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Heatherington Foundation for Innovation and Education in Health Care

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$12M
Granted FY2024still arriving
38
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$6.5M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 72% of HEATHERINGTON FOUNDATION FOR INNOVATION AND EDUCATION IN HEALTH CARE’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $150k
  • $50k–250k19 grants · $1.9M
  • $250k+11 grants · $10M
$100,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WESTERN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES$6,495,000
AMERICAN OSTEOPATHIC FOUNDATION$1,030,075
CENTENNIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT$500,000
LAO BUDDHIST CENTER NORTHWEST INC$350,000
CLACKAMAS VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE$300,000
FAMILY TREE RELIEF NURSERY$250,000
THE LUND REPORT$250,000
BLANCHET HOUSE$250,000
SERENDIPTY CENTER$250,000
RIVER CENTER CARING TEAM MINISTRY$250,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SANTIAM$250,000
MUSLIM EDUCATIONAL TRUST$160,000
MAURICE LUCAS FOUNDATION$160,000
VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA OR$150,000
Individual grant recipient$104,000
02The need
03

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 (FY21–24, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FURNITURE SHARE: $30k → 13%FURNITURE SHARE: $15k → 13%HOLLA SCHOOL: $100k → 12%URBAN LEAGUE: $240k → 12%PARENTING WITH INTENT: $100k → 12%IMAGINE BLACK FUTURES: $150k → 12%LATINO NETWORK: $1.0M → 12%LATINO NETWORK: $250k → 12%LATINO NETWORK: $100k → 12%BLACK PARENT INITIATIVE: $130k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$41M · 25 repeat orgs$9.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
30

Total granted

$41M
$7.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+17%

Still filing today

72%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2019–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +37%
  • BLANCHET HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY
    2× · 2021–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +4%
  • Latino Network
    2× · 2021–2023 · $1.4M · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $1.3M · revenue -24%
  • KAIROSPDX
    one grant, 2021 · $792k · revenue +4%
  • VI
    VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE OF CLACKAMAS COUNTY
    one grant, 2021 · $700k

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.

1
Careoregon Inc

To inspire and partner to create quality and equity in individual and community health.

Health
2
The Campbell Institute

Children's institute's mission is to leverage research, practice, policy, and advocacy to shift systems toward justice for families so that all of oregon's children, prenatal to grade 5, have access to opportunity.

Unclassified
3
Trillium Family Services

Building brighter futures with children and families.

Housing & Shelter
4
Center for Intercultural Organizing

Center for intercultural organizing dba unite oregon is a diverse, grassroots organization working to build a multicultural movement for immigrant and refugee rights through education, civic engagement, community organizing and…

Civil Rights
5
Iaf Northwest

In 2024, IAF Pacific continued its work of connecting and strengthening broad-based alliances throughout the Pacific region.Through its Building Partnerships for Collaborative Action initiativethe organization supported Indigenous and…

Community Improvement
6
Oregon Public Health Association

Advocate for policies that protect and promote healthy and health equity for all people in oregon and provide learning, collaboration and leadership opportunities for public health professionals and the broader community.

Health
7
Sea Mar Community Health Centers

Sea mar community health centers is a community-based organization committed to providing quality, comprehensive health, human, housing, educational, and cultural services to diverse communities, specializing in service to latinos.

Health
8
Cascade Aids Project

We promote well-being and advance equity by providing inclusive health and wellness services for lgbtq+ people, people affected by hiv, and all those seeking compassionate care.

Health
9
Portland Street Medicine

We offer our homeless neighbors accessible whole-person care to improve and support health, and to bridge a gap in trust between people and systems.

Health
10
Eastern Oregon Health and Wellness Inc

Eastern oregon health & wellness provides recovery housing and outpatient services that support individuals and families impacted by substance use disorder through safe housing, trauma-informed care, and community-based support.

Health
11
Hiv Alliance

Supporting individuals living with hiv/aids and preventing new hiv infections.

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12
Impact Nw

Impact nw prevents homelessness by supporting people as they navigate their journey to stability and strength. founded in portland in 1966, impact nw now serves 26,944 people a year in the greater portland, oregon metro area, including…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lifeworks Nw and the most unlike its peers is Benton Furniture Share. 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 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%10%5–10yr18%25%10–20yr19%18%20–35yr12%13%35–55yr15%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%7%5–10yr18%17%10–20yr19%18%20–35yr12%6%35–55yr15%51%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/46
the rest of the field
12%
731/5,952

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.

04the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 73 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.

