How much does Yarg Foundation give?

Yarg Foundation reported 49 grants totaling $2,026,250 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 59 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Yarg Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (30%), Philanthropy (16%), Health (10%).

Who are Yarg Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Land Trust Alliance Inc ($4.7M), Gray Family Foundation ($1.2M), The Coalition of Oregon Land Trusts ($689k).

Does Yarg Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Yarg Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Yarg Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Oregon Community Foundation, The Collins Foundation, Meyer Memorial Trust.

Where is Yarg Foundation based?

Yarg Foundation is based in OR.

Foundation Dossiers

Oregon · Private foundation

Yarg 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.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 49
Grants FY2024: 59
Organizations funded FY2023: 47%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $40,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $150,000
Organizations funded a year: 3 to 59; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 2
Total assets, FY2024: $13M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 47% of the organizations Yarg Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 39% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesCrime & LegalHealthCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyCivil RightsOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	48	$2.0M	10%
FY2023	59	$2.9M	47%
FY2022	41	$2.7M	61%
FY2021	33	$2.7M	67%
FY2020	14	$3.5M	64%
FY2019	5	$1.5M	40%
FY2018	3	$1.8M	33%
FY2017	3	$1.5M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

Environment$5.8MPhilanthropy$3.0MHealth$1.9MCrime & Legal$1.7MHousing & Shelter$1.5MCivil Rights$1.3MHuman Services$1.2MEducation$747kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Land Trust Alliance Inc	$4,729,188	6	9%
Gray Family Foundation	$1,200,000	5	100%
The Coalition of Oregon Land Trusts	$688,600	6	47%
Partnership for Safety and Justice	$625,000	5	14%
Oregon Values and Beliefs Center	$440,000	4	38%
YWCA of Greater Portland	$415,000	6	3%
South Lane School District	$380,370	4	n/a
Sponsors Inc	$360,000	6	2%
Friends of the Children - Lane County	$330,000	4	15%
Lane County Medical Society	$300,000	1	n/a

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All grantees of Yarg Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Land Trust Alliance Inc	$4,729,188	6	9%
Gray Family Foundation	$1,200,000	5	100%
The Coalition of Oregon Land Trusts	$688,600	6	47%
Partnership for Safety and Justice	$625,000	5	14%
Oregon Values and Beliefs Center	$440,000	4	38%
YWCA of Greater Portland	$415,000	6	3%
South Lane School District	$380,370	4	n/a
Sponsors Inc	$360,000	6	2%
Friends of the Children - Lane County	$330,000	4	15%
Lane County Medical Society	$300,000	1	n/a
Oregon Trail of Hope	$300,000	2	17%
Planned Parenthood of the Columbia Willamette Inc	$295,000	4	0%
Brown Hope	$266,000	2	6%
Womens Foundation of Oregon	$250,000	1	23%
Urban League of Portland Inc	$236,250	3	1%
Planned Parenthood of Sw Oregon	$235,000	3	1%
Latino Network	$213,000	4	1%
Youth Rights & Justice	$176,250	3	2%
Oregon Justice Resource Center	$176,250	3	3%
Ophelia's Place	$160,000	3	5%
South Lane Mental Health Services Inc	$150,000	3	1%
Oregon Mind Body Institute	$125,097	2	15%
Pathfinders of Oregon	$120,000	2	1%
African Refugee Immigrant Organization	$120,000	2	9%
Northwest Alliance for Alternative Media&Education	$120,000	2	14%
The Insight Alliance	$120,000	2	3%
South Valley Athletics	$120,000	2	36%
Transformative Justice Community	$120,000	2	81%
Mano A Mano	$120,000	2	3%
Samoa Pacific Development Corporation	$120,000	2	4%
Coalition of Communities of Color	$120,000	3	2%
Latino Community Association	$120,000	2	4%
Parenting Now	$115,000	2	4%
Oregon Progress Forum	$105,000	3	12%
Looking Glass Community Services	$100,000	2	0%
United Way of Lane County	$100,000	2	1%
United Way of the Columbia-Willamette	$100,000	2	0%
Prosecutor Impact	$94,000	1	5%
Circle of Friends School	$90,000	2	10%
Oregon School-Based Health Alliance	$90,000	2	5%
Bohemia Food Hub	$85,000	2	19%
Progressive Multiplier Fund	$75,000	2	4%
Northwest Health Foundation	$75,000	2	1%
Adopt One Block	$75,000	1	14%
Rural Organizing Project	$70,000	2	4%
OSLC Community Programs dba Oregon Community Programs	$64,000	2	1%
Red Lodge Transition Services	$60,000	3	7%
Central City Concern	$60,000	3	0%
Family Resource Center of Central Oregon	$50,000	1	9%
Cascade Pacific RC&D Area	$50,000	1	3%
Community Lendingworks	$50,000	1	n/a
Oregon Center for Voting & Elections	$50,000	1	7%
Imagine Black Futures	$45,000	2	2%
Community Outreach Through Radical Empowerment	$45,000	2	3%
Slabtown Bmx	$35,000	1	n/a
Red Is the Road to Wellness	$25,000	1	n/a
Immigration Counseling Service Inc	$25,000	2	1%
Northwest Health Foundation Fund II	$25,000	1	2%
Prevent Child Abuse Oregon	$20,000	1	6%
Friends of the Child Advocacy Center Inc	$20,000	2	0%
The Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization	$20,000	1	0%
Native American Youth and Family Center	$20,000	1	0%
Singing Creek Educational Center	$15,620	3	10%
Ochin Inc	$15,000	1	0%
Join	$12,500	1	0%
Oregon Food Bank	$10,000	1	0%
Opal Center for Arts and Education	$5,000	1	10%
Time Does Not Fit The Crime	$5,000	1	n/a
Arc of Lane County	$5,000	1	0%
Sheltercare	$5,000	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.4M), not named here.

Yarg Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 64 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 64.

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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 FoundationOR82.4× affinity58 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · The Collins Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Seeding Justice · The Ford Family Foundation · Northwest Health Foundation Fund II · Onpoint Community Credit Union · Ronald W Naito Md Foundation · The Woodard Family Foundation · Lane Community Health Council · Chambers Family Foundation

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.

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About Yarg Foundation

How much does Yarg Foundation give?: Yarg Foundation reported 49 grants totaling $2,026,250 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 59 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Yarg Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (30%), Philanthropy (16%), Health (10%).
Who are Yarg Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Land Trust Alliance Inc ($4.7M), Gray Family Foundation ($1.2M), The Coalition of Oregon Land Trusts ($689k).
Does Yarg Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Yarg Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Yarg Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Oregon Community Foundation, The Collins Foundation, Meyer Memorial Trust.
Where is Yarg Foundation based?: Yarg Foundation is based in OR.