· Private foundation
Mentor Graphics Foundation
Its FY2018 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k300 grants · $133k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ORTOP | $150,000 |
| AGAMI INC | $5,351 |
| WEST LINN HIGH SCHOOL | $2,900 |
| THREE RIVERS CHARTER SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| LAKE OSWEGO SCHOOL DISTRICT | $2,400 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $1,800 |
| OREGON FOOD BANK | $1,650 |
| ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $1,585 |
| EDGEWATER HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| OREGON EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $1,300 |
| AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION | $1,225 |
| NORTH MARION PRIMARY SCHOOL | $1,200 |
| NATIONAL MS SOCIETY | $1,100 |
| ISLAMIC RELIEF USA | $1,100 |
| WASHINGTON COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION | $1,100 |
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 (FY17–18, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 7% of Mentor Graphics Foundation’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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
124 repeat relationships — 124 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 170 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).
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 FY2018, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $217k 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
- AIAGAMI INC2× · 2017–2018 · $13k · revenue +83%
Oregon State University Foundation2× · 2017–2018 · $6k · revenue +42%
OREGON FOOD BANK2× · 2017–2018 · $6k · revenue +70%
Funded once
OREGON ROBOTICS TOURNAMENT & OUTREACH PROGRAMone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -26%
OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +29%
OREGON BALLET THEATREgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +31%
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.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.
The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…
At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc and the most unlike its peers is Arlington Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
387 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. 387 of the 615 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 OREGON ROBOTICS TOURNAMENT & OUTREACH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY ↗
- Who funds OREGON BALLET THEATRE ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE TECH INTERACTIVE ↗
- Who funds INDUSTRY INITIATIVES FOR SCIENCE AND MATH EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds AGAMI INC ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND OPERA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALEARN ↗
- Who funds ORRAN ↗
- Who funds Oregon State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds Artists Repertory Theatre ↗
- Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE TOWER FOUNDATION OF SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THREE RIVERS CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Youth Symphony ↗
- Who funds FREMONT STAGE 1 INC ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND CENTER STAGE ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of Northern California ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SATURDAY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE INN BETWEEN OF LONGMONT INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THERE WITH CARE ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY ELEMENTARY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Girls Inc of the Pacific Northwest ↗
- Who funds LAKE OSWEGO ROBOTICS ↗
- Who funds LAKE OSWEGO SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
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: Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Juan Young Trust · The Autzen Foundation · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Intuit Foundation · The Jackson Foundation · Analog Devices Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Wheeler 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 Mentor Graphics Foundation 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.
- Foodwaves — 54% of income from government
- Arlington Historical Society — 51% of income from government
- Artists Repertory Theatre — 48% of income from government
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Adventist Development & Relief Agency International — 35% of income from government
- Outside in — 33% of income from government
- Young Audiences of Oregon Inc — 23% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- Medical Teams International — 14% of income from government
- High Desert Museum — 11% of income from government
- Raphael House of Portland — 10% of income from government
- Nami Oregon — 10% of income from government
- The Blueprint Foundation — 10% of income from government
- Portland Community College Foundation Inc — 5% of income from government
- Providence Portland Medical Foundation — 5% of income from government
- The Contingent — 5% of income from government
- Wam Theatre Inc — 4% of income from government
- Islamic of Social Service of Oregon — 4% of income from government
- Oregon Museum of Science and Industry — 4% of income from government
- Girls Inc of the Pacific Northwest — 4% of income from government
- The Boys & Girls Aid Society of Oregon — 3% of income from government
- Oregon Consular Corps Scholarship Fund — 3% of income from government
- Lewis and Clark Montessori Charter School — 3% of income from government
- Smart Reading — 3% of income from government
- Corvallis Waldorf Association — 2% of income from government
- Artists for Humanity Inc — 2% of income from government
- Sherwood Charter School — 2% of income from government
- Portland Opera Association Inc — 2% of income from government
- Molalla River Academy — 2% of income from government
- Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc — 1% of income from government
- Willamette University — 1% of income from government
- Young Men's Christian Association of Columbia-Willamette — 1% of income from government
- Portland Center Stage — 1% of income from government
- Metropolitan Youth Symphony — 1% of income from government
- Oregon Public Broadcasting — 1% of income from government
- Oregon Ballet Theatre — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Oregon State University Foundation — 0% 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.
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