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Olive Bridge Fund

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.5M
Granted FY2021
61
Grants FY2021
16
States reached
$900k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

63% of Olive Bridge Fund’s FY2022 grant dollars went to The Oregon Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 12 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Olive Bridge Fund named its own grantees at scale: 41 organizations, $2M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

62
’17
40
’19
38
’20
41
’21
12
’22

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.

Philanthropy$3.8MReligion$962kEducation$800kInternational$364kHuman Services$246kHealth$212kAnimals$114kArts & Culture$114kOther$0
02FY2021 · 61 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k44 grants · $159k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $252k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $238k
  • $250k+1 grant · $900k
$5,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MARC FUND$900,000
CONGREGATION NEVEH SHALOM$175,000
CARE PARTNERS$62,500
CHABAD CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE$25,000
HOME PLATE YOUTH SERVICES$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
OREGON FOOD BANK$25,000
HELPING HANDS REENTRY OUTREACH CENTERS$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$22,500
LINES FOR LIFE$15,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$15,000
OREGON SYMPHONY$15,000
THE PONGO FUND$15,000
SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL RESCUE$14,000
SOLVE$10,000
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 (FY17–21, $162k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BIKUR CHOLIM OF STATEN ISLAND: $20k → 11%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $7k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $5k → 8%ON-THE-MOVE COMMUNITY INTERGRATION: $3k → 12%ON-THE-MOVE COMMUNITY INTERGRATION: $1k → 12%HOME PLATE YOUTH SERVICES: $51k → 8%ON-THE-MOVE COMMUNITY INTERGRATION: $1k → 12%HOME PLATE YOUTH SERVICES: $30k → 8%HOME PLATE YOUTH SERVICES: $25k → 8%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $10k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $5k → 17%BOYS & GIRLS AID: $5k → 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
ND
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
SD
PA
CT
CA
UT
KY
WV
AR
NC
SC
DC
AL
TX

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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.2M · 72 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.

72 repeat relationships — 50 still active in FY2021, 22 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

72
56

Total granted

$4.2M
$661k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+30%

Still filing today

58%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $784k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesAnimalsInternationalHealthOther

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

  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $275k · revenue +81%
  • HOMEPLATE YOUTH SERVICES
    3× · 2019–2021 · $106k · revenue +212%
  • OREGON FOOD BANK
    4× · 2017–2021 · $66k · revenue +70%

Funded once

  • B7
    BOYS 7 GIRLS CLUB OF PUERTO RICO
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
  • HF
    HILLEL FOUNDATION OF CAMBRIDGE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $70k · revenue -12%
  • PF
    PREP FOR PREP
    one grant, 2017 · $67k · revenue -28%

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
Portland State University Foundation

Portland state university foundation is responsible for raising and managing private resources to advance psu's priorities and mission to be a leading urban university.

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2
University of Oregon Foundation

The purpose and mission of the foundation are, acting on its own or through affiliates, to support and assist the university of oregon in its activities by management and administration of foundation assets representing privately donated…

Education
3
Portland Public Library

Portland Public Library is a welcoming cultural center that brings people together and connects them with trusted resources, ideas, experiences, and information. We build a stronger community by inspiring learning, creativity, and…

Education
4
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
5
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
6
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…

—
7
Oregon Jewish Community Foundation

To build and promote a culture of giving in oregon and southwest washington that supports a thriving jewish commmunity now and for generations to come.

Philanthropy
8
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
9
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
10
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
11
U of O Foundation Supporting Organization

See schedule othe purpose and mission of the organization is to support and assist the university of oregon foundation in its activities by management and administration of organization assets representing privately donated funds, by…

Education
12
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Planned Parenthood of the Columbia Willamette Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rcc Foundation. 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 backsteadyCommunity FoundationsIndependent K-12 SchoolsPregnancy Support ServicesFood Banks and PantriesPolicy Research and AdvocacySchool District FoundationsCancer Support ServicesImmigrant Worker SupportCommunity College Foundatio…Environmental Conservation …Women & Girls Leadership De…Elementary Literacy TutoringAnimal Rescue and ShelterJewish Community Organizati…
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 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%1%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr16%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%7%<5yr14%13%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr16%6%20–35yr13%40%35–55yr16%30%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/100
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,465

