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Wieden Family Public Foundation
The Wieden Family Public Foundation is a supporting organization of The Oregon Community Foundation (OCF).
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $179k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $425k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Caldera | $206,983 |
| The Laura Fund | $92,995 |
| Washington University in St Louis | $75,000 |
| Cornell University | $50,000 |
| Global Lyme Alliance Inc | $40,734 |
| Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs | $40,734 |
| Farmworker Housing Development Corporation | $40,734 |
| Oregon Community Foundation | $40,733 |
| AHIVOY | $16,518 |
| North Pole Studio | $5,506 |
| Literary Arts Inc | $5,506 |
| Gray Family Foundation | $5,506 |
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 (FY23–23, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +32% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 6 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k 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
CALDERA2× · 2023–2024 · $5.4M · revenue +32%
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY2× · 2023–2024 · $150k · revenue +16%
Cornell University2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +27%
Funded once
VertueLabone grant, 2023 · $34k · revenue -10%- LRLOMAKATSI RESTORATION PROJECTgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $33k · revenue +27%
- CDCOLLEGE DREAMS INCone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +10%
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…
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…
Independent colleges of washington is the leading advocate for not-for-profit, private campuses in washington state.
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
Cascades academy is an engaged, vibrant community that weaves challenging academics with experiential learning to inspire socially responsible individuals ready for a diverse and changing world.
To produce, in a humanistic tradition, health care professionals and biomedical knowledge that will enhance and extend the quality of life in our communities.
The foundation advances science and technology in the united states by providing financial awards to academically outstanding u.s. citizens studying to complete doctoral degrees in science, engineering and medical research.
The purpose and mission of the foundation are, acting on its own or through affiliates, to support and assist the university of oregon in its activities by management and administration of foundation assets representing privately donated…
Portland state university foundation is responsible for raising and managing private resources to advance psu's priorities and mission to be a leading urban university.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Literary Arts Inc and the most unlike its peers is College Possible Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 19 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 CALDERA ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL LYME ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds FARMWORKER HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds VertueLab ↗
- Who funds LOMAKATSI RESTORATION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE DREAMS INC ↗
- Who funds ADELANTE MUJERES ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AHIVOY ↗
- Who funds Gray Family Foundation ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
- Who funds LITERARY ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH POLE STUDIO ↗
- Who funds STONE CHILD COLLEGE ↗
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 · The Collins Foundation · James F & Marion L Miller Foundation · Seeding Justice · Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation · The Roundhouse Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Ford Family Foundation · The Reser Family Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Wieden Family Public 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.
- Lomakatsi Restoration Project — 100% of income from government
- Adelante Mujeres — 31% of income from government
- Ahivoy — 29% of income from government
- College Dreams Inc — 23% of income from government
- VertueLab — 12% of income from government
- Literary Arts Inc — 10% of income from government
- Farmworker Housing Development Corporation — 7% of income from government
- The Oregon Community Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Caldera — 1% of income from government
- North Pole Studio — 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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