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New Life Foundation
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE MEHER SPIRITUAL CENTER | $10,000 |
| CLACKAMAS WOMEN'S SERVICES | $5,000 |
| BELOVED ARCHIVES INC | $5,000 |
| MEHER FUND INC | $3,000 |
| SHERIAR FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| MERCY CORPS | $2,000 |
| COLUMBIA RIVERKEEPER | $2,000 |
| OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING | $2,000 |
| JOIN INC | $2,000 |
| DANDELION HOUSE | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +53% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- MSMEHER SPIRITUAL CENTER INC7× · 2019–2025 · $56k · revenue +110%
- CWCLACKAMAS WOMEN'S SERVICES8× · 2017–2025 · $26k · revenue +326%
- MCMercy Corps9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +19%
Funded once
BODYVOX INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +28%
GARY SINISE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +75%- GTGATEWAY TO COLLEGE NATIONAL NETWORKone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue -91%
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.
Impact nw prevents homelessness by supporting people as they navigate their journey to stability and strength. founded in portland in 1966, impact nw now serves 26,944 people a year in the greater portland, oregon metro area, including…
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 eliminate racism, empower women and promote peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.
Mission: leading and advancing collaboration to end homelessness in our region. vision: dedicated to everyone in the metro region having a safe, stable place to call home. values: committed to core values that bring people home: -…
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.
Northwest housing alternatives (nha)s mission is to create opportunity through housing. nha develops, builds, and manages affordable rental housing for families, seniors, and people with disabilities across oregon. these homes help…
We provide compassionate care and services to empower individuals experiencing substance use disorders, mental illnesses and homelessness to attain an enhanced quality of life regardless of ability to pay.
Sheltercare offers a variety of housing and support services for people who are homeless or those facing homelessness with a committed focus on the community's most vulnerable individuals dealing with psychiatric disabilities, acquired…
From clinical care and peer support programs to housing, we provide resources so people seeking mental health care can develop the tools to thrive, not just survive.
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…
Weshine designs, builds, and operates neighborhood-based micro-villages that provide safe, transitional shelter and services where portland's vulnerable, unsheltered adults can live as they prepare to become successful tenants in…
We offer our homeless neighbors accessible whole-person care to improve and support health, and to bridge a gap in trust between people and systems.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oregon Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is Cappella Romana. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 26 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 MEHER SPIRITUAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BELOVED ARCHIVES INC ↗
- Who funds CLACKAMAS WOMEN'S SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
- Who funds JOIN INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING ↗
- Who funds CAPPELLA ROMANA ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST PILOT PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Transition Projects Inc ↗
- Who funds OREGON NATURAL DESERT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds OUTSIDE IN ↗
- Who funds DANDELION HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Columbia Riverkeeper ↗
- Who funds MEHER FUND INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds BODYVOX INC ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY TO COLLEGE NATIONAL NETWORK ↗
- Who funds SHERIAR FOUNDATION KRYNSKI ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND ART MUSEUM ↗
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 Autzen Foundation · The Collins Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 New Life 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.
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Clackamas Women's Services — 33% of income from government
- Outside in — 33% of income from government
- Transition Projects Inc — 29% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- New Avenues for Youth Inc — 20% of income from government
- Oregon Natural Desert Association — 9% of income from government
- Northwest Pilot Project — 6% of income from government
- Cappella Romana — 4% of income from government
- Bodyvox Inc — 3% of income from government
- Portland Art Museum — 1% of income from government
- Columbia Riverkeeper — 1% of income from government
- Oregon Public Broadcasting — 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.
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