· Private foundation
The Carol and Velma Saling 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $432k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $160k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OPB | $60,000 |
| WESTERN RIVER CONSERVANCY | $50,000 |
| LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS-OREGON | $50,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $36,500 |
| COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND | $35,000 |
| LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS-PORTLAND | $34,000 |
| CLASSROOM LAW PROJECT NOW CIVICS LEARNING PROJECT | $32,300 |
| GOOD NEIGHBOR FAMILY PANTRY | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY VISION | $25,000 |
| SOUTHERN OREGON LAND CONSERVANCY | $25,000 |
| ASSOCIATION OF NORTHWEST STEELHEADERS | $24,600 |
| CAMP ANGELOS | $20,000 |
| OREGON LAW STUDENTS PUBLIC INTEREST FUND | $20,000 |
| LIFT URBAN PORTLAND | $20,000 |
| PORTLAND FORWARD | $17,500 |
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 (FY18–25, $383k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 17% of The Carol and Velma Saling Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in OR; read by stated purpose it is 85% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +42% since the first grant, against -13% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 8 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, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $219k 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
- LOLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF OREGON8× · 2018–2025 · $401k · revenue +24% · 52% of their budget
OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING7× · 2018–2024 · $400k · revenue +44%- CLCivics Learning Project8× · 2018–2025 · $300k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- NRNORTHWEST REGIONAL ESD FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $23k · revenue -49% · 28% of their budget
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $20k
OREGON FOOD BANKone grant, 2021 · $17k · revenue -1%
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.
Oregon Wild works to protect and restore Oregon's wildlands, wildlife and waters as an enduring legacy for future generations.
The Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council is a local nonprofit organization that strives to enhance and restore habitat for fish and wildlife our community and for future generations. Our Board of Directors consists of seven members with…
Orla serves as the leading industry advocate, striving to protect, improve and promote oregon hospitality.
The council is organized to foster partnerships for clean water, healthy streams, and abundant fisheries in the Clackamas Watershed
Promote economic and social fairness by working in coalition open a broad range of issues and activities in the public arena
Public charity watershed council Clackamas County, OR
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…
To support public policies that will help oregon's economy and create new family supporting jobs in oregon.
As directed by oregon voters in 1984, the oregon citizens' utility board (cub) represents the interests of oregon's residential utility customers before administrative, judicial, and legislative bodies. cub works at the intersection of…
The mission of The Oregon Community Foundation is to improve lives of all Oregonians through the power of philanthropy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oregon Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is Wheel to Walk Foundation. 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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 47 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 WESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF OREGON ↗
- Who funds OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Civics Learning Project ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY VISION INC ↗
- Who funds Komak ↗
- Who funds Lift Urban Portland ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN OREGON LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds American-Hellenic Educational Center Inc ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF NORTHWEST STEELHEADERS ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S NURSING SPECIALTIES INC ↗
- Who funds ECOTRUST ↗
- Who funds Oregon Community Warehouse Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT LEMONADE INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY DEMOCRACY FUND ↗
- Who funds WHEEL TO WALK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds DREAM BUILDERS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST REGIONAL ESD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds METROEAST COMMUNITY MEDIA ↗
- Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds WaterWatch of Oregon ↗
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 Oregon Community Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Collins Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Robert D and Marcia H Randall Charitable Trust · The Jackson Foundation · Juan Young Trust · The Holzman Foundation · The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Care Foundation · The Reser Family 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 The Carol and Velma Saling 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.
- Community Vision Inc — 92% of income from government
- WaterWatch of Oregon — 61% of income from government
- Oregon Community Warehouse Inc — 24% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- Project Lemonade Inc — 15% of income from government
- Ecotrust — 14% of income from government
- Metroeast Community Media — 1% of income from government
- Community Action Program of East Central Oregon — 1% of income from government
- Association of Northwest Steelheaders — 1% of income from government
- Oregon Public Broadcasting — 1% of income from government
- Western Rivers Conservancy — 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.