How much did John and Ginger Niemeyer Foundation grant in FY2023?

Education$1.0MHealth$1.0MHuman Services$455kYouth Development$375kArts & Culture$309kFood & Nutrition$250kInternational$210kCommunity Improvement$105kCrime & Legal$50kOther$1.2M

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

2018

impactportlandsuccesschildchildren

2019

economywellbuildsemploymentpwaactivitiesculture

2020

healthythrivingyamhillyesemploymentbuildingstrong

2021

laneeducation districtost mentoringearly childhoodhigher educationunderserveddistricts

2022

environmenteconomiclanechangeearly childhoodost mentoringworking

2023

self-sufficiencystablestatementivcandovalleynon-profitvalues

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

03FY2023 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

$10k–50k15 grants · $543k
$50k–250k6 grants · $398k

$40,000

Median grant

States reached

$246k

Total assets

Largest grants

Linn-Benton Community College$85,000
Bethel School District$75,000
Clackamas Community College Foundation$69,992
J Bar J Youth Services$68,200
The Family Nurturing Center$50,000
Northwest Children's Theater & School$50,000
Pine Eagle School District 61$49,431
Oregon 4-H Foundation$48,300
Arts in Education of the Gorge$40,000
ScienceWorks Hands-On Museum$40,000
Illinois Valley 2010 Community Response Team$40,000
Pendleton Children's Center$40,000
Lane Arts Council$40,000
Friends of the Children - Central Oregon$40,000
Autism Family Support of Rural Clackamas County$40,000

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 (FY19–23, $320k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 13%. 55% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$3.1M · 22 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

22 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2023, 15 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.1M

$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%

+101%

Still filing today

86%

75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $636k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHealthOther

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

HH
Helping Hands Re-Entry Outreach Centers
2× · 2020–2022 · $1.0M · revenue +1017%
Junior Achievement of Oregon and SW Washington
3× · 2019–2022 · $210k · revenue +37%
LC
Lutheran Community Services Northwest - McMinnville
5× · 2019–2023 · $150k · revenue +27%

Funded once

CR
Community Resource Trust
one grant, 2018 · $250k · revenue -99%
BT
Baker Technical Institute
one grant, 2020 · $50k
WE
Willamette Education Service District
one grant, 2021 · $50k

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.

Oregon Family School

Partnering with parents to provide a rich, innovative, and effective home- based education that nurtures academic success and growth.

Education

Better Together Central Oregon

Our mission is to improve educational outcomes for children and youth from cradle to career in Central Oregon. They do this by fostering cross-sector collaboration bringing together partners from education, business, health, philanthropy,…

Human Services

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 Child Abuse Solutions

To ensure children and youth in oregon have access to high quality, comprehensive services and resources to address child abuse.

Crime & Legal

Every Child Central Oregon

Mobilizing the community to uplift children and families impacted by foster care in Oregon.

Human Services

Elevate Oregon

Elevating potential, building sustained relationships with urban youth, and charting paths to brighter futures.

Youth Development

Child Care Development Services Inc

Child care services to enrich the mental and physical welfare of children in child care, and to provide services to children, parents, and providers of child care which

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Oregon Children's Theatre Company

Advance growth, development and creativity through exceptional theater experiences.

Arts & Culture

Priority Oregon

To support public policies that will help oregon's economy and create new family supporting jobs in oregon.

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Lane County Community Foundation

Community foundation

Philanthropy

Cascades Academy of Central Oregon

Cascades Academy is an engaged, vibrant community that weaves challenging academics with experiential learning to inspire socially responsible individuals ready (SEE SCH O)

Education

Portland Jobs With Justice Education

We are a coalition that connects community and labor.

Employment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the Children- Central Oregon and the most unlike its peers is Caldera. 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 field is 21% 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 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/71

the rest of the field

10%

2,031/20,861

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

59 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)

59/59

Grantees still filing

51/59

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$1,049,929Health$1,040,000Other$1,534,523Human Services$455,000Youth Development$375,000Arts & Culture$309,000Food & Nutrition$250,000

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 FoundationOR89× affinity64 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 · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation · The Roundhouse Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · The Collins Foundation · Juan Young Trust · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation · JTMF Foundation · Braemar Charitable 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 organisation John and Ginger Niemeyer 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

3rely 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. 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: Autism Family Support of Rural Clackamas County.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~2 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 4 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 862308480 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 Autism Family Support of Rural Clackamas County, 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

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 54% 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.

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Find your warmest path to John and Ginger Niemeyer 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.

John and Ginger Niemeyer 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

59 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to John and Ginger Niemeyer Foundation?

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John and Ginger Niemeyer 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

59 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to John and Ginger Niemeyer Foundation?

More from the funding graph