN$20,050
THE CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE$10,230
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PORTLAND AFRICAN AMERICAN LEADERSHIP FORUM: $30k → 12%PORTLAND AFRICAN AMERICAN LEADERSHIP FORUM: $20k → 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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 8 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +173% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
3

Total granted

$1.5M
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+173%
+6%

Still filing today

88%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalEmploymentOther
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

  • AC
    APANO COMMUNITIES UNITED FUND
    4× · 2017–2022 · $256k · revenue +9%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR INTERCULTURAL ORGANIZING
    7× · 2017–2024 · $243k · revenue +173%
  • IB
    IMAGINE BLACK
    3× · 2021–2023 · $110k · revenue +201%

Funded once

  • CO
    CAUSA OF OREGON
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue -100%
  • BR
    BASIC RIGHTS EDUCATION FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +6%
  • OC
    OREGON CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +109%
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
League of Minority Voters

Promote the advancement of minority civic rights through education and empowerment and bringing a voice to the issues that uniquely impact communities of color.

Civil Rights
2
Unite Oregon Action

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.

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3
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
4
Our Children Oregon

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…

Philanthropy
5
Oregon Energy Systems Technology and Research
Environment
6
Iaf Northwest

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…

Community Improvement
7
Latino Network Action Fund

Latino network action fund seeks to create a more representative democracy in oregon.

Community Improvement
8
Our Oregon

Promote economic and social fairness by working in coalition open a broad range of issues and activities in the public arena

Human Services
9
350PDX

Building a diverse grassroots movement to address the causes of climate disruption through justice-based solutions by inspiring, training and mobilizing people to act.

Environment
10
Northwest Progressive Institute

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…

Civil Rights
11
New Progressive Network

Next up amplifies the voice of diverse youth to achieve a more just oregon

Civil Rights
12
Oregon Progress Forum

Next up amplifies the voice and leadership of diverse young people to achieve a more just and equitable oregon.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Alliance of Tenants; 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.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 11 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CAMPBELL INSTITUTE: $500,998 · OtherTHE CAMPBELL INSTITUTEAPANO COMMUNITIES UNITED FUND: $255,625 · OtherAPANO COMMUNITIES UNITED FUNDPCUN: $173,970 · OtherPCUN+1 more: $20,000 · OtherCENTER FOR INTERCULTURAL ORGANIZING: $243,318 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR INTERCULTURAL OR…IMAGINE BLACK: $109,792 · Civil RightsIMAGINE BLACK+1 more: $10,000 · Civil RightsWILLAMETTE VALLEY LAW PROJECT DBA PCUN FOUNDATION: $106,666 · Crime & LegalIMAGINE BLACK FUTURES: $50,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF TENANTS: $32,500 · Housing & ShelterOREGON CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $10,000 · Employment
Other$950,593Civil Rights$363,110Crime & Legal$106,666Human Services$50,000Housing & Shelter$32,500Employment$10,000

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 budgetTHE CAMPBELL INSTITUTE: $500,998 over 5y, 12% of budgetAPANO COMMUNITIES UNITED FUND: $255,625 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetCENTER FOR INTERCULTURAL ORGANIZING: $243,318 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetIMAGINE BLACK: $109,792 over 3y, 18% of budgetWILLAMETTE VALLEY LAW PROJECT DBA PCUN FOUNDATION: $106,666 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetIMAGINE BLACK FUTURES: $50,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF TENANTS: $32,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCAUSA OF OREGON: $20,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBASIC RIGHTS EDUCATION FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetOREGON CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% 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.

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.

Seeding JusticeThe Collins FoundationMeyer Memorial TrustThe Oregon Community …Northwest Health Foun…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Social Justice Fund N…Northwest Health Foun…Oregon Consumer Justi…Careoregon IncService Employees Int…James F & Marion L Mi…
Seeding JusticeOR26.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Family Forward Oregon funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Family Forward Oregon. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 18%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Family Forward Oregon?

Find your warmest path to Family Forward Oregon 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 11 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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