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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.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $604k
- $50k–250k22 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRAY FAMILY FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| PARTNERSHIP FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE | $100,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN LANE COUNTY | $75,000 |
| UNITE OREGON | $67,500 |
| CHILD'S WAY CHARTER SCHOOL | $65,000 |
| COALITION OF COMMUNITIES OF COLOR | $65,000 |
| INSIGHT ALLIANCE | $60,000 |
| NORTHWEST ALLIANCE FOR ALTERNATIVE MEDIA & EDUCATION | $60,000 |
| SAMOA PACIFIC DEVELOPMENT CORP | $60,000 |
| PATHFINDERS OF OREGON | $60,000 |
| MANO A MANO | $60,000 |
| AFRICAN REFUGEE IMMIGRANT ORGANIZATION | $60,000 |
| LATINO COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION | $60,000 |
| TRANSFORMATIVE JUSTICE COMMUNITY | $60,000 |
| YWCA | $55,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
61 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 5 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $170k 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
- LTLAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC6× · 2017–2022 · $4.7M · revenue +45%
- GFGray Family Foundation5× · 2020–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +44% · 100% of their budget
- TCThe Coalition of Oregon Land Trusts6× · 2017–2022 · $689k · revenue +133% · 47% of their budget
Funded once
- LCLANE COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $300k · revenue +60%
- WFWomens Foundation of Oregonone grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue -14%
- NCNESKOWIN COAST FOUNDATION SITKA CENTER FOR ART AND ECOLOGYone grant, 2017 · $100k
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 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…
The oregon center for public policy's mission is to achieve economic justice for all oregonians through research, analysis, and advocacy. ocpp works to change policies that foster economic security and stability for all oregonians. we do…
Promote economic and social fairness by working in coalition open a broad range of issues and activities in the public arena
Oregon Self Advocacy Coalition supports local self advocacy groups in engaging communities to advocate for the rights of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities to participate, belong, and contribute as valued community…
To support public policies that will help oregon's economy and create new family supporting jobs in oregon.
Advocate for policies that protect and promote healthy and health equity for all people in oregon and provide learning, collaboration and leadership opportunities for public health professionals and the broader community.
Next up amplifies the voice of diverse youth to achieve a more just oregon
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…
We provide a voice for an effective and accessible behavioral health system of care for Oregonians.
To ensure children and youth in oregon have access to high quality, comprehensive services and resources to address child abuse.
Providing support and advocacy for abuse survivors.
Our children oregon's mission is to be a voice and force for the common good for all oregon children, ensuring all children have the resources and opportunities they need to reach their full potential. we elevate data and the voices of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Native American Youth and Family Center and the most unlike its peers is Time Does Not Fit the Crime. 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.
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 26 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
72 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. 72 of the 99 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 LAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Gray Family Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Coalition of Oregon Land Trusts ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OREGON VALUES AND BELIEFS CENTER ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF GREATER PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds SPONSORS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - LANE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LANE COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds OREGON TRAIL OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN HOPE ↗
- Who funds Womens Foundation of Oregon ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF PORTLAND INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SW OREGON ↗
- Who funds Latino Network ↗
- Who funds Oregon Justice Resource Center ↗
- Who funds YOUTH RIGHTS & JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds OPHELIA'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds South Lane Mental Health Services Inc ↗
- Who funds OREGON MIND BODY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE INSIGHT ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Northwest Alliance for Alternative Media&Education ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN REFUGEE IMMIGRANT ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds Samoa Pacific Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds Mano A Mano ↗
- Who funds TRANSFORMATIVE JUSTICE COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds COALITION OF COMMUNITIES OF COLOR ↗
- Who funds Pathfinders of Oregon ↗
- Who funds LATINO COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTH VALLEY ATHLETICS ↗
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 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
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 Yarg 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.
- Lane County Medical Society — 100% of income from government
- Northwest Health Foundation Fund Ii — 81% of income from government
- Youth Rights & Justice — 81% of income from government
- Arc of Lane County — 79% of income from government
- Community Outreach Through Radical Empowerment — 70% of income from government
- Pathfinders of Oregon — 57% of income from government
- Community Lendingworks — 43% of income from government
- African Refugee Immigrant Organization — 38% of income from government
- Urban League of Portland Inc — 33% of income from government
- Friends of the Child Advocacy Center Inc — 33% of income from government
- United Way of Lane County — 31% of income from government
- Samoa Pacific Development Corporation — 28% of income from government
- Oregon Justice Resource Center — 26% of income from government
- United Way of the Columbia-Willamette — 25% of income from government
- Native American Youth and Family Center — 23% of income from government
- Ophelia's Place — 22% of income from government
- Family Resource Center of Central Oregon — 22% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- Immigration Counseling Service Inc — 20% of income from government
- Looking Glass Community Services — 18% of income from government
- The Coalition of Oregon Land Trusts — 18% of income from government
- Sheltercare — 18% of income from government
- Latino Network — 15% of income from government
- Coalition of Communities of Color — 15% of income from government
- Ywca of Greater Portland — 15% of income from government
- Bohemia Food Hub — 12% of income from government
- Red Lodge Transition Services — 12% of income from government
- Latino Community Association — 11% of income from government
- Central City Concern — 10% of income from government
- Sponsors Inc — 8% of income from government
- Oregon School-Based Health Alliance — 7% of income from government
- Prevent Child Abuse Oregon — 7% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of the Columbia Willamette Inc — 7% of income from government
- South Lane Mental Health Services Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization — 4% of income from government
- Ochin Inc — 4% of income from government
- Join — 4% of income from government
- The Oregon Community Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Parenting Now — 1% of income from government
- Womens Foundation of Oregon — 0% of income from government
- Seeding Justice — 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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