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Sorlie Family Foundation at a glance

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Sorlie Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$24k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$65kReligion$26kHuman Services$16kYouth Development$11kHousing & Shelter$5kHealth$4kEducation$3kInternational$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $17k
$250
Median grant
2
States reached
$320k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING$16,500
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$5,200
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$650
YOUNG LIFE OTTER TAIL COUNTY$600
Individual grant recipient$250
OREGON JOURNALISM PROJECT$200
J BAR J YOUTH SERVICES$200
JAIL INC$100
FAMILY KITCHEN$50
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CASA OF CENTRAL OREGON: $500 → 10%CASA OF CENTRAL OREGON: $400 → 10%CASA OF CENTRAL OREGON: $350 → 10%CASA OF CENTRAL OREGON: $250 → 10%CASA OF CENTRAL OREGON: $200 → 10%NEIGHBOR IMPACT: $200 → 10%FAMILY ACCESS NETWORK FOUNDATION: $500 → 10%LATINO COMMUNITY ASSOC: $500 → 10%FAMILY ACCESS NETWORK FOUNDATION: $500 → 10%LATINO COMMUNITY ASSOC: $500 → 10%FAMILY ACCESS NETWORK FOUNDATION: $500 → 10%LATINO COMMUNITY ASSOC: $500 → 10%FAMILY ACCESS NETWORK FOUNDATION: $500 → 10%LATINO COMMUNITY ASSOC: $500 → 10%FAMILY ACCESS NETWORK FOUNDATION: $500 → 10%FAMILY ACCESS NETWORK FOUNDATION: $400 → 10%LATINO COMMUNITY ASSOC: $400 → 10%FAMILY ACCESS NETWORK FOUNDATION: $250 → 10%LATINO COMMUNITY ASSOC: $250 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ND
MN
NY
OR
CA
NM
KS
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$129k · 29 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
18

Total granted

$129k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+17%

Still filing today

55%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $800 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentPublic Safety & DisasterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 BROADCASTING
    8× · 2018–2025 · $58k · revenue +44%
  • YL
    YOUNG LIFE
    3× · 2018–2023 · $8k · revenue +39%
  • BI
    BETHLEHEM INN
    8× · 2017–2024 · $5k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • OP
    OREGON PUBLIC RADIO
    one grant, 2017 · $6k
  • SA
    SACRED ART OF LIVING
    one grant, 2019 · $2k
  • YL
    YOUNG LIFE OF WICHITA
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Oregon Agricultural Trust

Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.

Environment
2
Oregon Restaurant and Lodging Association

Orla serves as the leading industry advocate, striving to protect, improve and promote oregon hospitality.

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3
Cascades Academy of Central Oregon

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.

Education
4
Oregon Casa Network

To lead oregon's casa programs to provide a strong voice for every abused and neglected child

Human Services
5
Oregon Child Development Coalition

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.

Human Services
6
Clackamas River Basin Council Inc

The council is organized to foster partnerships for clean water, healthy streams, and abundant fisheries in the Clackamas Watershed

Environment
7
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
8
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
9
Oregon Center for Public Policy

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…

Employment
10
Oregon Research Institute

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…

Social Science
11
The Oregon Community Foundation

The mission of The Oregon Community Foundation is to improve lives of all Oregonians through the power of philanthropy.

Philanthropy
12
Options Pregnancy Resource Centers Inc

Empowering life-affirming decisions

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Oregon Environmental Center Inc Dba - the Environmental Center; 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.
04the grantee network

25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
18/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $57,500 · Arts & CultureOREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING+3 more: $1,700 · Arts & CultureFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $21,200 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHTHE GIFT OF LIFE CORPORATION: $7,500 · OtherTHE GIFT OF LIFE CORPORATIONOREGON PUBLIC RADIO (OPB): $5,500 · OtherOREGON PUBLIC RADIO (OPB)PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $2,950 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN FOUNDATION: $2,200 · OtherSACRED ART OF LIVING: $2,000 · OtherYOUNG LIFE OF WICHITA: $2,000 · Other+28 more: $15,345 · Other+28 moreFamily Access Network Foundation: $3,150 · Human ServicesLATINO COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $2,650 · Human ServicesCASA OF CENTRAL OREGON: $1,700 · Human Services+1 more: $200 · Human ServicesYOUNG LIFE: $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentBETHLEHEM INN: $4,875 · Housing & ShelterTEN FRIENDS PROJECT: $3,200 · InternationalDeschutes Land Trust: $2,170 · EnvironmentDIRTY FREEHUB: $500 · EnvironmentCENTRAL OREGON ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER INC DBA - THE ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER: $200 · Environment
Arts & Culture$59,200Other$58,695Human Services$7,700Youth Development$7,500Housing & Shelter$4,875International$3,200Environment$2,870

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $57,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GIFT OF LIFE CORPORATION: $7,500 over 3y, 64% of budgetBETHLEHEM INN: $4,875 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTEN FRIENDS PROJECT: $3,200 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetFamily Access Network Foundation: $3,150 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLATINO COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $2,650 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDeschutes Land Trust: $2,170 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCASA OF CENTRAL OREGON: $1,700 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCARLETON COLLEGE: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Oregon Avalanche Center: $1,350 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC: $1,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNOKOTA HORSE CONSERVANCY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIRTY FREEHUB: $500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetKIDS INTERVENTION AND DIAGNOSTIC SERVICE CENTER: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJ BAR J YOUTH SERVICES INC: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR ACTION AND CONTEMPLATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORIMPACT: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON JOURNALISM PROJECT: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL OREGON ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER INC DBA - THE ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMART READING: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIN A LANDSCAPE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCollege of the Desert Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 CENTER FOR ACTION AND CONTEMPLATION ↗

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.

The Roundhouse Founda…The Anjulicia Foundat…The Oregon Community …Bend FoundationFirst Interstate Banc…Onpoint Community Cre…Maybelle Clark Macdon…The Ford Family Found…United Way of Deschut…St Charles Health Sys…The Autzen FoundationMarie Lamfrom Charita…
The Roundhouse FoundationOR25.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Sorlie Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sorlie Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 49 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home