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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.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
49
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$150k
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$5.8MPhilanthropy$3.0MHealth$1.9MCrime & Legal$1.7MHousing & Shelter$1.5MCivil Rights$1.3MHuman Services$1.2MEducation$747kOther$0
02FY2024 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $604k
  • $50k–250k22 grants · $1.4M
$40,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
PATHFINDERS OF OREGON$60,000
AFRICAN REFUGEE IMMIGRANT ORGANIZATION$60,000
TRANSFORMATIVE JUSTICE COMMUNITY$60,000
LATINO COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION$60,000
SAMOA PACIFIC DEVELOPMENT CORP$60,000
NORTHWEST ALLIANCE FOR ALTERNATIVE MEDIA & EDUCATION$60,000
INSIGHT ALLIANCE$60,000
MANO A MANO$60,000
YWCA$55,000
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 (FY19–24, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LATINO COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $60k → 10%OREGON HARBOR OF HOPE: $275k → 12%IMAGINE BLACK FUTURES: $25k → 8%LATINO COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $60k → 10%IMAGINE BLACK FUTURES: $20k → 8%LOOKING GLASS: $50k → 15%LOOKING GLASS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $50k → 15%COMMUNITY OUTREACH THROUGH RADICAL EMPOWERMENT: $25k → 15%COMMUNITY OUTREACH THROUGH RADICAL EMPOWERMENT: $20k → 15%OREGON HARBOR OF HOPE: $25k → 12%URBAN LEAGUE OF PORTLAND: $100k → 12%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN LANE COUNTY: $75k → 15%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN LANE COUNTY: $75k → 15%URBAN LEAGUE OF PORTLAND: $95k → 12%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN LANE COUNTY: $75k → 15%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN LANE COUNTY: $75k → 15%URBAN LEAGUE OF PORTLAND: $41k → 12%JOIN: $13k → 12%SAMOA PACIFIC DEVELOPMENT CORP: $60k → 12%SAMOA PACIFIC DEVELOPMENT CORP: $60k → 12%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN LANE COUNTY: $30k → 15%IMMIGRATION COUNSELING SERVICE: $15k → 12%IMMIGRATION COUNSELING SERVICE: $10k → 12%LATINO NETWORK: $115k → 12%LATINO NETWORK: $38k → 12%LATINO NETWORK: $25k → 12%LATINO NETWORK: $20k → 12%LATINO NETWORK: $15k → 12%YWCA OF GREATER PORTLAND: $100k → 12%YWCA OF GREATER PORTLAND: $100k → 12%YWCA: $100k → 12%YWCA: $55k → 12%YWCA: $50k → 12%YWCA: $10k → 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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17M · 61 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

61
29

Total granted

$17M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+15%

Still filing today

79%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $170k 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
Human ServicesCrime & LegalHealthCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
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

  • LT
    LAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $4.7M · revenue +45%
  • GF
    Gray Family Foundation
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +44% · 100% of their budget
  • TC
    The Coalition of Oregon Land Trusts
    6× · 2017–2022 · $689k · revenue +133% · 47% of their budget

Funded once

  • LC
    LANE COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $300k · revenue +60%
  • WF
    Womens Foundation of Oregon
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue -14%
  • NC
    NESKOWIN COAST FOUNDATION SITKA CENTER FOR ART AND ECOLOGY
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
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 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
2
Oregon Center for Public Policy

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…

Employment
3
Our Oregon

Promote economic and social fairness by working in coalition open a broad range of issues and activities in the public arena

Human Services
4
Oregon Self Advocacy Coalition

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…

Human Services
5
Priority Oregon

To support public policies that will help oregon's economy and create new family supporting jobs in oregon.

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6
Oregon Public Health Association

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.

Health
7
New Progressive Network

Next up amplifies the voice of diverse youth to achieve a more just oregon

Civil Rights
8
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
9
Oregon Council for Behavioral Health

We provide a voice for an effective and accessible behavioral health system of care for Oregonians.

Community Improvement
10
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
11
Oregon Abuse Advocates and Survivors in Service

Providing support and advocacy for abuse survivors.

Crime & Legal
12
Our Children Oregon

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…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Native American Youth and Family Center; 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.
04the grantee network

