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Womens Foundation of Oregon

Women's foundation of oregon supports communities, programs, and individuals that improve the lives and opportunities of women and girls.

$240k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$75k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$530kYouth Development$200kPublic Safety & Disaster$151kCrime & Legal$136kHealth$101kHousing & Shelter$38kEmployment$26kCivil Rights$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $175,875, the rows itemized in this filing. The $239,702 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $63,827 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $101k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WOMEN FIRST REFERRAL CENTER$75,000
OUR MOSAIC VILLAGE$28,500
HARMONY TOURS$11,375
AMERICAN LEADERSHIP FORUM$11,000
DAISY CHAIN$10,000
GIRLS BUILD$10,000
CALDRA ARTS$10,000
RAHABS SISTERES$10,000
WOMENS CRISIS SUPPORT$10,000
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 (FY20–25, $320k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Clackamas Womens Services: $5k → 8%Saving Grace: $10k → 10%HENDERSON HOUSE: $10k → 11%Building Healthy Families: $10k → 12%Shelter from the Storm: $10k → 15%May Day Inc: $10k → 16%HAVEN From Domestic Violence: $18k → 16%Project Dove: $15k → 20%Henderson House: $10k → 11%PIONEER FAMILY RELIEF NURSERY: $10k → 12%SHELTER FROM THE STORM: $5k → 15%My Sisters Place: $10k → 16%The Safe Project: $10k → 17%Treasure Valley Nursery: $10k → 20%Adelante Mujeres: $8k → 8%DAISY CHAIN: $10k → 15%MY SISTER'S PLACE: $5k → 16%Center for Hope Safety: $10k → 14%PAALF: $10k → 12%FAMILY FORWARD: $20k → 12%The Cupcake Girls: $10k → 12%Raphael House of Portland: $10k → 12%OREGON COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE: $10k → 12%Imagine Black Futures: $23k → 12%BRADLEY ANGLE: $15k → 12%Bradley Angle: $10k → 12%El Programa Hispano: $10k → 12%Black Parent Initiative: $10k → 12%YWCA PORTLAND: $15k → 12%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.

35%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$444k · 12 repeat orgs$814k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +73% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
63

Total granted

$444k
$733k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+73%
+34%

Still filing today

100%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’23’24’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalHealthCivil RightsHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • WOMENFIRST TRANSITION REFERRAL CENTER
    3× · 2021–2025 · $185k · revenue +180%
  • CALL TO SAFETY
    2× · 2020–2024 · $33k · revenue +58%
  • IB
    IMAGINE BLACK FUTURES
    2× · 2021–2024 · $33k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • WD
    WILD DIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -28%
  • FF
    FAMILY FORWARD OREGONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +73%
  • TW
    The Waterstrong Initiative
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +6% · 43% of their budget
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 Abuse Advocates and Survivors in Service

Providing support and advocacy for abuse survivors.

Crime & Legal
2
Womenspace

Our mission is to protect, shelter, and empower survivors of domestic violence - offering safety, support, and resources with compassion and trauma-informed care.

Human Services
3
Center for Trauma Support Services

Provide crisis intervention and trauma healing and recovery services for victims and survivors of violent crime in the portland area

Human Services
4
Safe of Columbia County

Domestic and sexual violence intervention, support, and education.

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5
Community Beyond Violence

CBV heals the trauma of sexual assault and domestic violence by providing crisis intervention, safety, advocacy, and education to survivors and our community.

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6
Oregon Justice Network

Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…

Human Services
7
Oregon Child Abuse Solutions

To ensure children and youth in oregon have access to high quality, comprehensive services and resources to address child abuse.

Crime & Legal
8
Safe Voices

The mission of Safe Voices is to provide person-to-person, individualized advocacy for all survivors of domestic abuse and violence, sex trafficking, and sexual exploitation in Androscoggin, Franklin, and Oxford Counties and engage our…

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9
Sexual Violence Law Center

Sexual Violence Law Center (SVLC) is a nonprofit law firm that protects the safety, privacy, and civil rights of survivors of sexual and gender-based violence in Washington through holistic and trauma-informed practices rooted in race and…

Human Services
10
Oregon Crime Victims Law Center

Advocate for victims of crime within the criminal justice system and protective order cases; provide referrals to social-service agencies that can help crime victims recover. the center's services are available statewide at no cost to…

Crime & Legal
11
The Dove Project

The dove project is a domestic violence and sexual assault agency that provides survivor services, prevention education and community programming in an effort to reduce interpersonal harm.

