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Leslie G Ehmann Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$44k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Animals$330kHuman Services$26kFood & Nutrition$16kHealth$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$634k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FERAL CAT COALITION OF OREGON$8,000
FOOD FOR LANE COUNTY$6,000
DOVE LEWIS EMERGENCY ANIMAL HOSPITAL$6,000
OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY$5,550
WILLAMETTE ANIMAL GUILD$5,000
STORE TO DOOR$5,000
HARMONY NEW BEGINNINGS ANIMAL RESCUE$3,000
PORTLAND ANIMAL WELFARE TEAM$3,000
EXOTIC BIRD RESCUE OF OREGON$2,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.

area typical 10%CENTER FOR HOPE & SAFETY: $2k → 14%STORE TO DOOR: $5k → 12%STORE TO DOOR: $5k → 12%STORE TO DOOR: $2k → 12%STORE TO DOOR: $2k → 12%STORE TO DOOR: $2k → 12%STORE TO DOOR: $1k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$353k · 20 repeat orgs$37k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
12

Total granted

$353k
$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+149%

Still filing today

80%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHuman ServicesHealthFood & NutritionOther

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

  • DL
    DOVE LEWIS EMERGENCY ANIMAL HOSPITAL INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $55k · revenue +177%
  • OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY
    8× · 2017–2025 · $51k · revenue +26%
  • FC
    Feral Cat Coalition of Oregon
    9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +93%

Funded once

  • NP
    NO PET LEFT BEHIND
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • SG
    SAVING GRACE
    one grant, 2017 · $4k
  • AR
    ADAPTIVE RIDING INSTITUTE DBA HORSES OF HOPE OREGONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +156%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Herding Dog Rescue of Central Oregon

Our mission is to help herding dogs who are abandoned, neglected and abused or simply in the wrong home into a loving appropriate home.

Animals
2
Sos Lost Pet Rescue Nw Inc

Decrease over population of feral cats by trapping and doing spay or neuter. Provide veterinarian care to kittens. Take owner relinquishments of pets they can no longer care for. Taking in abandoned animals and providing veterinary care.…

Animals
3
Oregon Friends of Shelter Animals

Rescue, rehabilitate and rehome companion animals

Animals
4
Cats Cradle Rescue

Helped adopt over 200 felines and rehome over 50 other felines in the Portland Metro area.

Animals
5
Columbia Gorge Humane Society

Columbia Gorge Humane Society is committed to promoting healthy, safe and lifelong relationships between people and their pets through sustainable programs of education, adoption and spay/neutering. We will endeavor to fight for the abused…

Animals
6
Okanogan Regional Humane

To significantly reduce the overpopulation of cats and dogs in the Okanogan Region by offering affordable/free spay & neuter programs, emergency vet care and partner with no kill rescues.

Animals
7
United Paws of Tillamook

United Paws of Tillamook is a nonprofit dedicated to alleviating animal suffering by humanely addressing cat and kitten overpopulation and homelessness. We provide sliding scale spay and neuter clinics, wellness clinics, and basic…

Education
8
Idaho Animal Rescue Network

Idaho Animal Rescue Network is a 501(c)(3) non-profit based in Idaho that works in Idaho and Eastern Washington to educate, advocate, and network with other rescues and law enforcement in Idaho regarding animal cruelty and neglect. We are…

Animals
9
Rogue Valley Humane Society

The Rogue Valley Humane Society provides compassionate care for stray unwanted displaced and abandoned animals and works toward ending pet overpopulation so that there will be no more homeless pets. We are committed to placing every…

Animals
10
Coalition Advocating for Animals

Cat Rescue

Animals
11
New Hope for Eastern Oregon Animals

Improving life for animals through kindness, understanding, and respect

Animals
12
Brightside Animal Center

Brightside animal center is a high-save shelter dedicated to providing sheltering, placement, and prevention services to reduce animal homelessness and unnecessary euthanasia.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Pongo Fund and the most unlike its peers is Adaptive Riding Institute Dba Horses of Hope Oregon. 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 26 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%33%10–20yr19%29%20–35yr12%33%35–55yr15%5%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr19%30%20–35yr12%39%35–55yr15%19%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/27
the rest of the field
12%
1,550/13,278

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.

