· Private foundation
First Fruits Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k11 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $62k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $18,700 |
| MARANTHA KIDS AND MINISTRY | $16,018 |
| BUSHNELL UNIVERSITY | $14,000 |
| TRINITY CHURCH OF UGANDA | $12,881 |
| DOVE MEDICAL | $8,000 |
| YOUTH FOR CHRIST | $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 |
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 (FY17–22, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +48% since the first grant, against +32% 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
EUGENE MISSION INC2× · 2022–2023 · $202k · revenue +4%- ARAgricultural Research Foundation3× · 2017–2022 · $175k · revenue +10%
Oregon State University Foundation2× · 2017–2018 · $154k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- COCHRISTIAN OUTREACH FOR AFRICAgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue +83%
- SPSEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $26k · revenue -8%
- SPST PAUL'S PILGRIM CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $13k
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.
Oregon tilth is a leading nonprofit certifier, educator and advocate for sustainable organic agriculture and products since 1974. the organizations mission to make the food system and agriculture biologically sound and socially equitable…
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
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…
Promote and project socially responsible agriculture in oregon, while working to support independent, family scale farmers and rachers who are ecologically farming in ways that are respectful of land, animals and community.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
Responding to christ's message to love our neighbors as ourselves, catholic community services offers immediate help by providing food and other assistance to anyone in need and seeks to instill hope by helping lane county individuals and…
To advance change by feeding the hungry and educating and engaging the community in the fight to end hunger.
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…
Food recovery for low income families over 600 families served
Nourishing our community. the port angeles food bank is the main food bank in clallam county, providing food to 13 other area pantries and meal programs as well as providing food to over 5,000 individuals per month.
Sheltercare offers a variety of housing and support services for people who are homeless or those facing homelessness with a committed focus on the community's most vulnerable individuals dealing with psychiatric disabilities, acquired…
We exist to end the abuse of animals raised for food. this mission is executed by persuading companies and institutions to adopt animal welfare policies through negotiation and pressure campaigns, and then holding them accountable to their…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eugene Mission Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dutch Bros Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 21% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
46 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. 46 of the 89 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 EUGENE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE BEE ↗
- Who funds Agricultural Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds Oregon State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds BUSHNELL UNIVERSITY FKA NORTHWEST CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds STAR OF HOPE ACTIVITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN OUTREACH FOR AFRICA ↗
- Who funds FOODCORPS INC ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FOOD 4 FARMERS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST CENTER FOR ALTERNATIVES TO PESTICIDES ↗
- Who funds Dove Medical ↗
- Who funds Beyond Toxics ↗
- Who funds BEE GIRL ↗
- Who funds Josiah Venture ↗
- Who funds FAMILYWORKS ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIANS AS FAMILY ADVOCATES ↗
- Who funds SPONSORS INC ↗
- Who funds HANA YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Everychild Foundation ↗
- Who funds McKenzie River Trust ↗
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: The Oregon Community Foundation · Chambers Family Foundation · United Way of Lane County · The Autzen Foundation · McKay Family Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · The Collins Foundation · The Woodard Family Foundation · Crow Farm Foundation · The Suwinski Family Foundation Inc · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · The Sanford 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 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.
- Star of Hope Activity Center — 96% of income from government
- Alvord-Taylor Inc — 92% of income from government
- Arc of Lane County — 79% of income from government
- Womenspace — 62% of income from government
- White Bird Clinic — 29% of income from government
- Foodcorps Inc — 21% of income from government
- Beyond Toxics — 13% of income from government
- Christians As Family Advocates — 10% of income from government
- Sponsors Inc — 8% of income from government
- McKenzie River Trust — 8% of income from government
- Food for Lane County — 5% of income from government
- Northwest Center for Alternatives to Pesticides — 5% of income from government
- Bushnell University Fka Northwest Christian University — 3% of income from government
- Squareone Villages — 2% of income from government
- Greenhill Humane Society Spca — 1% of income from government
- Oregon State University Foundation — 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.