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Wheeler Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k13 grants · $71k
- $10k–50k52 grants · $734k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $85k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FORA HEALTH INC | $85,000 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $35,000 |
| OREGON FOOD BANK | $30,000 |
| ALBERTINA KERR CENTERS | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $22,000 |
| SALMONBERRY TRAIL FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY | $17,000 |
| PORTLAND YOUTH PHILHARMONIC | $17,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE | $17,000 |
| CLACKAMAS WOMENS SERVICES | $15,000 |
| OREGON JOURNALISM PROJECT | $15,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY - AZ CHAPTER | $15,000 |
| IMPACT NW | $15,000 |
| OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $726k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% 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 +38% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
119 repeat relationships — 56 still active in FY2025, 63 since wound down; 9 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k 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
FORA HEALTH INC8× · 2017–2025 · $635k · revenue +110%- OHOREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY7× · 2017–2025 · $230k · revenue +38%
OREGON FOOD BANK8× · 2017–2025 · $200k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- AOALBINA OPPORTUNITIES CORPORATIONone grant, 2017 · $25k
- PPPORTLAND PARKS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue -57%
- WFWILLAMETTE FALLS TRUSTgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +135%
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.
Our children oregon's mission is to be a voice and force for the common good for all oregon children, ensuring all children have the resources and opportunities they need to reach their full potential. we elevate data and the voices of…
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…
Children's institute's mission is to leverage research, practice, policy, and advocacy to shift systems toward justice for families so that all of oregon's children, prenatal to grade 5, have access to opportunity.
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…
To ensure economic prosperity in the portland region by providing strong leadership, partnership, and programs that encourage business growth and vitality.
Youth progress is a nonprofit organization that is licensed as a child caring agency (cca) to serve youth ages 12-25 in the custody of the oregon youth authority (oya) or the oregon department of human services (dhs). youth progress uses…
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
Positive change for thriving communities: to empower people to work toward social and economic independence, otherwise improving the lives of those served by the corporation, under relevant community services block grant programs.
Fact oregon empowers families, youth, and communities to navigate disability systems, advocating together for disability justice and policy change so that people with disabilities have what they need to thrive at home, in school, and in…
Over the next five years, portland trails will work to transform greater portland into a regional hub of connectivity and sustainability. by facilitating the expansion and enhancement of our trail network, we will foster inclusive…
Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…
To help empower african americans and others achieve equality in education, employment, and economic security.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundations for a Better Oregon and the most unlike its peers is Pax Learning Center. 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 34 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
153 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. 153 of the 192 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 FORA HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds OREGON COAST AQUARIUM INC ↗
- Who funds Portland Youth Philharmonic Association ↗
- Who funds THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY ↗
- Who funds TRILLIUM FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds IMPACT NW ↗
- Who funds RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds Eisenhower Medical Center ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Family Service ↗
- Who funds TUCKER MAXON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Bradley Angle ↗
- Who funds CHAMBER MUSIC NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE SAN JUANS ↗
- Who funds PATH HOME ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF OREGON AND SW WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA CLARK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS COLUMBIA NORTHW ↗
- Who funds Dress for Success Oregon ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA OF OREGON INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF CLACKAMAS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds YOUTH VILLAGES INC ↗
- Who funds CLACKAMAS WOMEN'S SERVICES ↗
- Who funds READING RESULTS ↗
- Who funds Oregon State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CRYSTAL COVE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Lower Nehalem Community Trust ↗
- Who funds INCIGHT COMPANY ↗
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: OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Juan Young Trust · The Jackson Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Collins Foundation · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · The Reser Family Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Hillman Family Foundations
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 Wheeler 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.
- Friends of Trees — 100% of income from government
- Morrison Child and Family Services — 91% of income from government
- Glide Revitalization — 87% of income from government
- Youth Rights & Justice — 81% of income from government
- Albertina Kerr Centers — 74% of income from government
- Family Building Blocks Inc — 68% of income from government
- Exceed Enterprises Inc Co Albertina Kerr — 68% of income from government
- Community Action Organization — 67% of income from government
- Neighborhood House Inc — 53% of income from government
- Portland YouthBuilders — 35% of income from government
- Northwest Family Services — 35% of income from government
- Clackamas Women's Services — 33% of income from government
- Portland Street Medicine — 32% of income from government
- Metropolitan Family Service — 29% of income from government
- Holla — 29% of income from government
- Wallowa Valley Center for Wellness Inc — 25% of income from government
- Abc House Inc — 25% of income from government
- Oregon Coast Aquarium Inc — 24% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- Parrott Creek Child and Family Services — 20% of income from government
- Homeplate Youth Services — 17% of income from government
- Human Solutions Inc Dba Our Just Future — 17% of income from government
- Project Lemonade Inc — 15% of income from government
- Ywca of Greater Portland — 15% of income from government
- Habitat for Humanity Portland Metro East — 14% of income from government
- Cascade Aids Project — 13% of income from government
- Old Church Society Inc — 12% of income from government
- The Portland Playhouse — 11% of income from government
- Oregon Historical Society — 10% of income from government
- Raphael House of Portland — 10% of income from government
- Bradley Angle — 10% of income from government
- Literary Arts Inc — 10% of income from government
- Lifeworks Nw — 8% of income from government
- Impact Nw — 8% of income from government
- Community Transitional School — 7% of income from government
- Oregon Recovers — 6% of income from government
- Portland Community College Foundation Inc — 5% of income from government
- Providence Portland Medical Foundation — 5% of income from government
- The Contingent — 5% of income from government
- Open School Inc — 5% of income from government
- Together We Are Greater Than — 5% of income from government
- Friends of the Children-Portland — 5% of income from government
- Solve — 5% of income from government
- Oregon Museum of Science and Industry — 4% of income from government
- Eugene Springfield Youth Orchestras — 4% of income from government
- Chamber Music Northwest — 3% of income from government
- Pacific University — 2% of income from government
- Trillium Family Services — 2% of income from government
- Lower Nehalem Community Trust — 2% of income from government
- Casa for Children Inc — 2% of income from government
- Portland Opera Association Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Dougy Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Young Men's Christian Association of Columbia-Willamette — 1% of income from government
- Salmonberry Trail Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Metropolitan Youth Symphony — 1% of income from government
- Portland Youth Philharmonic Association — 0% of income from government
- Oregon Repertory Singers — 0% of income from government
- Casa of Clackamas County — 0% of income from government
- Oregon Symphony Association — 0% of income from government
- The Peaceful Presence Project — 0% of income from government
- Childrens Center — 0% of income from government
- Oregon State University Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Portland State University Foundation — 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.