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Barbara Emily Knudson Foundation at a glance

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Barbara Emily Knudson 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.

$181k
Granted FY2024still arriving
54
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$398kHuman Services$248kHousing & Shelter$160kFood & Nutrition$117kAnimals$94kHealth$93kYouth Development$82kPublic Safety & Disaster$46kOther$0
02FY2024 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k51 grants · $151k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
$1,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$6.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HARRIETS HOUSING$10,000
EOIC JLAD SERVICE DOG PROGRAM$10,000
BAY AREA RESCUE MISSION$10,000
COMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION$8,000
REACH NORTHWEST$7,500
Individual grant recipient$7,500
YAMHILL COUNTY EARLY LEARNING HUB$7,500
CENTRAL OREGON COMMUNITY COLLEGE$7,000
CLATSOP COMMUNITY COLLEGE$7,000
LANE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$7,000
SOUTHWEST OREGON CC FOUNDATION$7,000
Individual grant recipient$7,000
UMPQUA COMMUNITY COLLEGE$7,000
COLUMBIA GORGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE$7,000
LINN BENTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE$7,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $249k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BAY AREA RESCUE MISSION: $10k → 9%COMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION: $8k → 8%WILLAMETTE VALLEY HOSPICE: $22k → 13%COMMUNITY KINDNESS OF EASTERN OREGO: $5k → 15%MAYDAY INC: $5k → 16%TREASURE VALLEY CHILDRENS RELIEF NURSERY: $1k → 20%ALBANY HELPING HANDS: $11k → 13%GOLD BEACH COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 14%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER PORTLAND: $12k → 8%HENDERSON HOUSE: $18k → 11%HANDICAP AWARENESS SUPPORT LEAGUE: $7k → 18%ADELANTE MUJERES: $10k → 8%SAVING GRACE: $1k → 10%ADELANTE MUJERES: $1k → 8%CAMP YAKETY YAK: $2k → 8%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALEM KEIZER: $5k → 14%HOME LIFE INC: $15k → 18%WOMEN'S CRISIS SUPPORT TEAM: $2k → 18%ADELANTE MUJERES: $1k → 8%HOME LIFE INC: $3k → 18%ABC HOUSE: $10k → 13%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALEM KEIZER: $2k → 14%HOME LIFE INC: $2k → 18%JULIETTE'S HOUSE: $5k → 11%THE SAFE PROJECT: $5k → 17%STRENGTHENING RURAL FAMILIES: $7k → 18%PHILOMATH COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 18%FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS: $1k → 14%PHILOMATH COMMUNITY SERVICES: $2k → 18%PHILOMATH COMMUNITY SERVICES: $2k → 18%NEIGHBORHOOD IMPACT: $1k → 10%PHILOMATH YOUTH ACTIVITES CLUB: $1k → 18%ABC HOUSE: $1k → 13%ABC HOUSE: $1k → 13%PHILOMATH YOUTH ACTIVITES CLUB: $1k → 18%LATINO COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $10k → 10%ABC HOUSE: $1k → 13%STORE TO DOOR: $11k → 12%LIBERTY HOUSE: $10k → 14%STRENGTHENING RURAL FAMILIES: $1k → 18%CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY: $10k → 14%DRESS FOR SUCCESS: $10k → 12%CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY: $2k → 14%CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY: $2k → 14%LIBERTY HOUSE: $2k → 14%MAINSPRING PORTLAND: $1k → 12%NEIGHBORHOOD IMPACT: $1k → 10%FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS: $1k → 14%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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$802k · 47 repeat orgs$639k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

47 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 39 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
109

Total granted

$802k
$523k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+26%

Still filing today

74%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $116k 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 ServicesAnimalsFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterHealthEducationOther
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

  • LC
    LANE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $47k · revenue +108%
  • MF
    MARION-POLK FOOD SHARE INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $43k · revenue +67%
  • CO
    CENTRAL OREGON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2022 · $38k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • WV
    WILLAMETTE VITAL HEALTH
    one grant, 2021 · $22k · revenue -10%
  • SC
    SANTIAM CANYON WILDFIRE RELIEF FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY OF CENTRAL OREGON
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +13%
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
Community Sharing Program

Provide South Lane County community members with basic needs resources, life skills, and resources toward self-sufficiency.

