· Private foundation
Gentle Lion
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SANDY YOUTH PARTNERS | $16,000 |
| 247 MEDIA MINISTRIES | $9,000 |
| TRUCK STOP ACTION SPORTS | $3,375 |
| COLUMBIA RIVER MINISTRIES | $3,000 |
| CENTRAL OREGON GYMNASTICS ACADEMY | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,800 |
| KIDS CENTER | $1,200 |
| SISTERS SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| CENTRAL OREGON MARINE CORPS LEAGUE | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +83% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 9 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, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BABenevolent assistance to indigent i3× · 2019–2024 · $39k
- TSTruck Stop Action Sports6× · 2018–2025 · $36k
- SYSANDY YOUTH PARTNERS3× · 2021–2025 · $30k
Funded once
- GLGentle Lion's Den Incone grant, 2019 · $545k · revenue -90%
- GHGresham High School Basketball Teamone grant, 2020 · $8k
- PCPortland Christian Schoolsone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
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.
A faith-based, sober living house, for men who are serious about maintaining a life of sobriety from addictive substances.
Through relational discipleship, soul care counseling, and much more we teach men to establish their identity in christ, their life around scripture, and their emotional and spiritually health in the promises of god. helping them to…
Our ultimate mission at the porch is clear and simple: to raise up mighty sons of god who will carry the authority of the kingdom of heaven, and make jesus known in the earth. we desire to raise up men of god who will love his truth with…
Bible based men's ministry
Restoring men to a place of healthy living, free from sexually compulsive behaviors
To point men and women to Jesus Christ - that they would form a life changing relationship with Him.
The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…
Relationship 180 is a Christian, non-profit counseling and teaching ministry where we focus on helping people to improve their relationships. We teach people what they did not learn in their homes or within their churches. We believe that…
Chain breaker ministries, inc. operates a faith-based mens residential center in columbus, indiana for addiction recovery programming.
Divine Romance Ministries Inc provides Christ-centered mentoringcoaching Our goal is to strengthen christian marriages in an effort to eliminate divorce The focus of our message is a complete and total submission to the Lord Jesus Christ 1…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 44 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Gentle Lion's Den Inc ↗
- Who funds 247 MEDIA MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Christian Mens Network ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF BEND INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS INTERVENTION AND DIAGNOSTIC SERVICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds PROMISE KEEPERS ↗
- Who funds BROKEN SHACKLES ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL OREGON VETERANS RANCH ↗
- Who funds TIDEWATER WOODEN BOAT WORKSHOP ↗
- Who funds SISTERS SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gentle Lion funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gentle Lion. Bigger dots raise more.
- Central Oregon Veterans Ranch: 45% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Clubs of Bend Inc: 16% of income from government
How this is measured
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