· Private foundation
Jane Marcher Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MUDBONE GROWN | $7,500 |
| PATH-HOME | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| PORTLAND BACKPACK | $2,500 |
| PEOPLES HEALTH CLINIC | $2,000 |
| CASA OF DOUGLAS COUNTY | $1,000 |
| MOTHER AND CHILD EDUCATION CENTER | $1,000 |
| INNER BEAUTY IN YOU | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–23, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 64% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- PHPATH HOME3× · 2022–2024 · $17k · revenue +25%
- FEFARMERS ENDING HUNGER3× · 2018–2020 · $4k · revenue +36%
- GMGather Make Shelter2× · 2022–2023 · $3k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- AAARCone grant, 2018 · $10k
- MHMIDDLESEX HOSPITALone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +20%
OREGON FOOD BANKone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -1%
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.
Through radical, no-strings-attached giving, EGC disrupts systemic inequality by funding community-led projects, including sustainable food security programs, housing support, and wellness initiatives
Our village gardens brings a spirit of hope to the people by growing and sharing food, learning and teaching skills, and empowering community leadership.(continued on schedule o)our village gardens leverages community organizing, skill…
The mission of northwest mother's milk bank is to improve the health and survival of the northwest's most vulnerable infants.
Centro cultural promotes education and economic development, increases cultural consciousness, responds to community needs and celebrates understanding among the diverse groups in our community.
Clackamas service center is an inclusive, "one-stop" community center for individuals and families seeking food relief and resources for improved health, dignity, and stability.
We nurture connections between people,nature,and food by ensuring access to garden space and farmland, and providing education and mentoring on regenerative and sustainable agricultural practices.
Health Poverty Action USA acts in solidarity with health workers, activists & communities worldwide to improve health & challenge the causes of poverty. We do this in 3 distinct ways: 1. We approach health as an issue of social justice. We…
To grow food justice in Greater Portland by providing education, resources, and opportunities to cultivate and share culturally familiar food.
Nourishing our community. the port angeles food bank is the main food bank in clallam county, providing food to 13 other area pantries and meal programs as well as providing food to over 5,000 individuals per month.
The organization's mission is growing food justice through collective action. the organization's vision is ending hunger in washington state.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oregon Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is In Kind Boxes. 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 23 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 41 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 PATH HOME ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLESEX COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds FARMERS ENDING HUNGER ↗
- Who funds Gather Make Shelter ↗
- Who funds THE NORTHWEST ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Portland Backpack ↗
- Who funds NATUROPATHS WITHOUT BORDERS ↗
- Who funds Global Education Center ↗
- Who funds ACTION ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds KINDNESS FARM ↗
- Who funds ADELANTE MUJERES ↗
- Who funds CASA OF DOUGLAS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds RAHAB'S SISTERS ↗
- Who funds ESSEX MEADOWS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds MOTHER & CHILD EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds A FUND FOR WOMEN ↗
- Who funds In Kind Boxes ↗
- Who funds TORUS ↗
- Who funds Hollycroft Foundation Incorporated ↗
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 · Zera Foundation Inc · The Autzen Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Sangham Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Jane Marcher 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.
- Adelante Mujeres — 31% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- Gather Make Shelter — 7% of income from government
- Torus — 6% of income from government
- Casa of Douglas County Inc — 1% of income from government
- Middlesex Hospital — 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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