· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $130k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+9 grants · $6.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BLOSSER CENTER FOR DYSLEXIA | $1,050,000 |
| PROVIDENCE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| DUCKS UNLIMITED | $1,000,000 |
| GATE YOUTH ASSOCIATION | $1,000,000 |
| THE NORTHWEST SCHOOL OF WOODEN BOATBUILDING | $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 |
| TUALATIN RIVER KEEPERS | $130,000 |
| WILLAMETTE RIVERKEEPER | $130,000 |
| BLANCHET HOUSE | $106,112 |
| OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY | $100,000 |
| GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND | $100,000 |
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 (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 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 +23% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M 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
- DUDucks Unlimited Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +26%
- NSNorthwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding2× · 2023–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +23% · 35% of their budget
- GYGATE YOUTH ASSOCIATION2× · 2023–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +12% · 35% of their budget
Funded once
OREGON FOOD BANKone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +5%- PEPROVIDENCE EMERGENCY ROOM RENOVATIONone grant, 2023 · $50k
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY-NEWBERG BRANCHone grant, 2023 · $25k
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.
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
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…
Orla serves as the leading industry advocate, striving to protect, improve and promote oregon hospitality.
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…
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…
To conserve and enhance land in southern oregon to sustain our human and natural communities forever.
To increase equitable access to healthful food and strengthen communities by empowering neighbors to share in the harvest and care of city-grown produce.
Helping under-served populations in oregon with greater access to healthy, locally grown food.
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.
To preserve and enhance natural ecosystems, scenic areas, open spaces, fish and wildlife habitat within deschutes basin.
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…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 1000 Friends of Oregon and 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.
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 34 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% 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 13% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 74 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 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 THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Opal Creek Ancient Forest Center ↗
- 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 OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds MARK PRAIRIE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ADELANTE MUJERES ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S RESOURCES OF OREGON ↗
- Who funds Oregon Lions Sight & Hearing Foundation ↗
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 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
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 Lee H & Marion B Thompson 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.
- 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
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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