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Giustina 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $490k
- $250k+1 grant · $4.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION | $4,080,000 |
| UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION - CSU - CHICO | $205,000 |
| LANE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $110,000 |
| EUGENE CIVIC ALLIANCE | $100,000 |
| THE JOHN G SHEDD INSTITUTE FOR THE ARTS | $75,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| THE FREEDOM FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| EMERALD KIDSPORTS | $10,000 |
| MCKENZIE RIVER TRUST | $10,000 |
| EUGENE FAMILY YMCA | $5,000 |
| PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SERENITY LANE | $5,000 |
| PLEASANT HILL EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FANCONI ANEMIA RESEARCH FUND | $2,500 |
| UNITED WAY OF LANE COUNTY | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $166k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
28 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 4 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $286k 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
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $4.6M · revenue +182%- ECEUGENE CIVIC ALLIANCE6× · 2018–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +100%
- LCLANE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $642k · revenue +108%
Funded once
- UFUNIVERSITY FOUNDATION - CHICOone grant, 2024 · $200k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION - GIUSTINA LIBRARY FUNDone grant, 2017 · $25k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF OREGON ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2018 · $5k
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.
Lane Community College Education Association is the union that represents 200 full-time and 375 part-time faculty members at Lane Community College in Eugene, Oregon. LCCEA is an affiliated unit of the Oregon Education Association (OEA)…
Portland state university foundation is responsible for raising and managing private resources to advance psu's priorities and mission to be a leading urban university.
Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…
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…
Western rivers conservancy's mission is to protect outstanding river ecosystems in the western united states. continued on schedule o.we acquire land to conserve critical habitat, provide public access for compatible use and enjoyment, and…
Oregon Wild works to protect and restore Oregon's wildlands, wildlife and waters as an enduring legacy for future generations.
Our mission is to encourage facilitate support and engage in scientific investigation and research experimentation and to advance educational and training activities related to agriculture and natural resources throughout the state of…
To conserve and enhance land in southern oregon to sustain our human and natural communities forever.
The mission of the Foundation is to promote, accept, and maximize private support for programs, initiatives, and properties of Washington State University and its regional campuses. The Foundation also prudently manages, invests, and…
Through its values, the northwest conference unites its member colleges and universities in the pacific northwest to empower student-athletes in their pursuit of academic and athletic excellence at the division iii level.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Oregon Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Pacific Legal Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 37 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 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EUGENE CIVIC ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds LANE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The University Foundation California State University Chico ↗
- Who funds Oregon State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF EUGENE ↗
- Who funds THE JOHN G SHEDD INSTITUTE FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds EVERGREEN FREEDOM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BUFORD PARK AND MT PISGAH ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RESOURCES LEGAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds WORLD FORESTRY CENTER ↗
- Who funds EMERALD KIDSPORTS ↗
- Who funds McKenzie River Trust ↗
- Who funds OSLC DEVELOPMENTS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF LANE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FANCONI CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OREGON LOGGING CONFERENCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC CREST COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Pacific Legal Foundation ↗
- Who funds SERENITY LANE ↗
- Who funds Springfield Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF OREGON AND SW WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds RELIEF NURSERY INC ↗
- Who funds FUTURE NATURAL RESOURCE LEADERS ↗
- Who funds PARENTING NOW ↗
- Who funds Hosea Youth Services ↗
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 · The Ford Family Foundation · Chambers Family Foundation · Reed Family Foundation Inc · United Way of Lane County · Occu Foundation Inc · Tykeson Family Charitable Trust · The Coeta and Donald Barker Foundation · The Woodard Family Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · The Nb and Jacqueline Giustina Foundation · The Mehlum Family 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 Giustina 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.
- United Way of Lane County — 31% of income from government
- Relief Nursery Inc — 30% of income from government
- Friends of Buford Park and Mt Pisgah — 14% of income from government
- McKenzie River Trust — 8% of income from government
- Future Natural Resource Leaders — 2% of income from government
- Parenting Now — 1% of income from government
- World Forestry Center — 0% of income from government
- Oregon State University Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Serenity Lane — 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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