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Lee H & Marion B Thompson Foundation at a glance

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Lee H & Marion B Thompson 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.

$8.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Environment$2.0MHealth$1.6MArts & Culture$1.3MFood & Nutrition$1.2MYouth Development$1.1MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.0MAnimals$744kHuman Services$464kOther$0
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $130k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+9 grants · $6.6M
$100,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BLOSSER CENTER FOR DYSLEXIA$1,050,000
THE NORTHWEST SCHOOL OF WOODEN BOATBUILDING$1,000,000
GATE YOUTH ASSOCIATION$1,000,000
DUCKS UNLIMITED$1,000,000
PROVIDENCE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$1,000,000
ELLA CURRAN FOOD BANK - INDEPENDENCE$500,000
Individual grant recipient$500,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY$275,000
OPAL CREEK ANVIENT FOREST CENTER$250,000
CANDLELIGHTERS FOR CHILDREN WITH CANCER$150,000
WILLAMETTE RIVERKEEPER$130,000
TUALATIN RIVER KEEPERS$130,000
BLANCHET HOUSE$106,112
DOGS FOR BETTER LIVES$100,000
Individual grant recipient$100,000
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 (FY18–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GATE YOUTH ASSOCIATION: $1.0M → 13%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - LANE COUNTY: $10k → 15%BLOOMIN' BOUTIQUE: $15k → 8%GATE YOUTH ASSOCIATION: $15k → 13%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $100k → 8%BEAVERTON RESOURCE CENTER: $10k → 8%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $25k → 8%ADELANTE MUJERES: $40k → 8%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $20k → 8%FAMILY PROMISE OF TUALATIN VALLEY: $10k → 8%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $15k → 8%STREET ROOTS: $10k → 12%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 8%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 8%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.
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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.8M · 23 repeat orgs$2.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
37

Total granted

$6.8M
$552k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+5%

Still filing today

57%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEnvironmentFood & NutritionArts & CultureHealthAnimalsOther
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

  • DU
    Ducks Unlimited Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +26%
  • NS
    Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +23% · 35% of their budget
  • GY
    GATE YOUTH ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +12% · 35% of their budget

Funded once

  • PE
    PROVIDENCE EMERGENCY ROOM RENOVATION
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • OREGON FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +5%
  • Oregon Lions Sight & Hearing Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -2%
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
Oregon Agricultural Trust

Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.

Environment
2
Portland Farmers Market

Pfm operates world-class farmers markets that contribute to the success of local food growers and producers and create vibrant community gatherings. as a trade association, success for our vendors is our primary objective. listening and…

Community Improvement
3
Oregon Restaurant and Lodging Association

Orla serves as the leading industry advocate, striving to protect, improve and promote oregon hospitality.

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4
Oregon Justice Network

Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…

Human Services
5
Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council

The Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council is a local nonprofit organization that strives to enhance and restore habitat for fish and wildlife our community and for future generations. Our Board of Directors consists of seven members with…

Environment
6
Southern Oregon Land Conservancy Inc

To conserve and enhance land in southern oregon to sustain our human and natural communities forever.

Environment
7
Portland Fruit Tree Project

To increase equitable access to healthful food and strengthen communities by empowering neighbors to share in the harvest and care of city-grown produce.

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8
Farmers Market Fund

Helping under-served populations in oregon with greater access to healthy, locally grown food.

Food & Nutrition
9
Outgrowing Hunger

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.

Food & Nutrition
10
Deschutes Land Trust

To preserve and enhance natural ecosystems, scenic areas, open spaces, fish and wildlife habitat within deschutes basin.

Environment
11
Oregon Center for Public Policy

The oregon center for public policy's mission is to achieve economic justice for all oregonians through research, analysis, and advocacy. ocpp works to change policies that foster economic security and stability for all oregonians. we do…

Employment
12
Port Angeles Food Bank

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.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 1000 Friends of Oregon; the most unlike its peers is Home Orchard Education Center. 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

40 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. 40 of the 74 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/40
Grantees still filing
26/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PROVIDENCE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · OtherPROVIDENCE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONELLA CURRAN FOOD BANK - INDEPENDENCE: $510,000 · OtherELLA CURRAN FOOD BANK - INDEPENDENCEIndividual grant recipient: $500,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $275,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYIndividual grant recipient: $200,000 · OtherCandlelighters For Children With Cancer: $165,000 · OtherBLANCHET HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY: $156,112 · Other+35 more: $1,170,403 · Other+35 moreDucks Unlimited Inc: $1,050,000 · EnvironmentDucks Unlimited IncOpal Creek Ancient Forest Center: $275,000 · EnvironmentOpal Creek Ancient F…Tualatin Riverkeepers Inc: $145,000 · EnvironmentTualatin Riverkeeper…WILLAMETTE RIVERKEEPER: $130,000 · EnvironmentWILLAMETTE RIVERKEEP…CASCADE FOREST CONSERVANCY: $91,500 · Environment+4 more: $40,000 · EnvironmentGATE YOUTH ASSOCIATION: $1,015,000 · Human ServicesGATE YOUTH ASSO…GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $206,500 · Human ServicesGUIDE DOGS FOR …+8 more: $115,000 · Human Services+8 moreNorthwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding: $1,025,000 · Arts & CultureNorthwest Sch…OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $100,000 · Arts & CultureOREGON PUBLIC…MARK PRAIRIE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BLOSSER CENTER FOR DYSLEXIA RESOURCES: $1,065,000 · HealthTHE BLOSSER …+1 more: $25,000 · HealthOREGON HUMANE SOCIETY: $206,500 · AnimalsDOGS FOR THE DEAF INC DBA DOGS FOR BETTER LIVES: $135,000 · AnimalsFOODCORPS INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionMARION-POLK FOOD SHARE INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionTUALATIN SCHOOL HOUSE FOOD PANTRY: $10,000 · Food & NutritionSALEM HARVEST: $10,000 · Food & NutritionFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-PORTLAND: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentELEVATE OREGON: $10,000 · Youth Development
Other$3,976,515Environment$1,731,500Human Services$1,336,500Arts & Culture$1,175,000Health$1,090,000Animals$341,500Food & Nutrition$40,000Youth Development$35,000

