· Public charity
Oregon Robotics Tournament & Outreach Program
To open doors to the worlds of science, technology, engineering and mathematics for oregon's youth by providing educational opportunities featuring robotics with special emphasis on maximizing the diversity of those participating.
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 8 grants below total $66,465 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $167,071 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $100,606 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 $10k7 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (FY19–19, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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 +282% since the first grant, against +138% for the ones you funded once.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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
WASHINGTON FIRST ROBOTICS4× · 2021–2025 · $44k · revenue +282%- SESPRINGWATER ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES SCHOOL3× · 2018–2020 · $20k · revenue +32%
PROJECT LEDO3× · 2021–2025 · $18k · revenue +439%
Funded once
- CCCENTRO CULTURAL OF WASHINGTON COUNTYgraduated2× · 2021–2023 · $21k · revenue +112%
- DODAY ONE TECH LLCone grant, 2021 · $18k
- CFCamp Fire Central Oregonone grant, 2021 · $17k · revenue +25%
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.
Cascades academy is an engaged, vibrant community that weaves challenging academics with experiential learning to inspire socially responsible individuals ready for a diverse and changing world.
The Bend Science Station is the Leading Stem Education Resource in Central Oregon, teaching 7,000 k-12 students and 400 teachers a year through extensive school year programs, summer camps and partnerships with community agencies.
To open doors to the worlds of science, technology, engineering and mathematics for oregon's youth by providing educational opportunities featuring robotics with special emphasis on maximizing the diversity of those participating.
Eugene Rowing Club strives to build a team-oriented program. Our student athletesdevelop personal character, time management skills, an ethic of cooperation, and physical fitness with a team culture of crew and rowing. Athletes learn to…
A public charter school that allows students to complete an accredited teacher-supervised K-12 education and earn a high school diploma that meets Oregon State Graduation requirements.
Our mission is to inspire curiosity and creativity through hands-on STEAM experiences. We bring hands-on informal STEAM education opportunities to elementary schools and community groups throughout Central Oregon.
EarthGens mission is to guide and support youth, educators, and school communities to become leaders for a healthy environment.
Our mission is to challenge and nurture young women to thrive in future global markets through personalized STEM advanced academics. Through a supportive small school and single-gender environment, project-based learning, and STEM advanced…
We believe that the strength of our community lies in its diversity. we know the power of many different voices at the table. these voices resound from the hearts and minds of our youth, who hold the keys to a just, fair and sustainable…
Reedsport community charter school's mission is to provide community based, technology-infused, problem-solving curriculum to students in grades 7 through 12 and living within the reedsport school district on the southern oregon coast.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Washington First Robotics 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.
11 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. 11 of the 36 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
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 WASHINGTON FIRST ROBOTICS ↗
- Who funds CENTRO CULTURAL OF WASHINGTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SPRINGWATER ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PROJECT LEDO ↗
- Who funds Camp Fire Central Oregon ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PORTLAND METROPOLITAN AREA ↗
- Who funds CRATER LAKE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON 4-H FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON GORGE ACTION PROGRAMS ↗
- Who funds GEAR ALLIANCE 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: Oea Choice Trust · Schoolhouse Supplies Inc · The Oregon Community Foundation · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · GenYOUTH Incorporated · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Trail Blazers Foundation · Round It Up America Inc · Meyer Memorial Trust · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Snowman Foundation Inc · Usta-Pacific Northwest Section
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 Robotics Tournament & Outreach Program 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.
- Springwater Environmental Sciences School — 2% of income from government
- Centro Cultural of Washington County — 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.
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