· Private foundation
Lineberger Foundation of Oregon
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $214k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRANSITION PROJECTS | $40,000 |
| OREGON ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL | $30,000 |
| VIRGINIA GARCIA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| URBAN GLEANERS | $25,000 |
| OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY | $22,000 |
| NORTHWEST PILOT PROJECT | $20,000 |
| GIRLS ON THE RUN | $15,000 |
| MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL | $15,000 |
| SATURDAY ACADEMY | $12,000 |
| COMMUNITY CYCLING CENTER | $10,000 |
| MOTHER AND CHILD EDUCATION CENTER | $5,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $157k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of Lineberger Foundation of Oregon’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. Read by recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in OR; read by stated purpose it is 94% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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.
14 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TPTransition Projects Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $288k · revenue +99%
- VGVIRGINIA GARCIA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $162k · revenue +98%
OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY7× · 2019–2025 · $150k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- PPEARgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +54%
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.
To help empower african americans and others achieve equality in education, employment, and economic security.
The organization collectively works alongside those on the margins to empower individuals and communities through an inclusive range of services and support in east portland.
To inspire and partner to create quality and equity in individual and community health.
Human solutions counters the forces that keep people and communities in poverty bybuilding relationships and assets that create opportunity - today and for future generations. here's how: we partner with people and communities impacted by…
Welcome Home is a diverse coalition in the Portland metropolitan region that uses its collective resources to create healthy communities by ensuring everyone has an affordable and stable home. We use community education and collaboration…
To eliminate racism, empower women and promote peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.
To provide accessible barrier-free services to empower people experiencing problems with homelessness, housing, hunger, and poverty and to advocate for solutions to those problems.
Providing shelter, housing, food, and case management services to men experiencing homelessness on the east side of king county, wa.
Our village gardens brings a spirit of hope to the people by growing and sharing food, learning and teaching skills, and empowering community leadership.(continued on schedule o)our village gardens leverages community organizing, skill…
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…
Clackamas service center is an inclusive, "one-stop" community center for individuals and families seeking food relief and resources for improved health, dignity, and stability.
Northwest hub mobilizes and empowers through bicycle reclamation,skill/vocational training and bicycle waste diversion. clients gain mobility and skills needed to journey through life transitions ie probation reentry, dependency treatment,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oregon Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is Urban Gleaners. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 15 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 Transition Projects Inc ↗
- Who funds Oregon Environmental Council ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA GARCIA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST PILOT PROJECT ↗
- Who funds URBAN GLEANERS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CYCLING CENTER ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds JOIN ↗
- Who funds MOTHER & CHILD EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds PEAR ↗
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 Collins Foundation · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · Meyer Memorial Trust · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Careoregon Inc · The Reser Family Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · Wyss Foundation · Zera Foundation Inc · Sangham 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 Lineberger Foundation of Oregon 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.
- Transition Projects Inc — 29% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- Medical Teams International — 14% of income from government
- Northwest Pilot Project — 6% of income from government
- Join — 4% of income from government
- Community Cycling Center — 2% of income from government
- Pear — 1% 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.