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The Oregon Community Foundation
The mission of The Oregon Community Foundation is to improve lives of all Oregonians through the power of philanthropy.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 2,149 grants below total $171,416,539 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $184,746,710 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $13,330,171 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k282 grants · $2.0M
- $10k–50k1210 grants · $28M
- $50k–250k548 grants · $54M
- $250k+109 grants · $88M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Oregon Consumer Justice | $7,978,664 |
| University of Oregon Foundation | $5,046,750 |
| Oregon Health And Science University Foundation | $5,007,187 |
| Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc | $3,475,047 |
| Albany Boys and Girls Club Foundation Inc | $2,800,172 |
| Oregon Shakespeare Festival | $2,580,691 |
| Columbia River Maritime Museum | $2,290,966 |
| Dove Lewis Emergency Animal Hospital | $2,190,413 |
| Oregon Symphony Association | $2,041,501 |
| Hospice of Redmond | $1,955,340 |
| Portland Art Museum | $1,916,178 |
| Missoula International School | $1,500,000 |
| Boulder Community Health Foundation | $1,500,000 |
| FOOD For Lane County | $1,417,143 |
| Land Trust Alliance Inc | $1,372,550 |
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 (FY17–24, $79.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 70% 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.
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 +57% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
1770 repeat relationships — 1312 still active in FY2024, 458 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.6M 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
- FHFARMWORKER HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION6× · 2019–2024 · $77M · revenue +116% · 72% of their budget
- OCOREGON CONSUMER JUSTICE6× · 2019–2024 · $33M · revenue ×20 · 93% of their budget
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $20M · revenue +91%
Funded once
- HFHollis Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $8.6M · revenue +380% · 82% of their budget
- LCLn County Health and Human Servicesone grant, 2021 · $5.5M
- HAHousing Authority of Malheur and Harney Countyone grant, 2023 · $4.5M
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.
Promote economic and social fairness by working in coalition open a broad range of issues and activities in the public arena
Community foundation
To support public policies that will help oregon's economy and create new family supporting jobs in oregon.
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
To be the effective and collective voice of oregon's cities and their authoritative and best source of information and training
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…
Museum/Educational
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…
We are a coalition that connects community and labor.
The Oregon Affiliate of the ACLU is a non-partisan organization dedicated to the preservation and enhancement of civil liberties and civil rights.
Assisting individuals with developmental disabilities to define, direct and pursue the life they choose through planning and coordination of services and resources.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Restore Oregon Inc 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.
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 26 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
1701 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. 1701 of the 2,000 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 FARMWORKER HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds OREGON CONSUMER JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Sid and Karen DeBoer Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Family Promise of Tualatin Valley ↗
- Who funds Oregon State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds John and Ginger Niemeyer Foundation ↗
- Who funds CAUSA OF OREGON ↗
- Who funds Consejo Hispano ↗
- Who funds Central City Concern ↗
- Who funds OREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST COASTAL HOUSING ↗
- Who funds MID WILLAMETTE VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY ↗
- Who funds Hollis Foundation ↗
- Who funds HOUSING NORTHWEST INC & SUBSIDIARIES ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF OREGON ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR LANE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds DOVE LEWIS EMERGENCY ANIMAL HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY ↗
- Who funds LAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITIES FOR HOUSING RESOURCES AND ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY ↗
- Who funds Mid-Columbia Community Action Council ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SW OREGON ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BETHLEHEM INN ↗
- Who funds LITERARY ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING ↗
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 Collins Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · James F & Marion L Miller Foundation · Juan Young Trust · The Roundhouse Foundation · The Reser Family Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Jackson Foundation · Braemar Charitable Trust · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Ford 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 Oregon Community 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.
