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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +122% since the first grant, against +67% for those 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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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%
  • FAMILY PEACE CENTER OF WASHINGTON COUNTY
    2× · 2020–2021 · $9k · revenue +243%
  • PR
    PACIFIC REFUGEE SUPPORT GROUP
    2× · 2020–2021 · $9k · revenue ×47

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%
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.

04Its field

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.

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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hollywood Senior Center dba Community for Positive Aging; 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.
04the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 49 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/43
Grantees still filing
30/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CENTRO CULTURAL OF WASHINGTON COUNTY: $6,000 · OtherCENTRO CULTURAL OF WASHINGTON COUNTYHOWARD'S HEART: $5,000 · OtherHOWARD'S HEARTFAMILY OF FRIENDS MENTORING: $5,000 · OtherFAMILY OF FRIENDS MENTORINGSEXUAL ASSAULT RESOURCE CENTER: $4,500 · OtherSEXUAL ASSAULT RESOURCE CENTERPORTLAND FOOD PROJECT: $4,500 · OtherPORTLAND FOOD PROJECTPORTLAND ANIMAL WELFARE (PAW) TEAM: $4,000 · OtherPORTLAND ANIMAL WELFARE (PAW) TEAMThe Living Room: $4,000 · OtherThe Living RoomTHE 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPORTLAND STREET MEDICINE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFAMILY PEACE CENTER OF WASHINGTON COUNTY: $9,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPACIFIC REFUGEE SUPPORT GROUP: $9,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetClackamas Service Center: $9,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNORTH BY NORTHEAST COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $9,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCENTRO CULTURAL OF WASHINGTON COUNTY: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROSE HAVEN CIC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% 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 budgetFAMILY OF FRIENDS MENTORING: $5,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCOALITION OF COMMUNITIES OF COLOR: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEXUAL ASSAULT RESOURCE CENTER: $4,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetASSIST: $4,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetVOZ WORKERS RIGHTS EDUCATION PROJECT: $4,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Living Room: $4,000 over 1y, 2.0% 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 budgetWisdom of the Elders Incorporated: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetECOLOGY IN CLASSROOMS AND OUTDOORS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGrowing Gardens: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMIRACLE THEATRE GROUP: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMusic Workshop: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SHADOW PROJECT: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOREGON BRAVO YOUTH ORCHESTRAS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBORLAND FREE CLINIC: $1,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetURBAN GLEANERS: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budgetPAWS ASSISTING VETERANS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRAHAB'S SISTERS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBradley Angle: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPORTLAND FRUIT TREE PROJECT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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.

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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Portland Clinic Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Portland Clinic Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 49 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 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.

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