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The Thalden 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k42 grants · $78k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PEACE HOUSE | $10,000 |
| ASHLAND NEWS | $5,000 |
| ROGUE VALLEY ART ASSOCIATION | $3,000 |
| HAVURAH SHIR HADASH | $3,000 |
| GRANTS PASS MUSEUM OF ART | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| LIVING OPPORTUNITIES INC | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| GREAT APPLEGATE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COPPORATION DBA A GREATER APPLEGATE | $2,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
59 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 42 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SOSOUTHERN OREGON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $574k · revenue +191%
- AEASHLAND EMERGENCY FOOD BANK4× · 2017–2021 · $72k · revenue +260%
SANCTUARY ONE7× · 2017–2024 · $61k · revenue +22%
Funded once
SQUAREONE VILLAGESgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $35k · revenue +173%- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBone grant, 2023 · $20k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $18k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
Promote economic and social fairness by working in coalition open a broad range of issues and activities in the public arena
Oregon Wild works to protect and restore Oregon's wildlands, wildlife and waters as an enduring legacy for future generations.
Local Innovation Works supports recovery and resilience in Southern Oregon by supporting and training emerging leaders in values-aligned community organizations. It also hosts public conversations on topics related to the long term…
To promote the arts in wallowa county, oregon.
Oregon Music Festival's mission is the performance, production, and promotion of classical music through orchestral, choral/orchestra, and chamber music.
Engage with diverse constituencies on forest health and wild fire risk projects to support resilient landscapes, thriving communities, wood manufacturing and workforce development
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…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Lawyers' Campaign for Equal Justice and the most unlike its peers is Journey to Healing Foundation. 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.
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 22 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
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 195 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds SOUTHERN OREGON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND EMERGENCY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Journey To Healing Foundation ↗
- Who funds SANCTUARY ONE ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITIES FOR HOUSING RESOURCES AND ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds PEACE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SQUAREONE VILLAGES ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND ARTISAN GALLERY AND ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ROGUE ACTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds CULTURE OF PEACE COMMISSIONS ↗
- Who funds NEWSPIRIT VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN OREGON FRIENDS OF HOSPICE ↗
- Who funds THE LAWYERS' CAMPAIGN FOR EQUAL JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds ANIMA MUNDI PRODUCTIONS ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN OREGON JOBS WITH JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN OREGON LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Carpenter Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Haines Philanthropic Foundation · The Roundhouse Foundation · Carrico Family Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · Careoregon Inc · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Collins Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · Four Way Community Foundation · The Barbara Roastingear and Henry Oliver III 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 Thalden 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.
- Living Opportunities Inc — 90% of income from government
- Rogue Valley Mentoring — 42% of income from government
- Rogue Action Center — 29% of income from government
- Greater Applegate Community Development — 26% of income from government
- Anima Mundi Productions — 10% of income from government
- La Clinica Del Valle Family Health Care Center Inc — 7% of income from government
- Rogue Climate — 7% of income from government
- Southern Oregon Repertory Singers — 5% of income from government
- Southern Oregon Guild — 3% of income from government
- Pacific University — 2% of income from government
- Squareone Villages — 2% of income from government
- Grants Pass Museum of Art — 2% of income from government
- Scienceworks Hands-On Museum — 0% of income from government
- Southern Oregon University Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Southern Oregon Friends of Hospice — 0% of income from government
- Ashland Community Hospital Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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