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OREGON ROBOTICS TOURNAMENT & OUTREACH
The OREGON ROBOTICS TOURNAMENT & OUTREACH program (ortop) is the first (for inspiration and recognition of science and technology) affiliate partner in oregon for delivery of three highly renowned stem robotics programs for children k-12th grades.
$167k
Granted FY2025
8
Grants
2
Communities
$18k
Largest
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 83% of OREGON ROBOTICS TOURNAMENT & OUTREACH’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
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2020
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2021
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2022
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2023
participate summer
2024
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2025
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2025 · 8 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
$7,150
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
- FIRST WASHINGTON$17,700
- UNION COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT$8,800
- UMATILLA COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT$8,750
- JACKSON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT$7,150
- CRATER LAKE ACADEMY INC$6,706
- PENDLETON SCHOOL DISTRICT$6,500
- PROJECT LEDO$5,761
- HARRISBURG SCHOOL DISTRICT$5,098
02The need
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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 (FY19–19, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.
63%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$315k · 13 repeat orgs$182k to everyone else
13 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
13
17
Total granted
$315k
$145k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+38%
+194%
Still filing today
23%
35%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Youth DevelopmentEducationHuman ServicesOther
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
FIRST WASHINGTON4× · 2021–2025 · $44k · revenue +38%- SESPRINGWATER ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES SCHOOL3× · 2018–2020 · $20k · revenue +29%
PROJECT LEDO3× · 2021–2025 · $18k · revenue +439%
Funded once
- CCCENTRO CULTURAL DE WASHINGTON COUNTYgraduated2× · 2021–2023 · $21k · revenue +740%
- DODAY ONE TECH LLCone grant, 2021 · $18k
- CFCAMP FIRE CENTRAL OREGONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $17k · revenue +194%
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.
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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 (SEE SCH O)
Education
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Oregon Ffa Association
Provide leadership and career development experiences for students exploring ag careers.
Youth Development
3
Innovation Spokane Schools
To prepare a diverse range of students for a life of learning in post-secondary education, citizenship, and leadership.
Education
4
Better Together Central Oregon
Our mission is to improve educational outcomes for children and youth from cradle to career in Central Oregon. They do this by fostering cross-sector collaboration bringing together partners from education, business, health, philanthropy,…
Human Services
5
Waldorf School of Bend
The waldorf school of bend cultivates academic excellence through our experimental curriculum rich in the arts, sciences, and practical works. we honor each child's unique spirit by building capacities of will, free thought, compassion and…
Education
6
Foundation for Portland Public Schools
The Mission of the Foundation for Portland Public Schools is to be a catalyst for increased educational opportunities, achievement, and equity for all Portland Public Schools students and staff.
Philanthropy
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Snowy Range Academy
The mission of Snowy Range Academy is to offer an academically rigorous content-rich integrated educational program grounded in a common foundation and sequence of study. Snowy Range Academy will practice excellence and fairness in…
Education
8
Bend Science Station
The Bend Science Station provides K-12 Inquiry-Based, stem education in Central Oregon and professional development for educators.
Education
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Washington Leadership Academy Public
Our mission is to prepare our kids to thrive in the world and change it for the better. our graduates are college ready, have career ready tech skills, and lead positive change in their communities and the world.
Education
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Oregon Innovation Foundation
To ignite and amplify a culture of creative problem solving and empower the next generation of innovators to meet some of the biggest challenges facing our state.
Science & Tech
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Our Oregon
Promote economic and social fairness by working in coalition open a broad range of issues and activities in the public arena
Human Services
12
Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council
The Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council is a local nonprofit organization that strives to enhance and restore habitat for fish and wildlife our community and for future generations. Our Board of Directors consists of seven members with…
Environment
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Camp Fire Central Oregon and the most unlike its peers is Oregon 4-H Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
10/11
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$411,219Education$44,592Youth Development$35,750Human Services$5,000
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 FIRST WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds CENTRO CULTURAL DE WASHINGTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SPRINGWATER ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PROJECT LEDO ↗
- Who funds CAMP FIRE CENTRAL OREGON ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PORTLAND METRO AREA ↗
- Who funds CRATER LAKE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds DOUGLAS COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UP-A-CREEK ROBOTICS ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON GORGE ACTION PROGRAMS ↗
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.
Oea Choice TrustOR46× affinity19 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Oea Choice Trust · Schoolhouse Supplies Inc · The Oregon Community Foundation · GenYOUTH Incorporated · For Inspiration and Recognition of · Trail Blazers Foundation · Round It Up America Inc · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation · Snowman Foundation Inc · Usta-Pacific Northwest Section · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Albertsons Companies 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 organisation OREGON ROBOTICS TOURNAMENT & OUTREACH 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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. 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
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: PROJECT LEDO.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~7 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 4 filed years.
Track record & reputation
medium risk
4 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 5.4× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 833866477 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on PROJECT LEDO, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 7 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 24% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Oregon Robotics Tournament & Outreach?
Find your warmest path to Oregon Robotics Tournament & Outreach through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines