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Millsdavis Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$693k
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Environment$953kHealth$594kEducation$382kYouth Development$329kHousing & Shelter$287kHuman Services$244kRecreation & Sports$217kArts & Culture$216kOther$0
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $531k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOOD RIVER COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT$50,000
LAVENDER YOUTH RECREATION AND INFORMATION CENTER$50,000
POGO PARK$50,000
OSLC DEVELOPMENTS INC$41,412
NATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN$40,000
LOMAKATSI RESTORATION PROJECT$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
SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$25,000
CASCADE FOREST CONSERVANCY$25,000
UNION GOSPEL MISSION$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WESTERN REGIONAL ADVOCACY PROJECT: $50k → 10%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY OF LANE COUNTY INC: $30k → 15%CHAPLAINS ON THE HARBOR: $20k → 18%WESTERN REGIONAL ADVOCACY PROJECT: $50k → 10%CHAPLAINS ON THE HARBOR: $5k → 18%WESTERN REGIONAL ADVOCACY PROJECT: $50k → 10%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY OF LANE COUNTY INC: $30k → 15%WESTERN REGIONAL ADVOCACY PROJECT: $20k → 10%CHILDREN'S HEALING PROJECT: $26k → 12%WESTERN REGIONAL ADVOCACY PROJECT: $20k → 10%CARRY IT FORWARD: $50k → 15%CHILDREN'S HEALING PROJECT: $20k → 12%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY OF LANE COUNTY INC: $30k → 15%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY OF LANE COUNTY INC: $30k → 15%CHILDREN'S HEALING PROJECT: $13k → 12%CARRY IT FORWARD: $35k → 15%CHILDREN'S HEALING PROJECT: $9k → 12%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY OF LANE COUNTY INC: $30k → 15%CARRY IT FORWARD: $34k → 15%CARRY IT FORWARD: $28k → 15%CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF LANE COUNTY: $1k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 11% of Millsdavis Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Millsdavis Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 7.4% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.4M · 35 repeat orgs$444k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +92% since the first grant, against +83% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
24

Total granted

$3.4M
$342k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+92%
+83%

Still filing today

83%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • OD
    OSLC DEVELOPMENTS INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $307k · revenue +162%
  • LR
    LOMAKATSI RESTORATION PROJECT
    6× · 2019–2024 · $215k · revenue +174%
  • WR
    Western Regional Advocacy Project
    5× · 2020–2024 · $190k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • DO
    DIOCESE OF OLYMPIA INC
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $38k · revenue +2%
  • SH
    SHEPHERD'S HOUSE MINISTRIESgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $36k · revenue +67%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Oregon Agricultural Trust

Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.

Environment
2
350PDX

Building a diverse grassroots movement to address the causes of climate disruption through justice-based solutions by inspiring, training and mobilizing people to act.

Environment
3
Southern Oregon Land Conservancy Inc

To conserve and enhance land in southern oregon to sustain our human and natural communities forever.

Environment
4
Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council

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…

Environment
5
Portland Trails

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…

Environment
6
Oregon Energy Systems Technology and Research
Environment
7
Central Oregon Landwatch

To defend and plan for central oregons livable future

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8
Western Rivers Conservancy

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…

Environment
9
Washington Water Trust

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…

Environment
10
Oregon Research Institute

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…

Social Science
11
Earth Day Oregon
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12
Deschutes Land Trust

To preserve and enhance natural ecosystems, scenic areas, open spaces, fish and wildlife habitat within deschutes basin.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Oregon Foundation; 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.
05the grantee network

