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Children's Trust Fund of Oregon Foundation
Our children oregon's mission is to be a voice and force for the common good for all oregon children, ensuring all children have the resources and opportunities they need to reach their full potential.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k2 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $296k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OR ASSOCIATION OF RELIEF NURSERIES | $35,000 |
| METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICE | $13,000 |
| SOUTHWESTERN OR COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $12,500 |
| MORRISON CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES | $12,500 |
| PEARL BUCK CENTER INC | $12,500 |
| SISKIYOU COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER | $12,500 |
| BUILDING HEALTHY FAMILIES | $12,500 |
| IMPACT NW | $12,500 |
| HACIENDA CDC | $12,500 |
| VIRGINIA GARCIA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| SELF ENHANCEMENT INC | $12,500 |
| PARENTING NOW | $12,000 |
| FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER OF CENT OR | $11,500 |
| FAMILIES FIRST PARENT RESOURCE CNTR | $11,000 |
| THE NEXT DOOR INC | $10,500 |
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 (FY17–18, $173k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
26 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2018, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
OREGON ASSOCIATION OF RELIEF NURSERIES2× · 2017–2018 · $75k · revenue +464%- MFMetropolitan Family Service2× · 2017–2018 · $26k · revenue +97%
- BHBUILDING HEALTHY FAMILIES2× · 2017–2018 · $25k · revenue +2%
Funded once
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.
The mission of young roots oregon is to creatively help young families build healthy foundations. our multi-generational vision is to give pregnant and parenting adolescents through age 24 and their children equitable opportunities for…
Building strong connections for healthy communities through mental health programs, youth empowerment services and family services.
Building brighter futures with children and families.
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Children's institute's mission is to leverage research, practice, policy, and advocacy to shift systems toward justice for families so that all of oregon's children, prenatal to grade 5, have access to opportunity.
Head start & other children services
Fact oregon empowers families, youth, and communities to navigate disability systems, advocating together for disability justice and policy change so that people with disabilities have what they need to thrive at home, in school, and in…
A family for every child (affec) is dedicated to finding permanent and loving adoptive families for waiting foster children. to accomplish our mission, we focus on finding loving and permanent families for children who the foster care…
Provide outpatient mental and behavioral therapy for children and families, therapeutic treatment foster care to at-risk youth, as well as a variety of parent training services.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Native American Youth and Family Center and the most unlike its peers is South Lane Mental Health Services Inc. 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 33 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 26 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 OREGON ASSOCIATION OF RELIEF NURSERIES ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Family Service ↗
- Who funds BUILDING HEALTHY FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds SISKIYOU COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PEARL BUCK CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SELF ENHANCEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds HACIENDA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA GARCIA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MORRISON CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds IMPACT NW ↗
- Who funds PARENTING NOW ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER OF CENTRAL OREGON ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FIRST OF GRANT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEXT DOOR INC ↗
- Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Community Action Team ↗
- Who funds Black Parent Initiative ↗
- Who funds OREGON COAST COMMUNITY ACTION ↗
- Who funds South Lane Mental Health Services Inc ↗
- Who funds JANUS YOUTH PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds YACHATS YOUTH & FAMILY ACTIVITIES PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds STRENGTHENING RURAL FAMILIES ↗
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 Oregon Community Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Juan Young Trust · The Collins Foundation · Careoregon Inc · Braemar Charitable Trust · The Reser Family Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Pacificsource Foundation for Health Improvement · Onpoint Community Credit Union
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 Children's Trust Fund of Oregon 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 Coast Community Action — 75% of income from government
- Morrison Child and Family Services — 74% of income from government
- Pearl Buck Center Incorporated — 60% of income from government
- Families First of Grant County Inc — 57% of income from government
- Black Parent Initiative — 49% of income from government
- Janus Youth Programs Inc — 39% of income from government
- Building Healthy Families — 39% of income from government
- The Next Door Inc — 35% of income from government
- Strengthening Rural Families — 35% of income from government
- Native American Youth and Family Center — 21% of income from government
- Metropolitan Family Service — 21% of income from government
- Self Enhancement Inc — 18% of income from government
- Siskiyou Community Health Center Inc — 15% of income from government
- Impact Nw — 10% of income from government
- Family Resource Center of Central Oregon — 5% of income from government
- South Lane Mental Health Services Inc — 3% of income from government
- Parenting Now — 1% 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.