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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.

$18k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$35kHealth$21kEducation$11kReligion$10kRecreation & Sports$9kHousing & Shelter$8kInternational$3kArts & Culture$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$362k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DESCHUTES LAND TRUST$5,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$2,608
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
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCES UNIVERSITY$1,500
CALDERA JR WOLFPACK BASEBALL$1,000
BETHLEHEM INN$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%INSPIRATION RANCH: $5k → 9%INSPIRATION RANCH: $5k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$81k · 13 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
7

Total granted

$81k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+39%

Still filing today

69%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
EnvironmentArts & CultureRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesEducationHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • DL
    Deschutes Land Trust
    5× · 2020–2024 · $20k · revenue +30%
  • IR
    INSPIRATION RANCH INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $20k · revenue +118%
  • EP
    EUGENE PARKS FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $5k · revenue +121%

Funded once

  • DA
    DALLAS ABORETUM & BOTANICAL GARDENS
    one grant, 2018 · $3k
  • DA
    DALLAS ACADEMYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +35%
  • ON
    OREGON NATURAL DESERT ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +18%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
Oregon Desert Land Trust

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…

Environment
3
Southern Oregon Land Conservancy Inc

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

Environment
4
Cascadia Wildlands

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…

Environment
5
Wallowa Land Trust

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.

Environment
6
Wild Rivers Land Trust

Our mission is to conserve the natural treasures and working lands on oregons wild rivers coast in perpetuity.

Environment
7
Western Rivers Conservancy

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…

Environment
8
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
9
Pacific Northwest Trail Association

Our mission is to build and manage the pacific northwest nationalscenic trail and conserve the wild places that it traverses.

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10
The Montana Land Reliance

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.

Environment
11
Greenbelt Land Trust

Conserving land and water in the willamette valley for a more resilient future.

Environment
12
Estes Valley Land Trust

The mission of estes valley land trust is to conserve land throughout the estes valley and surrounding areas for current and future generations.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Deschutes Land Trust; 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.
04the grantee network

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
10/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Deschutes Land Trust: $20,000 · EnvironmentDeschutes Land TrustMcKenzie River Trust: $5,000 · EnvironmentMcKenzie River TrustFRIENDS OF BUFORD PARK AND MT PISGAH: $3,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF BUFORD PARK AND MT PISG…MOUNT PISGAH ARBORETUM: $1,500 · EnvironmentFIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $9,650 · OtherFIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHMAGDALENE HOME: $4,000 · OtherMAGDALENE HOMEOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCES UNIVERSITY: $3,500 · OtherOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCES UNIVERSITYDALLAS ABORETUM & BOTANICAL GARDENS: $3,000 · OtherDALLAS ABORETUM & BOTANICAL GARDENSDALLAS ACADEMY: $2,500 · OtherDALLAS ACADEMYOREGON NATURAL DESERT ASSOCIATION: $2,500 · OtherOREGON NATURAL DESERT ASSOCIATIONSOUTH EUGENE HIGH SCHOOL ROBOTICS CLASS: $2,300 · OtherSOUTH EUGENE HIGH SCHOOL ROBOTICS CL…EUGENE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $2,200 · OtherEUGENE EDUCATION FOUNDATION+3 more: $1,150 · OtherINSPIRATION RANCH INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesINSPIRATION RANCH INCEUGENE PARKS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsCALDERA JR WOLFPACK BASEBALL: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsBETHLEHEM INN: $3,500 · Housing & ShelterFriends of Santiam Pass Ski Lodge: $2,000 · Arts & CultureLANE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1,200 · Arts & CultureSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $2,608 · Religion
Environment$29,500Other$30,800Human Services$20,000Recreation & Sports$6,000Housing & Shelter$3,500Arts & Culture$3,200Religion$2,608

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDeschutes Land Trust: $20,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetINSPIRATION RANCH INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetEUGENE PARKS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMcKenzie River Trust: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBETHLEHEM INN: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF BUFORD PARK AND MT PISGAH: $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $2,608 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS ACADEMY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEUGENE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $2,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Santiam Pass Ski Lodge: $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMOUNT PISGAH ARBORETUM: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLANE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCALDERA JR WOLFPACK BASEBALL: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWHITE BIRD CLINIC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Oregon Community …The Roundhouse Founda…The Collins FoundationMeyer Memorial TrustThe Autzen FoundationReed Family Foundatio…The Anjulicia Foundat…Chambers Family Found…Maybelle Clark Macdon…The Nature ConservancyFirst Interstate Banc…Morgan Stanley Global…
The Oregon Community FoundationOR25.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Wizard Island Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wizard Island Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Wizard Island Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Wizard Island 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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