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 budgetTHE BLOSSER CENTER FOR DYSLEXIA RESOURCES: $1,065,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc: $1,050,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNorthwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding: $1,025,000 over 2y, 35% of budgetGATE YOUTH ASSOCIATION: $1,015,000 over 2y, 35% of budgetOpal Creek Ancient Forest Center: $275,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $275,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $206,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetOREGON HUMANE SOCIETY: $206,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCandlelighters For Children With Cancer: $165,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetBLANCHET HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY: $156,112 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTualatin Riverkeepers Inc: $145,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetDOGS FOR THE DEAF INC DBA DOGS FOR BETTER LIVES: $135,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetWILLAMETTE RIVERKEEPER: $130,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetOREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCASCADE FOREST CONSERVANCY: $91,500 over 6y, 4.2% of budgetMARK PRAIRIE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $50,000 over 2y, 71% of budgetOREGON FOOD BANK: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetADELANTE MUJERES: $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOregon Lions Sight & Hearing Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-PORTLAND: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPARKINSON'S RESOURCES OF OREGON: $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSISTERS OF THE ROAD INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budget1000 FRIENDS OF OREGON: $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBLOOMIN BOUTIQUE: $15,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetELEVATE OREGON: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFOODCORPS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER WASHINGTON COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetOregon Natural Resources Council Fund Oregon Wild: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBEAVERTON RESOURCE CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetFamily Promise of Tualatin Valley: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTREET ROOTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNorth Coast Land Conservancy Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJUST COMPASSION OF EAST WASHINGTON COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetREADING RESULTS: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMARION-POLK FOOD SHARE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAIRWAY SCIENCE FOR KIDS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - LANE COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTUALATIN SCHOOL HOUSE FOOD PANTRY: $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetSALEM HARVEST: $10,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetHOME ORCHARD EDUCATION CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 4.3% 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.

  • Who funds THE BLOSSER CENTER FOR DYSLEXIA RESOURCES ↗
  • Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
  • Who funds Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding ↗
  • Who funds GATE YOUTH ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Opal Creek Ancient Forest Center ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
  • Who funds OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Candlelighters For Children With Cancer ↗
  • Who funds BLANCHET HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY ↗
  • Who funds Tualatin Riverkeepers Inc ↗
  • Who funds DOGS FOR THE DEAF INC DBA DOGS FOR BETTER LIVES ↗
  • Who funds WILLAMETTE RIVERKEEPER ↗
  • Who funds OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING ↗
  • Who funds CASCADE FOREST CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds MARK PRAIRIE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds ADELANTE MUJERES ↗
  • Who funds Oregon Lions Sight & Hearing Foundation ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-PORTLAND ↗
  • Who funds PARKINSON'S RESOURCES OF OREGON ↗

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.

The Oregon Community …The Autzen FoundationOCF Joseph E Weston P…Juan Young TrustThe Collins FoundationMeyer Memorial TrustMarie Lamfrom Charita…The Jackson FoundationHoover Family Foundat…The Ford Family Found…Rose E Tucker Charita…Braemar Charitable Tr…
The Oregon Community FoundationOR48.2× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Juan Young Trust · The Collins Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Jackson Foundation · Hoover Family Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · Braemar Charitable Trust

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 Lee H & Marion B Thompson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lee H & Marion B Thompson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • Airway Science for Kids Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Willamette Riverkeeper: 42% of income from government
  • Beaverton Resource Center: 42% of income from government
  • Adelante Mujeres: 31% of income from government
  • Elevate Oregon: 28% of income from government
  • Oregon Lions Sight & Hearing Foundation: 24% of income from government
  • Oregon Food Bank: 21% of income from government
  • Foodcorps Inc: 21% of income from government
  • North Coast Land Conservancy Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Gate Youth Association: 6% of income from government
  • Marion-Polk Food Share Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Friends of the Children-Portland: 5% of income from government
  • Just Compassion of East Washington County: 4% of income from government
  • Oregon Natural Resources Council Fund Oregon Wild: 2% of income from government
  • Oregon Public Broadcasting: 1% of income from government
  • Tualatin Riverkeepers Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to Lee H & Marion B Thompson Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Lee H & Marion B Thompson 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 74 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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