72 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. 72 of the 99 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/72
Grantees still filing
50/72
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC: $4,729,188 · EnvironmentLAND TRUST ALLIANCE INCThe Coalition of Oregon Land Trusts: $688,600 · EnvironmentThe Coalition of Oregon Land Tru…+2 more: $180,000 · EnvironmentOREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION - NEUNER FUND: $1,919,400 · OtherOREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION - NEUNER FU…SOUTH LANE SCHOOL DISTRICT: $380,370 · OtherSOUTH LANE SCHOOL DISTRICTSPONSORS INC: $360,000 · OtherSPONSORS INCLANE COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY: $300,000 · OtherWomens Foundation of Oregon: $250,000 · OtherOREGON VALUES AND BELIEFS CENTER: $440,000 · OtherOREGON VALUES AND BELIEFS CENTER+46 more: $2,989,287 · Other+46 moreGray Family Foundation: $1,200,000 · PhilanthropyGray Family …THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $520,000 · PhilanthropyTHE OREGON C…UNITED WAY OF LANE COUNTY: $100,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of the Columbia-Willamette: $100,000 · PhilanthropySEEDING JUSTICE: $100,000 · PhilanthropyPROGRESSIVE MULTIPLIER FUND: $75,000 · PhilanthropyNORTHWEST HEALTH FOUNDATION: $75,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $25,000 · PhilanthropyYWCA OF GREATER PORTLAND: $415,000 · Human ServicesYWCA OF GRE…FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - LANE COUNTY: $330,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF …OREGON TRAIL OF HOPE: $300,000 · Human ServicesOREGON TRAI…URBAN LEAGUE OF PORTLAND INC: $236,250 · Human ServicesURBAN LEAGU…Latino Network: $213,000 · Human ServicesLatino Netw…Samoa Pacific Development Corporation: $120,000 · Human ServicesSamoa Pacif…LATINO COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $120,000 · Human ServicesLATINO COMM…LOOKING GLASS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $100,000 · Human Services+4 more: $127,500 · Human Services+4 morePARTNERSHIP FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE: $625,000 · Crime & LegalPathfinders of Oregon: $120,000 · Crime & LegalTHE INSIGHT ALLIANCE: $120,000 · Crime & LegalTRANSFORMATIVE JUSTICE COMMUNITY: $120,000 · Crime & LegalPARENTING NOW: $115,000 · Crime & LegalPROSECUTOR IMPACT: $94,000 · Crime & LegalRed Lodge Transition Services: $60,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $20,000 · Crime & LegalPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE INC: $295,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SW OREGON: $235,000 · HealthSouth Lane Mental Health Services Inc: $150,000 · HealthOREGON MIND BODY INSTITUTE: $125,097 · HealthOREGON SCHOOL-BASED HEALTH ALLIANCE: $90,000 · HealthCentral City Concern: $60,000 · Health+2 more: $40,000 · HealthBROWN HOPE: $266,000 · Community ImprovementAFRICAN REFUGEE IMMIGRANT ORGANIZATION: $120,000 · Community ImprovementBohemia Food Hub: $85,000 · Community ImprovementCascade Pacific RC&D Area: $50,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY LENDINGWORKS: $50,000 · Community ImprovementFRIENDS OF THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $20,000 · Community Improvement
Environment$5,597,788Other$6,639,057Philanthropy$2,195,000Human Services$1,961,750Crime & Legal$1,274,000Health$995,097Community Improvement$591,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC: $4,729,188 over 6y, 9.0% of budgetGray Family Foundation: $1,200,000 over 5y, 100% of budgetThe Coalition of Oregon Land Trusts: $688,600 over 6y, 47% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE: $625,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetTHE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $520,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetOREGON VALUES AND BELIEFS CENTER: $440,000 over 4y, 38% of budgetYWCA OF GREATER PORTLAND: $415,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetSPONSORS INC: $360,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - LANE COUNTY: $330,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetOREGON TRAIL OF HOPE: $300,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE INC: $295,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBROWN HOPE: $266,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetWomens Foundation of Oregon: $250,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF PORTLAND INC: $236,250 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SW OREGON: $235,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetLatino Network: $213,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetYOUTH RIGHTS & JUSTICE: $176,250 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetOregon Justice Resource Center: $176,250 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetOPHELIA'S PLACE: $160,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetSouth Lane Mental Health Services Inc: $150,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetOREGON MIND BODY INSTITUTE: $125,097 over 2y, 15% of budgetPathfinders of Oregon: $120,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetAFRICAN REFUGEE IMMIGRANT ORGANIZATION: $120,000 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetNorthwest Alliance for Alternative Media&Education: $120,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetTHE INSIGHT ALLIANCE: $120,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetSOUTH VALLEY ATHLETICS: $120,000 over 2y, 36% of budgetTRANSFORMATIVE JUSTICE COMMUNITY: $120,000 over 2y, 81% of budgetMano A Mano: $120,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetSamoa Pacific Development Corporation: $120,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetCOALITION OF COMMUNITIES OF COLOR: $120,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetLATINO COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $120,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetPARENTING NOW: $115,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetOREGON PROGRESS FORUM: $105,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetLOOKING GLASS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF LANE COUNTY: $100,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetUnited Way of the Columbia-Willamette: $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSEEDING JUSTICE: $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPROSECUTOR IMPACT: $94,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetCIRCLE OF FRIENDS SCHOOL: $90,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetOREGON SCHOOL-BASED HEALTH ALLIANCE: $90,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetBohemia Food Hub: $85,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetPROGRESSIVE MULTIPLIER FUND: $75,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetNORTHWEST HEALTH FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetAdopt One Block: $75,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetRURAL ORGANIZING PROJECT: $70,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetOSLC Community Programs dba Oregon Community Programs: $64,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetRed Lodge Transition Services: $60,000 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetCentral City Concern: $60,000 over 3y, 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 Collins FoundationMeyer Memorial TrustMarie Lamfrom Charita…Seeding JusticeThe Ford Family Found…Northwest Health Foun…Onpoint Community Cre…Ronald W Naito Md Fou…The Woodard Family Fo…Lane Community Health…Chambers Family Found…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 18%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
6rely 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 Yarg Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Yarg 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 99 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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