How much did BENTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 40% of BENTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

parkchildren'smaintenancesocialruraleducationalchildren

2019

foodtraining

2020

wildlifeenvironmentlives childrenstaffingfood distributionwayhealthy

2021

changedinclusive corvallis-bentonwaycorvallis-benton libraryyouth programminghealthytogether

2022

blackbitsyndromedisorderchildren adultsadults linnconstruction

2023

health caresupportinpantryfood shareagesequipmentbooks

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k8 grants · $56k
$10k–50k35 grants · $531k
$50k–250k5 grants · $332k
$250k+1 grant · $265k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$38M

Total assets

Largest grants

VINA MOSES CENTER$265,000
OSU COLLEGE OF EARTH OCEAN AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES$110,436
THE ARTS CENTER$59,567
GRACE CENTER FOR ADULT DAY SERVICES INC$56,656
STRENGTHENING RURAL FAMILIES$55,300
PSD 17J-PHILOMATH COMMUNITY POOL$50,069
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CORVALLIS$35,270
BENTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$33,403
MYTH MEDIA$32,000
LINN-BENTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC$30,600
OLD MILL CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES$30,000
STONE SOUP CORVALLIS INC$30,000
SOUTHSIDE YOUTH OUTREACH INC$27,879
ABC HOUSE$20,000
CHURCH OF THE GOOD SAMARITAN$16,195

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$6.8M · 59 repeat orgs$533k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +69% since the first grant, against +42% for the ones you funded once.

59 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$6.8M

$456k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%

+42%

Still filing today

81%

72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther

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

OLD MILL CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
8× · 2017–2024 · $420k · revenue +54%
SR
STRENGTHENING RURAL FAMILIES
8× · 2017–2024 · $397k · revenue +158%
VM
VINA MOSES CENTER
8× · 2017–2024 · $352k · revenue +103%

Funded once

BC
BENTON COUNTY
one grant, 2022 · $100k
BO
BLACK OREGON LAND TRUSTgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +25%
SF
SEEDS FOR THE SOL INC
one grant, 2022 · $30k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Lane County Community Foundation

Community foundation

Philanthropy

Community Lendingworks

Strengthening oregon communities through personal and business lending.

Community Improvement

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

Oregon Agricultural Trust

Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.

Environment

Clackamas River Basin Council Inc

The council is organized to foster partnerships for clean water, healthy streams, and abundant fisheries in the Clackamas Watershed

Environment

Gleaners of Clackamas County Inc

Provide food to low income families.

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Community Sharing Program

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

Human Services

Columbia Pacific Food Bank

Columbia pacific food bank is the regional food distribution center for columbia county, oregon and local food pantry for the community of saint helens.

Food & Nutrition

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

Central Oregon Health Quality Alliance

Empowering innovation and collaboration with the independent healthcare professionals providing care to patients every day.

Health

Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council

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…

Environment

Priority Oregon

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

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Corvallis Community Children's Center and the most unlike its peers is Ashbrook Independent School. 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 30 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/103

the rest of the field

283/3,446

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.

05the grantee network

83 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

81/83

Grantees still filing

66/83

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$3,265,837Human Services$2,309,643Youth Development$625,382Food & Nutrition$370,983Arts & Culture$313,578Education$261,602Health$148,087

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.

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.

The Oregon Community FoundationOR73.8× affinity61 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · United Way of Linn Benton And · Good Samaritan Hospital Corvallis · The Ford Family Foundation · Linn Benton Food Share · Ralph Hull Foundation · Chambers Family Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Braemar Charitable Trust · Mario and Alma Pastega Family Foundation · The Collins Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust

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 organisation 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

13get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SOUTH BENTON FOOD PANTRY.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~-10 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 4 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 463567773 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on SOUTH BENTON FOOD PANTRY, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly -10 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 36% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Benton Community Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Benton Community Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

BENTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

83 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Benton Community Foundation?

More from the funding graph

BENTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

83 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Benton Community Foundation?

More from the funding graph