· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $126k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $144k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (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. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
WILD SALMON CENTER8× · 2018–2025 · $86k · revenue +274%
THE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION8× · 2018–2025 · $80k · revenue +139%
OUTSIDE IN8× · 2018–2025 · $71k · revenue +103%
Funded once
PROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -4%- JGJAPANESE GARDEN SOCIETYone grant, 2017 · $10k
- BBBIG BROTHERS AND SISTERSone grant, 2024 · $7k
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 agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
Orla serves as the leading industry advocate, striving to protect, improve and promote oregon hospitality.
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…
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…
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…
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 &…
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…
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…
To ensure economic prosperity in the portland region by providing strong leadership, partnership, and programs that encourage business growth and vitality.
To support public policies that will help oregon's economy and create new family supporting jobs in oregon.
Connecting people across oregon and the pacific northwest through the power of a shared story.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Oregon Foundation and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
55 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. 55 of the 70 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 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 The San Diego River Park Foundation ↗
- Who funds BIRD ALLIANCE OF OREGON INC ↗
- 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 PORTLAND CENTER STAGE ↗
- Who funds Lines for Life ↗
- Who funds FREE GEEK ↗
- Who funds JAPANESE GARDEN SOCIETY OF OREGON ↗
- Who funds FORA HEALTH INC ↗
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 · 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
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 Franklin & Dorothy Piacentini Charitable Trust 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.
- 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
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.
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