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Ninety-Nine Girlfriends

To build a community of diverse women who give collectively and learn collaboratively to become more informed and engaged philanthropists.

$327k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$488kHuman Services$398kEmployment$395kHealth$325kEnvironment$323kHousing & Shelter$275kCommunity Improvement$150kYouth Development$150kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $300,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $327,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $27,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $260k
$65,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$158k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALBINA VISION TRUST$65,000
CRAG LAW CENTER$65,000
POIC$65,000
PROJECT LEMONADE$65,000
THE BLUEPRINT FOUNDATION$10,000
XCELERATE WOMEN$10,000
BIENESTAR$10,000
CENTER FOR BLACK EXCELLENCE$10,000
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 (FY20–25, $363k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%STREET ROOTS: $50k → 12%ADELANTE MUJERES: $50k → 8%POIC: $65k → 12%RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND: $50k → 12%BRADLEY ANGLE HOUSE: $90k → 12%BLACK PARENT INITIATIVE: $50k → 12%BLACK PARENT INITIATIVE: $8k → 12%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 32% of Ninety-Nine Girlfriends’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in OR; by stated purpose, 70%.

Ninety-Nine Girlfriendslessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.5% 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.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 16 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +7% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
26

Total granted

$1.5M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+2%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $225k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentHealthYouth 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

  • OT
    Oregon Tradeswomen Inc
    2× · 2019–2023 · $150k · revenue +87%
  • PC
    PORTLAND COMMUNITY MEDIA
    3× · 2019–2023 · $108k · revenue +2%
  • ROSE HAVEN CIC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $100k · revenue +303%

Funded once

  • ECOLOGY IN CLASSROOMS AND OUTDOORS
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue -76%
  • Bradley Anglegraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $90k · revenue +58%
  • Wisdom of the Elders Incorporated
    one grant, 2022 · $70k · revenue -30%
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 Justice Network

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…

Human Services
2
Rainmaker Craft Initiative
Arts & Culture
3
Welcome Home Coalition

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…

Community Improvement
4
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
5
New Progressive Network

Next up amplifies the voice of diverse youth to achieve a more just oregon

Civil Rights
6
Oregon Center for Public Policy

The oregon center for public policy's mission is to achieve economic justice for all oregonians through research, analysis, and advocacy. ocpp works to change policies that foster economic security and stability for all oregonians. we do…

Employment
7
Our Oregon

Promote economic and social fairness by working in coalition open a broad range of issues and activities in the public arena

Human Services
8
Portland Business Alliance

To ensure economic prosperity in the portland region by providing strong leadership, partnership, and programs that encourage business growth and vitality.

Community Improvement
9
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
10
Black Owned Business Excellence

Help create a more equitable entrepreneurial ecosystem in Washington State.

Community Improvement
11
Neighborhood Partnerships Inc

See schedule oneighborhood partnerships, inc. (np or the organization) is an oregon non-profit corporation founded in 1989 whose mission is to help create a better oregon, one in which we all have access to opportunity, stability, and what…

Philanthropy
12
Priority Oregon

To support public policies that will help oregon's economy and create new family supporting jobs in oregon.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Black United Fund of Oregon; the most unlike its peers is All Ages Music Portland dba Friends of Noise. 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

