Oregon · Private foundation
Sorlie Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $24k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $250
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $16,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 20
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $320k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations Sorlie Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $600 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $24k | 22% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $24k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $18k | 7% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $16k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $16k | 42% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $17k | 23% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $14k | 45% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $7k | 57% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon Public Broadcasting | $57,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Young Life | $7,500 | 3 | 0% |
| The Gift of Life Corporation | $7,500 | 3 | 64% |
| Bethlehem Inn | $4,875 | 8 | 0% |
| Ten Friends Project | $3,200 | 4 | 3% |
| Family Access Network Foundation | $3,150 | 7 | 0% |
| Latino Community Association | $2,650 | 6 | 0% |
| Deschutes Land Trust | $2,170 | 8 | 0% |
| Casa of Central Oregon | $1,700 | 5 | 0% |
| Carleton College | $1,500 | 2 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon Public Broadcasting | $57,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Young Life | $7,500 | 3 | 0% |
| The Gift of Life Corporation | $7,500 | 3 | 64% |
| Bethlehem Inn | $4,875 | 8 | 0% |
| Ten Friends Project | $3,200 | 4 | 3% |
| Family Access Network Foundation | $3,150 | 7 | 0% |
| Latino Community Association | $2,650 | 6 | 0% |
| Deschutes Land Trust | $2,170 | 8 | 0% |
| Casa of Central Oregon | $1,700 | 5 | 0% |
| Carleton College | $1,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Central Oregon Avalanche Center | $1,350 | 6 | 1% |
| Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Inc | $1,300 | 2 | 0% |
| Nokota Horse Conservancy Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Family Kitchen | $650 | 4 | n/a |
| Catholic Charities | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Phillips Fundamental Learning Center Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Dirty Freehub | $500 | 2 | 0% |
| Kids Intervention and Diagnostic Service Center | $400 | 2 | 0% |
| J Bar J Youth Services Inc | $300 | 2 | 0% |
| Jail Inc | $200 | 2 | n/a |
| Center for Action and Contemplation | $200 | 1 | 0% |
| Neighborimpact | $200 | 1 | 0% |
| Oregon Journalism Project | $200 | 1 | 0% |
| Central Oregon Environmental Center Inc Dba - the Environmental Center | $200 | 1 | 0% |
| Smart Reading | $200 | 2 | 0% |
| In a Landscape | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| College of the Desert Foundation | $100 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($44k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Sorlie Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Roundhouse Foundation · The Anjulicia Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Bend Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Onpoint Community Credit Union · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · The Ford Family Foundation · United Way of Deschutes County · St Charles Health System Inc · The Autzen Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust
How this is measured
About Sorlie Family Foundation
- How much does Sorlie Family Foundation give?
- Sorlie Family Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $23,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Sorlie Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (45%), Religion (18%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are Sorlie Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Oregon Public Broadcasting ($58k), Young Life ($8k), The Gift of Life Corporation ($8k).
- Does Sorlie Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sorlie Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sorlie Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Roundhouse Foundation, The Anjulicia Foundation, The Oregon Community Foundation.
- Where is Sorlie Family Foundation based?
- Sorlie Family Foundation is based in OR.
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