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Oregon Association of Hospitals Research & Education Foundation

To study problems in the healthcare provider area and in other related healthcare activities.

$298k
Granted FY2021
2
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 71% of OREGON ASSOCIATION OF HOSPITALS RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2021 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 2 grants below total $115,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $297,825 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $182,825 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2021

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY$100,000
FOUNDATION FOR MEDICAL EXCELLENCE$15,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 60% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE FOUNDATION FOR MEDICAL EXCELLENCE: $25k → 8%OREGON ASSOCIATION OF HOSPITALS & HEALTH SYSTEMS: $734k → 8%ST CHARLES REDMOND: $58k → 10%PROVIDENCE HOOD RIVER: $58k → 10%ST CHARLES PRINEVILLE: $58k → 11%PROVIDENCE NEWBERG MEDICAL CENTER: $58k → 11%GOOD SHEPHERD HEALTH CARE SYSTEM: $58k → 12%WALLOWA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $58k → 12%ST CHARLES MADRAS: $58k → 12%ADVENTIST HEALTH TILLAMOOK: $58k → 12%OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY: $100k → 12%ASANTE ASHLAND COMMUNITY HOSPITAL: $58k → 13%SALEM HEALTH WEST VALLEY: $58k → 13%SAMARITAN LEBANON COMMUNITY HOSPITAL: $58k → 13%COLUMBIA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $58k → 13%PIONEER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $58k → 13%SANTIAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $58k → 14%CURRY GENERAL HOSPITAL: $58k → 14%HARNEY DISTRICT HOSPITAL: $58k → 15%GRANDE RONDE HOSPITAL: $58k → 15%PEACEHEALTH PEACE HARBOR MEDICAL CENTER: $58k → 15%SAMARITAN NORTH LINCOLN HOSPITAL: $58k → 16%ST ALPHONSUS MEDICAL CENTER: $58k → 16%BLUE MOUNTAIN HOSPITAL: $58k → 16%MID-COLUMBIA MEDICAL CENTER: $58k → 16%SOUTHERN COOS HOSPITAL & HEALTH: $58k → 17%LAKE DISTRICT HOSPITAL: $58k → 17%LOWER UMPQUA HOSPITAL: $58k → 17%ST ALPHONSUS MEDICAL CENTER: $58k → 20%FOUNDATION FOR MEDICAL EXCELLENCE: $15k → 8%OREGON ASSOCIATION OF HOSPITALS & HEALTH SYSTEMS: $426k → 8%WILLAMETTE VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER: $58k → 11%ST ANTHONY HOSPITAL: $58k → 12%OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY: $100k → 12%PROVIDENCE SEASIDE HOSPITAL: $58k → 13%PEACEHEALTH COTTAGE GROVE MEDICAL CENTER: $58k → 15%SAMARITAN PACIFIC COMMUNITIES: $58k → 16%MID-COLUMBIA MEDICAL CENTER: $45k → 16%COQUILLE VALLEY HOSPITAL: $58k → 17%COQUILLE VALLEY HOSPITAL: $20k → 17%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.

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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.7M · 6 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2021, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
27

Total granted

$1.7M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+34%

Still filing today

50%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21
HealthEducationPhilanthropyOther

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

  • OA
    OREGON ASSOCIATION OF HOSPITALS & HEALTH SYSTEMS
    2× · 2018–2019 · $1.2M · revenue +51%
  • OH
    OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2020–2021 · $200k
  • MM
    Mid-Columbia Medical Center
    2× · 2019–2020 · $103k · revenue -1%

Funded once

  • SC
    St Charles Health System Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $173k · revenue +39%
  • NM
    Northwest Medical Foundation Tillamookgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $58k · revenue +27%
  • SA
    SAINT ALPHONSUS MEDICAL CENTER - BAKER CITY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $58k · revenue -12%

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
Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital and Medical Center

Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital and Medical Center (LGSHMC), founded in 1875 is one of the earliest hospitals in the Pacific Northwest. LGSHMC provides acute and tertiary care in Portland, OR with 539 licensed beds. LGSHMC provides a…

Health
2
Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center

Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center (LMHMC) was founded in 1922 and is a community hospital in Gresham, Oregon with 115 licensed beds. LMHMC offers a wide range of services including family birth, diagnostic services, cancer treatment,…

Health
3
Portland Adventist Medical Center

Living God's love by inspiring health, wholeness and hope.

Health
4
Legacy Meridian Park Hospital

Legacy Meridian Park Hospital (LMPH), established in 1973, is a community hospital in Tualatin, OR, south of Portland with 150 licensed beds. LMPH serves the needs of the fast growing communities of Tualatin, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sherwood,…

Health
5
Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center Inc

We, saint alphonsus health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. saint alphonsus regional medical center is a member of saint…

Health
6
Legacy Salmon Creek Hospital

Legacy Salmon Creek Hospital (LSCH), established in 2005, provides acute and critical care in Vancouver, with 165 licensed beds. LSCH operates adult, pediatric, and OB/GYN hospitalist programs, as well as four primary care physician…

Health
7
Salem Health Hospitals & Clinics

To support salem health, salem health west valley and related organizations.

