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North Star Collaborative Foundation

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.

$116k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Public Benefit$278kCivil Rights$141kHousing & Shelter$90kYouth Development$77kEnvironment$71kCommunity Improvement$64kPhilanthropy$30kHealth$29kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$97k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The New Georgia Project$50,000
BVM Capacity Building Institute$25,000
Arizona Center for Empowerment$25,000
HomeShare Oregon$10,000
Meals on Wheels People$5,000
Latino Network$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Colorado People's Alliance: $10k → 12%Latino Network: $1k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
WI
MI
MA
OR
NV
CA
CO
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NC
DC
GA

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$463k · 19 repeat orgs$365k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of -8% since the first grant, against -20% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
29

Total granted

$463k
$364k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-8%
-20%

Still filing today

84%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsPublic BenefitEnvironmentArts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationOther

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

  • ARIZONA CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT
    2× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +97%
  • BC
    BVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC
    2× · 2020–2024 · $35k · revenue +11%
  • OREGON FOOD BANK
    2× · 2022–2023 · $6k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • BLUEPRINT NORTH CAROLINA
    one grant, 2020 · $34k · revenue -69%
  • JB
    James Beard Public Market
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • NC
    NORTH CAROLINA BLACK ALLIANCE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +91%

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

04Your field

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.

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
New Progressive Network

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

Civil Rights
3
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
4
American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon Inc

We believe that the freedoms of press, speech, assembly, and religion, and the rights to due process, equal protection and privacy, are fundamental to a free people. We advance civil liberties and civil rights by activities that include…

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5
Economic Opportunity Institute

Equip the public and public decision-makers with the policy research and practical tools they need to embed the values of fairness, care, and opportunity into the foundations of Washington's economy.

Community Improvement
6
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Oregon Inc

The aclu foundation of oregon is dedicated to preserving and defending civil liberties and civil rights.

Civil Rights
7
Oregon Restaurant and Lodging Association

Orla serves as the leading industry advocate, striving to protect, improve and promote oregon hospitality.

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8
Oregon Journalism Project

Oregon journalism project's mission is to inform, engage, and empower oregonians with the kind of data-driven and solution-seeking investigative reporting that makes a significant impact at the state and local levels - serving no agenda…

Arts & Culture
9
Portland Community Media

Open signal's mission is to nurture the change-making power of community media in service of a just and equitable world.

Arts & Culture
10
Northeast Oregon Network

Northeast Oregon Network (the Organization) is a non-profit organization established to create a healthier Oregon by reducing barriers for both residents and regional systems that support their health. The Organization fulfills its mission…

Health
11
Oregon Public Broadcasting

Connecting people across oregon and the pacific northwest through the power of a shared story.

Arts & Culture
12
Rogue Climate

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 &…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Western States Center and the most unlike its peers is Home Share Oregon. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyWomen & Girls Leadership De…Policy Research and AdvocacyFood Banks and PantriesEnvironmental Conservation …Community Arts CentersAffordable Housing Developm…Community FoundationsUnited Way AffiliatesCommunity FoundationsHealth Access Advocacy and …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%24%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr16%37%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr16%8%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%42%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr16%30%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr16%5%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/42
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,523

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.

