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Freres Foundation
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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k33 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $112k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WORLD FORESTRY CENTER | $50,000 |
| TURNING POINT USA INC | $25,000 |
| BRADLEY IMPACT FUND | $25,000 |
| OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS | $20,000 |
| COMMUNITY SERVICE CONSORTIUM | $12,000 |
| COMMON SENSE FOR OREGON FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| LYONS RURAL FIRE DISTRICT | $8,000 |
| CREATIVE NEIGHBORHOODS | $7,100 |
| REGIS ST MARY CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| YOUTH BENEFIT GOLF TOURNAMENT | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| SILVER CREEK FELLOWSHIP | $3,600 |
| SCIO LIBRARY GRANT MATCHING FUND | $3,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
49 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 22 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, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k 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
Oregon State University Foundation7× · 2018–2025 · $156k · revenue +27%- SMSANTIAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL3× · 2021–2024 · $51k · revenue +217%
- CPCASCADE POLICY INSTITUTE4× · 2018–2022 · $28k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- SCSantiam Canyon School Districtone grant, 2020 · $50k
- COCITY OF LYONSone grant, 2023 · $31k
- HPHOPE PREGNANCY CLINICgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +150%
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.
Provide educational scholarships and programs in the field of the forest products industry to support increased knowledge, awareness and education for students of all ages and the public about the wise use and best management practices…
Oregon Wild works to protect and restore Oregon's wildlands, wildlife and waters as an enduring legacy for future generations.
We are dedicated to helping students grow in their knowledge of agriculture, the environment, and natural resources for the benefit of oregonians today and in the future.
Raising funds for programs and projects that enhance the experience of using oregon's parks and forests.
To conserve and enhance land in southern oregon to sustain our human and natural communities forever.
Oregon wildlife foundation empowers the lasting conservation of our fish and wildlife and citizen enjoyment of our natural resources.
Agriculture related research, training and education
Engage with diverse constituencies on forest health and wild fire risk projects to support resilient landscapes, thriving communities, wood manufacturing and workforce development
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Forestry Center and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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 28 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
56 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. 56 of the 123 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 Oregon State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds BRADLEY IMPACT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD FORESTRY CENTER ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RESOURCES LEGAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds SANTIAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds COMMON SENSE FOR OREGON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CASCADE POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE PREGNANCY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds UPWARD BOUND CAMP FOR PERSONS WITH SPECIAL NE ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds DETROIT LAKE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS BUSINESS PROGRAMS ↗
- Who funds FORESTS FOREVER INC ↗
- Who funds CANYON SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds CANYON CRISIS AND RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Canyon Gleaners ↗
- Who funds CRISIS CHAPLAINCY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds EVERGREEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANTIAM CANYON YOUTH BENEFIT GOLF TOURNAMENT ↗
- Who funds BELIEVE IN YOUR COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds SANTIAM HEARTS TO ARTS ↗
- Who funds FORESTS TODAY AND FOREVER ↗
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 · A J Frank Family Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · Maps Community Foundation · Willamette Health Council · The Salem Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Friends of Paul Bunyan Foundation · United Way of the Mid-Willamette Valley · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Brenden Family Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust
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 Freres 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.
- Detroit Lake Foundation — 100% of income from government
- Canyon Crisis and Resource Center — 81% of income from government
- Family Building Blocks Inc — 68% of income from government
- Upward Bound Camp for Persons With Special Ne — 30% of income from government
- Oregon Women in Timber — 28% of income from government
- Oregon Society of American Foresters — 12% of income from government
- Keep Oregon Green Association Inc — 11% of income from government
- Forests Today and Forever — 10% of income from government
- Future Natural Resource Leaders — 2% of income from government
- Willamette University — 1% of income from government
- Santiam Memorial Hospital — 1% of income from government
- The Willamette Heritage Center — 0% of income from government
- Oregon Business Academy — 0% of income from government
- World Forestry Center — 0% of income from government
- Oregon State University Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Willamette Vital Health — 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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