Crime & Legal
12
Selah Place of Oregon Co Inc

Qualified for voca grant to fund program for shelter and services for victims of domestic and sexual violence

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Raphael House of Portland; the most unlike its peers is The Waterstrong Initiative. 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

73 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. 73 of the 81 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
28
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/73
Grantees still filing
51/73
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CALL TO SAFETY: $32,853 · Human ServicesCALL TO SAFETYIMAGINE BLACK FUTURES: $32,500 · Human ServicesIMAGINE BLACK FUTURESRAHAB'S SISTERS: $25,488 · Human ServicesRAHAB'S SISTERSBradley Angle: $25,290 · Human ServicesBradley AngleCenter Against Rape and Domestic Violence: $25,000 · Human ServicesCenter Against Rape and Domestic Viole…FAMILY FORWARD OREGON: $20,000 · Human ServicesDAISY C H A I N: $20,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY CRISIS SHELTER AND SERVICES FOR YAMHILL COUNTY INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesHAVEN FROM DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $17,500 · Human ServicesYWCA OF GREATER PORTLAND: $15,000 · Human ServicesMY SISTERS' PLACE: $15,000 · Human ServicesProject DOVE: $15,000 · Human ServicesShelter from the Storm: $15,000 · Human Services+15 more: $144,741 · Human Services+15 moreOUR MOSAIC VILLAGE: $28,500 · OtherOUR MOSAIC VILLAGEWILD DIVERSITY: $20,000 · OtherWILD DIVERSITYThe Waterstrong Initiative: $20,000 · OtherThe Waterstrong InitiativeNORTHWEST FAMILY SERVICES: $15,000 · OtherCONFEDERATED TRIBES OF COOS LOWER UMPQUA AND SIUSLAW INDIANS: $15,000 · OtherCONFEDERATED TRIBES OF SILETZ INDIANS OF OREGON: $15,000 · OtherMano A Mano: $12,500 · OtherWomenspace: $12,500 · OtherDOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES INC: $12,000 · OtherHARMONY TOURS: $11,375 · OtherOregon Tradeswomen Inc: $26,075 · OtherOregon Tradeswomen IncNE STEAM COALITION: $20,000 · OtherNE STEAM COALITION+17 more: $132,903 · Other+17 moreWOMENFIRST TRANSITION REFERRAL CENTER: $185,000 · Crime & LegalWOMENFIRST TRANSITION…Red Lodge Transition Services: $15,425 · Crime & LegalRed Lodge Transition …WILLAMETTE VALLEY LAW PROJECT DBA PCUN FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Crime & LegalWILLAMETTE VALLEY LAW…FAMILY PEACE CENTER OF WASHINGTON COUNTY: $10,227 · Crime & LegalSOUTHEAST UPLIFT NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRAM INC: $10,000 · Crime & LegalGirls Inc of the Pacific Northwest: $22,000 · Youth DevelopmentGirls Inc…FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-PORTLAND: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS O…Triple Threat Mentoring: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentTriple Th…OPHELIA'S PLACE: $10,225 · Youth DevelopmentOPHELIA'S…GIRLS BUILD: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS BUI…CALDERA: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentCALDERAMOMENTUM ALLIANCE: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentMOMENTUM …MAURICE LUCAS FOUNDATION: $8,000 · Youth DevelopmentMAURICE L…FAITHBRIDGE PORTLAND: $20,000 · HealthOK YOU INC: $20,000 · HealthForward Together: $15,420 · HealthTHE HARBOR INC: $10,278 · HealthJACKSON COUNTY SART: $10,000 · HealthPortland Collective Housing: $15,520 · Housing & ShelterSABLE HOUSE: $12,000 · Housing & ShelterROSE HAVEN CIC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterRURAL ORGANIZING PROJECT: $15,000 · Civil RightsCommunities United for People: $10,000 · Civil RightsBASIC RIGHTS EDUCATION FUND: $10,000 · Civil Rights
Human Services$423,372Other$340,853Crime & Legal$235,652Youth Development$110,225Health$75,698Housing & Shelter$37,520Civil Rights$35,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWOMENFIRST TRANSITION REFERRAL CENTER: $185,000 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetCALL TO SAFETY: $32,853 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetIMAGINE BLACK FUTURES: $32,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetOregon Tradeswomen Inc: $26,075 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetRAHAB'S SISTERS: $25,488 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetBradley Angle: $25,290 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCenter Against Rape and Domestic Violence: $25,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetGirls Inc of the Pacific Northwest: $22,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetWILD DIVERSITY: $20,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetFAMILY FORWARD OREGON: $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetThe Waterstrong Initiative: $20,000 over 1y, 43% of budgetNE STEAM COALITION: $20,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetDAISY C H A I N: $20,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetFAITHBRIDGE PORTLAND: $20,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-PORTLAND: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILY CRISIS SHELTER AND SERVICES FOR YAMHILL COUNTY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTriple Threat Mentoring: $20,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetOK YOU INC: $20,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetPortland Collective Housing: $15,520 over 1y, 30% of budgetForward Together: $15,420 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYWCA OF GREATER PORTLAND: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWILLAMETTE VALLEY LAW PROJECT DBA PCUN FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetNORTHWEST FAMILY SERVICES: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMY SISTERS' PLACE: $15,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetProject DOVE: $15,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetShelter from the Storm: $15,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetRURAL ORGANIZING PROJECT: $15,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMano A Mano: $12,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSABLE HOUSE: $12,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES INC: $12,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetAMERICAN LEADERSHIP FORUM OF OREGON: $11,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetRAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND: $10,290 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CUPCAKE GIRLS: $10,290 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE HARBOR INC: $10,278 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFAMILY PEACE CENTER OF WASHINGTON COUNTY: $10,227 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetOPHELIA'S PLACE: $10,225 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSAVING GRACE: $10,225 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEL PROGRAMA HISPANO CATOLICO: $10,225 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SAFE PROJECT: $10,150 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSOUTHEAST UPLIFT NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRAM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCommunities United for People: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetBASIC RIGHTS EDUCATION FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCALDERA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOREGON COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF JACKSON COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTreasure Valley Children's Relief Nurser: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetROSE HAVEN CIC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBlack Parent Initiative: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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 Collins FoundationThe Oregon Community …Meyer Memorial TrustThe Autzen FoundationOCF Joseph E Weston P…The Ford Family Found…Marie Lamfrom Charita…Ronald W Naito Md Fou…Seeding JusticeBraemar Charitable Tr…Oregon Coalition Agai…Northwest Health Foun…
The Collins FoundationOR101.2× affinity52 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Collins Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Autzen Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Ronald W Naito Md Foundation · Seeding Justice · Braemar Charitable Trust · Oregon Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence · Northwest Health Foundation Fund II

