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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.

$88k
Granted FY2025still arriving
43
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$642kArts & Culture$514kHousing & Shelter$202kHealth$101kHuman Services$96kCommunity Improvement$91kPhilanthropy$82kFood & Nutrition$77kOther$0
02FY2025 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k42 grants · $78k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PEACE HOUSE$10,000
ASHLAND NEWS$5,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
GRANTS PASS MUSEUM OF ART$3,000
HAVURAH SHIR HADASH$3,000
ROGUE VALLEY ART ASSOCIATION$3,000
LIVING OPPORTUNITIES INC$2,500
GREAT APPLEGATE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COPPORATION DBA A GREATER APPLEGATE$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
Individual grant recipient$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SET FREE SERVICES: $500 → 13%SOUTHERN OREGON FRIENDS OF HOSPICE: $10k → 13%ANIMA MUNDI PRODUCTIONS: $5k → 13%ANIMA MUNDI PRODUCTIONS: $5k → 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
IL
MI
NY
OR
SD
CA
MO
VA
MD
AZ
AR
DC
HI
OK
TX
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 59 repeat orgs$387k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
108

Total granted

$1.7M
$335k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+11%

Still filing today

46%
19%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHealthHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesOther
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

  • SO
    SOUTHERN OREGON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $574k · revenue +191%
  • AE
    ASHLAND EMERGENCY FOOD BANK
    4× · 2017–2021 · $72k · revenue +260%
  • SANCTUARY ONE
    7× · 2017–2024 · $61k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • SQUAREONE VILLAGESgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $35k · revenue +173%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $18k
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
Earth Day Oregon
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2
Oregon Agricultural Trust

Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.

Environment
3
Our Oregon

Promote economic and social fairness by working in coalition open a broad range of issues and activities in the public arena

Human Services
4
Oregon Natural Resources Council Fund Oregon Wild

Oregon Wild works to protect and restore Oregon's wildlands, wildlife and waters as an enduring legacy for future generations.

Environment
5
Ashland Works

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…

Community Improvement
6
Oregon Energy Systems Technology and Research
Environment
7
Wallowa Valley Arts Council

To promote the arts in wallowa county, oregon.

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8
Willapa Bay AiR
Arts & Culture
9
Oregon Music Festival

Oregon Music Festival's mission is the performance, production, and promotion of classical music through orchestral, choral/orchestra, and chamber music.

Arts & Culture
10
Southern Oregon Forest Restoration Collaborative

Engage with diverse constituencies on forest health and wild fire risk projects to support resilient landscapes, thriving communities, wood manufacturing and workforce development

Environment
11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Lawyers' Campaign for Equal Justice; 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.
04the grantee network

59 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. 59 of the 195 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/59
Grantees still filing
36/59
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PARKER HOUSE: $84,823 · OtherPARKER HOUSEUNITED WAY: $80,500 · OtherUNITED WAYHEART RISING FOUNDATION: $79,625 · OtherHEART RISING FOUNDATIONASHLAND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $59,102 · OtherASHLAND CHAMBER OF COMMERCECITY OF ASHLANDGUANAJUATO MURALBROCHURES: $58,049 · OtherCITY OF ASHLANDGUANAJUATO MURALBROCHURESIndividual grant recipient: $52,675 · OtherHAINES FOUNDATIONASHLAND ART CENTER: $47,250 · Other+160 more: $621,227 · Other+160 moreSOUTHERN OREGON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $573,804 · EducationSOUTHERN OREGON UNIVERSITY FOUNDAT…PEACE HOUSE: $42,300 · EducationPEACE HOUSE+7 more: $10,200 · EducationOPPORTUNITIES FOR HOUSING RESOURCES AND: $61,000 · Housing & ShelterSQUAREONE VILLAGES: $35,000 · Housing & ShelterNEWSPIRIT VILLAGE: $11,068 · Housing & ShelterASHLAND EMERGENCY FOOD BANK: $72,073 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $750 · Food & NutritionJourney To Healing Foundation: $65,600 · Health+3 more: $1,900 · HealthSANCTUARY ONE: $61,250 · Animals+1 more: $100 · AnimalsOREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC: $37,500 · Arts & CultureGrants Pass Museum of Art: $5,500 · Arts & CultureASHLAND NEWS: $5,000 · Arts & CultureROGUE VALLEY ART ASSOCIATION: $4,300 · Arts & CultureRock The Rez: $2,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $2,900 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,083,251Education$626,304Housing & Shelter$107,068Food & Nutrition$72,823Health$67,500Animals$61,350Arts & Culture$57,200

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 budgetSOUTHERN OREGON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $573,804 over 8y, 9.4% of budgetASHLAND EMERGENCY FOOD BANK: $72,073 over 4y, 9.0% of budgetJourney To Healing Foundation: $65,600 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetSANCTUARY ONE: $61,250 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetOPPORTUNITIES FOR HOUSING RESOURCES AND: $61,000 over 5y, 5.7% of budgetASHLAND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $59,102 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetPEACE HOUSE: $42,300 over 7y, 4.4% of budgetOREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC: $37,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSQUAREONE VILLAGES: $35,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetASHLAND ARTISAN GALLERY AND ART CENTER INC: $27,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetROGUE ACTION CENTER: $13,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCULTURE OF PEACE COMMISSIONS: $12,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetNEWSPIRIT VILLAGE: $11,068 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetANIMA MUNDI PRODUCTIONS: $10,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetSOUTHERN OREGON FRIENDS OF HOSPICE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE LAWYERS' CAMPAIGN FOR EQUAL JUSTICE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSOUTHERN OREGON LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $8,100 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGrants Pass Museum of Art: $5,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetLIVING OPPORTUNITIES INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASHLAND NEWS: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetROGUE VALLEY ART ASSOCIATION: $4,300 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTHERN OREGON REPERTORY SINGERS: $4,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSOUTHERN OREGON GUILD: $3,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetGREATER APPLEGATE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUNA VOZ LATINO LEADERSHIP AND ADVOCACY dba LIFE ART: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBEE GIRL: $2,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRock The Rez: $2,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetASHLAND SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCAMELOT THEATRE COMPANY: $1,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetASHLAND PARKS FOUNDATION: $1,371 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSISKIYOU INITIATIVE: $1,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROGUE VALLEY MENTORING: $1,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLA CLINICA DEL VALLE FAMILY HEALTH CARE CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOKLAHOMA CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVISION TO LEARN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe CREST: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOUR FAMILY FARMS: $750 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSET FREE SERVICES: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOklahoma State University Foundation: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRogue Climate: $300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRAVA OPERA THEATER: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEW HOPE OKLAHOMA INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $200 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.

  • 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 ANIMA MUNDI PRODUCTIONS ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN OREGON FRIENDS OF HOSPICE ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN OREGON JOBS WITH JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds THE LAWYERS' CAMPAIGN FOR EQUAL JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN OREGON LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗

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 Carpenter Foundat…The Oregon Community …The Haines Philanthro…The Roundhouse Founda…Carrico Family Founda…The Ford Family Found…Careoregon IncMarie Lamfrom Charita…The Collins FoundationThe Autzen FoundationFour Way Community Fo…The Barbara Roastinge…
The Carpenter FoundationOR58.9× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Thalden Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Thalden Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 170%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
17get no government money at all
10report 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Thalden Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Thalden 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 195 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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