· Community foundation
The Oregon Community Foundation
The mission of The Oregon Community Foundation is to improve lives of all Oregonians through the power of philanthropy.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
1703 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1703 of the 2,000 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Oregon Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Oregon Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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