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The Stimson-Miller Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$274k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$30k
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 FY2020–2025.

Health$185kEducation$170kEmployment$107kYouth Development$105kHuman Services$98kFood & Nutrition$94kRecreation & Sports$93kReligion$65kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $261k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAREER PATH SERVICES$30,000
KANIKSU LAND TRUST$26,009
PORTLAND YOUTHBUILDERS$20,000
COMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL SCHOOL$20,000
SAFE PASSAGE (THE WOMEN'S CENTER)$20,000
PARKINSONS RESOURCES OF OREGON$20,000
COMMUNITY CANCER SERVICES$20,000
CLATSKANIE FARMER COLLECTIVE$16,750
YES (YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES) OF PEND OREILLE COUNTY$15,000
SELKIRK OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP & EDUCATION (SOLE)$15,000
BANKS SCHOOL DISTRICT #13$15,000
NORTHWEST YOUTH CORPS$13,510
NORTHEAST YOUTH CENTER$10,000
OREGON FFA FOUNDATION INC$10,000
MUSIC CONSERVATORY OF SANDPOINT$10,000
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 (FY20–23, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NORTHWEST ASSOCIATION FOR BLIND ATHLETES: $8k → 9%THRIVE INTERNATIONAL: $8k → 12%CHILDREN'S HEALING ART PROJECT: $13k → 12%STORE TO DOOR: $3k → 12%BRADLEY ANGLE: $10k → 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.

39%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$468k · 16 repeat orgs$739k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
48

Total granted

$468k
$580k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+25%

Still filing today

88%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $159k 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
HealthEducationHuman ServicesEmploymentCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentOther

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

  • CC
    COLUMBIA COUNTY CHILD ABUSE ASSESSM
    2× · 2021–2024 · $40k · revenue +179%
  • Portland YouthBuilders
    3× · 2021–2025 · $38k · revenue +35%
  • OT
    Oregon Tradeswomen Inc
    2× · 2020–2022 · $32k · revenue +87%

Funded once

  • GC
    GALES CREEK CAMP FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $35k · revenue +5%
  • MI
    MULTICARE INLAND NORTHWEST FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $30k
  • PS
    PLUMMER-WORLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT #44
    one grant, 2024 · $25k

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
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
Cascades Academy of Central Oregon

Cascades academy is an engaged, vibrant community that weaves challenging academics with experiential learning to inspire socially responsible individuals ready for a diverse and changing world.

Education
3
Oregon Child Abuse Solutions

To ensure children and youth in oregon have access to high quality, comprehensive services and resources to address child abuse.

Crime & Legal
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
Priority Oregon

To support public policies that will help oregon's economy and create new family supporting jobs in oregon.

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6
Friends of the Children-Portland

Friends - portland commits to standing alongside our community's youth as they work to overcome barriers to their success. each child receives 1:1 support and guidance from a salaried, professional mentor (called a friend), from…

Youth Development
7
New Progressive Network

Next up amplifies the voice of diverse youth to achieve a more just oregon

Civil Rights
8
Family Forward Oregon

We work collectively to educate and advocate for systems that elevate the vital work of care and caregiving in its many forms within our community.

Human Services
9
Spark Northwest

Founded in 2001, Spark Northwest accelerates the just transition to clean energy in the Pacific Northwest. Spark Northwest uses two primary strategies: (1) on-the-ground project consulting, focusing on communities with limited financial…

Environment
10
Thrive Central Oregon

To connect individuals to the housing and community resources they seek.

Human Services
11
Elevate Oregon

Elevating potential, building sustained relationships with urban youth, and charting paths to brighter futures.

Youth Development
12
Oregon Casa Network

To lead oregon's casa programs to provide a strong voice for every abused and neglected child

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bradley Angle and the most unlike its peers is Thrive International. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPacific Northwest Conservat…Vulnerable Population Suppo…Early Childhood & Alternati…Regional Community Developm…Live Performance PresentersCommunity Support ServicesYouth Development and Mento…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%31%10–20yr18%39%20–35yr12%14%35–55yr15%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%25%10–20yr18%48%20–35yr12%14%35–55yr15%9%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/60
the rest of the field
12%
1,619/13,657

