· Private foundation
Lane Werner Family 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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST ROSE OF LIMA CATHOLIC CHURCH | $15,000 |
| WOMEN STEERING BUSINESS | $10,000 |
| FOOD FOR LANE COUNTY | $6,000 |
| ST ROSE OF LIMA CATHOLIC CHURCH | $5,000 |
| COLGATE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH | $5,000 |
| CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| WOMEN STEERING BUSINESS | $5,000 |
| CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH | $5,000 |
| EOHSJ SOUTHWESTERN USA | $4,000 |
| ROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHDIOCESE OF NASSAU FOUNDATION IN | $2,770 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF FORT WORTH INC | $2,500 |
| ROSEBOOM CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE | $2,500 |
| ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC | $2,000 |
| PARISH OF GUIARDIAN ANGEL AND ST COLUMBIA | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +71% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 11 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, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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
- PCPACIFIC CREST COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA4× · 2017–2021 · $48k · revenue +63%
- CUCOLGATE UNIVERSITY3× · 2017–2024 · $25k · revenue +80%
- OPOPHELIA'S PLACE4× · 2017–2022 · $23k · revenue +167%
Funded once
- COCARMEL OF REGINA MARIAone grant, 2022 · $15k
- NONATIVITY OF THE MOTHER OF GOD CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $13k
- SPST PAUL CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
The lafayette general foundation was created to support lafayette general health (lgh), acadiana's only community-owned, nonprofit health system. we exist to help fulfill lgh's mission, to restore, maintain, and improve health. our role is…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
To serve as the sole member of the various health care and supporting organizations that comprise st. mary's healthcare system for children
The organization was organized for the benefit and support of its related 501(c)(3) health care entities which provide medical care to restore, maintain and improve the health of the community in which it serves.
Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
Support significant improvements in health care delivery and outcomes within the context of nonprofit, charitable ownership.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eugene Mission Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wounded Warriors of Mississippi. 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 36 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 52 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 PACIFIC CREST COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds OPHELIA'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds QUEEN OF PEACE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOMEN STEERING BUSINESS ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Roman Catholic Archdiocese Of Nassau FOUNDATION INC (RCAN FOUNDATION) ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR LANE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Airport Rotary Foundation ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF LANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WILLAMETTE FAMILY INC ↗
- Who funds JAMYANG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FAITH IN PRACTICE ↗
- Who funds THE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION ↗
- Who funds OSLC DEVELOPMENTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW SCHOOL OF LANCASTER DBA NEW SCHOOL MONTESSORI ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF FORT WORTH INC ↗
- Who funds THE ABBEY FOUNDATION OF OREGON ↗
- Who funds EUGENE POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE YOUNG WOMENS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds EUGENE MISSION INC ↗
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: United Way of Lane County · The Oregon Community Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Chambers Family Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Eton Lane Foundation · McKay Family Foundation · Mary Potishman Lard Trust Walker C Friedman Co Trustee · Pacificsource Foundation for Health Improvement · Amon G Carter Foundation · Sid W Richardson 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 Lane Werner Family 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.
- Ophelia's Place — 22% of income from government
- Food for Lane County — 5% of income from government
- Willamette Family Inc — 4% 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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