· Private foundation
Leo Adler Trust
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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k187 grants · $657k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $275k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $177k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Baker City Fire Department | $76,835 |
| Baker City Downtown | $50,000 |
| The Oregon Community Foundation | $50,000 |
| Friends of Baker Heritage Museum | $40,000 |
| Anthony Lakes Outdoor Recreation As | $40,000 |
| City Golf Club | $40,000 |
| St Francis De Sales Cathedral | $35,000 |
| The Oregon Community Foundation | $25,000 |
| Keating PTO Outdoor Classroom | $20,000 |
| Baker City Police Department | $20,000 |
| Crossroads Creative and Performing | $20,000 |
| Haines Fire Protection District | $20,000 |
| St Luke's Health Foundation | $15,000 |
| Unity Community Hall Recreation Dis | $8,400 |
| Gonzaga University | $6,000 |
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 (FY22–22, $675) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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 +26% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
190 repeat relationships — 85 still active in FY2025, 105 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k 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
- BCBaker City Downtown3× · 2023–2025 · $100k · revenue +252%
- PUPACIFIC UNIVERSITY7× · 2019–2025 · $69k · revenue +7%
- SLSt Luke's Health Foundation Ltd5× · 2021–2025 · $68k · revenue +77%
Funded once
SAINT ALPHONSUS FOUNDATION-BAKER CITY INCone grant, 2019 · $42k · revenue -68% · 26% of their budget- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $38k
SIMMONS UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $35k · revenue -4%
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.
Ashland university, guided by our christian heritage, is a comprehensive, private university that provides a transformative learning experience, shaping graduates who work, serve and lead with integrity in their local, national, and global…
Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.
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…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.
Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…
Union college is a seventh-day adventist community of higher education, inspired by jesus christ, and dedicated to empowering students to learn, serve, and lead.
Through innovative learning opportunities, individual student attention, and an unwavering commitment to inclusive educational access, simpson college cultivates a diverse community of learners to lead lives of meaning and purpose.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…
Northwestern health sciences university prepares and serves the next generation of professionals and leaders to become vital contributors to the delivery and advancement of health care. our mission is accomplished through educational…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Willamette University and the most unlike its peers is Baker Soccer United. 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 53 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 12% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% 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.
77 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. 77 of the 319 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Baker City Downtown ↗
- Who funds Baker Soccer United ↗
- Who funds THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds St Luke's Health Foundation Ltd ↗
- Who funds BAKER CITY LIONS CLUB CHARITABLE FU ↗
- Who funds SAINT ALPHONSUS FOUNDATION-BAKER CITY INC ↗
- Who funds Anthony Lakes Outdoor Recreation Assoc ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST NAZARENE UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY ↗
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 Ford Family Foundation · The Roundhouse Foundation · Eminger Stewart Foundation Uma · Juan Young Trust · National Collegiate Athletic Association · George&Marion Buerkel Oscar&Ella Zoellner Fdn · Amy Heryford Ousley and James Heryford Ousley · Wayne C Stewart Foundation Uma · Wf & Blanche E West Educational & Coffman Jf · Ash Grove Charitable Foundation · Folds of Honor 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 Leo Adler Trust 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.
- Baker Relief Nursery Inc — 50% of income from government
- Northeast Oregon Compassion Center Inc — 34% of income from government
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- Baker City Downtown — 28% of income from government
- Warner Pacific University — 14% of income from government
- Oregon Historical Society — 10% of income from government
- Grande Ronde Symphony Association — 7% of income from government
- Oregon Museum of Science and Industry — 4% of income from government
- Linfield University — 4% of income from government
- Sumpter Valley Railroad Restoration Inc — 3% of income from government
- Bushnell University Fka Northwest Christian University — 3% of income from government
- Corban University — 3% of income from government
- Pacific University — 2% of income from government
- George Fox University — 2% of income from government
- The Oregon Community Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Casa of Eastern Oregon Inc — 2% of income from government
- Willamette University — 1% of income from government
- University of Portland — 1% of income from government
- Simmons University — 1% of income from government
- Crossroads Creative & Performing Arts Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Mount Saint Mary's University Inc — 0% of income from government
- New Directions Northwest Inc — 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.