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Lamb Baldwin Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k14 grants · $67k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $102k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME | $20,000 |
| PORTLAND ART MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| JAPANESE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF OREGON | $15,000 |
| FRIENDS OF PIR | $15,000 |
| WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL SCHOOL | $12,000 |
| SWARTHMORE COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| FOUR RIVERS CULTURAL CENTER | $9,141 |
| CARES NORTHWEST | $7,500 |
| RIDE CONNECTION | $7,500 |
| OREGON SHORES CONSERVATION COALITION | $5,600 |
| PORTLAND YOUTH PHILHARMONIC | $5,000 |
| CRAG LAW CENTER | $5,000 |
| TUCKER MAXON SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| PICKLEBERRY PIE HOSPITAL CONCERTS FOR KIDS | $4,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against -74% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
PORTLAND ART MUSEUM9× · 2017–2025 · $160k · revenue +3%- AAAMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME9× · 2017–2025 · $155k · revenue +77%
- JAJAPANESE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF OREGON9× · 2017–2025 · $110k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- HGHARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGNone grant, 2022 · $15k
- OCOREGON COMMUNITY RECOVERY FUNDone grant, 2020 · $8k
City Club of Portlandone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -74%
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.
Portland Public Library is a welcoming cultural center that brings people together and connects them with trusted resources, ideas, experiences, and information. We build a stronger community by inspiring learning, creativity, and…
Portland museum is an innovative and compelling neighborhood museum. the museum boldly weaves exhibitions, performances, collections, and educational programs to excite, challenge and illuminate our neighbors, visitors, and participants…
To ensure economic prosperity in the portland region by providing strong leadership, partnership, and programs that encourage business growth and vitality.
To enrich our communities through arts and culture.
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
Orla serves as the leading industry advocate, striving to protect, improve and promote oregon hospitality.
To enliven and expand the understanding of craft and the museum experience for all.
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 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…
To support our members and promote the growth and quality of oregon's technology industry by providing opportunities for business and professional development through networking and informational programs.
Pbo creates transformative experiences for musicians and listeners who share in the exploration and celebration of historically inspired music. the professional orchestra presents world-class performances on period instruments for up to…
Connecting people across oregon and the pacific northwest through the power of a shared story.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Portland Youth Philharmonic Association and the most unlike its peers is Vintage Trolley Inc. 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 41 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.
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.
29 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. 29 of the 34 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 PORTLAND ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME ↗
- Who funds JAPANESE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF OREGON ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC NORTHWEST COLLEGE OF ART ↗
- Who funds WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SWARTHMORE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds RANDALL CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF PIR ↗
- Who funds OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds RIDE CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds FOUR RIVERS CULTURAL CENTER AND MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds OREGON SHORES CONSERVATION COALITION ↗
- Who funds TUCKER MAXON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CRAG LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds Transition Projects Inc ↗
- Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds VINTAGE TROLLEY INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON RAIL HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANTFARM INC ↗
- Who funds Portland Youth Philharmonic Association ↗
- Who funds CONFLUENCES INC CONFLUENCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF COLUMBIA-WILLAMETTE ↗
- Who funds OREGON COAST AQUARIUM INC ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Youth Symphony ↗
- Who funds Dress for Success Oregon ↗
- Who funds PICKLEBERRY PIE INC ↗
- Who funds City Club of Portland ↗
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 Jackson Foundation · The Collins Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Wheeler Foundation · Juan Young Trust · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · The Robert D and Marcia H Randall Charitable Trust · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · 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 organization Lamb Baldwin 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.
- Antfarm Inc — 29% of income from government
- Transition Projects Inc — 29% of income from government
- Oregon Coast Aquarium Inc — 24% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- Community Transitional School — 7% of income from government
- Japanese American Museum of Oregon — 5% of income from government
- Ride Connection Inc — 4% of income from government
- Oregon Shores Conservation Coalition — 3% of income from government
- Willamette University — 1% of income from government
- Young Men's Christian Association of Columbia-Willamette — 1% of income from government
- Portland Art Museum — 1% of income from government
- Metropolitan Youth Symphony — 1% of income from government
- Portland Youth Philharmonic Association — 0% of income from government
- Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc — 0% of income from government
- Randall Childrens Hospital Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Portland State University Foundation — 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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