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Foundations for a Better Oregon

FOUNDATIONS FOR A BETTER OREGON advances oregon's commitment to supporting every child to learn, grow, and thrive.

$31k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Education$283kCommunity Improvement$10k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $7,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $31,163 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $24,163 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$7,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SALEM KEIZER COALITION FOR EQUALITY$7,000
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 (FY20–20, $7k) 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%LATINO NETWORK: $7k → 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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$182k · 4 repeat orgs$89k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against -7% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
5

Total granted

$182k
$82k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
-7%

Still filing today

50%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
Public BenefitHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationOther
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

  • NP
    NATIONAL PUBLIC EDUCATION SUPPORT FUND
    3× · 2020–2022 · $60k · revenue -13%
  • PS
    PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2017–2018 · $50k
  • CO
    COALITION OF OREGON SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS
    2× · 2017–2018 · $50k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • OS
    OREGON STUDENT VOICE
    one grant, 2019 · $33k · revenue -76% · 52% of their budget
  • TH
    TILLAMOOK HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2018 · $18k
  • BS
    BEND-LAPINE SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/7
Grantees still filing
4/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · OtherPORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITYCOALITION OF OREGON SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS: $50,000 · OtherCOALITION OF OREGON SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORSOREGON STUDENT VOICE: $32,643 · OtherOREGON STUDENT VOICEDAVID DOUGLAS SCHOOL DISTRICT: $21,770 · OtherDAVID DOUGLAS SCHOOL DISTRICTTILLAMOOK HIGH SCHOOL: $17,601 · OtherTILLAMOOK HIGH SCHOOLBEND-LAPINE SCHOOL DISTRICT: $15,000 · OtherBEND-LAPINE SCHOOL DISTRICTNATIONAL PUBLIC EDUCATION SUPPORT FUND: $60,000 · Public BenefitNATIONAL PUBLIC EDUCATI…ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $22,000 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER …SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS PORTLAND: $10,000 · PhilanthropySOCIAL VENTU…SALEMKEIZER COALITION FOR EQUALITY: $7,000 · EducationLatino Network: $6,545 · Human Services
Other$187,014Public Benefit$60,000Philanthropy$32,000Education$7,000Human Services$6,545

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL PUBLIC EDUCATION SUPPORT FUND: $60,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCOALITION OF OREGON SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS: $50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetOREGON STUDENT VOICE: $32,643 over 1y, 52% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $22,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS PORTLAND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSALEMKEIZER COALITION FOR EQUALITY: $7,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLatino Network: $6,545 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Meyer Memorial TrustThe Oregon Community …
Meyer Memorial TrustOR13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Meyer Memorial Trust · The Oregon Community 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 Foundations for a Better Oregon funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Foundations for a Better Oregon. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • Salemkeizer Coalition for Equality: 77% of income from government
  • Latino Network: 15% of income from government
  • Coalition of Oregon School Administrators: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $4k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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