· Private foundation
Powell Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHAMBER MUSIC NORTHWEST | $55,000 |
| COLLEGE POSSIBLE OREGON | $10,000 |
| CENTRAL CITY CONCERN | $9,000 |
| POWER TO DECIDE | $5,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC | $1,500 |
| CEDARWOOD SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE COLUMBIAWILLAMETTE INC | $1,000 |
| DE LA SALLE CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| OUTSIDE IN | $1,000 |
| SMART READING | $1,000 |
| AL FORTHAN MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP CO VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA OREGON | $1,000 |
| VIRGINIA GRACIA MEMORIAL HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| THE DOUGY CENTER | $1,000 |
| RETURNING VETERANS PROJECT | $750 |
| KAIROSPDX | $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 (FY20–24, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
19 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 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
- CMCHAMBER MUSIC NORTHWEST4× · 2020–2024 · $180k · revenue +73%
Central City Concern8× · 2017–2024 · $51k · revenue +111%- PTPOWER TO DECIDE5× · 2020–2024 · $35k · revenue +143%
Funded once
- PCPORTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2023 · $25k
VIRGINIA GARCIA MEMORIAL HEALTH CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +83%
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.
We partner with our community to make good health possible for all. wallace serves individuals and families who face barriers to care throughout the east multnomah county in the portland metropolitan area.
We offer our homeless neighbors accessible whole-person care to improve and support health, and to bridge a gap in trust between people and systems.
To inspire and partner to create quality and equity in individual and community health.
Penobscot Community Health Center (PCHC) is a non-profit organization incorporated in 1997 that is governed by a Board of community volunteers and is the largest Federally Qualified Health Center in Maine. PCHC is driven by its mission…
The mission of the coalition of community health clinics is to improve healthcare for vulnerable populations residing in the portland-metro area. we strengthen community clinics, promote health equity, and foster collaboration across the…
Sea mar community health centers is a community-based organization committed to providing quality, comprehensive health, human, housing, educational, and cultural services to diverse communities, specializing in service to latinos.
We promote well-being and advance equity by providing inclusive health and wellness services for lgbtq+ people, people affected by hiv, and all those seeking compassionate care.
To improve the health and wellness of the medically uninsured or critically underserved through the engagement of professionals, community partners, and dedicated volunteers.
As expressions of god's healing love, witnessed through the ministry of jesus, we are steadfast in serving all, especially those who are poor and vulnerable.
The oregon center for public policy's mission is to achieve economic justice for all oregonians through research, analysis, and advocacy. ocpp works to change policies that foster economic security and stability for all oregonians. we do…
The mission of the oma is to speak as the unified voice of medicine in oregon; advocate for a sustainable, equitable, and accessible healthcare environment; and energize physicians and physician assistants by building and supporting their…
Open Door Community Health Centers promotes social justice and human dignity through exceptional patient-centered care that improves the health and well-being of our patients, community, and staff.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Planned Parenthood of the Columbia Willamette Inc and the most unlike its peers is Power to Decide. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 21 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 CHAMBER MUSIC NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds Central City Concern ↗
- Who funds POWER TO DECIDE ↗
- Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds OUTSIDE IN ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOUGY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds RETURNING VETERANS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC ↗
- Who funds KAIROSPDX ↗
- Who funds Southwest Community Health Center ↗
- Who funds SMART READING ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA GARCIA MEMORIAL HEALTH CENTER ↗
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: OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Hoover Family Foundation · The Collins Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organization Powell Foundation Inc 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.
- Outside in — 29% of income from government
- Kairospdx — 22% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 12% of income from government
- Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center — 11% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of the Columbia Willamette Inc — 8% of income from government
- Central City Concern — 7% of income from government
- Smart Reading — 4% of income from government
- Chamber Music Northwest — 2% of income from government
- The Dougy Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Friends of Chamber Music — 1% of income from government
- Meals On Wheels People Inc — 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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