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LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE
The mission of LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE is to know the traditions of the liberal arts, to test their boundaries through ongoing exploration, and to hand on to successive generations the tools and discoveries of this quest.
$94M
Granted FY2024
2
Grants
2
Communities
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
0173% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.
International$56kEducation$25kCrime & Legal$12kHuman Services$10kAnimals$10kYouth Development$5kOther$44k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
civicseducational
2020
china animaleducational
2021
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2022
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2023
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2024
global
2025
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 2 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$630M
Total assets
Largest grants
- HARVARD LAW SCHOOL$25,000
- WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL$7,500
02The need
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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% — the area typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your 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.
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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
2
University of Portland
The University of Portland, an independently governed Catholic university guided by the Congregation of Holy Cross, addresses significant questions of human concern through interdisciplinary studies of the arts, sciences, and humanities…
Education
3
League of Oregon Cities
To be the effective and collective voice of oregon's cities and their authoritative and best source of information and training
Public Benefit
4
Oregon Restaurant and
Orla serves as the leading industry advocate, striving to protect, improve and promote oregon hospitality.
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5
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
6
Oregon Arts Watch
Oregon Arts Watch produces independent, professional arts and culture journalism and criticism that is transparent, fair and accurate.
Arts & Culture
7
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 (SEE SCH O)
Education
8
Oregonians in Action
Land Use Issues
Environment
9
American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon
The Oregon Affiliate of the ACLU is a non-partisan organization dedicated to the preservation and enhancement of civil liberties and civil rights.
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10
Oregonians in Action Legal Center
To protect constitutional rights of landowners.
Crime & Legal
11
Portland Museum of Art
Museum/Educational
Arts & Culture
12
Oregon Natural Resources Council Fund
Oregon Wild works to protect and restore Oregons wildlands wildlife and waters as an enduring legacy for future generations
Environment
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Civics Learning Project and the most unlike its peers is President and Fellows of Harvard College. 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, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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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
International$56,000Other$44,400Education$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
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 WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF OREGON ↗
- Who funds HARVARD LAW SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CLASSROOM LAW PROJECT ↗
- Who funds LITERARY ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds LATINO NETWORK ↗
- Who funds SPEAK OUT FOR ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS OREGON ↗
- Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds HARLEY MARINE FALL FESTIVAL ↗
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 FoundationOR16.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Care · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · The Reser Family Foundation · James F & Marion L Miller Foundation · The Roundhouse Foundation · The Collins Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 organisation 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
- Civics Learning Project — 5% of income from government
- World Affairs Council of Oregon dba WorldOregon — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: HARLEY MARINE FALL FESTIVAL.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
high risk
2 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing.
Legal standing
medium risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 824768309 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on HARLEY MARINE FALL FESTIVAL, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 44% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Lewis & Clark College?
Find your warmest path to Lewis & Clark College through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines