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Willard L & Ruth P Eccles 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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
49
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Animals$1.5MHealth$1.3MHuman Services$1.1MEducation$898kEnvironment$839kHousing & Shelter$771kYouth Development$462kArts & Culture$378kOther$0
02FY2024 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k30 grants · $672k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $455k
$17,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY$100,000
DOVELEWIS EMERGENCY ANIMAL HOSPITAL$100,000
OUR JUST FUTURE$55,000
GUADALUPE CENTER$50,000
KINSHIP HOUSE$50,000
OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCES UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$50,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY IN IDAHO$50,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE (MAIN OFFICE)$45,000
SAVING GRACE IMAGINE LIFE WITHOUT VIOLENCE$45,000
RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND$45,000
THE CONTINGENT$45,000
BETHLEHEM INN$40,000
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$35,000
FRIENDS OF THE COLUMBIA GORGE$30,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$30,000
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 10%SAVING GRACE IMAGINE LIFE WITHOUT VIOLENCE: $45k → 10%YCC FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $55k → 9%YCC FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $30k → 9%YCC FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $30k → 9%YCC FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $30k → 9%YCC FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $30k → 9%CASA OF CENTRAL OREGON: $10k → 10%YCC FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $30k → 9%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $10k → 8%YCC FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $25k → 9%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $10k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $10k → 8%SAFEHOUSE PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE FOR NONVIOLENCE INC: $3k → 12%DESCHUTES CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $4k → 10%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $5k → 8%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $3k → 12%THE ROAD HOME: $15k → 8%THERE WITH CARE: $3k → 12%SAVING GRACE IMAGINE LIFE WITHOUT VIOLENCE: $60k → 10%SAVING GRACE IMAGINE LIFE WITHOUT VIOLENCE: $30k → 10%SAVING GRACE IMAGINE LIFE WITHOUT VIOLENCE: $30k → 10%THE ROAD HOME: $50k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $50k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $30k → 8%JOIN: $30k → 12%JOIN: $20k → 12%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $50k → 8%JOIN: $5k → 12%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $50k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $50k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $20k → 8%JOIN: $3k → 12%RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND: $45k → 12%RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND: $40k → 12%RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND: $30k → 12%RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND: $30k → 12%RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND: $10k → 12%JANUS YOUTH PROGRAMS INC: $3k → 12%GROWING GARDENS: $1k → 12%YOUTH VILLAGES OREGON: $15k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 6% of Willard L & Ruth P Eccles 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.

Willard L & Ruth P Eccles Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.6M · 63 repeat orgs$611k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.

63 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

63
42

Total granted

$6.6M
$476k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+34%

Still filing today

86%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesAnimalsHealthEnvironmentEducationArts & CultureOther

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

  • OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $578k · revenue +26%
  • HS
    HUMAN SOLUTIONS INC DBA OUR JUST FUTURE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $390k · revenue +59%
  • FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-PORTLAND
    8× · 2017–2024 · $320k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • FD
    FIRST DESCENTSgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $90k · revenue +89%
  • GS
    GUADALUPE SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • TP
    THE PONGO FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $50k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland

The Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland nurtures the connection between people and pets to advance animal welfare and improve the quality of life in our community.

Animals
3
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals
4
Oregon Research Institute

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…

Social Science
5
Oregon Restaurant and Lodging Association

Orla serves as the leading industry advocate, striving to protect, improve and promote oregon hospitality.

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6
Rogue Climate

Rogue Climate's mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change including low-income, rural, youth, seniors & communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs &…

Education
7
Cat Adoption Team

To save the lives of homeless, sick and injured cats and to work with our community to provide feline expertise and quality programs and services for people and cats.

Animals
8
Citizens Utility Board

As directed by oregon voters in 1984, the oregon citizens' utility board (cub) represents the interests of oregon's residential utility customers before administrative, judicial, and legislative bodies. cub works at the intersection of…

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9
Southern Oregon Land Conservancy Inc

To conserve and enhance land in southern oregon to sustain our human and natural communities forever.

Environment
10
Oregon Public Broadcasting

Connecting people across oregon and the pacific northwest through the power of a shared story.

Arts & Culture
11
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
12
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 1000 Friends of Oregon and the most unlike its peers is National Mill Dog Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLocal History MuseumsDomestic Violence ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …Animal Rescue and ShelterYouth Development CentersEquine Therapy ProgramsChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Public Library OperationsHealth Access Advocacy and …Youth Sports ProgramsAffordable Housing Developm…Youth Development ServicesIndependent K-12 SchoolsCommunity College Foundatio…Dance Arts OrganizationsCancer Support ServicesCommunity FoundationsFood Banks and PantriesPregnancy Support Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr13%3%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr19%32%20–35yr12%29%35–55yr16%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr19%30%20–35yr12%25%35–55yr16%40%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/101
the rest of the field
11%
2,771/25,330

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.

05the grantee network

99 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. 99 of the 118 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
99/99
Grantees still filing
84/99
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $565,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYPLANNED PARENTHOOD COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE (MAIN OFFICE) — $250,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE (MAI…OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY — $150,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAH — $150,000 · OtherUTAH FOOD BANK — $110,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-PORTLAND — $320,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-PORTLANDBETHLEHEM INN — $140,000 · Other+49 more — $1,337,500 · Other+49 moreOREGON HUMANE SOCIETY — $577,500 · AnimalsOREGON HUMANE SOCIETYTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY — $219,270 · AnimalsTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCT…BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $155,000 · AnimalsBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL S…DOVE LEWIS EMERGENCY ANIMAL HOSPITAL INC — $135,000 · AnimalsDOVE LEWIS EMERGENCY …EQUAMORE FOUNDATION — $110,000 · AnimalsEQUAMORE FOUNDATIONTHE OREGON ZOO FOUNDATION — $57,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF CENTRAL OREGON — $53,000 · Animals+11 more — $143,230 · Animals+11 moreYCC FAMILY CRISIS CENTER — $230,000 · Human ServicesYCC FAMILY CRISI…Neighborhood House Association — $170,000 · Human ServicesNeighborhood Hou…SAVING GRACE — $165,000 · Human ServicesSAVING GRACERAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND — $155,000 · Human ServicesRAPHAEL HOUSE OF…THE ROAD HOME — $145,000 · Human ServicesTHE ROAD HOMEJOIN — $88,200 · Human ServicesJOINPROJECT LEMONADE INC — $84,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT LEMONADE…+12 more — $132,000 · Human Services+12 moreBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $145,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER…PLANNED PARENTHOOD ASSOCIATION OF UTAH — $130,000 · HealthPLANNED PARE…KINSHIP HOUSE — $110,000 · HealthKINSHIP HOUS…Wasatch Homeless Health Care — $105,000 · HealthWasatch Home…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF OREGON AND SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON — $100,000 · HealthRONALD MCDON…Oregon Lions Sight & Hearing Foundation — $77,000 · HealthOregon Lions…RANDALL CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $69,300 · HealthRANDALL CHIL…PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE INC — $60,000 · HealthPLANNED PARE…+4 more — $37,000 · HealthHUMAN SOLUTIONS INC DBA OUR JUST FUTURE — $390,000 · Community ImprovementTHE CONTINGENT — $130,000 · Community ImprovementHIGH DESERT MUSEUM — $198,000 · Arts & CultureOREGON BALLET THEATRE — $125,000 · Arts & CultureChildren's Cancer Association — $85,000 · Arts & CultureOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $250,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF AMITY — $55,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL SCHOOL — $35,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $30,000 · Education+4 more — $35,000 · Education
Other$3,022,500Animals$1,450,000Human Services$1,169,200Health$833,300Community Improvement$520,000Arts & Culture$408,000Education$405,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetOREGON HUMANE SOCIETY — $577,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $565,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN SOLUTIONS INC DBA OUR JUST FUTURE — $390,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-PORTLAND — $320,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetYCC FAMILY CRISIS CENTER — $230,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY — $219,270 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetHIGH DESERT MUSEUM — $198,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetNeighborhood House Association — $170,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetSAVING GRACE — $165,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $155,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetRAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND — $155,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetTHE ROAD HOME — $145,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $145,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBETHLEHEM INN — $140,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetDOVE LEWIS EMERGENCY ANIMAL HOSPITAL INC — $135,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CONTINGENT — $130,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD ASSOCIATION OF UTAH — $130,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetOREGON BALLET THEATRE — $125,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetKINSHIP HOUSE — $110,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK — $110,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEQUAMORE FOUNDATION — $110,000 over 8y, 4.7% of budgetWasatch Homeless Health Care — $105,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGUADALUPE CENTER EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF OREGON AND SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON — $100,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFIRST DESCENTS — $90,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetJOIN — $88,200 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetChildren's Cancer Association — $85,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPROJECT LEMONADE INC — $84,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetOregon Lions Sight & Hearing Foundation — $77,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetRANDALL CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $69,300 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE INC — $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE OREGON ZOO FOUNDATION — $57,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PORTLAND METROPOLITAN AREA — $55,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF BEND — $54,000 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF CENTRAL OREGON — $53,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCENTRAL OREGON LANDWATCH — $50,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL SCHOOL — $35,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetCrossroads Urban Center — $35,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetFriends of the Columbia Gorge — $35,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetFriends of Tryon Creek — $32,500 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON COAST AQUARIUM INC — $29,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION — $22,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPDX DIAPER BANK — $22,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC — $20,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budget
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 OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds HUMAN SOLUTIONS INC DBA OUR JUST FUTURE ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-PORTLAND ↗
  • Who funds OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YCC FAMILY CRISIS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
  • Who funds HIGH DESERT MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds Neighborhood House Association ↗
  • Who funds SAVING GRACE ↗
  • Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND ↗
  • Who funds THE ROAD HOME ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds BETHLEHEM INN ↗
  • Who funds DOVE LEWIS EMERGENCY ANIMAL HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CONTINGENT ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD ASSOCIATION OF UTAH ↗
  • Who funds OREGON BALLET THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds KINSHIP HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds EQUAMORE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Wasatch Homeless Health Care ↗
  • Who funds GUADALUPE CENTER EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS INC ↗
  • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF OREGON AND SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON ↗
  • Who funds FIRST DESCENTS ↗
  • Who funds JOIN ↗
  • Who funds Children's Cancer Association ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT LEMONADE INC ↗
  • Who funds Oregon Lions Sight & Hearing Foundation ↗
  • Who funds RANDALL CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE OREGON ZOO FOUNDATION ↗

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.

The Oregon Community …The Autzen FoundationMaybelle Clark Macdon…OCF Joseph E Weston P…Meyer Memorial TrustMarie Lamfrom Charita…Juan Young TrustThe Jackson FoundationRose E Tucker Charita…The Reser Family Foun…The Roundhouse Founda…The Collins Foundation
The Oregon Community FoundationOR59.4× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Juan Young Trust · The Jackson Foundation · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · The Reser Family Foundation · The Roundhouse Foundation · The Collins 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 Willard L & Ruth P Eccles 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 200%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Friends of Trees — 100% of income from government
  • Saving Grace — 48% of income from government
  • Janus Youth Programs Inc — 46% of income from government
  • Outside in — 33% of income from government
  • Oregon Lions Sight & Hearing Foundation — 24% of income from government
  • Oregon Coast Aquarium Inc — 24% of income from government
  • Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
  • New Avenues for Youth Inc — 20% of income from government
  • Human Solutions Inc Dba Our Just Future — 17% of income from government
  • Project Lemonade Inc — 15% of income from government
  • High Desert Museum — 11% of income from government
  • Raphael House of Portland — 10% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of the Columbia Willamette Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Community Transitional School — 7% of income from government
  • Growing Gardens — 6% of income from government
  • The Contingent — 5% of income from government
  • Friends of the Children-Portland — 5% of income from government
  • Join — 4% of income from government
  • Verde Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Pdx Diaper Bank — 2% of income from government
  • The Oregon Community Foundation — 2% of income from government
  • Casa of Central Oregon — 2% of income from government
  • Equamore Foundation — 2% of income from government
  • Casa for Children Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Central Oregon Trail Alliance — 1% of income from government
  • Oregon Health & Science University Foundation — 1% of income from government
  • Central Oregon Environmental Center Inc Dba - the Environmental Center — 0% of income from government
  • Oregon Ballet Theatre — 0% of income from government
  • Bethlehem Inn — 0% of income from government
  • Randall Childrens Hospital Foundation — 0% of income from government
  • Oregon State University Foundation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
20get no government money at all
21report 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

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Willard L & Ruth P Eccles Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Willard L & Ruth P Eccles 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 118 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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