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Wentworth Foundation
Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Wentworth Foundation’s FY2020 grant dollars went to The Oregon Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2020 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year Wentworth Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 34 organizations, $82k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PCC FOUNDATION (GREG WENTWORTH SCHOLARSHIP FUND) | $9,000 |
| DE LA SALLE NORTH CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| WILSONVILLE LITTLE LEAGUE | $5,000 |
| ST ANDREWS NATIVITY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL FOOD DRIVE | $3,000 |
| SMART | $2,500 |
| B-WORD WORLDWIDE INC (B- MEDIA) | $2,250 |
| BLANCHET HOUSE | $2,000 |
| SCHOOL HOUSE SUPPLIES | $2,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $2,000 |
| DOUGY CENTER | $2,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| SUNSHINE DIVISION | $2,000 |
| NEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 22% of Wentworth Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
50 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2019, 4 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2020, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
SMART READING3× · 2017–2019 · $8k · revenue +7%- NANEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INC3× · 2017–2019 · $6k · revenue +108%
BLANCHET HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY4× · 2017–2020 · $6k · revenue +192%
Funded once
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +182%- NDNINOS DEL SOL INCone grant, 2017 · $3k
- PCPROVIDENCE CANCER CENTERone grant, 2018 · $2k
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 research institute is an independent behavioral sciences research center dedicated to understanding human behavior and improving the quality of human life through the prevention and treatment of health, educational, and social…
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…
Portland Public Library is a welcoming cultural center that brings people together and connects them with trusted resources, ideas, experiences, and information. We build a stronger community by inspiring learning, creativity, and…
Pfm operates world-class farmers markets that contribute to the success of local food growers and producers and create vibrant community gatherings. as a trade association, success for our vendors is our primary objective. listening and…
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…
To ensure economic prosperity in the portland region by providing strong leadership, partnership, and programs that encourage business growth and vitality.
Orla serves as the leading industry advocate, striving to protect, improve and promote oregon hospitality.
To provide & promote services to enhance members' abilities to conduct their businesses with integrity & competency with due consideration for the promotion & preservation of a favorable environment for brokerage operations & the right to…
To support public policies that will help oregon's economy and create new family supporting jobs in oregon.
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
The Mission of the Foundation for Portland Public Schools is to be a catalyst for increased educational opportunities, achievement, and equity for all Portland Public Schools students and staff.
Empowering life-affirming decisions
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Oregon Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Focus On Youth. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
45 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. 45 of the 79 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 THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SMART READING ↗
- Who funds NEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds BLANCHET HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE DIVISION INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOUGY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MINDS MATTER OF PORTLAND INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOLHOUSE SUPPLIES INC ↗
- Who funds Victory Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Special Olympics Oregon Inc ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND CHILD ART STUDIO ↗
- Who funds Growing Gardens ↗
- Who funds PROJECT POOCH ↗
- Who funds OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING ↗
- Who funds EUGENE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Womens Foundation of Oregon ↗
- Who funds FOCUS ON YOUTH ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF OUTDOOR SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
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 Oregon Community Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Autzen Foundation · Juan Young Trust · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Jackson Foundation · The Collins Foundation · The Larson Legacy · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · The Reser Family Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Hwirwin & Dch Irwin Fdnferg
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 Wentworth 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.
- New Avenues for Youth Inc — 20% of income from government
- Project Lemonade Inc — 15% of income from government
- Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center — 11% of income from government
- Growing Gardens — 6% of income from government
- Portland Community College Foundation Inc — 5% of income from government
- North By Northeast Community Health Center — 4% of income from government
- Smart Reading — 3% of income from government
- The Oregon Community Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Chess for Success — 2% of income from government
- The Dougy Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Oregon Public Broadcasting — 1% of income from government
- Womens Foundation of Oregon — 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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