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

92 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. 92 of the 146 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
90/92
Grantees still filing
70/92
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MARC FUND — $1,765,000 · OtherMARC FUNDCONGREGATION NEVEH SHALOM — $421,800 · OtherCONGREGATION NEVEH SHALOMMECHON HADAR — $300,000 · OtherMECHON HADAR+92 more — $1,329,668 · Other+92 moreTHE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,400,754 · PhilanthropyTHE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONMARC CHARITABLE FUND INC — $520,500 · PhilanthropyMARC CHARITABLE FUND INC+3 more — $52,900 · PhilanthropyCATLIN GABEL SCHOOL — $250,000 · EducationCATLIN GA…PREP FOR PREP — $67,000 · EducationPREP FOR …University of Chicago — $65,000 · EducationUniversit…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $60,000 · EducationTHE TRUST…KLAMATH COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $30,000 · EducationThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations — $25,000 · Education+16 more — $127,100 · Education+16 moreInternational Rescue Committee INC — $275,000 · InternationalNEW ISRAEL FUND — $50,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC — $20,000 · InternationalThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $18,000 · International+3 more — $16,000 · InternationalHOMEPLATE YOUTH SERVICES — $105,769 · Human ServicesBikur Cholim of Staten Island Inc — $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesNeighborhood House Association — $12,000 · Human Services+3 more — $12,500 · Human ServicesLines for Life — $60,000 · HealthHELPING HANDS REENTRY OUTREACH CENTERS — $50,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE INC — $25,000 · Health+2 more — $4,500 · HealthBLACK ROCK FOREST CONSORTIUM INC — $51,000 · EnvironmentSOLVE — $23,000 · EnvironmentBIRD ALLIANCE OF OREGON INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentFriends of Trees — $5,000 · Environment+1 more — $1,000 · Environment
Other$3,816,468Philanthropy$1,974,154Education$624,100International$379,000Human Services$165,269Health$139,500Environment$90,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,400,754 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMARC CHARITABLE FUND INC — $520,500 over 1y, 11% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $275,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCATLIN GABEL SCHOOL — $250,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHOMEPLATE YOUTH SERVICES — $105,769 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetHILLEL FOUNDATION OF CAMBRIDGE INC — $70,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPREP FOR PREP — $67,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOREGON FOOD BANK — $65,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $65,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLines for Life — $60,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHELPING HANDS REENTRY OUTREACH CENTERS — $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PONGO FUND — $45,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTHE JEWISH WOMEN'S ARCHIVE INC — $35,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetNEW YORK LEGAL ASSISTANCE GROUP INC — $32,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKLAMATH COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUSVBA COLUMBIA EMPIRE REGION VOLLEYBALL — $25,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSOLVE — $23,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCENTRAL OREGON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $22,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBikur Cholim of Staten Island Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetDOERNBECHER CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMaimonides Jewish Day School — $20,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $18,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Federation of Greater Portland — $17,900 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $16,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOREGON COAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetHARNEY COUNTY SUPPORTING OUR STUDENTS — $15,000 over 3y, 8.4% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKHAN ACADEMY INC — $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING — $12,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLANE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $12,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNeighborhood House Association — $12,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWildcat Ridge Sanctuary — $11,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetWomens Foundation of Oregon — $10,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHARNEY COUNTY DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS — $10,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROGUE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMACALESTER COLLEGE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTransition Projects Inc — $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFENCES FOR FIDO — $10,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetSOUTHWEST COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIRD ALLIANCE OF OREGON INC — $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYellowhammer Fund — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSHADY HILL SCHOOL — $7,500 over 3y, 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 TrustMarie Lamfrom Charita…The Collins FoundationThe Roundhouse Founda…Juan Young TrustThe Ford Family Found…OCF Joseph E Weston P…Oregon Jewish Communi…The Autzen FoundationThe Harold & Arlene S…Maybelle Clark Macdon…
The Oregon Community FoundationOR53.9× affinity38 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 · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Collins Foundation · The Roundhouse Foundation · Juan Young Trust · The Ford Family Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Oregon Jewish Community Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Care Foundation · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund

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 Olive Bridge Fund 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 · 200%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Friends of Trees — 100% of income from government
  • On-the-Move Community Integration — 81% of income from government
  • Youth Rights & Justice — 81% of income from government
  • Lines for Life — 70% of income from government
  • Transition Projects Inc — 29% of income from government
  • Oregon Coast Aquarium Inc — 24% of income from government
  • Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
  • Helping Hands Reentry Outreach Centers — 18% of income from government
  • Homeplate Youth Services — 17% of income from government
  • Southwest Community Health Center Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of the Columbia Willamette Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Marion-Polk Food Share Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Solve — 5% of income from government
  • The Boys & Girls Aid Society of Oregon — 3% of income from government
  • Smart Reading — 3% of income from government
  • Boston Baroque Inc — 2% of income from government
  • The Oregon Community Foundation — 2% of income from government
  • Portland Opera Association Inc — 2% of income from government
  • New England Conservatory of Music — 1% of income from government
  • Oregon Public Broadcasting — 1% of income from government
  • Womens Foundation of Oregon — 0% of income from government
  • Portland Literacy Council Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Bird Alliance of Oregon Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Oregon Symphony Association — 0% of income from government
  • Klamath Community College Foundation — 0% of income from government
  • Linn-Benton Community College Foundation — 0% of income from government
  • Catlin Gabel School — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
20get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely 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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Olive Bridge Fund?

Find your warmest path to Olive Bridge Fund 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 146 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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