How much did FIRST FRUITS FOUNDATION grant in FY2023?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 61% of FIRST FRUITS FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

laneyouth sportsshelterchildren'schildmedical researchfood

2020

foodresearchenvironmentalconservationchurch uganda

2022

artsmedicalfoodyouthchurchchristenvironmental

2023

fellowshipchristchurchmedical

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k11 grants · $50k
$10k–50k4 grants · $62k

$6,000

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants

HERE IS LIFE$18,700
MARANTHA KIDS AND MINISTRY$16,018
BUSHNELL UNIVERSITY$14,000
TRINITY CHURCH OF UGANDA$12,881
YOUTH FOR CHRIST$8,000
DOVE MEDICAL$8,000
CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST INT$6,200
AGAPE FAMILY FELLOWSHIP$6,000
GRACE COMMUNITY FELLOWSHIP CHURCH$5,863
SAVE THE BEE$5,075
STAR OF HOPE ACTIVITY CENTER$5,000
EUGENE MISSION$2,037
WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS$2,000
ORIENTAL MISSION SOCIETY HATTI PROJ$1,000
NEW SONG MISSION$1,000

02The need

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 (FY17–22, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 11%. 98% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.4M · 35 repeat orgs$204k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

35 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2023, 23 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.4M

$195k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%

+21%

Still filing today

46%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesAnimalsEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentEducationPhilanthropyOther

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

EUGENE MISSION
2× · 2022–2023 · $202k · revenue +55%
NC
NORTHWEST CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
4× · 2017–2023 · $127k · revenue +20%
SO
STAR OF HOPE ACTIVITY CENTER
5× · 2017–2023 · $71k · revenue +92%

Funded once

CO
CHRISTAIN OUTREACH FOR AFRICA
one grant, 2022 · $60k
SP
SEATTLE PACIFI UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2022 · $26k
SP
ST PAUL'S PILGRIM CHURCH
one grant, 2017 · $13k

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.

Oregon Agricultural Trust

Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.

Environment

Bradley Angle

Bradley angle's mission is to serve all people affected by domestic violence. we place any person experiencing, or at risk of, domestic violence at the center of our services and provide support for safety, education, empowerment, healing,…

Human Services

Skagit Gleaners

Food recovery for low income families over 600 families served

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Every Child Lane County

Every child recruits and trains caring community members in lane county to love, care for, and support vulnerable children and families.

Human Services

Lane Workforce Partnership

To meet the workforce needs of employers and individuals through partnerships and innovations in lane county, oregon.

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Path Home

To empower homeless families with children to get back into housing - and to stay there.

Housing & Shelter

Lane County Diaper Bank

Lane County Diaper Bank provides free diapers to families in need throughout Lane County and beyond.

Human Services

La Luz Organization Inc

La Luz Organization helps the underserved Latino population in Oklahoma with culturally and faith based trauma-informed services to victims of domestic violence,sexual assault and stalking.

Human Services

Wayfinder Family Services

Wayfinder's mission is to ensure that children, youth and adults facing challenges always have a place to turn.

Human Services

Lifeworks Services Inc

Lifeworks partners with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.

Human Services

Shelter Animal Resource Alliance

Shelter Animal Resource Alliance rescues, assists, and advocates for shelter animals in Lane County by developing and implementing programs designed to increase the number of animals adopted into permanent, loving homes and decrease the…

Animals

LArche Portland

At l'arche portland people with and without developmental disabilities create home and build community together. we nurture long-term mutual relationships that reveal the gifts of people with developmental disabilities. in doing so we…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eugene Mission Inc and the most unlike its peers is Greenhill Humane Society Spca. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 37% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/40

the rest of the field

2,407/25,391

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.

05the grantee network

37 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

34/37

Grantees still filing

32/37

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,024,852Housing & Shelter$202,037Animals$193,119Education$128,300Environment$33,000Food & Nutrition$22,300Human Services$20,500

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.

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.

The Oregon Community FoundationOR31.9× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · United Way of Lane County · Chambers Family Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · The Collins Foundation · The Suwinski Family Foundation Inc · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · R & M Clark Family Foundation · Ima Foundation · Oregon Country Fair · Evergreen Family 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 organisation FIRST FRUITS 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

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

9get no government money at all

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SAVE THE BEE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 882062693 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on SAVE THE BEE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 87% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to First Fruits Foundation?

Find your warmest path to First Fruits Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

FIRST FRUITS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

37 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to First Fruits Foundation?

More from the funding graph

FIRST FRUITS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

37 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to First Fruits Foundation?

More from the funding graph