· Private foundation
Michael J & Adele M Tennant Charitable
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $66k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $82k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $269k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EASTMONT CHURCH | $100,000 |
| JAMES DOBSON FAMILY INSTITUTE | $97,000 |
| TRINITY LUTHERAN SCHOOL | $72,000 |
| BROKEN SHACKLES | $20,000 |
| SHEPHERD'S HOUSE MINISTRIES | $16,000 |
| MULTIPLICATION NETWORK MINISTRIES | $15,000 |
| HIGH DESERT MUSEUM | $11,000 |
| GUARDIAN GROUP | $10,000 |
| PREPARE THE WAY | $10,000 |
| FURNISH HOPE | $8,000 |
| KIDS CENTER | $7,500 |
| FREEDOM FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| TOWER THEATRE | $5,000 |
| MOUNTAIN STAR FAMILY | $5,000 |
| PARTNERS IN CARE | $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 (FY19–24, $93k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% 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.
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 +37% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $116k 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
- SHSHEPHERD'S HOUSE MINISTRIES8× · 2017–2024 · $331k · revenue ×24
- DJDr James Dobson Family Institute6× · 2019–2024 · $244k · revenue +51%
- BSBROKEN SHACKLES8× · 2017–2024 · $85k · revenue +128% · 38% of their budget
Funded once
- YAYoung America's Foundationone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +21%
- TCTEEN CHALLENGEone grant, 2023 · $10k
First Storygraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +76%
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.
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…
We provide a voice for an effective and accessible behavioral health system of care for Oregonians.
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
Providing support and advocacy for abuse survivors.
We work collectively to educate and advocate for systems that elevate the vital work of care and caregiving in its many forms within our community.
Mobilizing the community to uplift children and families impacted by foster care in Oregon.
To support public policies that will help oregon's economy and create new family supporting jobs in oregon.
To lead oregon's casa programs to provide a strong voice for every abused and neglected child
To promote and defend the rights of individuals with disabilities.
At l'arche portland people with and without developmental disabilities create home and build community together. we nurture long-term mutual relationships that reveal the gifts of people with developmental disabilities. in doing so we…
Beyond These Walls supports LGBTQ people impacted by incarceration in Oregon by providing direct service housing and advocacy.
Rogue Climate's mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change including low-income, rural, youth, seniors & communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs &…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Frontline Foundation. 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 30 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) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 26% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 74 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 SHEPHERD'S HOUSE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Dr James Dobson Family Institute ↗
- Who funds BROKEN SHACKLES ↗
- Who funds MULTIPLICATION NETWORK MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds BETHLEHEM INN ↗
- Who funds KIDS INTERVENTION AND DIAGNOSTIC SERVICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds FURNISH HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN CARE ↗
- Who funds THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Crystal Peaks Youth Ranch Co ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF CENTRAL OREGON ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE MEADOWS ↗
- Who funds SHIELD OF FAITH MISSION INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds HIGH DESERT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ORPHANGES OF KENYA ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
- Who funds GUARDIAN GROUP ↗
- Who funds First Story ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL OREGON VETERAN & COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF CENTRAL OREGON ↗
- Who funds DESCHUTES CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds In Our Backyard ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA 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: The Anjulicia Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · United Way of Deschutes County · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Roundhouse Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · St Charles Health System Inc · Bend Foundation · Northwest Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · The Robert D and Marcia H Randall Charitable Trust
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 Michael J & Adele M Tennant Charitable 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.
- Central Oregon Veteran & Community Outreach Inc — 51% of income from government
- Saving Grace — 48% of income from government
- Abilitree — 44% of income from government
- Bridge Meadows — 36% of income from government
- High Desert Museum — 11% of income from government
- The Oregon Community Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Casa of Central Oregon — 2% of income from government
- First Story — 0% of income from government
- Bethlehem Inn — 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.