How much did GORGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION grant in FY2023?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 50% of GORGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

youthhealth

2020

veterinaryhomeless pets

2021

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2023

veterinaryhomeless petsyouthcare

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k3 grants · $19k
$10k–50k11 grants · $152k
$50k–250k2 grants · $281k

$12,300

Median grant

States reached

$8.0M

Total assets

Largest grants

SCHOLORSHIPS$160,890
HEALTHY LIVING COMMUNITY$120,000
COLUMBIA GORGE CHILDRENS ADVOCACY C$26,745
VENN ACADEMY$15,000
GORGE YOUTH LEAD$15,000
HOOD RIVER COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT$14,700
THE NEXT DOOR INC$13,250
HOOD RIVER COUNTY LIBRARY DISTRICT$12,300
MOSIER COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOUNDATION$12,000
FISH FOODBANK$11,830
ROWENA WILDLIFE CLINIC$11,040
HOOD RIVER COUNTY HERITAGE COUNCIL$10,500
SHERMAN COUNTY ATHLETIC FOUNDATION$10,000
HOPE 4 PAWS$7,200
HOOD RIVER COUNTY LIBRARY FDTN$6,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–19, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$852k · 19 repeat orgs$366k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +71% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$852k

$153k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+71%

+23%

Still filing today

53%

67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $213k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationCrime & LegalHealthFood & NutritionOther

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

HEALTHY LIVING COMMUNITY
2× · 2021–2023 · $145k · revenue +181% · 27% of their budget
TN
THE NEXT DOOR INC
5× · 2018–2023 · $66k · revenue +73%
MC
MOSIER COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOUNDATION
5× · 2018–2023 · $48k · revenue +71%

Funded once

KL
KEOKA LAKE ASSOCIATION
one grant, 2021 · $50k
OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +74%
MS
MONUMENT SENIOR CENTER
one grant, 2018 · $21k · revenue -34%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Community Foundation for Sw Washington

The foundation is a charitable granting organization whose mission is to inspire a culture of giving to create a vibrant and engaged community.

Philanthropy

Oregon Historical Society

The oregon historical society has been collecting, preserving, exhibiting and publishing oregon's history for over 100 years. today, the society's complex is a landmark in the heart of portland's cultural district, and offers oregon's rich…

Arts & Culture

Palouse Community Center

The Palouse Community Center strives to enrich the lives of Palouse and surrounding area citizens by reinforcing a sense of community, providing an opportunity for all ages to interact, and enabling people to share their perspectives,…

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Resource Connections of Oregon

Assisting individuals with developmental disabilities to define, direct and pursue the life they choose through planning and coordination of services and resources.

Health

The Oregon Community Foundation Trust

The oregon community foundation trust is a supporting organization of the oregon community foundation (ocf). the trust makes grants that further the mission of ocf which is to improve lives for all oregonians through the power of…

Philanthropy

Riverside Arts Center

The organization is a multi-purpose cultural arts venue providing performance, exhibit, studio and reception space for artists and art cultural organizations to enrich the ypsilanti community through the arts and cultural experiences. in…

Arts & Culture

Oregon Research Institute

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…

Social Science

Oregon Child Development Coalition

Oregon child development coalition is dedicated to improving the lives of children and families by providing early childhood education, care and advocacy with unique and supportive services to enhance family growth and community success.

Human Services

Oregon Museum of Science and Industry

Museum providing science and technology learning through exhibits and programs that seek to inspire wonder by providing engaging science learning experiences.

Arts & Culture

Portland Museum of Art

Museum/Educational

Arts & Culture

Oregon Daycare Inc

Daycare for children ages 2 1/2 to 9, including a four year old Kindergarten program.

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Mid Rogue Foundation

We promote healthy and vibrant communities through support, advocacy and partnerships with a focus on housing, education, transportation and the built environment.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hood River Senior Citizens Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tides Foundation. 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 19 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/31

the rest of the field

11%

2,126/18,563

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.

05the grantee network

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

18/19

Grantees still filing

13/19

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$659,845Health$145,000Education$99,800Arts & Culture$93,500Crime & Legal$93,016Philanthropy$80,000Food & Nutrition$46,716

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.

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.

The Oregon Community FoundationOR26.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · Greenfish Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Collins Foundation · Providence Health & Services - Oregon · Columbia Gorge Health Council · The Stebbins Fund Inc · The Roundhouse Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 organisation GORGE COMMUNITY 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

9get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SHERMAN COUNTY ATHLETIC FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 911786034 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on SHERMAN COUNTY ATHLETIC FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 47% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Gorge Community Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Gorge Community Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

GORGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Gorge Community Foundation?

More from the funding graph

GORGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Gorge Community Foundation?

More from the funding graph