· Private foundation
Leotta Gordon Foundation
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KAIROSPDX | $20,000 |
| MANY NATIONS ACADEMY | $7,000 |
| THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CASCADIA WILDLANDS | $4,000 |
| CASA | $4,000 |
| PORTLAND YOUTH BUILDERS | $3,000 |
| CHILDREN'S CENTER | $3,000 |
| CIVICS LEARNING PROJECT | $3,000 |
| FRIENDLY HOUSE | $3,000 |
| SMUS SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| NW ASSOCIATION FOR BLIND ATHLETES | $2,000 |
| CLACKAMAS WOMEN'S SERVICES | $2,000 |
| YMCA OF MARION COUNTY | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 86% 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 +86% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 1 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
KAIROSPDX9× · 2017–2025 · $133k · revenue +313%- CWCASCADIA WILDLANDS9× · 2017–2025 · $27k · revenue +299%
Portland YouthBuilders9× · 2017–2025 · $21k · revenue +86%
Funded once
CASA FOR CHILDREN INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +27%- LOLAKE OSWEGO SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2018 · $1k
- COCEASEFIRE OREGON EDUCATION FOUNDone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
Children's institute's mission is to leverage research, practice, policy, and advocacy to shift systems toward justice for families so that all of oregon's children, prenatal to grade 5, have access to opportunity.
Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…
Building brighter futures with children and families.
Our children oregon's mission is to be a voice and force for the common good for all oregon children, ensuring all children have the resources and opportunities they need to reach their full potential. we elevate data and the voices of…
To help strengthen and heal children and families, and the community. olalla center's staff believes all children and families can heal and this premise is the foundation of olalla center's treatment philosophy and the basis for their work.
Fact oregon empowers families, youth, and communities to navigate disability systems, advocating together for disability justice and policy change so that people with disabilities have what they need to thrive at home, in school, and in…
To help empower african americans and others achieve equality in education, employment, and economic security.
We believe that the strength of our community lies in its diversity. we know the power of many different voices at the table. these voices resound from the hearts and minds of our youth, who hold the keys to a just, fair and sustainable…
To eliminate racism, empower women and promote peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.
Building strong connections for healthy communities through mental health programs, youth empowerment services and family services.
The mission of dc bilingual public charter school is to create a learning community that ensures high academic achievement for all students in both spanish and english, develops leadership, and values all cultures.
Over the next five years, portland trails will work to transform greater portland into a regional hub of connectivity and sustainability. by facilitating the expansion and enhancement of our trail network, we will foster inclusive…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Native American Youth and Family Center and the most unlike its peers is Oregon Humane Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 12% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 39 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 KAIROSPDX ↗
- Who funds CASCADIA WILDLANDS ↗
- Who funds Portland YouthBuilders ↗
- Who funds Childrens Center ↗
- Who funds FRIENDLY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH VILLAGES INC ↗
- Who funds READING RESULTS ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDRENS COURSE INC ↗
- Who funds CLACKAMAS WOMEN'S SERVICES ↗
- Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Civics Learning Project ↗
- Who funds Girls Inc of the Pacific Northwest ↗
- Who funds CASA FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING ↗
- Who funds Wildcat Ridge Sanctuary ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SERENDIPITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CASCADIA HEALTH ↗
- Who funds SMART READING ↗
- Who funds OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
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 · 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
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 Leotta Gordon 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.
- Clackamas Women's Services — 37% of income from government
- Kairospdx — 22% of income from government
- Native American Youth and Family Center — 21% of income from government
- Portland YouthBuilders — 10% of income from government
- Girls Inc of the Pacific Northwest — 6% of income from government
- Portland Art Museum — 6% of income from government
- Civics Learning Project — 5% of income from government
- Smart Reading — 4% of income from government
- Cascadia Health — 2% of income from government
- Serendipity Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Casa for Children Inc — 2% of income from government
- University of Portland — 2% of income from government
- Reading Results — 1% of income from government
- Oregon Public Broadcasting — 0% of income from government
- Childrens Center — 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.
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