· Private foundation
Sorlie Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $17k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING | $16,500 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $5,200 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $650 |
| YOUNG LIFE OTTER TAIL COUNTY | $600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250 |
| J BAR J YOUTH SERVICES | $200 |
| OREGON JOURNALISM PROJECT | $200 |
| JAIL INC | $100 |
| FAMILY KITCHEN | $50 |
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 (FY17–23, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +44% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 2 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $800 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 PUBLIC BROADCASTING8× · 2018–2025 · $58k · revenue +44%- YLYOUNG LIFE3× · 2018–2023 · $8k · revenue +39%
- BIBETHLEHEM INN8× · 2017–2024 · $5k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- OPOREGON PUBLIC RADIOone grant, 2017 · $6k
- SASACRED ART OF LIVINGone grant, 2019 · $2k
- YLYOUNG LIFE OF WICHITAone grant, 2021 · $2k
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.
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
Orla serves as the leading industry advocate, striving to protect, improve and promote oregon hospitality.
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.
To lead oregon's casa programs to provide a strong voice for every abused and neglected child
Oregon child development coalition is dedicated to improving the lives of children and families by providing early childhood education, care and advocacy with unique and supportive services to enhance family growth and community success.
The council is organized to foster partnerships for clean water, healthy streams, and abundant fisheries in the Clackamas Watershed
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 &…
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…
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…
Oregon research institute is an independent behavioral sciences research center dedicated to understanding human behavior and improving the quality of human life through the prevention and treatment of health, educational, and social…
The mission of The Oregon Community Foundation is to improve lives of all Oregonians through the power of philanthropy.
Empowering life-affirming decisions
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Oregon Environmental Center Inc Dba - the Environmental Center and the most unlike its peers is The Gift of Life Corporation. 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 30 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 49 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 PUBLIC BROADCASTING ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds THE GIFT OF LIFE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BETHLEHEM INN ↗
- Who funds TEN FRIENDS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Family Access Network Foundation ↗
- Who funds LATINO COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Deschutes Land Trust ↗
- Who funds CASA OF CENTRAL OREGON ↗
- Who funds CARLETON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Central Oregon Avalanche Center ↗
- Who funds ORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds NOKOTA HORSE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds PHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DIRTY FREEHUB ↗
- Who funds KIDS INTERVENTION AND DIAGNOSTIC SERVICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds J BAR J YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON JOURNALISM PROJECT ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORIMPACT ↗
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 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
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 Sorlie 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.
- J Bar J Youth Services Inc — 71% of income from government
- Neighborimpact — 68% of income from government
- Deschutes Land Trust — 46% of income from government
- Latino Community Association — 11% of income from government
- Smart Reading — 3% of income from government
- Casa of Central Oregon — 2% of income from government
- Oregon Public Broadcasting — 1% of income from government
- Central Oregon Environmental Center Inc Dba - the Environmental Center — 0% of income from government
- In a Landscape — 0% of income from government
- Bethlehem Inn — 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.