04the grantee network

42 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. 42 of the 51 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/42
Grantees still filing
17/42
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC — $75,000 · Civil RightsNEW GEORGIA PROJECT INCARIZONA CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT — $50,000 · Civil RightsARIZONA CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENTBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC — $35,000 · Civil RightsBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE…ONE ARIZONA — $20,000 · Civil RightsONE ARIZONANew Era Colorado Foundation — $20,000 · Civil RightsNew Era Colorado FoundationMOTHERING JUSTICE — $15,000 · Civil RightsMOTHERING JUSTICEARIZONA COALITION FOR CHANGE — $15,000 · Civil RightsARIZONA COALITION FOR CHANGE+2 more — $7,000 · Civil RightsJames Beard Public Market — $25,000 · OtherJames Beard Public MarketHabitat for Humanity — $25,000 · OtherHabitat for HumanityHere Together — $20,000 · OtherHere TogetherIndividual grant recipient — $15,000 · OtherLEADERS IGNITING TRANSFORMATION ACTION FUND INC — $15,000 · OtherMichigan United — $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherDetroit Action Education Fund (Tides) — $10,000 · OtherNORTHWEST HEALTH FOUNDATION FUND II — $25,000 · OtherNORTHWEST HEALTH FOUNDATION FUND IICentral City Concern — $10,000 · OtherTIDES FOUNDATION — $20,000 · OtherTIDES FOUNDATIONUnited Way of the Columbia-Willamette — $10,000 · OtherALBINA VISION TRUST INC — $11,000 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC — $16,000 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INCPORTLAND PARKS FOUNDATION — $15,000 · OtherCOLORADO PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE — $10,000 · Other+14 more — $47,500 · Other+14 moreSightline Institute — $50,000 · EnvironmentSightline…Oregon Environmental Council — $20,000 · EnvironmentOregon En…+1 more — $2,250 · EnvironmentSTAND FOR CHILDREN LEADERSHIP CENTER INC — $70,000 · Youth DevelopmentSTAND FOR…OREGON VALUES AND BELIEFS CENTER — $52,000 · Public BenefitRepresentUs Education Fund — $8,000 · Public BenefitWESTERN STATES CENTER — $3,000 · Public BenefitEAST COUNTY RISING COMMUNITY PROJECTS — $2,500 · Public BenefitBLUEPRINT NORTH CAROLINA — $34,000 · EducationNORTH CAROLINA BLACK ALLIANCE INC — $25,000 · EducationHome Share Oregon — $30,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY PORTLAND METRO EAST — $25,000 · Housing & Shelter
Civil Rights$237,000Other$299,500Environment$72,250Youth Development$70,000Public Benefit$65,500Education$59,000Housing & Shelter$55,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC — $75,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSTAND FOR CHILDREN LEADERSHIP CENTER INC — $70,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOREGON VALUES AND BELIEFS CENTER — $52,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetSightline Institute — $50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetARIZONA CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT — $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBLUEPRINT NORTH CAROLINA — $34,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHome Share Oregon — $30,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA BLACK ALLIANCE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNORTHWEST HEALTH FOUNDATION FUND II — $25,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY PORTLAND METRO EAST — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetONE ARIZONA — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOregon Environmental Council — $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNew Era Colorado Foundation — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC — $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPORTLAND PARKS FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetLEADERS IGNITING TRANSFORMATION ACTION FUND INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMOTHERING JUSTICE — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetARIZONA COALITION FOR CHANGE — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetALBINA VISION TRUST INC — $11,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUnited Way of the Columbia-Willamette — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCentral City Concern — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO PEOPLE'S ALLIANCE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCity Club of Portland — $9,500 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetRepresentUs Education Fund — $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOREGON FOOD BANK — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CONSTRUCT FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetFREE PRESS — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMI FAMILIA EN ACCION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CITIZENSHIP — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOREGON CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY — $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHWEST HEALTH FOUNDATION — $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWESTERN STATES CENTER — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEAST COUNTY RISING COMMUNITY PROJECTS — $2,500 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetOREGON PROGRESS FORUM — $2,250 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetOREGON NEWSPAPERS FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetONE FAIR WAGE INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIVE WIRE RADIO INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLatino Network — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LEADERSHIP FORUM OF OREGON — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIPS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Oregon Community …Meyer Memorial TrustThe Collins FoundationAmalgamated Charitabl…New Venture FundTides FoundationUnited Way of the Col…Hopewell FundNorth Star FoundationSeeding JusticeMarie Lamfrom Charita…The Jackson Foundation
The Oregon Community FoundationOR35.1× affinity18 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 · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · New Venture Fund · Tides Foundation · United Way of the Columbia-Willamette · Hopewell Fund · North Star Foundation · Seeding Justice · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Jackson 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 North Star Collaborative 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • Northwest Health Foundation Fund Ii — 81% of income from government
  • Neighborhood Partnerships Inc — 40% of income from government
  • United Way of the Columbia-Willamette — 25% of income from government
  • Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
  • Latino Network — 15% of income from government
  • Habitat for Humanity Portland Metro East — 14% of income from government
  • Central City Concern — 10% of income from government
  • Live Wire Radio Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
7report 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

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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How do I get to North Star Collaborative Foundation?

Find your warmest path to North Star Collaborative 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 51 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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