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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.

$80k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$176kEducation$86kYouth Development$70kInternational$32kEmployment$15kCivil Rights$14kHuman Services$12kPhilanthropy$11kOther$0
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $55k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
$4,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$923k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST ROSE OF LIMA CATHOLIC CHURCH$15,000
WOMEN STEERING BUSINESS$10,000
FOOD FOR LANE COUNTY$6,000
WOMEN STEERING BUSINESS$5,000
ST ROSE OF LIMA CATHOLIC CHURCH$5,000
CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH$5,000
CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL$5,000
CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH$5,000
COLGATE UNIVERSITY$5,000
EOHSJ SOUTHWESTERN USA$4,000
ROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHDIOCESE OF NASSAU FOUNDATION IN$2,770
ROSEBOOM CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE$2,500
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF FORT WORTH INC$2,500
ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC$2,000
PARISH OF GUIARDIAN ANGEL AND ST COLUMBIA$1,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY: $1k → 11%PROJECT HOME: $500 → 22%QUEEN OF PEACE FOUNDATION: $13k → 9%MANE GAIT: $1k → 5%GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $3k → 11%QUEEN OF PEACE FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%QUEEN OF PEACE FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%QUEEN OF PEACE FOUNDATION: $2k → 9%CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF LANE COUNTY INC: $3k → 15%CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF LANE COUNTY INC: $3k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
OR
PA
NJ
CA
UT
AZ
NM
DC
MS
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$306k · 15 repeat orgs$135k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +71% since the first grant, against +39% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
25

Total granted

$306k
$94k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+71%
+39%

Still filing today

60%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • PC
    PACIFIC CREST COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
    4× · 2017–2021 · $48k · revenue +63%
  • CU
    COLGATE UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2017–2024 · $25k · revenue +80%
  • OP
    OPHELIA'S PLACE
    4× · 2017–2022 · $23k · revenue +167%

Funded once

  • CO
    CARMEL OF REGINA MARIA
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • NO
    NATIVITY OF THE MOTHER OF GOD CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $13k
  • SP
    ST PAUL CATHOLIC CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Augustana College

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…

Education
2
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
3
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Acadia General Hospital Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
5
Lafayette General Foundation Inc

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…

Health
6
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
7
St Marys Healthcare System for Children Inc

To serve as the sole member of the various health care and supporting organizations that comprise st. mary's healthcare system for children

Health
8
Lafayette General Health System Inc

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.

Health
9
National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health
10
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
11
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
12
Western Healthconnect

Support significant improvements in health care delivery and outcomes within the context of nonprofit, charitable ownership.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eugene Mission Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
21/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST ROSE CHURCH: $62,500 · OtherST ROSE CHURCHST PATRICK CATHEDRAL: $36,000 · OtherST PATRICK CATHEDRALCENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $23,000 · OtherCENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLCARMEL OF REGINA MARIA: $15,000 · OtherCARMEL OF REGINA MARIANATIVITY OF THE MOTHER OF GOD CHURCH: $13,000 · OtherEOHSJ SOUTHWESTERN USA: $12,000 · OtherCATHOLIC DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH: $10,000 · OtherST PAUL CATHOLIC CHURCH: $10,000 · Other+27 more: $75,450 · Other+27 morePACIFIC CREST COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $47,600 · Youth DevelopmentPACIFIC CREST COU…OPHELIA'S PLACE: $22,500 · Youth DevelopmentOPHELIA'S PLACECOLGATE UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · EducationCOLGATE U…Airport Rotary Foundation: $6,000 · EducationAirport R…LANCASTER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $5,000 · EducationLANCASTER…FOUNDATION FOR THE YOUNG WOMENS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $2,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationQUEEN OF PEACE FOUNDATION: $22,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF LANE COUNTY INC: $5,500 · Human ServicesTHE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $2,500 · Human Services+3 more: $2,500 · Human ServicesWOMEN STEERING BUSINESS: $15,000 · EmploymentRoman Catholic Archdiocese Of Nassau FOUNDATION INC (RCAN FOUNDATION): $13,672 · PhilanthropyGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 · PhilanthropyALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC: $13,932 · Civil Rights
Other$256,950Youth Development$70,100Education$39,000Human Services$32,500Employment$15,000Philanthropy$14,672Civil Rights$13,932

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPACIFIC CREST COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $47,600 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCOLGATE UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOPHELIA'S PLACE: $22,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetQUEEN OF PEACE FOUNDATION: $22,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetWOMEN STEERING BUSINESS: $15,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC: $13,932 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetRoman Catholic Archdiocese Of Nassau FOUNDATION INC (RCAN FOUNDATION): $13,672 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFOOD FOR LANE COUNTY: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAirport Rotary Foundation: $6,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF LANE COUNTY INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWILLAMETTE FAMILY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJAMYANG FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetLANCASTER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAITH IN PRACTICE: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW SCHOOL OF LANCASTER DBA NEW SCHOOL MONTESSORI: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF FORT WORTH INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ABBEY FOUNDATION OF OREGON: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOSLC DEVELOPMENTS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEUGENE POLICE FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE YOUNG WOMENS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEUGENE MISSION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHospice of the Valley: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMane Gait: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCook Children's Medical Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC OF TARRANT COUNTY: $550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR ACTION AND CONTEMPLATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOME: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

United Way of Lane Co…The Oregon Community …Community Foundation …Chambers Family Found…Textron Charitable Tr…Bnsf Railway Foundati…Eton Lane FoundationMcKay Family Foundati…Mary Potishman Lard T…Pacificsource Foundat…Amon G Carter Foundat…Sid W Richardson Foun…
United Way of Lane CountyOR17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lane Werner Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lane Werner Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Lane Werner Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Lane Werner Family Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 52 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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