· Private foundation
Theodore C and Katherine P Bentley Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $114k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $77k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS NORTHWEST | $76,850 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CLARK COUNTY FAIR | $48,961 |
| MINDS MATTER | $25,000 |
| YOUTH EFFORTS AGAINST HUNGER - YEAH | $20,000 |
| YOUTH EFFORTS AGAINST HUNGER - YEAH | $20,000 |
| BLACKPEARL FRIESIANS | $7,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 66% of your 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.
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 +59% since the first grant, against +42% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- TTREEHOUSE6× · 2018–2023 · $350k · revenue +78%
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2020 · $180k · revenue +91%
MINDS MATTER OF PORTLAND INC7× · 2018–2024 · $130k · revenue +219%
Funded once
BLANCHET HOUSE OF HOSPITALITYgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +83%- BTBREAKTHROUGH T1Dgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $19k · revenue +35%
- MMMINDS MATTER NATIONAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +132%
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.
Urban triage transforms culture, institutions, and communities to ensure a humane future.
The mission of bald ridge lodge (brl) is to provide safe and stable support to young men in the group home, independent living program, and community based services, in a manner that nurtures the youth, strengthens healthy relationships,…
To provide a sanctuary for people and animals, founded on hope and healing for the long-term recovery of trauma victims, special needs animals, and male survivors of sex trafficking.
Covenant house is dedicated to serving all of god's children with absolute respect and unconditional love to help youth experiencing homelessness and to protect and safeguard all youth in need.
Bridge over troubled waters provides effective and innovative services to homeless, at-risk, and runaway youth, helps youth avoid a lifetime of dependency on social services, guides youth towards self-sufficiency, and enables youth to…
Youth experiencing homelessness, and youth at risk of becoming homeless, are empowered to be contributing, self-supporting members of their community. we provide safe shelter and wrap-around services for youth with a hand-up not a hand-out…
Our mission is to provide children facing adversity with strong and enduring, professionally supported one-to-one mentoring relationships, changing their lived for the better, forever. our vision is that all children achieve success in…
Covenant house georgia provides shelters, protects and advocates on behalf of homeless, trafficked, runaway and sexually exploited youth.
Vision: a community that is aware, belongs, and is self-sufficient. mission: empowering youth and families through connection, self efficacy, and independence. values: relationship-centered, assume the best of people, own your role,…
Youth For Change (YFC) mission is to enhance the well being of children, families, individuals, and communities.
Urban peak helps youth experiencing homelessness and youth at risk of becoming homeless overcome real life challenges by providing essential services and a supportive community, empowering them to become self-sufficient adults.
Thresholds provides innovative behavioral and primary healthcare that promotes empowerment, well-being, and full participation in community life. through unwavering community-based engagement, support, and advocacy, thresholds helps people…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Treehouse and the most unlike its peers is XChange Recovery. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 15 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 BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS COLUMBIA NORTHW ↗
- Who funds TREEHOUSE ↗
- Who funds OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MINDS MATTER OF PORTLAND INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH EFFORTS AGAINST HUNGER ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CLARK COUNTY FAIR ↗
- Who funds DONATE LIFE NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds BLANCHET HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds MINDS MATTER NATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds ROYAL RIDGES RETREAT ↗
- Who funds XChange Recovery ↗
- Who funds BLACKPEARL FRIESIANS ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY SERVICES 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: Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Theodore C and Katherine P Bentley 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.
- Oregon Health & Science University Foundation — 1% 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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