· Community foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 121 grants below total $7,058,870 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $7,915,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $856,130 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k31 grants · $210k
- $10k–50k60 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k24 grants · $2.8M
- $250k+6 grants · $2.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF LANE COUNTY | $1,206,911 |
| PIXIE PROJECT | $400,108 |
| ASSOCIATION FOR JEWISH STUDIES INC | $381,391 |
| EASTSIDE JEWISH COMMONS | $293,568 |
| CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL (PORTLAND) | $270,054 |
| FORWARD STRIDE | $251,000 |
| MITTLEMAN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $204,488 |
| PORTLAND JEWISH ACADEMY | $195,342 |
| CONGREGATION SHAARIE TORAH | $186,168 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF THE DESERT | $180,556 |
| ALL CLASSICAL PUBLIC MEDIA INC | $166,826 |
| PORTLAND YOUTH PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION | $165,966 |
| BB360 | $154,545 |
| OREGON JEWISH MUSEUM & CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST EDUCATION | $153,031 |
| LAWRENCE FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY | $150,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $4.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
143 repeat relationships — 77 still active in FY2025, 66 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- BBB'NAI BRITH MEN'S CAMP ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +86%
- PJPORTLAND JEWISH ACADEMY9× · 2017–2025 · $2.7M · revenue +38%
- OJOREGON JEWISH MUSEUM AND CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST EDUCATION9× · 2017–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +22%
Funded once
- TTThe Thacher School Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $175k · revenue +32%
- GHGOODWIN HOUSE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $134k · revenue +19%
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $60k · revenue +53%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
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…
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…
The university of portland, an independently governed catholic university guided by the congregation of holy cross, addresses significant questions of human concern through interdisciplinary studies of the arts, sciences, and humanities…
The oregon shakespeare festival creates world-class theater, revealing our collective humanity through illuminating interpretations of new and classic plays, and inspiring a love of our art form for current and future generations.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
Ihds utilizes a dual general and judaic studies curriculum. the judaic studies curriculum emphasizes the fundamentals of hebrew reading, writing and speaking, jewish history, holidays, jewish values, torah, the jewish life cycle, the land…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…
A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.
Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Oregon Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Doyon 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.
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 35 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
289 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. 289 of the 341 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Jewish Federation of Greater Portland ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds B'NAI BRITH MEN'S CAMP ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND JEWISH ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds OREGON JEWISH MUSEUM AND CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds OREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROBISON JEWISH HOME ↗
- Who funds Pixie Project Inc ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR JEWISH STUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILD SERVICE ↗
- Who funds MITTLEMAN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF LANE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds EASTSIDE JEWISH COMMONS ↗
- Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
- Who funds GREATER PORTLAND HILLEL ↗
- Who funds FORWARD STRIDE ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE ST VINCENT MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MAAYAN HATORAH DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CATLIN GABEL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY PORTLAND METRO EAST ↗
- Who funds Camp Solomon Schechter ↗
- Who funds DOERNBECHER CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JAPANESE GARDEN SOCIETY OF OREGON ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Care Foundation · The Collins Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Juan Young Trust · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Jackson Foundation · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · The Autzen Foundation · Careoregon Inc
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 Jewish Community 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.
- Oregon Crime Victims Law Center — 100% of income from government
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Oregon Council for the Humanities — 55% of income from government
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Outside in — 33% of income from government
- Play It Forward — 30% of income from government
- Center for Intercultural Organizing — 28% of income from government
- Oregon Community Warehouse Inc — 24% of income from government
- Community Partners for Affordable Housing — 22% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- Stone Soup Pdx — 20% of income from government
- New Avenues for Youth Inc — 20% of income from government
- Habitat for Humanity Portland Metro East — 14% of income from government
- Self Enhancement Inc — 14% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- Oregon Historical Society — 10% of income from government
- Central City Concern — 10% of income from government
- Literary Arts Inc — 10% of income from government
- Impact Nw — 8% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Community Development Corporation of Oregon — 7% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of the Columbia Willamette Inc — 7% of income from government
- B'nai Brith Men's Camp Association — 7% of income from government
- North Coast Land Conservancy Inc — 6% of income from government
- Providence Portland Medical Foundation — 5% of income from government
- Oregon Museum of Science and Industry — 4% of income from government
- National Center for Jewish Filminc — 4% of income from government
- National University of Natural Medicine — 3% of income from government
- The Oregon Community Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Lewis & Clark College — 2% of income from government
- Mittleman Jewish Community Center — 2% of income from government
- Casa for Children Inc — 2% of income from government
- Regional Arts & Culture Council — 1% of income from government
- Ramapo College Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Eastside Jewish Commons — 1% of income from government
- Pear — 1% of income from government
- Portland Art Museum — 1% of income from government
- Outside the Frame — 1% of income from government
- Black United Fund of Oregon — 1% of income from government
- Portland Center Stage — 1% of income from government
- Reed Institute — 1% of income from government
- Oregon Health & Science University Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Oregon Public Broadcasting — 1% of income from government
- Portland Youth Philharmonic Association — 0% of income from government
- Bird Alliance of Oregon Inc — 0% of income from government
- All Classical Public Media Inc — 0% of income from government
- Oregon Symphony Association — 0% of income from government
- Portland State University Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Catlin Gabel School — 0% of income from government
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.