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The Pyle-Deforest Foundation at a glance

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The Pyle-Deforest Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$155k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$84k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Civil Rights$223kInternational$96kHuman Services$65kPublic Safety & Disaster$30kArts & Culture$28kHealth$10kEnvironment$3kCommunity Improvement$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $142k
$58,042
Median grant
1
States reached
$882k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Vision Quilt$83,580
Friends of Senegal$58,042
Others 1000$9,500
Maison de la Gare$3,393
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $98k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ADAMIKA VILLAGE: $824 → 10%PEACE HOUSE: $100 → 5%Friends of Senegal: $58k → 12%FRIENDS OF SENEGAL: $13k → 13%ADAMIKA VILLAGE: $1k → 10%Friends of Senegal: $9k → 12%FRIENDS OF SENEGAL: $9k → 13%Friends of Senegal: $7k → 12%SISKIYOU MUTUAL AID: $379 → 13%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
MI
OR
CA
UT
VA
DC
AL
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$384k · 8 repeat orgs$78k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +117% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
30

Total granted

$384k
$78k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+117%
+13%

Still filing today

63%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • VB
    Visioning Beyond Violence
    6× · 2020–2025 · $223k · revenue +265% · 66% of their budget
  • FO
    Friends of Senegal
    5× · 2020–2025 · $96k · revenue +117% · 96% of their budget
  • AV
    ADAMIKA VILLAGE INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $2k · revenue +344%

Funded once

  • AF
    ALMEDA FIRE VICTIM'S FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $30k
  • WF
    Warrior Films Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0% · 34% of their budget
  • SW
    Stabbin Wagon
    one grant, 2023 · $9k · revenue +8%
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
Oregon Justice Network

Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…

Human Services
2
Future Prairie

Founded in January 2018, Future Prairie is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit queer artist collective in Portland, Oregon. We pay LGBTQIA+ Oregon-based artists to design, curate, and produce art projects that showcase new and better dreams of the…

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3
Oakland Peace Center

The Oakland Peace Center provides needed space, hosts collaborative events and trainings, and creates a network of emotional and spiritual support for the organizations who partner in its work. These organizations pursue access,…

Community Improvement
4
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
5
The Oakland Institute

The Oakland Institute, an independent policy think tank, works to support global struggles for Indigenous rights, human rights, and land rights and to promote public participation and fair debate on critical social, economic, and…

Food & Nutrition
6
Oregon Arts Watch

Oregon Arts Watch produces independent, professional arts and culture journalism and criticism that is transparent, fair and accurate.

Arts & Culture
7
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
8
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
9
Magic Canoe

Magic Canoe is a champion of a reimagined future that is driven by local-based bottom-up regenerative solutions for a more equitable and healthier bioregion that is Salmon Nation.

Environment
10
Floreciendo

The mission of Oakland Bloom is to advance food and economic justice community power and resilience with working-class immigrant and diaspora chef-entrepreneurs. Oakland Bloom does this through stewarding Open Test Kitchen as a kitchen and…

Employment
11
350PDX

Building a diverse grassroots movement to address the causes of climate disruption through justice-based solutions by inspiring, training and mobilizing people to act.

Environment
12
Oregon Justice Resource Center

Providing legal advocacy to underserved communities

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Black Cultural Zone Community Development Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Senegal. 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

24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 39 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
15/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Visioning Beyond Violence: $222,648 · EducationVisioning Beyond Violence+4 more: $3,252 · EducationMAISON DE LA GARE: $45,660 · OtherMAISON DE LA GAREALMEDA FIRE VICTIM'S FUND: $30,095 · OtherALMEDA FIRE VICTIM'S FUNDOthers 1000: $16,352 · OtherOthers 1000Stabbin Wagon: $9,000 · OtherStabbin Wagon+18 more: $5,468 · OtherFriends of Senegal: $95,647 · Human ServicesFriends of Senegal+3 more: $2,334 · Human ServicesWarrior Films Inc: $25,000 · Arts & CultureOREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC: $1,500 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $986 · Arts & CultureROGUE ACTION CENTER: $2,500 · Community ImprovementBLACK CULTURAL ZONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $1,125 · Community ImprovementAttitudinal Healing Connection Inc dba The Center for ArtEsteem: $400 · Civil RightsHONOR THE EARTH: $250 · Environment
Education$225,900Other$106,575Human Services$97,981Arts & Culture$27,486Community Improvement$3,625Civil Rights$400Environment$250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVisioning Beyond Violence: $222,648 over 6y, 66% of budgetFriends of Senegal: $95,647 over 5y, 96% of budgetWarrior Films Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetStabbin Wagon: $9,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetROGUE ACTION CENTER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRogue Climate: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetADAMIKA VILLAGE INC: $1,855 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetYOUTH ALIVE: $1,515 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLACK CULTURAL ZONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $1,125 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEast Oakland Youth Development Center: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION: $540 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOregon Psychoanalytic Center: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPBS FOUNDATION: $446 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAttitudinal Healing Connection Inc dba The Center for ArtEsteem: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSiskiyou Mutual Aid Cooperative: $379 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetHONOR THE EARTH: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $206 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASLOW PROJECT: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPeace House Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSODA MOUNTAIN WILDERNESS COUNCIL: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $52 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Oregon Community …East Bay Community Fo…Tides FoundationThe San Francisco Fou…Akonadi FoundationT Gary and Kathleen R…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Oregon Community FoundationOR15.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Akonadi Foundation · T Gary and Kathleen Rogers Private Family Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Pyle-Deforest Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Pyle-Deforest Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Stabbin Wagon: 91% of income from government
  • Rogue Action Center: 29% of income from government
  • Maslow Project: 22% of income from government
  • Rogue Climate: 7% of income from government
  • Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
4report 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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Find your warmest path to The Pyle-Deforest 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 39 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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