How much does Community Action Organization give?

Community Action Organization reported 8 itemized grants totaling $677,249, out of $19,384,325 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Community Action Organization fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (50%), Human Services (28%), Food & Nutrition (10%).

Who are Community Action Organization's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: East Washington County Shelter Partnership Council Inc ($1.4M), Open Door Counseling Center ($929k), Domestic Violence Resource Center ($879k).

Does Community Action Organization fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Community Action Organization?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Oregon Community Foundation, Careoregon Inc, Meyer Memorial Trust.

Where is Community Action Organization based?

Community Action Organization is based in OR.

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Oregon · Public charity

Community Action Organization

Community action leads the way to eliminate conditions of poverty and creates opportunities for people and communities to thrive.

$19M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 8
Itemized grants FY2025: 7
Organizations funded FY2024: 29%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $677k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $70,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $161,177
Organizations funded a year: 7 to 24; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $12M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Community Action Organization funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $270k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementEmploymentOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	8	$677k	0%
FY2024	7	$1.1M	29%
FY2023	24	$1.1M	75%
FY2022	16	$1.9M	44%
FY2021	12	$1.3M	33%
FY2020	11	$799k	45%
FY2019	7	$680k	0%
FY2018	7	$511k	0%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$4.3MHuman Services$2.4MFood & Nutrition$839kCommunity Improvement$792kEmployment$125kCivil Rights$81kHealth$46k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
East Washington County Shelter Partnership Council Inc	$1,354,763	7	25%
Open Door Counseling Center	$929,242	8	27%
Domestic Violence Resource Center	$878,757	8	9%
Centro Cultural of Washington County	$668,635	3	4%
Project Homeless Connect Washington County	$497,710	4	7%
New Narrative	$465,441	3	n/a
Just Compassion of East Washington County	$461,816	5	10%
Homeplate Youth Services	$431,059	8	10%
Family Promise of Washington County	$237,947	5	44%
Family Promise of Greater Washington County	$231,989	2	11%

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All grantees of Community Action Organization by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
East Washington County Shelter Partnership Council Inc	$1,354,763	7	25%
Open Door Counseling Center	$929,242	8	27%
Domestic Violence Resource Center	$878,757	8	9%
Centro Cultural of Washington County	$668,635	3	4%
Project Homeless Connect Washington County	$497,710	4	7%
New Narrative	$465,441	3	n/a
Just Compassion of East Washington County	$461,816	5	10%
Homeplate Youth Services	$431,059	8	10%
Family Promise of Washington County	$237,947	5	44%
Family Promise of Greater Washington County	$231,989	2	11%
New Narrative	$225,965	3	1%
The Boys & Girls Aid Society of Oregon	$218,688	6	1%
The Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization	$182,238	3	0%
Equitable Giving Circle	$153,773	1	14%
Asha Hope Amanaki	$132,281	1	n/a
Adelante Mujeres	$131,818	2	1%
Forest Grove Foundation Inc	$127,273	2	11%
Worksystems Inc	$124,523	2	0%
Bienestar Inc	$111,277	2	1%
Lutheran Community Services Northwest	$108,379	1	0%
Lifeworks Nw	$107,773	1	0%
Ka Aha Lahui O Olekona	$95,843	1	28%
Center for Intercultural Organizing	$81,086	1	2%
Muslim Educational Trust Inc	$75,572	1	n/a
Umoya Relief Foundation	$75,353	1	51%
Apano Communities United Fund	$64,600	1	1%
Center for African Immigrants and Refugees Organization	$48,572	1	1%
Assist	$46,017	1	8%
We Care	$32,951	1	9%
Bridge Pomoja	$31,406	1	4%
Meals on Wheels People Inc	$28,125	1	0%
The Foundation for Tigard Tualatin Schools	$19,028	1	1%
De Rose Community Bridge and Holistic Wellness	$17,966	1	3%
St Matthew Lutheran Church	$17,875	1	n/a
Mercy Connections	$16,781	1	18%
Tigard United Methodist Church	$16,049	1	n/a
Somali American Council of Oregon	$15,739	1	1%
Cool Islam Corporation	$14,875	1	3%
Oregon Chinese Coalition	$14,063	1	3%
Islamic of Social Service of Oregon	$13,620	1	3%
St Anthony Catholic Church	$11,100	1	n/a
Calvin Presbyterian Church	$7,871	1	n/a
St Francis Church	$6,846	1	n/a

Community Action Organization supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 35 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 35.

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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 FoundationOR51.5× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · Careoregon Inc · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Collins Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · United Way of the Columbia-Willamette · Seeding Justice · Worksystems Inc · Health Share of Oregon · Oregon Consumer Justice · 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.

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About Community Action Organization

How much does Community Action Organization give?: Community Action Organization reported 8 itemized grants totaling $677,249, out of $19,384,325 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Community Action Organization fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (50%), Human Services (28%), Food & Nutrition (10%).
Who are Community Action Organization's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: East Washington County Shelter Partnership Council Inc ($1.4M), Open Door Counseling Center ($929k), Domestic Violence Resource Center ($879k).
Does Community Action Organization fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Community Action Organization?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Oregon Community Foundation, Careoregon Inc, Meyer Memorial Trust.
Where is Community Action Organization based?: Community Action Organization is based in OR.