51 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/51
Grantees still filing
41/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LAVENDER YOUTH RECREATION AND INFORMATION: $185,000 · OtherLAVENDER YOUTH RECREATION AND INFORMATIO…WASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION: $115,000 · OtherWASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATIONARTS IN EDUCATION OF THE GORGE (AIEG): $95,000 · OtherARTS IN EDUCATION OF THE GORGE (AIEG)EUGENE PEACEWORKS: $80,320 · OtherEUGENE PEACEWORKSRURAL DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES INC: $70,000 · OtherSeattle Children's Foundation: $65,000 · OtherHood River County School District: $65,000 · OtherDIOCESE OF OLYMPIA INC: $50,000 · OtherPogo Park: $102,000 · OtherPogo ParkWordcrafters in Eugene: $60,000 · OtherMEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL: $70,000 · OtherOSLC Community Programs dba Oregon Community Programs: $64,526 · OtherLAVENDER YOUTH RECREATION & INFORMATION CENTER INC LYRIC: $50,000 · Other+19 more: $290,007 · Other+19 moreLOMAKATSI RESTORATION PROJECT: $215,000 · EnvironmentLOMAKATSI RESTORATION …NATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN: $165,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL TROPICAL BOTA…CASCADIA WILDLANDS: $90,000 · EnvironmentCASCADIA WILDLANDSMT ADAMS RESOURCE STEWARDS: $72,650 · EnvironmentMT ADAMS RESOURCE STEW…CASCADE FOREST CONSERVANCY: $70,000 · EnvironmentCASCADE FOREST CONSERV…COLUMBIA LAND TRUST: $40,000 · EnvironmentWORLD SALMON COUNCIL: $35,000 · Environment+3 more: $65,048 · Environment+3 moreWestern Regional Advocacy Project: $190,000 · Human ServicesWestern Regional …ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY OF LANE COUNTY INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesST VINCENT DE PAU…Carry It Forward: $146,975 · Human ServicesCarry It ForwardCHILDREN'S HEALING ART PROJECT INC: $67,500 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S HEALIN…CHAPLAINS ON THE HARBOR: $25,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesSPRINGFIELD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $169,789 · EducationSPRINGFIELD…INCIGHT COMPANY: $62,000 · EducationINCIGHT COM…Street Books: $57,640 · EducationStreet Book…UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $38,359 · EducationUNIVERSITY …THE WATERSHED RESEARCH & TRAINING CENTER: $25,000 · EducationTHE WATERSH…Springfield Education Foundation: $20,000 · Education+2 more: $7,000 · EducationOperation Nightwatch - Portland: $154,224 · HealthOperation…KWIAHT CENTER FOR SALISH SEA: $133,246 · HealthKWIAHT CE…WHITE BIRD CLINIC: $25,000 · HealthWHITE BIR…+2 more: $7,500 · HealthOSLC DEVELOPMENTS INC: $307,063 · Social ScienceOSLC DEVE…COMMUNITY SUPPORTED SHELTERS: $94,682 · Housing & ShelterSHEPHERD'S HOUSE MINISTRIES: $35,680 · Housing & Shelter
Other$1,361,853Environment$752,698Human Services$580,475Education$379,788Health$319,970Social Science$307,063Housing & Shelter$130,362

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOSLC DEVELOPMENTS INC: $307,063 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetLOMAKATSI RESTORATION PROJECT: $215,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetWestern Regional Advocacy Project: $190,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetSPRINGFIELD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $169,789 over 6y, 39% of budgetNATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN: $165,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetOperation Nightwatch - Portland: $154,224 over 4y, 17% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY OF LANE COUNTY INC: $150,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCarry It Forward: $146,975 over 3y, 30% of budgetKWIAHT CENTER FOR SALISH SEA: $133,246 over 6y, 22% of budgetWASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION: $115,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetPogo Park: $102,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY SUPPORTED SHELTERS: $94,682 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetCASCADIA WILDLANDS: $90,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetMT ADAMS RESOURCE STEWARDS: $72,650 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetCASCADE FOREST CONSERVANCY: $70,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetMEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL: $70,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRURAL DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES INC: $70,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALING ART PROJECT INC: $67,500 over 4y, 8.0% of budgetSeattle Children's Foundation: $65,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOSLC Community Programs dba Oregon Community Programs: $64,526 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetINCIGHT COMPANY: $62,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetWordcrafters in Eugene: $60,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetStreet Books: $57,640 over 3y, 14% of budgetLAVENDER YOUTH RECREATION & INFORMATION CENTER INC LYRIC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSISTERS OF THE ROAD INC: $45,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetECOTRUST: $41,234 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOLUMBIA LAND TRUST: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $38,359 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWALLOWA RESOURCES INC: $36,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSHEPHERD'S HOUSE MINISTRIES: $35,680 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWORLD SALMON COUNCIL: $35,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetFOREST HISTORY SOCIETY INC: $25,048 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe Pacific Forest Trust Incorporated: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WATERSHED RESEARCH & TRAINING CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWHEN WE SHINE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetSpringfield Education Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetBARK: $15,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAttitudinal Healing Connection Inc dba The Center for ArtEsteem: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGOFUNDMEORG: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBridgeway House: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTranslifeline DBA Trans Lifeline: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSexual Assault Support Services: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFOOD FOR LANE COUNTY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends and Foundation of the San Francisco Public Library: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF LANE COUNTY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPHELIA'S PLACE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Oregon Community …Meyer Memorial TrustThe Collins FoundationThe Autzen FoundationThe Ford Family Found…United Way of Lane Co…Marie Lamfrom Charita…Chambers Family Found…Juan Young TrustWeyerhaeuser Family F…M J Murdock Charitabl…The Reser Family Foun…
The Oregon Community FoundationOR48.9× affinity29 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 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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Millsdavis Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Millsdavis Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Millsdavis Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Millsdavis Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 64 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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