How much did THE JACKSON FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 47% of THE JACKSON FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

nativesolutionsproductionsrepertory theatrecolumbiachildrenchildren's

2020

solutionsconservancychildyoungartistscolumbiasports

2021

columbiasportschildren'ssistersgarden

2022

tualatinsportsportland metrochildren's

2023

tualatinsuccessrepertory theatreproductionsartistsgardenchamber

2024

learningchildrensconservancyrepertory

2025

learningchildrenssuccessrescueproductionsorchestrabird

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 150 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k124 grants · $427k
$10k–50k26 grants · $373k

$3,500

Median grant

States reached

$15M

Total assets

Largest grants

PORTLAND ART MUSEUM$21,000
OREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION$20,000
OREGON ARTS WATCH$20,000
ALL CLASSICAL RADIO$20,000
OPB$20,000
LITERARY ARTS$15,000
OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL$15,000
OREGON FOOD BANK INC$15,000
PATRICIA RESER CENTER FOR THE ARTS$15,000
PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY$15,000
OREGON BALLET THEATRE$15,000
OMSI$15,000
PORTLAND PARKS FOUNDATION$15,000
OREGON JOURNALISM PROJECT$15,000
TIDES FOUNDATION$15,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $296k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 11%. 86% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$5.1M · 238 repeat orgs$605k to everyone else

238 repeat relationships — 125 still active in FY2025, 113 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

238

108

Total granted

$5.1M

$480k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%

+52%

Still filing today

67%

45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentEducationHealthRecreation & SportsOther

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

PORTLAND ART MUSEUM
7× · 2018–2025 · $158k · revenue +62%
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OREGON ARTS WATCH
7× · 2018–2025 · $124k · revenue +191%
OREGON BALLET THEATRE
6× · 2019–2025 · $120k · revenue +37%

Funded once

UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION
one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +11%
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THE LIBRARY FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +38%
NC
NORTHWEST CHILDRENS THEATER & SCHOOL
one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +12%

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

04Your field

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.

Portland Museum of Art

Museum/Educational

Arts & Culture

Portland Public Library

Portland Public Library is a welcoming cultural center that brings people together and connects them with trusted resources, ideas, experiences, and information. We build a stronger community by inspiring learning, creativity, and…

Education

Portland Ovations

Portland ovations propels the artistic, social, educational and economic wellbeing of communitites through the power of the performing arts.

Arts & Culture

Portland Community Media

Open signal's mission is to nurture the change-making power of community media in service of a just and equitable world.

Arts & Culture

Orchestra Nova Northwest

Orchestra nova northwest (formerly portland columbia symphony) cultivates and champions a diverse community of musicians and audiences through affordable and accessible performances. we value excellence, community, personal connection, and…

Arts & Culture

Our Oregon

Promote economic and social fairness by working in coalition open a broad range of issues and activities in the public arena

Human Services

Oregon Restaurant and

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

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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

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

Oregon Shakespeare

The oregon shakespeare festival creates world-class theater, revealing our collective humanity through illuminating interpretations of new and classic plays, and inspiring a love of our art form for current and future generations.

Arts & Culture

Portland Farmers Market

To operate vibrant farmers markets that contribute to the success of local food growers and producers, strengthen our food economy and serve as community gathering places.

Community Improvement

Film Action Oregon

To entertain, inspire, educate and connect the community through the art of film while preserving a historic portland landmark.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Elevate Oregon and the most unlike its peers is Lan Su Chinese Garden. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%3/236

the rest of the field

12%

569/4,880

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.

05the grantee network

231 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

223/231

Grantees still filing

179/231

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$2,976,984Arts & Culture$1,710,500Human Services$327,500Education$261,500Environment$193,000Recreation & Sports$123,500Health$114,000

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.

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.

Juan Young TrustOR210.6× affinity115 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Juan Young Trust · The Collins Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Reser Family Foundation · Hoover Family Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations

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 organisation THE JACKSON 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

Vietnam War Memorial Fund — 100% of income from government
Morrison Child and Family Services — 91% of income from government
World Salmon Council — 55% of income from government
Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
Janus Youth Programs Inc — 46% of income from government
Willamette Riverkeeper — 42% of income from government
Portland YouthBuilders — 35% of income from government
Play It Forward — 30% of income from government
Transition Projects Inc — 29% of income from government
Friends of Zenger Farm — 28% of income from government
Oregon Community Warehouse Inc — 24% of income from government
Risk-Reward — 22% of income from government
Boost Oregon — 22% of income from government
Immigration Counseling Service Inc — 20% of income from government
Reach Community Development Inc — 18% of income from government
Oregon Arts Watch — 13% of income from government
Old Church Society Inc — 12% of income from government
Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center — 11% of income from government
High Desert Museum — 11% of income from government
My Voice Music Inc — 11% of income from government
Oregon Historical Society — 10% of income from government
Music Workshop — 10% of income from government
Bradley Angle — 10% of income from government
Literary Arts Inc — 10% of income from government
Planned Parenthood — 7% of income from government
Community Transitional School — 7% of income from government
Write Around Portland — 6% of income from government
Growing Gardens — 6% of income from government
Coho Productions Inc — 5% of income from government
Free Geek — 5% of income from government
Third Rail Repertory Theatre — 5% of income from government
Open School Inc — 5% of income from government
Friends of the Children-Portland — 5% of income from government
Architecture Foundation of Oregon — 4% of income from government
Join — 4% of income from government
Playwrite Inc — 3% of income from government
Chamber Music Northwest — 3% of income from government
Friendly House Inc — 3% of income from government
Advance Gender Equity in the Arts — 2% of income from government
Triangle Productions — 2% of income from government
White Bird — 2% of income from government
The Oregon Community Foundation — 2% of income from government
St Andrew Legal Clinic — 2% of income from government
Community Cycling Center — 2% of income from government
Casa for Children Inc — 2% of income from government
Serendipity Center Inc — 2% of income from government
Chess for Success — 2% of income from government
The Dougy Center Inc — 1% of income from government
Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
Northwest Housing Alternatives — 1% of income from government
Portland Art Museum — 1% of income from government
Portland Baroque Orchestra — 1% of income from government
Portland Center Stage — 1% of income from government
Broadway Rose Theatre Co — 1% of income from government
Caldera — 1% of income from government
Youth Music Project — 1% of income from government
Metropolitan Youth Symphony — 1% of income from government
Oregon Public Broadcasting — 1% of income from government
Tualatin Riverkeepers Inc — 1% of income from government
Young Musicians & Artists Inc — 0% of income from government
William Temple House — 0% of income from government
In a Landscape — 0% of income from government
Beaverton Arts Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
Oregon Ballet Theatre — 0% of income from government
World Forestry Center — 0% of income from government
The Northwest Catholic Counseling Center — 0% of income from government
Oregon State University Foundation — 0% of income from government
Portland State University Foundation — 0% of income from government

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

60get no government money at all

3rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: OREGON ARTS WATCH.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~6 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.9× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 274007843 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on OREGON ARTS WATCH, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 6 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 14% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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Find your warmest path to The Jackson Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE JACKSON FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?