Human Services
2
Youth Empowerment Shelter

To provide youth in crisis a place of physical and emotional safety while assisting them to build positive relationships and develop their individual potentials.

Youth Development
3
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
4
Child Advocacy Center of Coos County

To protect children, support families, and bring hope and healing through compassionate, coordinated, and child-centered advocacy, through specialized programs and services, such as multi-disciplinary team coordination, forensic…

Crime & Legal
5
Thrive Central Oregon

To connect individuals to the housing and community resources they seek.

Human Services
6
South Corvallis Food Bank

Increase sustainable food security in South Corvallis by providing emergency food and supplies.

Food & Nutrition
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
Clackamas Service Center

Clackamas service center is an inclusive, "one-stop" community center for individuals and families seeking food relief and resources for improved health, dignity, and stability.

Human Services
9
Every Child Central Oregon

Mobilizing the community to uplift children and families impacted by foster care in Oregon.

Human Services
10
Family Promise of Tualatin Valley

To provide families and individuals experiencing homelessness temporary emergency shelter with intensive case management support while they work toward the goal of safe, stable and affordable housing.

Human Services
11
Operation Nightwatch - Portland

Operation Nightwatch provides nighttime hospitality for Portland's unhoused population. For a few evenings a week, staff and volunteers at thehospitality center provide a safe place, food, socks, blankets, medical care, and welcome our…

Health
12
Gleaners of Clackamas County Inc

Provide food to low income families.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eugene Mission Inc; the most unlike its peers is Willamette Valley First Responder Chaplains. 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

111 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 111 of the 196 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)
31
Early backer (in before they grew)
109/111
Grantees still filing
77/111
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CLATSOP COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $53,000 · OtherCLATSOP COMMUNITY COLLEGESOUTHWEST OREGON CC FOUNDATION: $52,000 · OtherSOUTHWEST OREGON CC FOUNDATIONLinn-Benton Community College: $52,000 · OtherLinn-Benton Community CollegeCOLUMBIA GORGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $47,000 · OtherCOLUMBIA GORGE COMMUNITY COLLEGEUMPQUA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $40,000 · OtherCENTRAL OREGON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $38,000 · Other+121 more: $534,196 · Other+121 moreWILLAMETTE VITAL HEALTH: $22,000 · Human ServicesWILLAMETTE VITAL HE…HOME LIFE INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesHOME LIFE INCFAMILY CRISIS SHELTER AND SERVICES FOR YAMHILL COUNTY INC: $18,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY CRISIS SHELT…CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY: $15,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR HOPE AND…ABC HOUSE INC: $13,000 · Human ServicesADELANTE MUJERES: $12,000 · Human ServicesASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER PORTLAND: $12,000 · Human ServicesLIBERTY HOUSE: $11,500 · Human ServicesALBANY HELPING HANDS: $11,000 · Human ServicesSTORE TO DOOR: $11,000 · Human ServicesLATINO COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesBAY AREA RESCUE MISSION: $10,000 · Human ServicesDress for Success Oregon: $10,000 · Human ServicesPHILOMATH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $8,500 · Human Services+18 more: $64,998 · Human Services+18 moreEUGENE MISSION INC: $35,490 · Housing & ShelterBETHLEHEM INN: $23,000 · Housing & ShelterHARRIETS HOUSING: $14,000 · Housing & ShelterINTEGRATED SUPPORTS FOR LIVING INC: $13,500 · Housing & ShelterFARMWORKER HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterJACKSON STREET YOUTH SHELTER INC: $5,000 · Housing & Shelter+2 more: $3,000 · Housing & ShelterMARION-POLK FOOD SHARE INC: $43,000 · Food & NutritionLA PINE COMMUNITY KITCHEN: $20,000 · Food & NutritionURBAN GLEANERS: $6,000 · Food & NutritionTHE GIVING PLATE: $3,000 · Food & Nutrition+5 more: $8,000 · Food & NutritionLANE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $47,000 · EducationSUNNY WOLF CHARTER SCHOOL: $6,400 · EducationMID-VALLEY LITERACY CENTER: $6,000 · EducationCORBAN UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · Education+2 more: $4,000 · EducationHUMANE SOCIETY OF CENTRAL OREGON: $20,000 · AnimalsPORTLAND ANIMAL WELFARE TEAM: $20,000 · AnimalsSAVING GRACE INC DBA SAVING GRACE HUMANE SOCIETY: $11,000 · AnimalsCOMPANION ANIMAL MEDICAL PROJECT: $10,000 · AnimalsWILD RIVERS ANIMAL RESCUE: $2,400 · Animals+4 more: $4,500 · AnimalsFosterClub Inc: $23,000 · Youth DevelopmentSOUTHSIDE YOUTH OUTREACH INC: $13,000 · Youth DevelopmentCrook County Kids Inc: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF BEND INC: $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS BUILD: $4,000 · Youth Development
Other$816,196Human Services$248,998Housing & Shelter$103,990Food & Nutrition$80,000Education$68,400Animals$67,900Youth Development$57,500

