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Leslie G Ehmann Trust at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$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
STORE TO DOOR$5,000
WILLAMETTE ANIMAL GUILD$5,000
PORTLAND ANIMAL WELFARE TEAM$3,000
HARMONY NEW BEGINNINGS ANIMAL RESCUE$3,000
EXOTIC BIRD RESCUE OF OREGON$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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.

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%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Pongo Fund; 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.
04the grantee network

25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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…Individual grant recipient: $11,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSTOP PET OVERPOPULATION TODAY: $11,000 · OtherSTOP PET OVERPOPULATION TODAYFIDO: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetHOUSE OF DREAMS: $5,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetTHE PONGO FUND: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPAW WARRIORS INC: $5,000 over 2y, 1.5% 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 …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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Leslie G Ehmann Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Leslie G Ehmann Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 170%1%3%6%10%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 34 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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