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Paul Liebman Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
46
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.

Environment$848kPhilanthropy$520kHousing & Shelter$320kHuman Services$320kEducation$297kCrime & Legal$270kFood & Nutrition$264kPublic Safety & Disaster$230kOther$0
02FY2025 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k30 grants · $555k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.0M
$20,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$47M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREENWOOD PROJECT$100,000
SAVE THE BOUNDARY WATERS$100,000
NATIONAL REGIONAL DEFENSE COUNCIL (NRDC)$100,000
GREEN EMPOWERMENT$100,000
ONE SIMPLE WISH$100,000
CASA FOR CHILDREN INC (COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES)$75,000
CHILDREN'S HEALING ART PROJECT$60,000
DAMIANO CENTER$50,000
READING POWER$50,000
CHURCHES UNITED IN MINISTRY (CHUM)$50,000
PATH HOME$50,000
KIEVE WAVUS EDUCATION$50,000
ADIRONDACK MOUNTAIN CLUB$50,000
ROSE HAVEN$50,000
COLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCE$50,000
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:

Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $540k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 66% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NORTH SHORE HORIZONS: $25k → 8%CHILDREN'S HEALING ART PROJECT: $60k → 8%ONE SIMPLE WISH: $100k → 11%KIEVE WAVUS EDUCATION: $50k → 9%KIEVE WAVUS EDUCATION: $50k → 9%GREENWOOD PROJECT: $100k → 14%DAMIANO CENTER: $50k → 15%COMMUNNITY SUPPORT SERVICES (WORK DAY PROGRAM): $10k → 14%FRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES: $20k → 17%FRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES: $10k → 17%URBAN LEAGUE OF PORTLAND: $10k → 12%URBAN LEAGUE OF PORTLAND: $10k → 12%URBAN LEAGUE OF PORTLAND: $5k → 12%PUEBLO UNIDO PDX: $40k → 12%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.5M · 33 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

33 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
16

Total granted

$2.5M
$511k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+27%

Still filing today

76%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $740k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEnvironmentHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentEducationHealthOther

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

  • NM
    NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTANS FOR WILDERNESS
    4× · 2018–2025 · $165k · revenue +108%
  • RP
    READING POWER INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $150k · revenue +35%
  • ROSE HAVEN CIC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $140k · revenue +166%

Funded once

  • FF
    FREEDOM FARM FOR VETS
    one grant, 2020 · $164k
  • MF
    MAKEWAY FOUNDATION - AYALIK FUND
    one grant, 2024 · $60k
  • THE DIVIDED SKY FOUNDATION CORPORATION
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%

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
Rogue Climate

Rogue Climate's mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change including low-income, rural, youth, seniors & communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs &…

Education
2
Opportunity Partners

Mission: together we advance the quality of life for people with disabilities. vision: people of all abilities thrive in the world. values: impact- generate solutions that make a difference. choice - create opportunities for people to lead…

Employment
3
Portland Business Alliance

To ensure economic prosperity in the portland region by providing strong leadership, partnership, and programs that encourage business growth and vitality.

Community Improvement
4
Residential Opportunities Inc

We partner with children and adults with disabilities and their families so they may live more meaningful, healthy, and independent lives in their homes and communities.

Human Services
5
Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho

To provide exceptional reproductive and complementary health care services, honest education, and advocacy for all.

Health
6
Eden Peopleplanet

To offer the dignity of fair employment to people living in impoverished communities, who become transformational agents of global forest restoration.

International
7
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
8
Disability Rights Washington

Disability rights washington's mission is to advance the dignity, equality, and self determination of people with disabilities. we work to pursue justice on matters related to human and legal rights.

Human Services
9
Oregon Justice Network

Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…

Human Services
10
Public Land Solutions

Public land solutions is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing comprehensive recreation planning and stakeholder coordination to support effective and sustainable public land solutions.

Environment
11
Impact Community Action Partnership Inc

Reducing the barriers and burdens that families in poverty experience by increasing access to essential needs.

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12
LArche Portland

At l'arche portland people with and without developmental disabilities create home and build community together. we nurture long-term mutual relationships that reveal the gifts of people with developmental disabilities. in doing so we…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa for Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Diversify Whitewater. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Elementary Literacy TutoringIndependent K-12 SchoolsAddiction Recovery ServicesYouth Sports ProgramsYouth Development ServicesFood Banks and PantriesChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%6%<5yr14%12%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr16%31%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%6%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%5%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr16%36%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr16%9%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% 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 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/54
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,511