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 budgetLANE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $47,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetMARION-POLK FOOD SHARE INC: $43,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL OREGON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $38,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetEUGENE MISSION INC: $35,490 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBETHLEHEM INN: $23,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetFosterClub Inc: $23,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetWILLAMETTE VITAL HEALTH: $22,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOME LIFE INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF CENTRAL OREGON: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPORTLAND ANIMAL WELFARE TEAM: $20,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetLA PINE COMMUNITY KITCHEN: $20,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetFAMILY CRISIS SHELTER AND SERVICES FOR YAMHILL COUNTY INC: $18,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY: $15,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSISTERS OF THE ROAD INC: $14,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetSALEM POLICE FOUNDATION: $14,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetHARRIETS HOUSING: $14,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetINTEGRATED SUPPORTS FOR LIVING INC: $13,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHSIDE YOUTH OUTREACH INC: $13,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetABC HOUSE INC: $13,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetADELANTE MUJERES: $12,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLIBERTY HOUSE: $11,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSAVING GRACE INC DBA SAVING GRACE HUMANE SOCIETY: $11,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetALBANY HELPING HANDS: $11,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWILLAMETTE VALLEY FIRST RESPONDER CHAPLAINS: $11,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetTHE HARBOR INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTORE TO DOOR: $11,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCENTRAL OREGON VETERANS RANCH: $11,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetOUTSIDE IN: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCrook County Kids Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetLATINO COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFARMWORKER HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBAY AREA RESCUE MISSION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDress for Success Oregon: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMPANION ANIMAL MEDICAL PROJECT: $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF BEND: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetQuadriplegics United Against Dependency Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPHILOMATH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $8,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTRENGTHENING RURAL FAMILIES: $8,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetFOOD ROOTS: $8,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF BEND INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetREACH NORTHWEST: $7,500 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetTHE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetHandicap Awareness & Support League (HASL) Inc: $6,998 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALEM-KEIZER OREGON: $6,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSUNNY WOLF CHARTER SCHOOL: $6,400 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMID-VALLEY LITERACY CENTER: $6,000 over 1y, 4.0% 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.

