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Leotta Gordon Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$60k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2025
14
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
11 to 18
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$307k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Leotta Gordon Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureRecreation & SportsCivil RightsAnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving13$60k8%
FY202414$60k0%
FY202314$60k21%
FY202214$60k7%
FY202115$60k20%
FY202012$29k17%
FY201911$31k9%
FY201818$30k33%
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$253kHuman Services$42kYouth Development$37kEnvironment$27kCrime & Legal$21kRecreation & Sports$21kPublic Benefit$4kArts & Culture$3kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Kairospdx$132,50090%
Cascadia Wildlands$26,50090%
Portland YouthBuilders$20,50090%
Childrens Center$19,10080%
Friendly House Inc$18,50080%
The Library Foundation$10,00040%
St Andrew Nativity School$8,0003n/a
Youth Villages Inc$7,50040%
The Childrens Course Inc$7,00030%
Reading Results$7,00060%
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All grantees of Leotta Gordon Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Kairospdx$132,50090%
Cascadia Wildlands$26,50090%
Portland YouthBuilders$20,50090%
Childrens Center$19,10080%
Friendly House Inc$18,50080%
The Library Foundation$10,00040%
St Andrew Nativity School$8,0003n/a
Youth Villages Inc$7,50040%
The Childrens Course Inc$7,00030%
Reading Results$7,00060%
Clackamas Women's Services$6,50030%
Native American Youth and Family Center$4,50020%
Civics Learning Project$4,00020%
Girls Inc of the Pacific Northwest$3,00020%
Casa for Children Inc$2,00010%
Oregon Public Broadcasting$2,00020%
Lake Oswego School District$1,2001n/a
Wildcat Ridge Sanctuary$1,00010%
University of Portland$1,00010%
Guide Dogs for the Blind Inc$1,00010%
Portland Art Museum$1,00010%
Serendipity Center Inc$1,0001n/a
Cascadia Health$1,00010%
Smart Reading$1,00010%
Oregon Humane Society$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($131k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Leotta Gordon Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKairospdx: $132,500 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetCascadia Wildlands: $26,500 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetPortland YouthBuilders: $20,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetChildrens Center: $19,100 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFriendly House Inc: $18,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe Library Foundation: $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYouth Villages Inc: $7,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Childrens Course Inc: $7,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetReading Results: $7,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetClackamas Women's Services: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNative American Youth and Family Center: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCivics Learning Project: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGirls Inc of the Pacific Northwest: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCasa for Children Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOregon Public Broadcasting: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWildcat Ridge Sanctuary: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Portland: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGuide Dogs for the Blind Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPortland Art Museum: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCascadia Health: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSmart Reading: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOregon Humane Society: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 22.

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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 FoundationOR32.4× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Meyer Memorial Trust · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · The Jackson Foundation · Braemar Charitable Trust · Juan Young Trust · The Collins Foundation · The Robert D and Marcia H Randall Charitable Trust · Hoover Family 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.

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How do I get to Leotta Gordon Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Leotta Gordon 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.

About Leotta Gordon Foundation

How much does Leotta Gordon Foundation give?
Leotta Gordon Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $60,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Leotta Gordon Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (60%), Human Services (10%), Youth Development (9%).
Who are Leotta Gordon Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Kairospdx ($133k), Cascadia Wildlands ($27k), Portland YouthBuilders ($21k).
Does Leotta Gordon Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Leotta Gordon Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Leotta Gordon Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Oregon Community Foundation, OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation, The Autzen Foundation.
Where is Leotta Gordon Foundation based?
Leotta Gordon Foundation is based in OR.

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 39 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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