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The Portland Clinic Foundation

The foundation's mission is to advance community wellness and improve the social determinants of health.

$100k
Granted FY2021
36
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2021.

Health$34kHuman Services$32kCrime & Legal$22kArts & Culture$18kFood & Nutrition$16kYouth Development$14kHousing & Shelter$10kCivil Rights$9kOther$0
02FY2021 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$514k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COALITION OF COMMUNITIES OF COLOR$5,000
NORTH BY NORTHEAST COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER$5,000
HOWARD'S HEART$5,000
RED LODGE TRANSITION SERVICES$5,000
HOLLYWOOD SENIOR CENTER$5,000
PORTLAND STREET MEDICINE$5,000
PORTLAND REFUGEE SUPPORT GROUP$5,000
FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER OF WASHINGTON COUNTY$4,000
VOZ WORKERS' RIGHTS EDUCATION PROJECT$4,000
THE LIVING ROOM$4,000
CLACKAMAS SERVICE CENTER$4,000
FAMILY OF FRIENDS MENTORING$4,000
ROSE HAVEN$3,000
BRIDGES COLLABORATIVE CARE CLINIC$3,000
PORTLAND FOOD PROJECT$3,000
02The need
03

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 (FY20–21, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WITH LOVE OREGON: $2k → 8%WITH LOVE OREGON: $1k → 8%PORTLAND REFUGEE SUPPORT GROUP: $5k → 12%PORTLAND REFUGEE SUPPORT GROUP: $4k → 12%CLACKAMAS SERVICE CENTER: $5k → 12%STORE TO DOOR: $3k → 12%CLACKAMAS SERVICE CENTER: $4k → 12%STORE TO DOOR: $1k → 12%GROWING GARDENS: $3k → 12%BRADLEY ANGLE: $1k → 12%HOLLYWOOD SENIOR CENTER: $5k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$100k · 18 repeat orgs$75k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +122% since the first grant, against +67% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
13

Total granted

$100k
$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+122%
+67%

Still filing today

83%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21
Human ServicesHealthEducationCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionOther

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 STREET MEDICINE
    2× · 2020–2021 · $10k · revenue +193%
  • PR
    PACIFIC REFUGEE SUPPORT GROUP
    2× · 2020–2021 · $9k · revenue ×47
  • FAMILY PEACE CENTER OF WASHINGTON COUNTY
    2× · 2020–2021 · $9k · revenue +243%

Funded once

  • Familias en Acciongraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +234%
  • WRITE AROUND PORTLAND
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +2%
  • BLACK FARM BUREAU
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue 0%

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.

1
Welcome Home Coalition

Welcome Home is a diverse coalition in the Portland metropolitan region that uses its collective resources to create healthy communities by ensuring everyone has an affordable and stable home. We use community education and collaboration…

Community Improvement
2
Center for Trauma Support Services

Provide crisis intervention and trauma healing and recovery services for victims and survivors of violent crime in the portland area

Human Services
3
Urban League of Portland Inc

To help empower african americans and others achieve equality in education, employment, and economic security.

Human Services
4
Equitable Giving Circle

Through radical, no-strings-attached giving, EGC disrupts systemic inequality by funding community-led projects, including sustainable food security programs, housing support, and wellness initiatives

Philanthropy
5
Operation Nightwatch - Portland

Operation Nightwatch provides nighttime hospitality for Portland's unhoused population. For a few evenings a week, staff and volunteers at thehospitality center provide a safe place, food, socks, blankets, medical care, and welcome our…

Health
6
Impact Nw

Impact nw prevents homelessness by supporting people as they navigate their journey to stability and strength. founded in portland in 1966, impact nw now serves 26,944 people a year in the greater portland, oregon metro area, including…

Human Services
7
Our Village Gardens

Our village gardens brings a spirit of hope to the people by growing and sharing food, learning and teaching skills, and empowering community leadership.(continued on schedule o)our village gardens leverages community organizing, skill…

Food & Nutrition
8
Coalition of Community Health Clinics

The mission of the coalition of community health clinics is to improve healthcare for vulnerable populations residing in the portland-metro area. we strengthen community clinics, promote health equity, and foster collaboration across the…

Health
9
Cascade Aids Project

We promote well-being and advance equity by providing inclusive health and wellness services for lgbtq+ people, people affected by hiv, and all those seeking compassionate care.

