· Private foundation
Millsdavis Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $531k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| POGO PARK | $50,000 |
| HOOD RIVER COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $50,000 |
| LAVENDER YOUTH RECREATION AND INFORMATION CENTER | $50,000 |
| OSLC DEVELOPMENTS INC | $41,412 |
| LOMAKATSI RESTORATION PROJECT | $40,000 |
| NATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN | $40,000 |
| CARRY IT FORWARD | $35,000 |
| ARTS IN EDUCATION OF THE GORGE (AIEG) | $30,000 |
| MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL | $30,000 |
| EUGENE PEACEWORKS | $25,924 |
| OREGON COMMUNITY PROGRAMS | $25,550 |
| WASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| UNION GOSPEL MISSION | $25,000 |
| WHEN WE SHINE | $25,000 |
| CASCADE FOREST CONSERVANCY | $25,000 |
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, $580k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 11% of Millsdavis 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 +92% since the first grant, against +67% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 12 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k 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
- ODOSLC DEVELOPMENTS INC6× · 2019–2024 · $307k · revenue +162%
- LRLOMAKATSI RESTORATION PROJECT6× · 2019–2024 · $215k · revenue +236%
- WRWestern Regional Advocacy Project5× · 2020–2024 · $190k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- DODIOCESE OF OLYMPIA INCone grant, 2021 · $50k
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $38k · revenue +2%- SHSHEPHERD'S HOUSE MINISTRIESgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $36k · revenue +67%
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 agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
Building a diverse grassroots movement to address the causes of climate disruption through justice-based solutions by inspiring, training and mobilizing people to act.
To conserve and enhance land in southern oregon to sustain our human and natural communities forever.
The Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council is a local nonprofit organization that strives to enhance and restore habitat for fish and wildlife our community and for future generations. Our Board of Directors consists of seven members with…
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…
To defend and plan for central oregons livable future
Western rivers conservancy's mission is to protect outstanding river ecosystems in the western united states. continued on schedule o.we acquire land to conserve critical habitat, provide public access for compatible use and enjoyment, and…
Wwt's mission is to protect and restore water in rivers and streams across washington state. washington water trust restores and protects water in rivers and streams and promotes sustainable freshwater management in washington, and, more…
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…
To preserve and enhance natural ecosystems, scenic areas, open spaces, fish and wildlife habitat within deschutes basin.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Oregon Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Operation Nightwatch - Portland. 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
51 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. 51 of the 64 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 OSLC DEVELOPMENTS INC ↗
- Who funds LOMAKATSI RESTORATION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Western Regional Advocacy Project ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds Operation Nightwatch - Portland ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY OF LANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Carry It Forward ↗
- Who funds KWIAHT CENTER FOR SALISH SEA ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Pogo Park ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SUPPORTED SHELTERS ↗
- Who funds CASCADIA WILDLANDS ↗
- Who funds MT ADAMS RESOURCE STEWARDS ↗
- Who funds CASCADE FOREST CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds RURAL DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALING ART PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Seattle Children's Foundation ↗
- Who funds OSLC Community Programs dba Oregon Community Programs ↗
- Who funds INCIGHT COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Wordcrafters in Eugene ↗
- Who funds Street Books ↗
- Who funds LAVENDER YOUTH RECREATION & INFORMATION CENTER INC LYRIC ↗
- Who funds SISTERS OF THE ROAD INC ↗
- Who funds ECOTRUST ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WALLOWA RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD'S HOUSE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds WORLD SALMON COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds FOREST HISTORY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds DOERNBECHER CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WHEN WE SHINE FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Collins Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · United Way of Lane County · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Chambers Family Foundation · Juan Young Trust · Weyerhaeuser Family Foundationinc · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · The Reser Family 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 Millsdavis 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.
- Lomakatsi Restoration Project — 100% of income from government
- Wallowa Resources Inc — 100% of income from government
- World Salmon Council — 55% of income from government
- White Bird Clinic — 29% of income from government
- Ophelia's Place — 22% of income from government
- Ecotrust — 14% of income from government
- Medical Teams International — 14% of income from government
- Rural Development Initiatives Inc — 11% of income from government
- St Vincent De Paul Society of Lane County Inc — 7% of income from government
- Wordcrafters in Eugene — 6% of income from government
- Food for Lane County — 5% of income from government
- Children's Healing Art Project Inc — 4% of income from government
- Bark — 2% of income from government
- Oregon Health & Science University Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Community Supported Shelters — 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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