48 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. 48 of the 49 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/48
Grantees still filing
26/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Bradley Angle: $90,000 · Human ServicesBradley AnglePARTNERS FOR OUR COMMUNITIES: $65,000 · Human ServicesPARTNERS FOR OUR…PROJECT LEMONADE INC: $65,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT LEMONADE…Black Parent Initiative: $57,500 · Human ServicesBlack Parent Ini…RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND: $50,000 · Human ServicesRAPHAEL HOUSE OF…ADELANTE MUJERES: $50,000 · Human ServicesADELANTE MUJERESSTREET ROOTS INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesSTREET ROOTS INCRANDALL CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $150,000 · HealthRANDALL CHIL…NORTH BY NORTHEAST COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $100,000 · HealthNORTH BY NOR…FREE CLINIC OF SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON: $50,000 · HealthFREE CLINIC …NW LATINO INSTITUTO OF ADDICTIONS: $15,000 · HealthCommunity Energy Project Inc: $100,000 · OtherCommunity Energy Project IncPORTLAND OPPORTUNITIES INDUST CENTER: $90,000 · OtherPORTLAND OPPORTUNITIES INDUST CENTERPORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $70,000 · OtherPORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONROSE HAVEN CIC: $100,000 · OtherROSE HAVEN CICPATH HOME: $65,000 · OtherPATH HOMEBIENESTAR INC: $60,000 · OtherWOMENFIRST TRANSITION REFERRAL CENTER: $77,500 · OtherWOMENFIRST TRANSITION REFERRAL CENTERFinAbility: $65,000 · OtherFinAbilityRed Lodge Transition Services: $50,000 · OtherConstructing Hope Pre-Apprenticeship Program: $90,000 · OtherConstructing Hope Pre-Apprenticeship ProgramWRITE AROUND PORTLAND: $50,000 · OtherKAIROSPDX: $50,000 · OtherALBINA VISION TRUST INC: $65,000 · OtherALBINA VISION TRUST INCBLACK FARM BUREAU: $70,000 · OtherBLACK FARM BUREAUBLACK UNITED FUND OF OREGON: $50,000 · Other+7 more: $85,000 · Other+7 morePORTLAND COMMUNITY MEDIA: $107,500 · Arts & CulturePORTLAND CO…Wisdom of the Elders Incorporated: $70,000 · Arts & CultureWisdom of t…All Ages Music Portland dba Friends of Noise: $65,000 · Arts & CultureAll Ages Mu…The Red Door Project: $35,000 · Arts & CultureThe Red Doo…COMMUNITY DOULA ALLIANCE: $10,000 · Arts & CultureECOLOGY IN CLASSROOMS AND OUTDOORS: $100,000 · EnvironmentECOLOGY IN…Trash for Peace: $90,000 · EnvironmentTrash for …CRAG LAW CENTER: $65,000 · EnvironmentCRAG LAW C…DEPAVE: $10,000 · Environment+1 more: $7,500 · EnvironmentOREGON BRAVO YOUTH ORCHESTRAS: $90,000 · Youth DevelopmentELSO INC: $65,000 · Youth DevelopmentWorking Theory Farm: $65,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe Blueprint Foundation: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentOregon Tradeswomen Inc: $150,000 · EmploymentVOZ WORKERS RIGHTS EDUCATION PROJECT: $77,500 · Employment
Human Services$427,500Health$315,000Other$1,137,500Arts & Culture$287,500Environment$272,500Youth Development$230,000Employment$227,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOregon Tradeswomen Inc: $150,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetRANDALL CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetPORTLAND COMMUNITY MEDIA: $107,500 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetROSE HAVEN CIC: $100,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetNORTH BY NORTHEAST COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $100,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetCommunity Energy Project Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetTrash for Peace: $90,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetPORTLAND OPPORTUNITIES INDUST CENTER: $90,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetConstructing Hope Pre-Apprenticeship Program: $90,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetBradley Angle: $90,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetOREGON BRAVO YOUTH ORCHESTRAS: $90,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetWOMENFIRST TRANSITION REFERRAL CENTER: $77,500 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetVOZ WORKERS RIGHTS EDUCATION PROJECT: $77,500 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetWisdom of the Elders Incorporated: $70,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetBLACK FARM BUREAU: $70,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetPORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetELSO INC: $65,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetPARTNERS FOR OUR COMMUNITIES: $65,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetFinAbility: $65,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetAll Ages Music Portland dba Friends of Noise: $65,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetPROJECT LEMONADE INC: $65,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetPATH HOME: $65,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWorking Theory Farm: $65,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetBIENESTAR INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBlack Parent Initiative: $57,500 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetWRITE AROUND PORTLAND: $50,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetRAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND: $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetFREE CLINIC OF SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON: $50,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetADELANTE MUJERES: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSTREET ROOTS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetKAIROSPDX: $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetWILD DIVERSITY: $15,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetNW LATINO INSTITUTO OF ADDICTIONS: $15,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCommunities United for People: $15,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetThe Rosewood Initiative: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDEPAVE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSELF ENHANCEMENT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY DOULA ALLIANCE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTaking Ownership: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBARK: $7,500 over 1y, 1.0% 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.

Meyer Memorial TrustThe Collins FoundationThe Oregon Community …Marie Lamfrom Charita…The Autzen FoundationSeeding JusticeRonald W Naito Md Fou…Onpoint Community Cre…OCF Joseph E Weston P…United Way of the Col…The Jackson FoundationCareoregon Inc
Meyer Memorial TrustOR73.1× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Meyer Memorial Trust · The Collins Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Autzen Foundation · Seeding Justice · Ronald W Naito Md Foundation · Onpoint Community Credit Union · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · United Way of the Columbia-Willamette · The Jackson Foundation · Careoregon Inc

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 Ninety-Nine Girlfriends funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ninety-Nine Girlfriends. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Elso Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Oregon Tradeswomen Inc: 46% of income from government
  • Black Parent Initiative: 45% of income from government
  • Portland Opportunities Indust Center: 38% of income from government
  • Adelante Mujeres: 31% of income from government
  • Working Theory Farm: 19% of income from government
  • Kairospdx: 19% of income from government
  • Project Lemonade Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Self Enhancement Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Xcelerate Women: 13% of income from government
  • Voz Workers Rights Education Project: 12% of income from government
  • Red Lodge Transition Services: 12% of income from government
  • Raphael House of Portland: 10% of income from government
  • Bradley Angle: 10% of income from government
  • The Blueprint Foundation: 10% of income from government
  • Bienestar Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Write Around Portland: 6% of income from government
  • North By Northeast Community Health Center: 4% of income from government
  • The Rosewood Initiative: 3% of income from government
  • Bark: 2% of income from government
  • Constructing Hope Pre-Apprenticeship Program: 2% of income from government
  • Trash for Peace: 2% of income from government
  • Portland Community Media: 1% of income from government
  • All Ages Music Portland dba Friends of Noise: 1% of income from government
  • Black United Fund of Oregon: 1% of income from government
  • Community Energy Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Randall Childrens Hospital Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • Portland State University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.
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How do I get to Ninety-Nine Girlfriends?

Find your warmest path to Ninety-Nine Girlfriends 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 49 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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