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Wizard Island 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DESCHUTES LAND TRUST | $5,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $2,608 |
| OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCES UNIVERSITY | $1,500 |
| FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $1,500 |
| FRIENDS OF BUFORD PARK & MT PISGAH | $1,500 |
| MCKENZIE RIVER TRUST | $1,500 |
| MAGDALENE HOME | $1,500 |
| EUGENE PARKS FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| CALDERA JR WOLFPACK BASEBALL | $1,000 |
| BETHLEHEM INN | $1,000 |
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 (FY19–20, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
13 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- IRINSPIRATION RANCH INC4× · 2017–2020 · $20k · revenue +118%
- DLDeschutes Land Trust5× · 2020–2024 · $20k · revenue +30%
- EPEUGENE PARKS FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $5k · revenue +121%
Funded once
- DADALLAS ABORETUM & BOTANICAL GARDENSone grant, 2018 · $3k
- ONOREGON NATURAL DESERT ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +18%
- DADALLAS ACADEMYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +35%
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 agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
To conserve and restore wild and working lands in oregons high desert for wildlife and people, and provide common ground to improve climate resilience, wildlife connectivity, habitat restoration, innovative grazing practices, cultural…
To conserve and enhance land in southern oregon to sustain our human and natural communities forever.
Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…
Our mission is to protect the rural nature of Wallowa County by working cooperatively with private landowners,indigenous people, local communities and governmental entities to conserve land.
Our mission is to conserve the natural treasures and working lands on oregons wild rivers coast in perpetuity.
Western rivers conservancy's mission is to protect outstanding river ecosystems in the western united states. continued on schedule o.we acquire land to conserve critical habitat, provide public access for compatible use and enjoyment, and…
Oregon Wild works to protect and restore Oregon's wildlands, wildlife and waters as an enduring legacy for future generations.
Our mission is to build and manage the pacific northwest nationalscenic trail and conserve the wild places that it traverses.
The mission of the montana land reliance (mlr) is to partner with landowners to provide permanent protection for private lands that are significant for agricultural production, fish and wildlife habitat, and open space.
Conserving land and water in the willamette valley for a more resilient future.
The mission of estes valley land trust is to conserve land throughout the estes valley and surrounding areas for current and future generations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Deschutes Land Trust and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 22 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 INSPIRATION RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds Deschutes Land Trust ↗
- Who funds EUGENE PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds McKenzie River Trust ↗
- Who funds BETHLEHEM INN ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BUFORD PARK AND MT PISGAH ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds OREGON NATURAL DESERT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DALLAS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds EUGENE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Friends of Santiam Pass Ski Lodge ↗
- Who funds MOUNT PISGAH ARBORETUM ↗
- Who funds LANE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CALDERA JR WOLFPACK BASEBALL ↗
- Who funds WHITE BIRD CLINIC ↗
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 Roundhouse Foundation · The Collins Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Autzen Foundation · Reed Family Foundation Inc · The Anjulicia Foundation · Chambers Family Foundation · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · The Nature Conservancy · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 Wizard Island 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.
- Deschutes Land Trust — 46% of income from government
- White Bird Clinic — 29% of income from government
- Friends of Buford Park and Mt Pisgah — 14% of income from government
- Oregon Natural Desert Association — 9% of income from government
- McKenzie River Trust — 8% of income from government
- Lane County Historical Society — 5% of income from government
- Mount Pisgah Arboretum — 2% of income from government
- Bethlehem Inn — 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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