9
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/43
Grantees still filing
28/43
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WESTERN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES — $24,489,165 · OtherWESTERN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCESBLANCHET HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY — $1,750,000 · Other+44 more — $12,209,935 · Other+44 moreWILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY — $3,025,000 · EducationWILLAMETTE…KAIROSPDX — $792,060 · EducationKAIROSPDXSERENDIPITY CENTER INC — $525,964 · EducationSERENDIPIT…+2 more — $190,000 · EducationLatino Network — $1,350,000 · Human ServicesURBAN LEAGUE OF PORTLAND INC — $240,000 · Human ServicesIMAGINE BLACK FUTURES — $150,000 · Human ServicesBlack Parent Initiative — $130,000 · Human ServicesPARENTING WITH INTENT — $100,000 · Human ServicesHOLLA SCHOOL — $100,000 · Human ServicesBENTON FURNITURE SHARE — $75,000 · Human ServicesThe Lund Report — $950,300 · HealthCLACKAMAS VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE — $340,000 · HealthASIAN HEALTH & SERVICE CENTER INC — $315,000 · HealthCASCADIA HEALTH — $250,000 · HealthQIGONG SENSORY TRAINING INSTITUTE — $75,000 · Health+3 more — $80,000 · HealthAPANO — $635,000 · Arts & CultureOREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $600,000 · Arts & CultureALL CLASSICAL PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $100,000 · Arts & CulturePortland Youth Philharmonic Association — $60,000 · Arts & CultureMEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC — $1,250,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more — $25,000 · Food & NutritionLEBANON COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $1,025,000 · Philanthropy
Other$38,449,100Education$4,533,024Human Services$2,145,000Health$2,010,300Arts & Culture$1,395,000Food & Nutrition$1,275,000Philanthropy$1,025,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY — $3,025,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetBLANCHET HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY — $1,750,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetLatino Network — $1,350,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC — $1,250,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetAMERICAN OSTEOPATHIC FOUNDATION — $1,185,075 over 4y, 14% of budgetLEBANON COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $1,025,000 over 2y, 42% of budgetThe Lund Report — $950,300 over 6y, 91% of budgetKAIROSPDX — $792,060 over 1y, 13% of budgetBUILD LEBANON TRAILS — $750,000 over 2y, 69% of budgetOREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $600,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetOSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS OF OREGON — $550,000 over 6y, 33% of budgetSERENDIPITY CENTER INC — $525,964 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetMAURICE LUCAS FOUNDATION — $509,450 over 4y, 13% of budgetBELONG ART COMMUNITY — $432,400 over 1y, 89% of budgetPORTLAND OPPORTUNITIES INDUST CENTER — $360,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetLAO BUDDHIST CENTER NW INC — $350,000 over 1y, 78% of budgetCLACKAMAS VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE — $340,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER — $320,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetASIAN HEALTH & SERVICE CENTER INC — $315,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetOUTSIDE IN — $250,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHACIENDA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $250,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCASCADIA HEALTH — $250,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY TREE RELIEF NURSERY — $250,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF PORTLAND INC — $240,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA OF OREGON INC — $225,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCOALITION OF COMMUNITIES OF COLOR — $180,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetSELF ENHANCEMENT INC — $175,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetIMAGINE BLACK FUTURES — $150,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetBlack Parent Initiative — $130,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetTHE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION — $115,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWEAVING FALA — $100,000 over 1y, 76% of budgetALL CLASSICAL PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPARENTING WITH INTENT — $100,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetHOLLA SCHOOL — $100,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetThe Foundation for Medical Excellence — $90,000 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetBENTON FURNITURE SHARE — $75,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetQIGONG SENSORY TRAINING INSTITUTE — $75,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetPortland Youth Philharmonic Association — $60,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetLIFEWORKS NW — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEBANON SOUP KITCHEN — $25,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetProject Access Now — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 Collins FoundationThe Oregon Community …Marie Lamfrom Charita…OCF Joseph E Weston P…Meyer Memorial TrustCareoregon IncFamilycare IncProvidence Health & S…Northwest Health Foun…Seeding JusticeKaiser Foundation Hos…Juan Young Trust
The Collins FoundationOR46.4× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Collins Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Careoregon Inc · Familycare Inc · Providence Health & Services - Oregon · Northwest Health Foundation Fund II · Seeding Justice · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Juan Young 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 Heatherington Foundation for Innovation and Education in Health Care 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • The Foundation for Medical Excellence — 66% of income from government
  • Family Tree Relief Nursery — 57% of income from government
  • Hacienda Community Development Corporation — 48% of income from government
  • Black Parent Initiative — 45% of income from government
  • Portland Opportunities Indust Center — 38% of income from government
  • Outside in — 33% of income from government
  • Urban League of Portland Inc — 33% of income from government
  • Native American Youth and Family Center — 23% of income from government
  • Kairospdx — 19% of income from government
  • Asian Health & Service Center Inc — 18% of income from government
  • Latino Network — 15% of income from government
  • Holla School — 15% of income from government
  • Coalition of Communities of Color — 15% of income from government
  • Self Enhancement Inc — 14% of income from government
  • Lifeworks Nw — 8% of income from government
  • Clackamas Volunteers in Medicine — 7% of income from government
  • Parenting With Intent — 7% of income from government
  • The Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization — 4% of income from government
  • Cascadia Health — 3% of income from government
  • Serendipity Center Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Project Access Now — 2% of income from government
  • Willamette University — 1% of income from government
  • Portland Youth Philharmonic Association — 0% of income from government
  • All Classical Public Media Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Oregon Symphony Association — 0% of income from government
  • The Lund Report — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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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How do I get to Heatherington Foundation for Innovation and Education in Health Care?

Find your warmest path to Heatherington Foundation for Innovation and Education in Health Care 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 73 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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