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Obie Family 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.

$9k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$3k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$53kHuman Services$30kEducation$30kInternational$17kYouth Development$13kArts & Culture$9kFood & Nutrition$5k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$210k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OREGON$3,000
MATERIALS EXCHANGE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ARTS$3,000
CRESWELL CLUBHOUSE$3,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%A FAMILY FOR EVERY CHILD: $10k → 15%A FAMILY FOR EVERY CHILD: $10k → 15%A FAMILY FOR EVERY CHILD: $10k → 15%CRESWELL CLUBHOUSE: $3k → 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$84k · 6 repeat orgs$73k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
8

Total granted

$84k
$67k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+27%

Still filing today

83%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentSocial ScienceInternationalOther
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

  • AF
    A FAMILY FOR EVERY CHILD
    3× · 2017–2019 · $30k · revenue +94%
  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF OREGON AND SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON
    2× · 2023–2025 · $13k · revenue +25%
  • SL
    SERENITY LANE HEALTH SERVICES
    2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • ME
    MIDDLE EASTERN CHILDREN ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • OD
    OSLC DEVELOPMENTS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +37%
  • FO
    Friends of Lane County Recovery Schools
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
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 Child Development Coalition

Oregon child development coalition is dedicated to improving the lives of children and families by providing early childhood education, care and advocacy with unique and supportive services to enhance family growth and community success.

Human Services
2
Boys & Girls Club of Western Lane County

To promote the health, social, educational, vocational and character development of youth between the ages of 6 and 18 years.

Youth Development
3
Oregon Family School

Partnering with parents to provide a rich, innovative, and effective home- based education that nurtures academic success and personal growth.

Education
4
Child Care Development Services Inc

To enrich the mental and physical welfare of children in child care, and to provide services to children, parents, and providers of child care which will encourage, aid, and support quality care of children.

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5
Family Forward Oregon

We work collectively to educate and advocate for systems that elevate the vital work of care and caregiving in its many forms within our community.

Human Services
6
Cascades Academy of Central Oregon

Cascades academy is an engaged, vibrant community that weaves challenging academics with experiential learning to inspire socially responsible individuals ready for a diverse and changing world.

Education
7
Lutheran Community Services Northwest

LCSNW partners with individuals, families and communities for health, justice and hope. LCSNW provides a wide variety of social services in Oregon, Washington and Idaho and serves people of all ages, cultures and faiths.

Human Services
8
LArche Portland

At l'arche portland people with and without developmental disabilities create home and build community together. we nurture long-term mutual relationships that reveal the gifts of people with developmental disabilities. in doing so we…

Human Services
9
Family Services of Grant County

Family Services of Grant County provides comprehensive health and child development services to low-income individuals and families in grant county.

Human Services
10
Lane Community College Education Association

Lane Community College Education Association is the union that represents 200 full-time and 375 part-time faculty members at Lane Community College in Eugene, Oregon. LCCEA is an affiliated unit of the Oregon Education Association (OEA)…

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11
Every Child Central Oregon

Mobilizing the community to uplift children and families impacted by foster care in Oregon.

Human Services
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lane Community College Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Materials Exchange Center for Community Arts. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 16 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF OREGON AND SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON: $13,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES…SERENITY LANE HEALTH SERVICES: $10,000 · HealthSERENITY LANE HEALTH SERVICESWHITE BIRD CLINIC: $10,000 · HealthWHITE BIRD CLINICLGS Foundation Inc: $10,000 · HealthLGS Foundation IncA FAMILY FOR EVERY CHILD: $30,000 · Human ServicesA FAMILY FOR EVERY CHIL…CRESWELL CLUBHOUSE: $3,000 · Human ServicesCRESWELL CLUBHOUSELANE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationLANE COMMUNITY COLLEG…Friends of Lane County Recovery Schools: $10,000 · EducationFriends of Lane Count…UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF OREGON …MIDDLE EASTERN CHILDREN ALLIANCE: $10,000 · OtherMIDDLE EASTERN …THE JOHN G SHEDD INSTITUTE COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL: $6,000 · OtherTHE JOHN G SHED…FOOD FOR LANE COUNTY: $5,000 · OtherFOOD FOR LANE C…OSLC DEVELOPMENTS INC: $10,000 · Social ScienceBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CORVALLIS INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentMAKINDU CHILDRENS PROGRAM: $6,500 · InternationalMaterials Exchange Center for Community Arts: $3,000 · Arts & Culture
Health$43,000Human Services$33,000Education$30,000Other$21,000Social Science$10,000Youth Development$10,000International$6,500Arts & Culture$3,000

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 budgetA FAMILY FOR EVERY CHILD: $30,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetLANE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF OREGON AND SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON: $13,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOSLC DEVELOPMENTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSERENITY LANE HEALTH SERVICES: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWHITE BIRD CLINIC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLGS Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CORVALLIS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMAKINDU CHILDRENS PROGRAM: $6,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetFOOD FOR LANE COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaterials Exchange Center for Community Arts: $3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCRESWELL CLUBHOUSE: $3,000 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.

The Oregon Community …The Ford Family Found…Chambers Family Found…PeaceHealthFirst Interstate Banc…American Online Givin…Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Oregon Community FoundationOR20.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · Chambers Family Foundation · PeaceHealth · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Obie Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Obie Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 29%
  • A Family for Every Child: 33% of income from government
  • White Bird Clinic: 29% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Corvallis Inc: 16% of income from government
  • Food for Lane County: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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

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How do I get to Obie Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Obie Family 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 16 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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