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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.

$225k
Granted FY2025still arriving
40
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$295kEnvironment$125kPhilanthropy$125kHealth$117kRecreation & Sports$104kPublic Benefit$89kPublic Safety & Disaster$67kCrime & Legal$56kOther$0
02FY2025 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k33 grants · $63k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $112k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$2,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WORLD FORESTRY CENTER$50,000
TURNING POINT USA INC$25,000
BRADLEY IMPACT FUND$25,000
FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS$20,000
OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$20,000
COMMUNITY SERVICE CONSORTIUM$12,000
COMMON SENSE FOR OREGON FOUNDATION$10,000
LYONS RURAL FIRE DISTRICT$8,000
CREATIVE NEIGHBORHOODS$7,100
Individual grant recipient$5,000
REGIS ST MARY CATHOLIC SCHOOL$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
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 (FY18–25, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LINN COUNTY OREGON VETERANS DAY PARADE: $1k → 13%CANYON SENIOR CENTER: $8k → 13%WILLAMETTE VALLEY HOSPICE: $250 → 13%WILLAMETTE VALLEY HOSPICE: $200 → 13%CANYON SENIOR CENTER: $4k → 13%CANYON GLEANERS: $3k → 13%CANYON GLEANERS: $2k → 13%CANYON GLEANERS: $2k → 13%CANYON GLEANERS: $2k → 13%CANYON GLEANERS: $2k → 13%FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS: $20k → 14%FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS: $1k → 14%SILVERTON AREA COMMUNITY AID INC: $500 → 14%FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS: $5k → 14%NEW GROWTH MINISTRIES - SANTIAM TEEN CENTER: $1k → 14%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

AK
WA
MT
IL
WI
NY
OR
CA
VA
AZ
NC
OK
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$992k · 49 repeat orgs$284k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
51

Total granted

$992k
$212k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-5%
+10%

Still filing today

57%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • Oregon State University Foundation
    7× · 2018–2025 · $156k · revenue +27%
  • SM
    SANTIAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
    3× · 2021–2024 · $51k · revenue +217%
  • CP
    CASCADE POLICY INSTITUTE
    4× · 2018–2022 · $28k · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • SC
    Santiam Canyon School District
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • CO
    CITY OF LYONS
    one grant, 2023 · $31k
  • HP
    HOPE PREGNANCY CLINICgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +150%
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
Earth Day Oregon
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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 Energy Systems Technology and Research
Environment
4
Oregon Logging Conference Foundation

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…

Education
5
Oregon Natural Resources Council Fund Oregon Wild

Oregon Wild works to protect and restore Oregon's wildlands, wildlife and waters as an enduring legacy for future generations.

Environment
6
Oregon Agriculture in the Classroom

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.

Education
7
Oregon Parks Forever

Raising funds for programs and projects that enhance the experience of using oregon's parks and forests.

Environment
8
Southern Oregon Land Conservancy Inc

To conserve and enhance land in southern oregon to sustain our human and natural communities forever.

Environment
9
Oregon Wildlife Heritage Foundation

Oregon wildlife foundation empowers the lasting conservation of our fish and wildlife and citizen enjoyment of our natural resources.

Animals
10
Oregon Cattlemens Stewardship Fund

Agriculture related research, training and education

Food & Nutrition
11
Southern Oregon Forest Restoration Collaborative

Engage with diverse constituencies on forest health and wild fire risk projects to support resilient landscapes, thriving communities, wood manufacturing and workforce development

Environment
12
Oregon Olive Growers Foundation
Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Forestry Center; 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.
04the grantee network

56 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. 56 of the 123 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/56
Grantees still filing
29/56
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