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

59 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. 59 of the 75 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)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/59
Grantees still filing
36/59
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PRIEST RIVER MINISTRIES INC — $65,000 · OtherPRIEST RIVER MINISTRIES INCMULTICARE INLAND NORTHWEST FOUNDATION — $30,000 · OtherPLUMMER-WORLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT #44 — $25,000 · OtherTurning Point Community Center Inc — $25,000 · OtherGALES CREEK CAMP FOUNDATION — $35,000 · OtherGALES CREEK CAMP FOUNDATIONCOLUMBIA COUNTY CHILD ABUSE ASSESSM — $40,000 · OtherCOLUMBIA COUNTY CHILD ABUSE ASSESSM+36 more — $428,440 · Other+36 moreCommunity Cancer Services Inc — $40,000 · HealthCommunity Ca…ASHLEY HOUSE — $20,000 · HealthASHLEY HOUSESEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND — $15,000 · HealthSEMPER FI & …BEYOND PINK SPOKANE INC — $10,000 · HealthBEYOND PINK …KINSHIP HOUSE — $10,000 · HealthKINSHIP HOUS…Central City Concern — $10,000 · HealthCentral City…BREAST FRIENDS — $10,000 · HealthBREAST FRIEN…PORTLAND STREET MEDICINE — $10,000 · HealthPORTLAND STR…CHELSEA HICKS FOUNDATION — $5,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL SCHOOL — $35,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY …SMART READING — $20,000 · EducationSMART READ…CLATSKANIE FARMER COLLECTIVE INC — $16,750 · EducationCLATSKANIE…INCIGHT COMPANY — $15,000 · EducationINCIGHT CO…TILLAMOOK BAY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $12,500 · EducationTILLAMOOK …THE SHADOW PROJECT — $10,000 · EducationTHE SHADOW…CHESS FOR SUCCESS — $6,000 · EducationOregon Tradeswomen Inc — $32,000 · EmploymentOregon Tra…CAREER PATH SERVICES EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING — $30,000 · EmploymentCAREER PAT…NORTHWEST YOUTH CORPS — $27,188 · EmploymentNORTHWEST …LATINOBUILT FOUNDATION — $20,000 · EmploymentLATINOBUIL…Kaniksu Land Trust Inc — $41,009 · EnvironmentWESTERN RESOURCES LEGAL CENTER — $20,000 · EnvironmentWORLD FORESTRY CENTER — $15,000 · EnvironmentPROJECT LEMONADE INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST ASSOCIATION FOR BLIND ATHLETES — $17,500 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S HEALING ART PROJECT INC — $13,000 · Human ServicesBradley Angle — $10,000 · Human ServicesThrive International — $7,500 · Human ServicesYOUTH VILLAGES INC — $5,000 · Human Services+1 more — $2,500 · Human ServicesPortland YouthBuilders — $37,500 · Youth DevelopmentYES OF PEND OREILLE COUNTY — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentNortheast Youth Center — $10,000 · Youth Development
Other$648,440Health$130,000Education$115,250Employment$109,188Environment$76,009Human Services$75,500Youth Development$62,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetKaniksu Land Trust Inc — $41,009 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCommunity Cancer Services Inc — $40,000 over 3y, 8.5% of budgetCOLUMBIA COUNTY CHILD ABUSE ASSESSM — $40,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetPortland YouthBuilders — $37,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetGALES CREEK CAMP FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL SCHOOL — $35,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetOregon Tradeswomen Inc — $32,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCAREER PATH SERVICES EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST YOUTH CORPS — $27,188 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTurning Point Community Center Inc — $25,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetChildren's Cancer Association — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSMART READING — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPROJECT LEMONADE INC — $20,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTransition Projects Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLATINOBUILT FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetASHLEY HOUSE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWESTERN RESOURCES LEGAL CENTER — $20,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetNORTHWEST ASSOCIATION FOR BLIND ATHLETES — $17,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFOOD ROOTS — $17,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCLATSKANIE FARMER COLLECTIVE INC — $16,750 over 1y, 10% of budgetINCIGHT COMPANY — $15,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetREACH NORTHWEST — $15,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYES OF PEND OREILLE COUNTY — $15,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetWORLD FORESTRY CENTER — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFriends of Family Farmers — $15,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCROSS THE DIVIDE — $14,440 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALING ART PROJECT INC — $13,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetMT HOOD KIWANIS CAMP — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMUSIC CONSERVATORY OF SANDPOINT — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBEYOND PINK SPOKANE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetKINSHIP HOUSE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBradley Angle — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNortheast Youth Center — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFamily Promise of Spokane — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCentral City Concern — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFINANCIAL BEGINNINGS OREGON — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBREAST FRIENDS — $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetPORTLAND STREET MEDICINE — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S BOOK BANK — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetUKANDU — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE SHADOW PROJECT — $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetPORTLAND OPPORTUNITIES INDUST CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetURBAN GLEANERS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThrive International — $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetREADING RESULTS — $6,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCHESS FOR SUCCESS — $6,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetAwaken INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

The Oregon Community …Marie Lamfrom Charita…The Autzen FoundationOCF Joseph E Weston P…Juan Young TrustThe Reser Family Foun…The Collins FoundationThe Robert D and Marc…Braemar Charitable Tr…Hillman Family Founda…The Jackson FoundationThe Harold & Arlene S…
The Oregon Community FoundationOR66.2× affinity43 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Autzen Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Juan Young Trust · The Reser Family Foundation · The Collins Foundation · The Robert D and Marcia H Randall Charitable Trust · Braemar Charitable Trust · Hillman Family Foundations · The Jackson Foundation · The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Care 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 Stimson-Miller 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 · 170%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Northwest Youth Corps — 100% of income from government
  • Oregon Tradeswomen Inc — 46% of income from government
  • Portland Opportunities Indust Center — 38% of income from government
  • Portland YouthBuilders — 35% of income from government
  • Portland Street Medicine — 32% of income from government
  • Transition Projects Inc — 29% of income from government
  • Mt Hood Kiwanis Camp — 18% of income from government
  • Project Lemonade Inc — 15% of income from government
  • Central City Concern — 10% of income from government
  • Bradley Angle — 10% of income from government
  • Friends of Family Farmers — 9% of income from government
  • The Shadow Project — 8% of income from government
  • Community Transitional School — 7% of income from government
  • Children's Healing Art Project Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Smart Reading — 3% of income from government
  • Neskowin Coast Foundation — 2% of income from government
  • Chess for Success — 2% of income from government
  • Latinobuilt Foundation — 1% of income from government
  • Food Roots — 0% of income from government
  • World Forestry Center — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
17get no government money at all
12report 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

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How do I get to The Stimson-Miller Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Stimson-Miller 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 75 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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