  • Who funds LANE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MARION-POLK FOOD SHARE INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL OREGON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EUGENE MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds BETHLEHEM INN ↗
  • Who funds FosterClub Inc ↗
  • Who funds WILLAMETTE VITAL HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds HOME LIFE INC ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF CENTRAL OREGON ↗
  • Who funds PORTLAND ANIMAL WELFARE TEAM ↗
  • Who funds LA PINE COMMUNITY KITCHEN ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY CRISIS SHELTER AND SERVICES FOR YAMHILL COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY ↗
  • Who funds SISTERS OF THE ROAD INC ↗
  • Who funds SALEM POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HARRIETS HOUSING ↗
  • Who funds INTEGRATED SUPPORTS FOR LIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHSIDE YOUTH OUTREACH INC ↗
  • Who funds ABC HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds WHEEL TO WALK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ADELANTE MUJERES ↗
  • Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER PORTLAND ↗
  • Who funds LIBERTY HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds SAVING GRACE INC DBA SAVING GRACE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds ALBANY HELPING HANDS ↗
  • Who funds WILLAMETTE VALLEY FIRST RESPONDER CHAPLAINS ↗
  • Who funds THE HARBOR INC ↗

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 Autzen FoundationThe Ford Family Found…Braemar Charitable Tr…Maybelle Clark Macdon…The Roundhouse Founda…The Collins FoundationMarie Lamfrom Charita…The Reser Family Foun…OCF Joseph E Weston P…The Robert D and Marc…Onpoint Community Cre…
The Oregon Community FoundationOR96× affinity86 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · Braemar Charitable Trust · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · The Roundhouse Foundation · The Collins Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Reser Family Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Robert D and Marcia H Randall Charitable Trust · Onpoint Community Credit Union

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 390%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 25%
  • Northwest Youth Corps: 100% of income from government
  • Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Dept: 100% of income from government
  • Home Life Inc: 95% of income from government
  • Mayday Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Handicap Awareness & Support League (Hasl) Inc: 86% of income from government
  • Oregon Coast Community Action: 85% of income from government
  • Canyon Crisis and Resource Center: 81% of income from government
  • Treasure Valley Children's Relief Nurser: 70% of income from government
  • Family Building Blocks Inc: 68% of income from government
  • Center for Hope and Safety: 68% of income from government
  • Neighborimpact: 68% of income from government
  • Community Action Organization: 67% of income from government
  • The Harbor Inc: 66% of income from government
  • Jackson Street Youth Shelter Inc: 59% of income from government
  • The Safe Project: 54% of income from government
  • Saving Grace: 48% of income from government
  • Central Oregon Veterans Ranch: 45% of income from government
  • Strengthening Rural Families: 43% of income from government
  • Outside in: 33% of income from government
  • Adelante Mujeres: 31% of income from government
  • Heart of Oregon Corps Inc: 28% of income from government
  • Sunny Wolf Charter School: 26% of income from government
  • Abc House Inc: 25% of income from government
  • Liberty House: 23% of income from government
  • Family Resource Center of Central Oregon: 22% of income from government
  • FosterClub Inc: 21% of income from government
  • Philomath Youth Activities Club: 21% of income from government
  • New Avenues for Youth Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Boys and Girls Clubs of Bend Inc: 16% of income from government
  • Latino Community Association: 11% of income from government
  • Healing Reins Equine Assisted Services Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Albany Helping Hands: 8% of income from government
  • Barnstormers Theatre: 8% of income from government
  • Farmworker Housing Development Corporation: 7% of income from government
  • Marion-Polk Food Share Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Food for Lane County: 5% of income from government
  • Southern Oregon Guild: 3% of income from government
  • Corban University: 3% of income from government
  • Trillium Family Services: 2% of income from government
  • Pentacle Theatre Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Grants Pass Museum of Art: 2% of income from government
  • Food Roots: 0% of income from government
  • Mid-Valley Literacy Center: 0% of income from government
  • Bethlehem Inn: 0% of income from government
  • Willamette Vital Health: 0% of income from government
  • Seeding Justice: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
39get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
15rely 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.
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How do I get to Barbara Emily Knudson Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Barbara Emily Knudson 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 196 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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