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Benton Community Foundation
The foundation's mission is to enhance our community through philanthropy.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 60 grants below total $1,498,687 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,882,184 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $383,497 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $90k
- $10k–50k43 grants · $835k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $574k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE ARTS CENTER | $207,391 |
| UNITY SHELTER | $141,000 |
| OSU COLLEGE OF EARTH OCEAN AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES | $111,901 |
| GRACE CENTER FOR ADULT DAY SERVICES | $59,872 |
| STRENGTHENING RURAL FAMILIES | $53,800 |
| CASCADE PACIFIC RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT | $49,400 |
| PSD 17J - PHILOMATH COMMUNITY POOL | $48,660 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CORVALLIS | $44,004 |
| STONE SOUP CORVALLIS | $39,449 |
| WHITESIDE THEATRE FOUNDATION | $38,484 |
| SOUTHSIDE YOUTH OUTREACH INC | $36,346 |
| BENTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $30,506 |
| LINN BENTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $29,500 |
| OLD MILL CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC | $28,643 |
| SOUTH BENTON FOOD PANTRY | $28,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $2.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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 +51% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
68 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $137k 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
- SRSTRENGTHENING RURAL FAMILIES9× · 2017–2025 · $451k · revenue +192%
OLD MILL CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $449k · revenue +61%- VMVINA MOSES WELFARE CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $367k · revenue +103%
Funded once
- BCBENTON COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENTone grant, 2022 · $100k
- BOBLACK OREGON LAND TRUSTone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -52%
- SFSeeds for the Sol Incone grant, 2022 · $30k
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 agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
To develop economically vibrant, inclusive communities by providing accessible loans that help community members, small businesses, and affordable housing developers reach their goals regardless of income level, racial identity or location.
The Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council is a local nonprofit organization that strives to enhance and restore habitat for fish and wildlife our community and for future generations. Our Board of Directors consists of seven members with…
We provide a voice for an effective and accessible behavioral health system of care for Oregonians.
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 council is organized to foster partnerships for clean water, healthy streams, and abundant fisheries in the Clackamas Watershed
Promote economic and social fairness by working in coalition open a broad range of issues and activities in the public arena
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…
LCSNW partners with individuals, families and communities for health, justice and hope. LCSNW provides a wide variety of social services in Oregon, Washington and Idaho and serves people of all ages, cultures and faiths.
Building a better Siuslaw Community together
To support public policies that will help oregon's economy and create new family supporting jobs in oregon.
Cascades academy is an engaged, vibrant community that weaves challenging academics with experiential learning to inspire socially responsible individuals ready for a diverse and changing world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Corvallis-Benton County Council of Religious Organizations Inc and the most unlike its peers is Benton County 4-H Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
91 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. 91 of the 116 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CORVALLIS INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE CENTER FOR ADULT DAY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds STRENGTHENING RURAL FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds OLD MILL CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds VINA MOSES WELFARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CORVALLIS ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds South Benton Resource Center ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds UNITY SHELTER ↗
- Who funds BENTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds STONE SOUP CORVALLIS INC ↗
- Who funds CORVALLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHSIDE YOUTH OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds Linn-Benton Community College Foundation ↗
- Who funds ABC HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Myth Media ↗
- Who funds CASA-VOICES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds CORVALLIS-BENTON COUNTY COUNCIL OF RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Friends and Foundation of the Corvallis- Benton County Public Library ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION CORVALLIS ↗
- Who funds CORVALLIS HOMELESS SHELTER COALITION ↗
- Who funds JACKSON STREET YOUTH SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds Cascade Pacific RC&D Area ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BENTON & LINCOLN COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds Center Against Rape and Domestic Violence ↗
- Who funds PHILOMATH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PHILOMATH YOUTH ACTIVITIES CLUB ↗
- Who funds CASA LATINOS UNIDOS DE BENTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CORVALLIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BENTON HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds CHINTIMINI WILDLIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CORVALLIS ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER ↗
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 · Good Samaritan Hospital Corvallis · Ralph Hull Foundation · Chambers Family Foundation · Mario and Alma Pastega Family Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · United Way of Linn Benton and Lincoln Counties · Linn Benton Food Share · The Autzen Foundation · Franklin Conklin Foundation · The Collins Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund
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 Benton Community 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.
- Marys River Watershed Council — 100% of income from government
- Home Life Inc — 95% of income from government
- Housing Our Veterans Inc — 67% of income from government
- Bridges Oregon Inc — 60% of income from government
- Jackson Street Youth Shelter Inc — 59% of income from government
- Pathfinder Clubhouse — 44% of income from government
- Strengthening Rural Families — 43% of income from government
- Unity Shelter — 42% of income from government
- Old Mill Center for Children and Families Inc — 38% of income from government
- Corvallis Multicultural Literacy Center — 37% of income from government
- Casa Latinos Unidos De Benton County — 36% of income from government
- A Family for Every Child — 33% of income from government
- Greenbelt Land Trust — 31% of income from government
- The Arc of Benton County Inc — 26% of income from government
- Abc House Inc — 25% of income from government
- Boost Oregon — 22% of income from government
- Ophelia's Place — 22% of income from government
- Philomath Youth Activities Club — 21% of income from government
- Casa-Voices for Children — 20% of income from government
- Corvallis Environmental Center — 18% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Corvallis Inc — 16% of income from government
- Ecotrust — 14% of income from government
- Corvallis Homeless Shelter Coalition — 11% of income from government
- Corvallis Neighborhood Housing Services Inc — 11% of income from government
- Whiteside Theatre Foundation — 10% of income from government
- Corvallis Daytime Drop-in Center — 8% of income from government
- Community Outreach Inc — 7% of income from government
- Girl Scouts of Oregon & Sw Washington Inc — 5% of income from government
- Adaptive Riding Institute Dba Horses of Hope Oregon — 5% of income from government
- Hunters of Color — 4% of income from government
- Smart Reading — 3% of income from government
- Trillium Family Services — 2% of income from government
- Corvallis Youth Symphony Assoc — 2% of income from government
- Corvallis Arts Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Linn-Benton Community College Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Oregon State University Foundation — 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.