How much did Community Action Organization grant in FY2023?

Human Services$1.9MHousing & Shelter$1.2MCommunity Improvement$203kPhilanthropy$168kEmployment$125kArts & Culture$96kCivil Rights$81kHealth$64kFood & Nutrition$28kOther$2.4M

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

2019

eligible households

2020

eligible households

2021

eligibile householdseligible households

2022

eligibile householdseligible households

2023

food accesslow income

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

03FY2023 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

$10k–50k16 grants · $352k
$50k–250k8 grants · $747k

$31,406

Median grant

States reached

$13M

Total assets

Largest grants

EQUITABLE GIVING CIRCLE$153,773
ASHA HOPE AMANAKI$132,281
LUTHERN COMMUNITY SERVICES NW$108,379
KALO HCC$95,843
UMOYA RELEIF FOUNDATION$75,353
CENTRO CULTURAL$68,734
HOMEPLATE YOUTH SERVICES$57,580
IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE COMMUNITY$54,637
ASSIST$46,017
ADELANTE MUJERES$35,138
WE CARE$32,951
BRIDGE-PALOMA$31,406
MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE$28,125
PACKED WITH PRIDE$19,028
DE ROSE COMMUNITY BRIDGE$17,966

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 (FY18–23, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8% — the area typically sits at 9%. 11% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$5.1M · 16 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

16 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2023, 10 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.1M

$296k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+140%

+173%

Still filing today

88%

43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $850k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyHealthArts & CultureOther

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

GN
GOOD NEIGHBOR CENTERS
4× · 2018–2021 · $742k · revenue +108%
CC
CENTRO CULTURAL
3× · 2021–2023 · $669k · revenue +740%
DV
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER
5× · 2018–2022 · $565k · revenue +140%

Funded once

UO
UNITE OREGONgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $81k · revenue +173%
ME
MUSLIM EDUCATIONAL TRUST
one grant, 2022 · $76k
A
APANOgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $65k · revenue +101%

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.

Welcome Home Coalition

Welcome Home is an alliance in the Portland Metropolitan Region that uses its collective resources to build a movement for housing justice. We believe that everyone deserves to have an affordable and safe home in a neighborhood of their…

Community Improvement

Resource Connections of Oregon

Assisting individuals with developmental disabilities to define, direct and pursue the life they choose through planning and coordination of services and resources.

Health

House Our Neighbors

House Our Neighbors envisions a future where all people can afford to live and thrive in vibrant, cohesive, and climate resilient communities. To achieve this, we develop, advocate, and mobilize for policy to realize social housing for the…

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Pueblo Unido Pdx

Connect immigrants to legal, social, and interpretation services.

Human Services

Horn of Africa Services

Provide support and advocacy services in response to health, employment, housing, education, and other social needs for East Africa refugees and immigrants from Djibouti , Ethiopia, Somalia , Eritrea and Sudan living in greater Seattle area

Human Services

Somali Empowerment Circle

Sec provides culturally sensitive mental health resources, connects clients to professionals, offers education, emotional support, promotes maternal health, early childhold outcomes, and advocates for housing security for somali…

Community Improvement

Ethiopian and Eritrean Cultural and Resource Cente

To provide culturally specific services to Ethiopian, Eritrean and other African refugees help newly immigrated individuals residing in Oregon to successfully integrate, especially in the areas of health, education and economic assistance.

Arts & Culture

Plaza De Nuestra Comunidad

The organization is a bilingual multi-cultural agency dedicated to the empowerment of the latinx and immigrant community in lane county, oregon.

Health

Access to Our Community

To protect housing and prevent eviction, offer services, programs, and engage in other community activities that promote and support the immigrant

Community Improvement

African Refugee Immigrant Organization

Promoting and supporting the economic and social health and wellbeing of african immigrants and refugees in the state of oregon. facilitate the full and complete social integratioin, emotional adjustment and stability, and the cultural…

Community Improvement

El Centro Nw

The mission of El Centro NW is to unite and empower the Hispanic community by providing a space, a voice, and a way to access academic, financial, health, and cultural resources.

Arts & Culture

Refugee Care Collective Northwest

Provide care to refugee families.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Immigrant and Refugee Community and the most unlike its peers is Meals On Wheels People Inc. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%1/41

the rest of the field

11%

880/7,921

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

33 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)

32/33

Grantees still filing

27/33

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$2,613,973Human Services$1,873,617Housing & Shelter$1,165,308Community Improvement$202,626Philanthropy$167,836Employment$124,523Arts & Culture$95,843

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 FoundationOR48.7× affinity28 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 · Careoregon Inc · Meyer Memorial Trust · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Seeding Justice · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation · Worksystems Inc · Oregon Consumer Justice · United Way of the Columbia-Willamette · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Umpqua Bank Charitable 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 organisation Community Action Organization 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

9get no government money at all

2rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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: FAMILY PROMISE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

high risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 311682683 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 FAMILY PROMISE, 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

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 44% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
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 Community Action Organization?

Find your warmest path to Community Action Organization 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.

Community Action Organization

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

33 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Community Action Organization?

More from the funding graph

Community Action Organization

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

33 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Community Action Organization?

More from the funding graph