REGIS FOUNDATION: $225,000 · OtherREGIS FOUNDATIONSantiam Canyon School District: $50,000 · OtherSantiam Canyon School DistrictREGIS ST MARY CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $47,500 · OtherREGIS ST MARY CATHOLIC SCHOOLCITY OF LYONS: $30,500 · OtherCASCADE POLICY INSTITUTE: $27,500 · OtherSTAYTON HIGH SCHOOL: $25,300 · OtherSANTIAM CANYON WILDFIRE RELIEF FUND: $25,000 · OtherUPWARD BOUND CAMP FOR PERSONS WITH SPECIAL NE: $25,000 · OtherTURNING POINT USA INC: $25,000 · Other+85 more: $267,098 · Other+85 moreWORLD FORESTRY CENTER: $96,000 · EnvironmentWORLD FORESTR…WESTERN RESOURCES LEGAL CENTER: $52,500 · EnvironmentWESTERN RESOU…FORESTS FOREVER INC: $12,500 · EnvironmentFORESTS FOREV…+2 more: $3,500 · EnvironmentOregon State University Foundation: $156,050 · EducationOregon State …+6 more: $6,425 · EducationBRADLEY IMPACT FUND INC: $125,000 · PhilanthropyBRADLEY IM…+1 more: $1,250 · PhilanthropySANTIAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $50,500 · HealthSANTIAM M…HOPE PREGNANCY CLINIC: $25,000 · HealthHOPE PREG…American Heart Association Inc: $17,500 · HealthAmerican …CRISIS CHAPLAINCY SERVICES: $10,000 · HealthCRISIS CH…CANYON CRISIS AND RESOURCE CENTER: $10,000 · HealthCANYON CR…+2 more: $1,250 · HealthFAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC: $26,000 · Human ServicesCANYON SENIOR CENTER: $12,441 · Human ServicesCanyon Gleaners: $10,000 · Human Services+4 more: $2,950 · Human ServicesCOMMON SENSE FOR OREGON FOUNDATION: $35,000 · Public Benefit
Other$747,898Environment$164,500Education$162,475Philanthropy$126,250Health$114,250Human Services$51,391Public Benefit$35,000

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 budgetOregon State University Foundation: $156,050 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBRADLEY IMPACT FUND INC: $125,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD FORESTRY CENTER: $96,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetWESTERN RESOURCES LEGAL CENTER: $52,500 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetSANTIAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $50,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMON SENSE FOR OREGON FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetCASCADE POLICY INSTITUTE: $27,500 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetFAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC: $26,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE PREGNANCY CLINIC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetUPWARD BOUND CAMP FOR PERSONS WITH SPECIAL NE: $25,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDETROIT LAKE FOUNDATION: $15,250 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetYOUNG ENTREPRENEURS BUSINESS PROGRAMS: $15,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetFORESTS FOREVER INC: $12,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCANYON SENIOR CENTER: $12,441 over 2y, 47% of budgetCRISIS CHAPLAINCY SERVICES: $10,000 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetCANYON CRISIS AND RESOURCE CENTER: $10,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetCanyon Gleaners: $10,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetEVERGREEN FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetSANTIAM CANYON YOUTH BENEFIT GOLF TOURNAMENT: $8,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetBELIEVE IN YOUR COMMUNITY: $7,500 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetSANTIAM HEARTS TO ARTS: $6,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetFORESTS TODAY AND FOREVER: $5,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON BUSINESS ACADEMY: $4,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOREGON TREE FARM SYSTEM INC: $3,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetLOURDES EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetSANTIAM CANYON SCHOOL DISTRICT PTO: $1,775 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetKEEP OREGON GREEN ASSOCIATION INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSTAYTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $1,250 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetLOURDES PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL: $1,150 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLinn County Oregon Veterans Day Parade: $1,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFUTURE NATURAL RESOURCE LEADERS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetOregonians in Action Legal Center: $750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSANTIAM YOUTH SPORTS INC: $600 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPACIFIC NW TRUCK MUSEUM: $600 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOREGON WOMEN IN TIMBER: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSILVERTON AREA COMMUNITY AID INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSANTIAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL AUXILIARY: $500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetWILLAMETTE VITAL HEALTH: $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON TITANS FASTPITCH INC: $350 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOREGON STATE POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILLAMETTE HERITAGE CENTER: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOregon Society of American Foresters: $250 over 1y, 0.3% 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 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 UPWARD BOUND CAMP FOR PERSONS WITH SPECIAL NE ↗
  • Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
  • 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 CRISIS CHAPLAINCY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds CANYON CRISIS AND RESOURCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Canyon Gleaners ↗
  • 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 ↗

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 …A J Frank Family Foun…The Ford Family Found…Maps Community Founda…Willamette Health Cou…The Salem FoundationOCF Joseph E Weston P…Friends of Paul Bunya…United Way of the Mid…Marie Lamfrom Charita…Brenden Family Founda…M J Murdock Charitabl…
The Oregon Community FoundationOR36.8× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 250%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
25get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely 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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Freres Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Freres Foundation 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 123 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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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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