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Olive Bridge Fund at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its 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 it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
HELPING HANDS REENTRY OUTREACH CENTERS$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
CHABAD CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE$25,000
OREGON FOOD BANK$25,000
HOME PLATE YOUTH SERVICES$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$22,500
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$15,000
LINES FOR LIFE$15,000
THE PONGO FUND$15,000
OREGON SYMPHONY$15,000
SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL RESCUE$14,000
SOLVE$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 (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. Its 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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ND
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
SD
PA
CT
CA
UT
KY
WV
AR
NC
SC
DC
AL
TX
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +30% for those 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

+57%
+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
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

  • 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%
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
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.

—
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Planned Parenthood of the Columbia Willamette Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

92 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
90/92
Grantees still filing
70/92
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetLines for Life: $60,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% 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 budgetKLAMATH COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% 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 budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% 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 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 budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $15,000 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 budgetKHAN ACADEMY INC: $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLANE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetOREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $12,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNeighborhood House Association: $12,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWildcat Ridge Sanctuary: $11,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetYellowhammer Fund: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIRD ALLIANCE OF OREGON INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHWEST COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFENCES FOR FIDO: $10,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetROGUE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWomens Foundation of Oregon: $10,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMACALESTER COLLEGE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHARNEY COUNTY DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS: $10,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetTransition Projects Inc: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHADY HILL SCHOOL: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MARC CHARITABLE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds CATLIN GABEL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds HOMEPLATE YOUTH SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds HILLEL FOUNDATION OF CAMBRIDGE INC ↗
  • Who funds PREP FOR PREP ↗
  • Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds Lines for Life ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds BLACK ROCK FOREST CONSORTIUM INC ↗
  • Who funds HELPING HANDS REENTRY OUTREACH CENTERS ↗
  • Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE PONGO FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE JEWISH WOMEN'S ARCHIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK LEGAL ASSISTANCE GROUP INC ↗
  • Who funds KLAMATH COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE INC ↗
  • Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
  • Who funds USVBA COLUMBIA EMPIRE REGION VOLLEYBALL ↗
  • Who funds SOLVE ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL OREGON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗

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 …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

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 Olive Bridge Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Olive Bridge Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 200%2%8%17%30%funder's 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
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 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 146 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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