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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.

$112k
Granted FY2023
15
Grants FY2023
4
States reached
$19k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Religion$373kEducation$340kFood & Nutrition$239kHousing & Shelter$204kAnimals$193kHealth$96kHuman Services$62kEnvironment$60kOther$0
02FY2023 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k11 grants · $50k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $62k
$6,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$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
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 (FY17–22, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%EVERYCHILD FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%HOT BREAD KITCHEN: $500 → 17%FAMILY RENEWAL SHELTER: $500 → 9%ANGEL HAIR FOUNDATION: $1k → 15%ALVORD TAYLOR: $2k → 15%CHRISTIANS AS FAMILY ADVOCATES: $6k → 15%CHRISTIANS AS FAMILY ADVOCATES: $5k → 15%WOMENSPACE: $500 → 15%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
WA
IL
NY
OR
IN
CA
CO
HI
TX
FL
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 35 repeat orgs$194k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +32% for those 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

35
51

Total granted

$1.4M
$185k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+32%

Still filing today

57%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’17’18’20’22’23
Human ServicesEducationEnvironmentAnimalsHealthHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • EUGENE MISSION INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $202k · revenue +4%
  • AR
    Agricultural Research Foundation
    3× · 2017–2022 · $175k · revenue +10%
  • Oregon State University Foundation
    2× · 2017–2018 · $154k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • CO
    CHRISTIAN OUTREACH FOR AFRICAgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue +83%
  • SP
    SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $26k · revenue -8%
  • SP
    ST PAUL'S PILGRIM CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $13k
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 Tilth Inc

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…

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2
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
3
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
4
Friends of Family Farmers

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 & Nutrition
5
Food Forward Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
6
Catholic Community Services of Lane County Inc

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…

Human Services
7
America's Second Harvest of the Big Bend Inc

To advance change by feeding the hungry and educating and engaging the community in the fight to end hunger.

Food & Nutrition
8
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
9
Skagit Gleaners

Food recovery for low income families over 600 families served

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10
Port Angeles Food Bank

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.

Food & Nutrition
11
Sheltercare

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…

Housing & Shelter
12
The Humane League

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…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eugene Mission Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

46 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. 46 of the 89 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)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/46
Grantees still filing
38/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Agricultural Research Foundation: $175,000 · OtherAgricultural Research FoundationSTAR OF HOPE ACTIVITY CENTER: $71,034 · OtherSTAR OF HOPE ACTIVITY CENTERMARANTHA KIDS AND MINISTRY: $62,118 · OtherMARANTHA KIDS AND MINISTRYIndividual grant recipient: $44,369 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST INT: $43,600 · OtherCAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST INTGRACE COMMUNITY FELLOWSHIP CHURCH: $42,063 · OtherGRACE COMMUNITY FELLOWSHIP CHURCHSCHOOL GARDEN PROJECT: $31,089 · OtherWSU FOUNDATION: $27,300 · OtherEVERY CHILD: $26,000 · Other+56 more: $206,004 · Other+56 moreOregon State University Foundation: $153,705 · EducationOregon State University F…BUSHNELL UNIVERSITY FKA NORTHWEST CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $127,100 · EducationBUSHNELL UNIVERSITY FKA N…CHRISTIAN OUTREACH FOR AFRICA: $60,000 · EducationCHRISTIAN OUTREACH FOR AF…SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $25,570 · EducationSEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSIT…+1 more: $1,200 · EducationEUGENE MISSION INC: $202,037 · Housing & ShelterEUGENE MISSION…+1 more: $500 · Housing & ShelterSAVE THE BEE: $192,469 · AnimalsSAVE THE BEE+2 more: $650 · AnimalsNORTHWEST CENTER FOR ALTERNATIVES TO PESTICIDES: $21,500 · EnvironmentBeyond Toxics: $15,000 · EnvironmentBEE GIRL: $13,000 · EnvironmentMcKenzie River Trust: $5,000 · EnvironmentGROWERS FIRST INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentFOODCORPS INC: $30,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD 4 FARMERS INC: $22,300 · Food & NutritionCHRISTIANS AS FAMILY ADVOCATES: $11,000 · Human ServicesThe Everychild Foundation: $5,000 · Human ServicesALVORD-TAYLOR INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesANGEL HAIR FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Human Services+3 more: $1,500 · Human Services
Other$728,577Education$367,575Housing & Shelter$202,537Animals$193,119Environment$59,500Food & Nutrition$52,300Human Services$20,500

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 budgetEUGENE MISSION INC: $202,037 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetSAVE THE BEE: $192,469 over 2y, 87% of budgetAgricultural Research Foundation: $175,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetOregon State University Foundation: $153,705 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBUSHNELL UNIVERSITY FKA NORTHWEST CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $127,100 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSTAR OF HOPE ACTIVITY CENTER: $71,034 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCHRISTIAN OUTREACH FOR AFRICA: $60,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetFOODCORPS INC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $25,570 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD 4 FARMERS INC: $22,300 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetNORTHWEST CENTER FOR ALTERNATIVES TO PESTICIDES: $21,500 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetDove Medical: $19,800 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetBeyond Toxics: $15,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBEE GIRL: $13,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetJosiah Venture: $11,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILYWORKS: $11,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHRISTIANS AS FAMILY ADVOCATES: $11,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSPONSORS INC: $7,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMcKenzie River Trust: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHANA YOUTH CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetGROWERS FIRST INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetThe Everychild Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALVORD-TAYLOR INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW SONG MISSION INC: $1,200 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOPERATION GRATITUDE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMID LANE CARES: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMOBILIZE MANKIND: $1,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetANGEL HAIR FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFOOD FOR LANE COUNTY: $933 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCASA OF LANE COUNTY: $700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDUTCH BROS FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOT BREAD KITCHEN LTD: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARC OF LANE COUNTY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMENSPACE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY RENEWAL SHELTER: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDowntown Languages: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREENHILL HUMANE SOCIETY SPCA: $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCompassion International Incorporated: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON HIGH SCHOOL EQUESTRIAN TEAMS INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASCADES RAPTOR CENTER: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC CREST COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $100 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 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 McKenzie River Trust ↗
  • Who funds HANA YOUTH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds GROWERS FIRST INC ↗

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 …Chambers Family Found…United Way of Lane Co…The Autzen FoundationMcKay Family Foundati…The Ford Family Found…The Collins FoundationThe Woodard Family Fo…Crow Farm FoundationThe Suwinski Family F…M J Murdock Charitabl…The Sanford Foundation
The Oregon Community FoundationOR35.6× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 First Fruits Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from First Fruits Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely 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.

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 89 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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