Health
10
Radical Rest

Radical Rest provides communal trauma healing experiences and education to Black, Indigenous and Peoples of Color (BIPOC) folks in the Portland Metro Area. Radical Rest uplifts access to healing for Portland area black and brown…

Human Services
11
Ywca of Greater Portland

To eliminate racism, empower women and promote peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.

Human Services
12
The Everly Project

Our mission is to provide trauma-informed harm reduction services to people who are unhoused in the Portland Metro area. Our focus is on mental health services, nursing care, extreme weather supplies, food and safer use supplies for people…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hollywood Senior Center dba Community for Positive Aging and the most unlike its peers is Bridges Collaborative Care Clinic. 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 19 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%5%<5yr14%14%5–10yr19%38%10–20yr19%22%20–35yr12%19%35–55yr14%3%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%2%<5yr14%21%5–10yr19%41%10–20yr19%15%20–35yr12%20%35–55yr14%1%55yr+

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

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/44
the rest of the field
13%
1,008/7,918

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.

04the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 49 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/43
Grantees still filing
31/43
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CENTRO CULTURAL OF WASHINGTON COUNTY — $6,000 · OtherCENTRO CULTURAL OF WASHINGTON COUNTYFAMILY OF FRIENDS MENTORING — $5,000 · OtherFAMILY OF FRIENDS MENTORINGHOWARD'S HEART — $5,000 · OtherHOWARD'S HEARTSEXUAL ASSAULT RESOURCE CENTER — $4,500 · OtherSEXUAL ASSAULT RESOURCE CENTERPORTLAND FOOD PROJECT — $4,500 · OtherPORTLAND FOOD PROJECTThe Living Room — $4,000 · OtherThe Living RoomPORTLAND ANIMAL WELFARE (PAW) TEAM — $4,000 · OtherPORTLAND ANIMAL WELFARE (PAW) TEAMTHE BLACK UNITED FUND — $3,500 · OtherTHE BLACK UNITED FUNDBLACK FARM BUREAU — $3,000 · OtherCOALITION OF COMMUNITIES OF COLOR — $5,000 · OtherCOALITION OF COMMUNITIES OF COLORVOZ WORKERS RIGHTS EDUCATION PROJECT — $4,000 · OtherVOZ WORKERS RIGHTS EDUCATION PROJECTECOLOGY IN CLASSROOMS AND OUTDOORS — $2,500 · Other+10 more — $14,000 · Other+10 morePACIFIC REFUGEE SUPPORT GROUP — $9,000 · Human ServicesPACIFIC REFUGEE SUPPOR…Clackamas Service Center — $9,000 · Human ServicesClackamas Service Cent…Hollywood Senior Center dba Community for Positive Aging — $5,000 · Human ServicesHollywood Senior Cente…STORE TO DOOR — $3,500 · Human ServicesSTORE TO DOORWITH LOVE OREGON INC — $3,000 · Human ServicesWITH LOVE OREGON INCGrowing Gardens — $2,500 · Human ServicesGrowing Gardens+2 more — $2,000 · Human Services+2 morePORTLAND STREET MEDICINE — $10,000 · HealthPORTLAND STREET MED…NORTH BY NORTHEAST COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER — $9,000 · HealthNORTH BY NORTHEAST …ASSIST — $4,500 · HealthASSISTBRIDGES COLLABORATIVE CARE CLINIC — $3,000 · HealthBRIDGES COLLABORATI…PAINTED HORSE RECOVERY — $2,000 · HealthPAINTED HORSE RECOV…BORLAND FREE CLINIC — $1,500 · HealthFAMILY PEACE CENTER OF WASHINGTON COUNTY — $9,000 · Crime & LegalFAMILY PEAC…Red Lodge Transition Services — $5,000 · Crime & LegalRed Lodge T…Familias en Accion — $3,000 · Crime & LegalFamilias en…INCIGHT COMPANY — $4,000 · EducationBOOST OREGON — $3,500 · EducationWRITE AROUND PORTLAND — $3,000 · EducationTHE SHADOW PROJECT — $2,000 · EducationROSE HAVEN CIC — $6,000 · Housing & ShelterBIENESTAR INC — $3,000 · Housing & ShelterEAST WASHINGTON COUNTY SHELTER PARTNERSHIP COUNCIL INC — $1,000 · Housing & ShelterWisdom of the Elders Incorporated — $2,500 · Arts & CultureMIRACLE THEATRE GROUP — $2,000 · Arts & CultureMusic Workshop — $2,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$65,000Human Services$34,000Health$30,000Crime & Legal$17,000Education$12,500Housing & Shelter$10,000Arts & Culture$6,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPORTLAND STREET MEDICINE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNORTH BY NORTHEAST COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER — $9,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPACIFIC REFUGEE SUPPORT GROUP — $9,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetFAMILY PEACE CENTER OF WASHINGTON COUNTY — $9,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetClackamas Service Center — $9,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCENTRO CULTURAL OF WASHINGTON COUNTY — $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROSE HAVEN CIC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY OF FRIENDS MENTORING — $5,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCOALITION OF COMMUNITIES OF COLOR — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHollywood Senior Center dba Community for Positive Aging — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRed Lodge Transition Services — $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSEXUAL ASSAULT RESOURCE CENTER — $4,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetASSIST — $4,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetThe Living Room — $4,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetVOZ WORKERS RIGHTS EDUCATION PROJECT — $4,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINCIGHT COMPANY — $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBOOST OREGON — $3,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSTORE TO DOOR — $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFamilias en Accion — $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWRITE AROUND PORTLAND — $3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBIENESTAR INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWITH LOVE OREGON INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGrowing Gardens — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetECOLOGY IN CLASSROOMS AND OUTDOORS — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWisdom of the Elders Incorporated — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMIRACLE THEATRE GROUP — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMusic Workshop — $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOREGON BRAVO YOUTH ORCHESTRAS — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SHADOW PROJECT — $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetURBAN GLEANERS — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBORLAND FREE CLINIC — $1,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBradley Angle — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPORTLAND FRUIT TREE PROJECT — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTUALATIN HILLS PARK FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetEAST WASHINGTON COUNTY SHELTER PARTNERSHIP COUNCIL INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAHAB'S SISTERS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPAWS ASSISTING VETERANS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budget
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.