- Wallowa Resources Inc — 100% of income from government
- Southern Oregon Child and Family Council Inc — 92% of income from government
- Albina Head Start Inc — 81% of income from government
- Mid Willamette Valley Community Action Agency — 81% of income from government
- Albertina Kerr Centers — 74% of income from government
- Family Building Blocks Inc — 68% of income from government
- Center for Hope and Safety — 68% of income from government
- Community in Action — 65% of income from government
- Access — 65% of income from government
- Yamhill Community Action Partnership — 61% of income from government
- Northwest Coastal Housing — 58% of income from government
- Oregon Council for the Humanities — 55% of income from government
- Neighborhood House Inc — 53% of income from government
- Wild Salmon Center — 49% of income from government
- Artists Repertory Theatre — 48% of income from government
- Hacienda Community Development Corporation — 48% of income from government
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Deschutes Land Trust — 46% of income from government
- Reap Inc — 46% of income from government
- Mid-Columbia Community Action Council — 43% of income from government
- Oregon Center for Creative Learning Dba Kid Time — 42% of income from government
- Building Healthy Families — 41% of income from government
- The Family Nurturing Center Rogue Valley Children's Relief Nursery — 38% of income from government
- Portland Opportunities Indust Center — 38% of income from government
- Urban League of Portland Inc — 33% of income from government
- Adelante Mujeres — 31% of income from government
- United Way of Lane County — 31% of income from government
- Relief Nursery Inc — 30% of income from government
- Transition Projects Inc — 29% of income from government
- Elevate Oregon — 28% of income from government
- Center for Intercultural Organizing — 28% of income from government
- United Way of the Columbia-Willamette — 25% of income from government
- Alternatives Youth Activities Inc — 24% of income from government
- Native American Youth and Family Center — 23% of income from government
- Maslow Project — 22% of income from government
- Ophelia's Place — 22% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- New Avenues for Youth Inc — 20% of income from government
- Capaces Leadership Institute — 20% of income from government
- Helping Hands Reentry Outreach Centers — 18% of income from government
- The Coalition of Oregon Land Trusts — 18% of income from government
- Sheltercare — 18% of income from government
- Oregon Wildlife Heritage Foundation — 16% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Corvallis Inc — 16% of income from government
- Latino Network — 15% of income from government
- Habitat for Humanity Portland Metro East — 14% of income from government
- Self Enhancement Inc — 14% of income from government
- Ecotrust — 14% of income from government
- Medical Teams International — 14% of income from government
- Rogue Community Health — 13% of income from government
- Rogue Retreat — 12% of income from government
- Corvallis Homeless Shelter Coalition — 11% of income from government
- United Way of Jackson County Inc — 11% of income from government
- Proud Ground — 11% of income from government
- High Desert Museum — 11% of income from government
- Oregon Historical Society — 10% of income from government
- Central City Concern — 10% of income from government
- Literary Arts Inc — 10% of income from government
- McKenzie River Trust — 8% of income from government
- Impact Nw — 8% of income from government
- La Clinica Del Valle Family Health Care Center Inc — 7% of income from government
- Community Development Corporation of Oregon — 7% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of the Columbia Willamette Inc — 7% of income from government
- St Vincent De Paul Society of Lane County Inc — 7% of income from government
- Farmworker Housing Development Corporation — 7% of income from government
- North Coast Land Conservancy Inc — 6% of income from government
- Girl Scouts of Oregon & Sw Washington Inc — 5% of income from government
- Portland Community College Foundation Inc — 5% of income from government
- Marion-Polk Food Share Inc — 5% of income from government
- Friends of the Children-Portland — 5% of income from government
- Food for Lane County — 5% of income from government
- Oregon Museum of Science and Industry — 4% of income from government
- The Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization — 4% of income from government
- Linfield University — 4% of income from government
- The Boys & Girls Aid Society of Oregon — 3% of income from government
- Columbia River Maritime Museum — 3% of income from government
- Smart Reading — 3% of income from government
- Friendly House Inc — 3% of income from government
- Squareone Villages — 2% of income from government
- Eugene Symphony Association Inc — 2% of income from government
- Lewis & Clark College — 2% of income from government
- Restore Oregon Inc — 2% of income from government
- Portland Opera Association Inc — 2% of income from government
- Community Action Program of East Central Oregon — 1% of income from government
- Willamette University — 1% of income from government
- University of Portland — 1% of income from government
- Young Men's Christian Association of Columbia-Willamette — 1% of income from government
- Pear — 1% of income from government
- Portland Art Museum — 1% of income from government
- Black United Fund of Oregon — 1% of income from government
- Portland Center Stage — 1% of income from government
- Oregon Health & Science University Foundation — 1% of income from government
- CRAFT3 — 1% 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
- Southern Oregon University Foundation — 0% of income from government
- The Campbell Institute — 0% of income from government
- Bird Alliance of Oregon Inc — 0% of income from government
- Beaverton Arts Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- All Classical Public Media Inc — 0% of income from government
- Oregon Ballet Theatre — 0% of income from government
- Oregon Symphony Association — 0% of income from government
- Bethlehem Inn — 0% of income from government
- World Forestry Center — 0% of income from government
- Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc — 0% of income from government
- Centro Cultural of Washington County — 0% of income from government
- Oregon State University Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Seeding Justice — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
- Portland State University Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Catlin Gabel School — 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.