· Private foundation
The Hart Family 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| LAKE GROVE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $25,000 |
| P E O FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| PUBLIC SAFETY CHAPLAINCY INC | $10,000 |
| BONNER COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER | $6,000 |
| ZONTA CLUB OF EVERETT FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| VESTIBULAR DISORDERS ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| OLD TOWN ARTISAN STUDIO INC | $5,000 |
| EDWARDS CENTER INC | $5,000 |
| NORTHWEST CHILDRENS OUTREACH | $2,000 |
| PALOUSE CARE NETWORK INC | $2,000 |
| LOVE LIGHT AND MELODY A NOT FOR PROFIT CORPORATION | $2,000 |
| WHIDBEY ISLAND NOURISHES | $2,000 |
| LAKE OSWEGO MEAL NETWORK ADVISORY BOARD | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 43% of The Hart Family 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.
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 +66% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +91%
SELF ENHANCEMENT INC7× · 2017–2024 · $319k · revenue +114%
MT HOOD KIWANIS CAMP6× · 2017–2022 · $152k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- OFOHSU FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $130k
- LHLAKERIDGE HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $12k
- PSPUBLIC SAFETY CHAPLAINCYone grant, 2020 · $10k
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 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.
To lead oregon's casa programs to provide a strong voice for every abused and neglected child
The arc of oregon, together with its network of members and affiliated chapters, advocates for the rights and full community participation of all children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
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.
We work collectively to educate and advocate for systems that elevate the vital work of care and caregiving in its many forms within our community.
At l'arche portland people with and without developmental disabilities create home and build community together. we nurture long-term mutual relationships that reveal the gifts of people with developmental disabilities. in doing so we…
At United Way of the Columbia-Willamette (UWCW), we envision an Oregon and Southwest Washington where every child and family - regardless of geography, race, or family incomehas a stable foundation and access to the resources and support…
To empower homeless families with children to get back into housing - and to stay there.
The oregon community food systems network brings people and organizations together to broaden understanding of issues, build relationships and trust, develop common purpose, and create collective capacity to realize our shared vision.
To promote economic and social advancement of farmworkers and disadvantaged individuals through the provision of education, training, advocacy and services that enhance self-sufficiency.
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Oregon Foundation and the most unlike its peers is WaterAfrica. 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 33 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
48 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. 48 of the 66 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 HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SELF ENHANCEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds MT HOOD KIWANIS CAMP ↗
- Who funds PEO Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OLD TOWN ARTISAN STUDIO INC ↗
- Who funds Public Safety Chaplaincy Inc ↗
- Who funds VESTIBULAR DISORDERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds EDWARDS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BONNER COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Lake Oswego Meal Network Advisory Board ↗
- Who funds WHIDBEY ISLAND NOURISHES ↗
- Who funds RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S HOME ↗
- Who funds WaterAfrica ↗
- Who funds STORY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Victory Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST CHILDRENS OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds PALOUSE CARE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds THDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund ↗
- Who funds Fathers Heart Street Ministry ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF DISTRICT IX INC ↗
- Who funds TUALATIN SCHOOL HOUSE FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds OREGON TRAIL OF HOPE ↗
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 · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · The Autzen Foundation · The Reser Family Foundation · Juan Young Trust · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Collins Foundation · Bp Lester & Regina John Foundation · Clark Foundation · R H Parkerunited Foundation · Onpoint Community Credit Union
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 Hart 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.
- Edwards Center Inc — 79% of income from government
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Heart of Oregon Corps Inc — 28% of income from government
- New Avenues for Youth Inc — 20% of income from government
- Trailkeepers of Oregon — 19% of income from government
- Mt Hood Kiwanis Camp — 18% of income from government
- Self Enhancement Inc — 14% of income from government
- Raphael House of Portland — 10% of income from government
- Community Transitional School — 7% of income from government
- The Oregon Community Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Oregon Health & Science University Foundation — 1% 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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to The Hart Family Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Hart Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.