Marie Lamfrom Charita…The Collins FoundationThe Autzen FoundationThe Oregon Community …Ronald W Naito Md Fou…Meyer Memorial TrustCareoregon IncOCF Joseph E Weston P…Rose E Tucker Charita…The Jackson FoundationJuan Young TrustThe Reser Family Foun…
Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation TrustOR62.6× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Collins Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Ronald W Naito Md Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Careoregon Inc · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · The Jackson Foundation · Juan Young Trust · 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 Portland Clinic 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Sexual Assault Resource Center — 81% of income from government
  • Family Peace Center of Washington County — 49% of income from government
  • Painted Horse Recovery — 35% of income from government
  • Portland Street Medicine — 32% of income from government
  • Boost Oregon — 22% of income from government
  • With Love Oregon Inc — 16% of income from government
  • Coalition of Communities of Color — 15% of income from government
  • Voz Workers Rights Education Project — 12% of income from government
  • Red Lodge Transition Services — 12% of income from government
  • Music Workshop — 10% of income from government
  • Bradley Angle — 10% of income from government
  • Clackamas Service Center — 9% of income from government
  • Hollywood Senior Center dba Community for Positive Aging — 9% of income from government
  • Familias en Accion — 8% of income from government
  • The Shadow Project — 8% of income from government
  • Bienestar Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Write Around Portland — 6% of income from government
  • Growing Gardens — 6% of income from government
  • Miracle Theatre Group — 6% of income from government
  • North By Northeast Community Health Center — 4% of income from government
  • Centro Cultural of Washington County — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Portland Clinic Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Portland Clinic 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 49 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $120k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

Source object · view filing

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