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

52 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. 52 of the 71 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/52
Grantees still filing
31/52
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NATIONAL REGIONAL DEFENSE COUNCIL (NRDC) — $200,000 · OtherNATIONAL REGIONAL DEFENSE COUNCIL (NRDC)FREEDOM FARM FOR VETS — $163,500 · OtherFREEDOM FARM FOR VETSFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC (CASA) — $120,000 · OtherFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC (CASA)CHURCHES UNITED IN MINISTRY — $90,000 · OtherCASA FOR CHILDREN INC (COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES) — $75,000 · OtherMAKEWAY FOUNDATION - AYALIK FUND — $60,000 · OtherLENA FOUNDATION — $60,000 · OtherCASA FOR CHILDREN INC — $105,000 · OtherCASA FOR CHILDREN INCGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC — $60,000 · Other+33 more — $802,000 · Other+33 moreGREEN EMPOWERMENT — $300,000 · PhilanthropyGREEN EMPOWERMENTNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $300,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILANTHR…FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC — $40,000 · PhilanthropyFUND FOR THE CITY …ONE SIMPLE WISH INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesONE SIMPLE WISH…Kieve Wavus Education Inc — $100,000 · Human ServicesKieve Wavus Edu…GREENWOOD PROJECT — $100,000 · Human ServicesGREENWOOD PROJE…CHILDREN'S HEALING ART PROJECT INC — $60,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S HEAL…DAMIANO OF DULUTH INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesDAMIANO OF DULU…Pueblo Unido PDX — $40,000 · Human ServicesPueblo Unido PD…FRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesFRESH YOUTH INI…NORTH SHORE HORIZONS INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesURBAN LEAGUE OF PORTLAND INC — $25,000 · Human Services+1 more — $10,000 · Human ServicesNORTHEASTERN MINNESOTANS FOR WILDERNESS — $165,000 · EnvironmentNORTHEASTER…ADIRONDACK MOUNTAIN CLUB INC — $150,000 · EnvironmentADIRONDACK …FREE GEEK — $50,000 · EnvironmentFREE GEEKCOLUMBIA LAND TRUST — $15,000 · Environment+2 more — $20,000 · EnvironmentROSE HAVEN CIC — $140,000 · Housing & ShelterPATH HOME — $120,000 · Housing & ShelterCULTIVATE INITIATIVES — $30,000 · Housing & ShelterPEAR — $20,000 · Housing & ShelterREADING POWER INC — $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentMENTOR NORTH — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe Blueprint Foundation — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentPlanned Parenthood of Illinois — $90,000 · HealthCOLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCE — $50,000 · HealthNATIVE AMERICAN REHABILITATION ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTHWEST INC — $20,000 · Health
Other$1,735,500Philanthropy$640,000Human Services$540,000Environment$400,000Housing & Shelter$310,000Youth Development$220,000Health$160,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGREEN EMPOWERMENT — $300,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $300,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN MINNESOTANS FOR WILDERNESS — $165,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetADIRONDACK MOUNTAIN CLUB INC — $150,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetREADING POWER INC — $150,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetROSE HAVEN CIC — $140,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetPATH HOME — $120,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCASA FOR CHILDREN INC — $105,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetONE SIMPLE WISH INC — $100,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetKieve Wavus Education Inc — $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Illinois — $90,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHURCHES UNITED IN MINISTRY — $90,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC — $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLENA FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALING ART PROJECT INC — $60,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetSunstone Montessori School Inc — $52,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE DIVIDED SKY FOUNDATION CORPORATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFREE GEEK — $50,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMENTOR NORTH — $50,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetCHESTER BOWL IMPROVEMENT CLUB — $50,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetDAMIANO OF DULUTH INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Rosewood Initiative — $40,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetENTREAMIGOS — $40,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetPARTNERS FOR A HUNGER FREE OREGON — $40,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetFRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCULTIVATE INITIATIVES — $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH SHORE HORIZONS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetOREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF PORTLAND INC — $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTUYVESANT PARK NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION — $20,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetThe Blueprint Foundation — $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetImmigrant Defenders Law Center — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEAR — $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCOLUMBIA LAND TRUST — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLUMBIA GORGE CASA — $15,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTELLURIDE ADAPTIVE SPORTS PROGRAM — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMAIN STREET MOSIER — $10,000 over 1y, 9.7% 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.

The Oregon Community …The Collins FoundationMeyer Memorial TrustMarie Lamfrom Charita…The Autzen FoundationCareoregon IncUnited Way of the Col…OCF Joseph E Weston P…The Larson LegacyLloyd K Johnson Found…Rose E Tucker Charita…Onpoint Community Cre…
The Oregon Community FoundationOR27.6× affinity15 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · The Collins Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Autzen Foundation · Careoregon Inc · United Way of the Columbia-Willamette · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Larson Legacy · Lloyd K Johnson Foundation · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · 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 Paul Liebman Family 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Pueblo Unido Pdx — 100% of income from government
  • Urban League of Portland Inc — 33% of income from government
  • Partners for a Hunger Free Oregon — 31% of income from government
  • Native American Rehabilitation Association of the Northwest Inc — 16% of income from government
  • The Blueprint Foundation — 10% of income from government
  • Oxford House Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Free Geek — 5% of income from government
  • Children's Healing Art Project Inc — 4% of income from government
  • The Rosewood Initiative — 3% of income from government
  • Casa for Children Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Pear — 1% of income from government
  • Columbia Gorge Casa — 1% of income from government
  • Oregon Public Broadcasting — 1% of income from government
  • Cultivate Initiatives — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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: 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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Paul Liebman Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Paul Liebman Family 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 71 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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