04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 34 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/25
Grantees still filing
17/25
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DOVE LEWIS EMERGENCY ANIMAL HOSPITAL INC — $55,000 · AnimalsDOVE LEWIS EMERGENCY ANIMAL HOSPITAL INCOREGON HUMANE SOCIETY — $51,050 · AnimalsOREGON HUMANE SOCIETYFeral Cat Coalition of Oregon — $45,000 · AnimalsFeral Cat Coalition of OregonWillamette Animal Guild — $36,800 · AnimalsWillamette Animal GuildDOGS FOR THE DEAF INC DBA DOGS FOR BETTER LIVES — $21,400 · AnimalsDOGS FOR THE DEAF INC DBA DOGS FOR BETTER LIVESHARMONY NEW BEGINNINGS ANIMAL RESCUE — $11,500 · AnimalsFriends Involved in Dog Outreach — $10,000 · AnimalsCENTRAL COAST HUMANE SOCIETY — $9,000 · Animals+8 more — $26,400 · Animals+8 moreWILLAMETTE HUMANE SOCIETY — $20,960 · OtherWILLAMETTE HUMANE SOCIETYFOOD FOR LANE COUNTY — $12,600 · OtherFOOD FOR LANE COUNTYCENTRAL OREGON ANIMAL FRIENDS HOME AT LAST HUMANE SOCIETY — $12,000 · OtherCENTRAL OREGON ANIMAL FRIENDS…STOP PET OVERPOPULATION TODAY — $11,000 · OtherSTOP PET OVERPOPULATION TODAYIndividual grant recipient — $11,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFIDO — $7,000 · OtherFIDONO PET LEFT BEHIND — $5,000 · OtherCORE PAWS INC — $4,000 · OtherSAVING GRACE — $3,500 · Other+5 more — $13,000 · Other+5 moreSTORE TO DOOR — $17,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY — $2,000 · Human ServicesLA PINE COMMUNITY KITCHEN — $3,000 · Food & NutritionHORSES ADAPTIVE RIDING AND THERAPY — $1,775 · Health
Animals$266,150Other$100,060Human Services$19,000Food & Nutrition$3,000Health$1,775

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDOVE LEWIS EMERGENCY ANIMAL HOSPITAL INC — $55,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetOREGON HUMANE SOCIETY — $51,050 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFeral Cat Coalition of Oregon — $45,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetWillamette Animal Guild — $36,800 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetDOGS FOR THE DEAF INC DBA DOGS FOR BETTER LIVES — $21,400 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetWILLAMETTE HUMANE SOCIETY — $20,960 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSTORE TO DOOR — $17,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetFOOD FOR LANE COUNTY — $12,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL OREGON ANIMAL FRIENDS HOME AT LAST HUMANE SOCIETY — $12,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetHARMONY NEW BEGINNINGS ANIMAL RESCUE — $11,500 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetSTOP PET OVERPOPULATION TODAY — $11,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetFriends Involved in Dog Outreach — $10,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetCENTRAL COAST HUMANE SOCIETY — $9,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetPAW WARRIORS INC — $5,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHE PONGO FUND — $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHOUSE OF DREAMS — $5,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetADAPTIVE RIDING INSTITUTE DBA HORSES OF HOPE OREGON — $3,400 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLA PINE COMMUNITY KITCHEN — $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOUND EQUINE OPTIONS — $2,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetEXOTIC BIRD RESCUE OF OREGON — $2,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetBEND SPAY & NEUTER PROJECT — $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANIMAL AID INC — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

The Oregon Community …The Larson LegacyKaren Schroth Foundat…The Autzen FoundationBarbara Emily Knudson…Maybelle Clark Macdon…Marie Lamfrom Charita…Bland Family Foundati…The Robert D and Marc…On Shore FoundationDeacon Charitable Fou…The Summerlee Foundat…
The Oregon Community FoundationOR32.3× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · The Larson Legacy · Karen Schroth Foundation for Animals · The Autzen Foundation · Barbara Emily Knudson Foundation · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Bland Family Foundation Attn Ryan Easley · The Robert D and Marcia H Randall Charitable Trust · On Shore Foundation · Deacon Charitable Foundation · The Summerlee 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 Leslie G Ehmann 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 170%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Center for Hope and Safety — 68% of income from government
  • Food for Lane County — 5% of income from government
  • Adaptive Riding Institute Dba Horses of Hope Oregon — 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
17get no government money at all
2report 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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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