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Franklin & Dorothy Piacentini Charitable Trust at a glance

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Franklin & Dorothy Piacentini Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$270k
Granted FY2025still arriving
36
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$280kFood & Nutrition$209kHealth$207kHuman Services$173kArts & Culture$151kEducation$133kHousing & Shelter$117kAnimals$114kOther$0
02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k23 grants · $126k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $144k
$6,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WILD SALMON CENTER$17,500
MEALS ON WHEELS$14,750
PORTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE$12,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$10,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY - COLUMBIA RIVER BASIN$10,000
SHARE OUR STRENGTH$10,000
OREGON FOOD BANK$10,000
OREGON SYMPHONY$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
URBAN GLEANERS$10,000
BYBEE LAKES HOPE CENTER$10,000
SUNSHINE DIVISION$10,000
IRCO$10,000
FRIENDS OF THE COLUMBIA GORGE$9,500
LIFT URBAN PORTLAND$8,750
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 (FY18–24, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 24% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ST MARY'S HOME FOR BOYS: $8k → 8%ST MARY'S HOME FOR BOYS: $7k → 8%ST MARY'S HOME FOR BOYS: $7k → 8%ST MARY'S HOME FOR BOYS: $7k → 8%ST MARY'S HOME FOR BOYS: $3k → 8%ST MARY'S HOME FOR BOYS: $3k → 8%ST MARY'S HOME FOR BOYS: $3k → 8%RAPHAEL HOUSE: $4k → 12%RAPHAEL HOUSE: $3k → 12%RAPHAEL HOUSE: $2k → 12%BRADLEY ANGLE: $3k → 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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 55 repeat orgs$93k to everyone else

55 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
10

Total granted

$1.6M
$53k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+83%

Still filing today

80%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEnvironmentAnimalsHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionOther
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

  • WILD SALMON CENTER
    8× · 2018–2025 · $86k · revenue +274%
  • THE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION
    8× · 2018–2025 · $80k · revenue +167%
  • OUTSIDE IN
    8× · 2018–2025 · $71k · revenue +103%

Funded once

  • PROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -4%
  • JG
    JAPANESE GARDEN SOCIETY
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS AND SISTERS
    one grant, 2024 · $7k
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 Agricultural Trust

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

Environment
2
Oregon Restaurant and Lodging Association

Orla serves as the leading industry advocate, striving to protect, improve and promote oregon hospitality.

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3
Oregon Center for Public Policy

The oregon center for public policy's mission is to achieve economic justice for all oregonians through research, analysis, and advocacy. ocpp works to change policies that foster economic security and stability for all oregonians. we do…

Employment
4
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
5
Portland Public Library

Portland Public Library is a welcoming cultural center that brings people together and connects them with trusted resources, ideas, experiences, and information. We build a stronger community by inspiring learning, creativity, and…

Education
6
Rogue Climate

Rogue Climate's mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change including low-income, rural, youth, seniors & communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs &…

Education
7
Oregon Justice Network

Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…

Human Services
8
Portland Farmers Market

Pfm operates world-class farmers markets that contribute to the success of local food growers and producers and create vibrant community gatherings. as a trade association, success for our vendors is our primary objective. listening and…

Community Improvement
9
Portland Business Alliance

To ensure economic prosperity in the portland region by providing strong leadership, partnership, and programs that encourage business growth and vitality.

Community Improvement
10
Priority Oregon

To support public policies that will help oregon's economy and create new family supporting jobs in oregon.

—
11
Oregon Public Broadcasting

Connecting people across oregon and the pacific northwest through the power of a shared story.

Arts & Culture
12
Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc

The oregon shakespeare festival creates world-class theater, revealing our collective humanity through illuminating interpretations of new and classic plays, and inspiring a love of our art form for current and future generations.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Oregon Foundation; the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. 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

55 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. 55 of the 70 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/55
Grantees still filing
41/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION: $80,000 · OtherTHE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONOUTSIDE IN: $70,687 · OtherOUTSIDE INECOTRUST: $62,500 · OtherECOTRUSTOREGON FOOD BANK: $60,675 · OtherOREGON FOOD BANKBYBEE LAKES HOPE CENTER: $58,000 · OtherBYBEE LAKES HOPE CENTERHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $55,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYFriends of the Columbia Gorge: $50,500 · OtherOHSU - RUSSELL STREET DENTAL CLINIC: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $38,688 · OtherST MARY'S HOME: $37,187 · OtherTHE DENTAL FOUNDATION OF OREGON: $40,000 · OtherThe San Diego River Park Foundation: $39,500 · Other+31 more: $328,763 · Other+31 moreOREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $70,000 · Arts & CultureOREGON SYMP…Ethos Inc: $43,275 · Arts & CultureEthos IncPORTLAND ART MUSEUM: $30,000 · Arts & CulturePORTLAND AR…PORTLAND CENTER STAGE: $15,000 · Arts & CulturePORTLAND CE…+3 more: $8,500 · Arts & CultureWILD SALMON CENTER: $86,000 · AnimalsWILD SALMON…XERCES SOCIETY INC: $46,500 · AnimalsXERCES SOCI…THE OREGON ZOO FOUNDATION: $25,000 · AnimalsTHE OREGON …+2 more: $7,600 · AnimalsBIRD ALLIANCE OF OREGON INC: $39,500 · EnvironmentLan Su Chinese Garden: $25,000 · EnvironmentDeschutes Land Trust: $19,000 · EnvironmentFREE GEEK: $15,000 · EnvironmentJAPANESE GARDEN SOCIETY OF OREGON: $15,000 · EnvironmentSAN DIEGUITO RIVER VALLEY LAND CONSERVANCY: $7,000 · EnvironmentMEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC: $44,938 · Food & NutritionFEEDING SAN DIEGO: $32,000 · Food & NutritionURBAN GLEANERS: $16,500 · Food & NutritionSCHOOLHOUSE SUPPLIES INC: $32,687 · EducationSMART READING: $28,188 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $18,500 · EducationOREGON ENERGY FUND: $46,287 · Housing & ShelterProud Ground: $6,000 · Housing & ShelterROSE HAVEN CIC: $5,200 · Housing & Shelter
Other$971,500Arts & Culture$166,775Animals$165,100Environment$120,500Food & Nutrition$93,438Education$79,375Housing & Shelter$57,487