8
Silverton Health Dba Legacy Silverton Health

Through Silverton Health we come together to improve the health of our communities. Recognizing our responsibility for careful use of resources, it is our mission to encourage wellness and deliver quality health care, to organize ourselves…

Health
9
Saint Alphonsus Medical Center - Nampa Inc

We, saint alphonsus health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. saint alphonsus medical center-nampa is a member of saint…

Health
10
Saint Agnes Medical Center

We, saint agnes medical center and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. saint agnes medical center is a member of trinity health.

Health
11
Seton Health System Inc

We, st. peter's health partners and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. founded in community-based legacies of compassionate healing, we…

12
Saint Alphonsus Health System Inc

We, saint alphonsus health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.saint alphonsus health system is a member of trinity health.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Salem Health West Valley and the most unlike its peers is The Foundation for Medical Excellence. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%10%<5yr13%0%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr19%33%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr17%38%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%5%<5yr13%0%5–10yr19%2%10–20yr19%22%20–35yr13%6%35–55yr17%64%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/33
the rest of the field
10%
1,487/14,482

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

15 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 33 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
12/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

OREGON ASSOCIATION OF HOSPITALS & HEALTH SYSTEMS — $1,159,628 · OtherOREGON ASSOCIATION OF HOSPITALS & HEALTH SYSTEMSOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY — $200,000 · OtherOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY+17 more — $1,022,612 · Other+17 moreSt Charles Health System Inc — $173,436 · HealthSt Charles Health System IncMid-Columbia Medical Center — $102,813 · HealthMid-Columbia Medical CenterNorthwest Medical Foundation Tillamook — $57,813 · HealthNorthwest Medical Foundation …SAINT ALPHONSUS MEDICAL CENTER - BAKER CITY INC — $57,813 · HealthSAINT ALPHONSUS MEDICAL CENTE…GOOD SHEPHERD HEALTH CARE SYSTEM — $57,813 · HealthGOOD SHEPHERD HEALTH CARE SYS…GRANDE RONDE HOSPITAL INC — $57,813 · HealthGRANDE RONDE HOSPITAL INCSAINT ALPHONSUS MEDICAL CENTER - ONTARIO INC — $57,813 · HealthSAINT ALPHONSUS MEDICAL CENTE…SANTIAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL — $57,813 · HealthSANTIAM MEMORIAL HOSPITALSAMARITAN NORTH LINCOLN HOSPITAL — $57,812 · HealthSAMARITAN NORTH LINCOLN HOSPI…MID-VALLEY HEALTHCARE INC — $57,812 · HealthMID-VALLEY HEALTHCARE INCSALEM HEALTH WEST VALLEY — $57,812 · HealthSALEM HEALTH WEST VALLEYST ANTHONY HOSPITAL — $57,812 · HealthST ANTHONY HOSPITALCOLUMBIA LUTHERAN CHARITIES — $57,813 · PhilanthropyThe Foundation for Medical Excellence — $40,000 · Education
Other$2,382,240Health$854,375Philanthropy$57,813Education$40,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetOREGON ASSOCIATION OF HOSPITALS & HEALTH SYSTEMS — $1,159,628 over 2y, 11% of budgetSt Charles Health System Inc — $173,436 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMid-Columbia Medical Center — $102,813 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwest Medical Foundation Tillamook — $57,813 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT ALPHONSUS MEDICAL CENTER - BAKER CITY INC — $57,813 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD HEALTH CARE SYSTEM — $57,813 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRANDE RONDE HOSPITAL INC — $57,813 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLUMBIA LUTHERAN CHARITIES — $57,813 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT ALPHONSUS MEDICAL CENTER - ONTARIO INC — $57,813 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSANTIAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL — $57,813 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN NORTH LINCOLN HOSPITAL — $57,812 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMID-VALLEY HEALTHCARE INC — $57,812 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSALEM HEALTH WEST VALLEY — $57,812 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST ANTHONY HOSPITAL — $57,812 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Foundation for Medical Excellence — $40,000 over 2y, 4.8% 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.

Oregon Association of Hospitals & Health SystemsOR39.1× affinity16 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Oregon Association of Hospitals & Health Systems · The Oregon Community Foundation · Providence Health & Services - Oregon · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Roundhouse Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 Oregon Association of Hospitals Research & Education 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
202122232425
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • The Foundation for Medical Excellence66% of income from government
  • Santiam Memorial Hospital1% of income from government
  • Northwest Medical Foundation Tillamook1% of income from government
  • Mid-Valley Healthcare Inc0% of income from government
  • Samaritan North Lincoln Hospital0% of income from government
  • St Charles Health System Inc0% of income from government
  • Mid-Columbia Medical Center0% of income from government
  • Grande Ronde Hospital Inc0% of income from government
  • Saint Alphonsus Medical Center - Baker City Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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

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How do I get to Oregon Association of Hospitals Research & Education Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Oregon Association of Hospitals Research & Education 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 33 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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