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Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment.

$99M
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

International$54kAnimals$42kCrime & Legal$27kYouth Development$21kArts & Culture$21kHuman Services$10kRecreation & Sports$6kHealth$5k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 1 grants below total $7,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $99,061,770 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $99,054,270 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$7,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$639M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL$7,500
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 (FY19–20, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%LATINO NETWORK: $5k → 12%LATINO NETWORK: $5k → 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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 14% of Lewis & Clark College’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Lewis & Clark Collegelessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.0% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$101k · 3 repeat orgs$61k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +64% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.

3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
7

Total granted

$101k
$61k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
+43%

Still filing today

100%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
InternationalCrime & LegalHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentAnimalsOther

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

  • World Affairs Council of Oregon dba WorldOregon
    9× · 2017–2025 · $70k · revenue -5%
  • LITERARY ARTS INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $21k · revenue +64%
  • Latino Network
    2× · 2019–2020 · $10k · revenue +198%

Funded once

  • NC
    NATIONAL CRIME VICTIM LAW INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • CL
    Civics Learning Projectgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $12k · revenue +105%
  • SO
    SPEAK OUT FOR ANIMALSgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +43%

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
Oregon Restaurant and Lodging Association

Orla serves as the leading industry advocate, striving to protect, improve and promote oregon hospitality.

2
Oregon Justice Network

Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…

Human Services
3
Portland Public Library

Portland Public Library is a welcoming cultural center that brings people together and connects them with trusted resources, ideas, experiences, and information. We build a stronger community by inspiring learning, creativity, and…

Education
4
Our Oregon

Promote economic and social fairness by working in coalition open a broad range of issues and activities in the public arena

Human Services
5
Oregon Agricultural Trust

Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.

Environment
6
American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon Inc

We believe that the freedoms of press, speech, assembly, and religion, and the rights to due process, equal protection and privacy, are fundamental to a free people. We advance civil liberties and civil rights by activities that include…

7
Oregon Research Institute

Oregon research institute is an independent behavioral sciences research center dedicated to understanding human behavior and improving the quality of human life through the prevention and treatment of health, educational, and social…

Social Science
8
Cascades Academy of Central Oregon

Cascades academy is an engaged, vibrant community that weaves challenging academics with experiential learning to inspire socially responsible individuals ready for a diverse and changing world.

Education
9
Oregon Progress Forum

Next up amplifies the voice and leadership of diverse young people to achieve a more just and equitable oregon.

Environment
10
Oregonians in Action

Land Use Issues

Environment
11
Oregon Center for Public Policy

The oregon center for public policy's mission is to achieve economic justice for all oregonians through research, analysis, and advocacy. ocpp works to change policies that foster economic security and stability for all oregonians. we do…

Employment
12
Oregon Arts Watch

Oregon Arts Watch produces independent, professional arts and culture journalism and criticism that is transparent, fair and accurate.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Civics Learning Project and the most unlike its peers is Speak Out for Animals. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 11 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

World Affairs Council of Oregon dba WorldOregon — $70,000 · InternationalWorld Affairs Council of Oregon dba WorldO…LITERARY ARTS INC — $20,500 · OtherLITERARY ARTS INCNATIONAL CRIME VICTIM LAW INSTITUTE — $15,000 · OtherNATIONAL CRIME VICTIM LAW INSTITU…CAPITAL ANIMAL WELFARE ASSOCIATION — $7,500 · OtherCAPITAL ANIMAL WELFARE ASSOCIATIO…Special Olympics Oregon Inc — $6,400 · OtherSpecial Olympics Oregon IncHARLEY MARINE FALL INVITATIONAL — $5,000 · OtherHARLEY MARINE FALL INVITATIONALPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $25,000 · EducationPresident and F…Civics Learning Project — $11,890 · Crime & LegalLatino Network — $10,000 · Human ServicesSPEAK OUT FOR ANIMALS — $9,985 · AnimalsNATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER — $5,000 · Youth Development
International$70,000Other$54,400Education$25,000Crime & Legal$11,890Human Services$10,000Animals$9,985Youth Development$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWorld Affairs Council of Oregon dba WorldOregon — $70,000 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCivics Learning Project — $11,890 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetLatino Network — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSpecial Olympics Oregon Inc — $6,400 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHARLEY MARINE FALL INVITATIONAL — $5,000 over 1y, 44% 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 Reser Family FoundationOR13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Reser Family Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Lewis & Clark College 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
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 10%
  • Native American Youth and Family Center23% of income from government
  • Latino Network15% of income from government
  • Literary Arts Inc10% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College7% of income from government
  • World Affairs Council of Oregon dba WorldOregon0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 11 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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