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 budgetWILD SALMON CENTER: $86,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTHE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION: $80,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetOUTSIDE IN: $70,687 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetOREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $70,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetECOTRUST: $62,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetOREGON FOOD BANK: $60,675 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Columbia Gorge: $50,500 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetXERCES SOCIETY INC: $46,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetOREGON ENERGY FUND: $46,287 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC: $44,938 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEthos Inc: $43,275 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetTHE DENTAL FOUNDATION OF OREGON: $40,000 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetBIRD ALLIANCE OF OREGON INC: $39,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetThe San Diego River Park Foundation: $39,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetST MARY'S HOME: $37,187 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSCHOOLHOUSE SUPPLIES INC: $32,687 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetFEEDING SAN DIEGO: $32,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPORTLAND ART MUSEUM: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSMART READING: $28,188 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $25,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OREGON ZOO FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLan Su Chinese Garden: $25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetLITERARY ARTS INC: $25,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPROVIDENCE CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION: $20,050 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDeschutes Land Trust: $19,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $18,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN GLEANERS: $16,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLift Urban Portland: $15,250 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFREE GEEK: $15,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetJAPANESE GARDEN SOCIETY OF OREGON: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLines for Life: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPORTLAND CENTER STAGE: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFORA HEALTH INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUNSHINE DIVISION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S BOOK BANK: $9,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetRAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND: $8,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CAMPBELL INSTITUTE: $7,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSAN DIEGUITO RIVER VALLEY LAND CONSERVANCY: $7,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetProud Ground: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetROSE HAVEN CIC: $5,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FRESHWATER TRUST: $5,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIMPACT NW: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLANCHET HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBradley Angle: $3,000 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.

  • Who funds WILD SALMON CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION ↗
  • Who funds OUTSIDE IN ↗
  • Who funds OREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds ECOTRUST ↗
  • Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds Friends of the Columbia Gorge ↗
  • Who funds XERCES SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds OREGON ENERGY FUND ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC ↗
  • Who funds Ethos Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE DENTAL FOUNDATION OF OREGON ↗
  • Who funds BIRD ALLIANCE OF OREGON INC ↗
  • Who funds The San Diego River Park Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ST MARY'S HOME ↗
  • Who funds SCHOOLHOUSE SUPPLIES INC ↗
  • Who funds FEEDING SAN DIEGO ↗
  • Who funds PORTLAND ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds SMART READING ↗
  • Who funds PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE OREGON ZOO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Lan Su Chinese Garden ↗
  • Who funds LITERARY ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds PROVIDENCE CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Deschutes Land Trust ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds URBAN GLEANERS ↗
  • Who funds Lift Urban Portland ↗
  • Who funds FREE GEEK ↗
  • Who funds JAPANESE GARDEN SOCIETY OF OREGON ↗
  • Who funds Lines for Life ↗
  • Who funds PORTLAND CENTER STAGE ↗
  • Who funds PROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗

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 …Juan Young TrustMarie Lamfrom Charita…Meyer Memorial TrustMaybelle Clark Macdon…OCF Joseph E Weston P…The Collins FoundationThe Autzen FoundationThe Jackson FoundationThe Reser Family Foun…Rose E Tucker Charita…Oregon Jewish Communi…
The Oregon Community FoundationOR54.4× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · Juan Young Trust · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Meyer Memorial Trust · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Collins Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · The Jackson Foundation · The Reser Family Foundation · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · Oregon Jewish 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 Franklin & Dorothy Piacentini Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Franklin & Dorothy Piacentini Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Oregon Crime Victims Law Center: 100% of income from government
  • Lines for Life: 70% of income from government
  • Wild Salmon Center: 49% of income from government
  • Deschutes Land Trust: 46% of income from government
  • Outside in: 33% of income from government
  • Xerces Society Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Oregon Food Bank: 21% of income from government
  • The Freshwater Trust: 17% of income from government
  • Ecotrust: 14% of income from government
  • Ethos Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Proud Ground: 11% of income from government
  • Raphael House of Portland: 10% of income from government
  • Bradley Angle: 10% of income from government
  • Literary Arts Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Impact Nw: 8% of income from government
  • Providence Portland Medical Foundation: 5% of income from government
  • Free Geek: 5% of income from government
  • The Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization: 4% of income from government
  • Smart Reading: 3% of income from government
  • Portland Art Museum: 1% of income from government
  • Portland Center Stage: 1% of income from government
  • The Campbell Institute: 0% of income from government
  • Bird Alliance of Oregon Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Oregon Symphony Association: 0% of income from government
  • Portland State University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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.
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Find your warmest path to Franklin & Dorothy Piacentini Charitable Trust 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 70 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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