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 Womens Foundation of Oregon funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Womens Foundation of Oregon. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 35%
  • Oregon Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence: 100% of income from government
  • Shelter from the Storm: 100% of income from government
  • Mayday Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Pioneer Relief Nursery Pioneer Relief Nursery: 87% of income from government
  • Project Dove: 85% of income from government
  • Triple Threat Mentoring: 81% of income from government
  • Sexual Assault Resource Center: 81% of income from government
  • Haven From Domestic Violence: 77% of income from government
  • Treasure Valley Children's Relief Nurser: 70% of income from government
  • Center for Hope and Safety: 68% of income from government
  • The Harbor Inc: 66% of income from government
  • Call to Safety: 61% of income from government
  • Domestic Violence Services Inc: 57% of income from government
  • The Safe Project: 54% of income from government
  • Sable House: 50% of income from government
  • Family Peace Center of Washington County: 49% of income from government
  • Saving Grace: 48% of income from government
  • Helping Hands Against Violence Inc: 48% of income from government
  • Oregon Tradeswomen Inc: 46% of income from government
  • Black Parent Initiative: 45% of income from government
  • Building Healthy Families: 41% of income from government
  • Northwest Family Services: 35% of income from government
  • Clackamas Women's Services: 33% of income from government
  • Tides of Change Fka Tillamook Co Women's Resource C: 31% of income from government
  • Adelante Mujeres: 31% of income from government
  • Micronesian Islander Community: 25% of income from government
  • My Sisters' Place: 25% of income from government
  • Ophelia's Place: 22% of income from government
  • Willamette Valley Law Project Dba Pcun Foundation: 18% of income from government
  • Ne Steam Coalition: 17% of income from government
  • Ywca of Greater Portland: 15% of income from government
  • Jackson County Sart: 14% of income from government
  • El Programa Hispano Catolico: 13% of income from government
  • Red Lodge Transition Services: 12% of income from government
  • United Way of Jackson County Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Raphael House of Portland: 10% of income from government
  • Bradley Angle: 10% of income from government
  • The Street Trust Community Fund: 6% of income from government
  • Friends of the Children-Portland: 5% of income from government
  • Girls Inc of the Pacific Northwest: 4% of income from government
  • The Rosewood Initiative: 3% of income from government
  • The Waterstrong Initiative: 3% of income from government
  • Caldera: 1% of income from government
  • Basic Rights Education Fund: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
14rely on government for over half their income
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

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How do I get to Womens Foundation of Oregon?

Find your warmest path to Womens Foundation of Oregon 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 81 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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