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Community Action Organization

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

$19M
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$161k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $677,249, the rows itemized in this filing. The $19,384,325 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $18,707,076 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $48k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $629k
$70,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OPEN DOOR COUNSELING CENTER$161,177
EAST WASHINGTON COUNTY SHELTER PARTNERSHIP COUNCIL DBA GOOD NEIGHBOR CENTER$128,000
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER$88,506
FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER WASHINGTON COUNTY$70,000
JUST COMPASSION OF EAST WASHINGTON COUNTY$60,850
PROJECT HOMELESS CONNECT WASHINGTON COUNTY$60,850
BOYS AND GIRLS AID$59,997
HOMEPLATE YOUTH SERVICES$47,869
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 (FY17–25, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 12% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER: $89k → 8%BOYS AND GIRLS AID: $60k → 12%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER: $127k → 8%BOYS AND GIRLS AID SOCIETY: $41k → 12%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER: $125k → 8%BOYS & GIRLS AID: $40k → 12%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER: $125k → 8%ISLAMIC SOCIAL SERVICES OF OR: $14k → 12%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER: $115k → 8%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER: $113k → 8%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CT: $110k → 8%BOYS AND GIRLS AID SOCIETY: $36k → 12%BOYS AND GIRLS AID SOCIETY: $28k → 12%BOYS AND GIRLS AID SOCIETY: $14k → 12%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER: $75k → 8%HOMEPLATE YOUTH SERVICES: $75k → 8%HOMEPLATE YOUTH SERVICES: $18k → 8%HOMEPLATE YOUTH SERVICES: $8k → 8%LUTHERN COMMUNITY SERVICES NW: $108k → 8%FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER WASHINGTON COUNTY: $70k → 8%HOMEPLATE YOUTH SERVICES: $58k → 8%CAIROCENTER FOR AFRICAN IMMIGRANTS: $49k → 8%HOMEPLATE YOUTH SERVICES: $48k → 8%WE CARE: $33k → 8%MERCY CONNECTIONS INC: $17k → 8%LUKE-DORF: $109k → 8%JUST COMPASSION OF EAST WASHINGTON COUNTY: $61k → 8%LUKE-DORF: $61k → 8%LUKE-DORF: $57k → 8%ADELANTE MUJERES: $97k → 8%ADELANTE MUJERES: $35k → 8%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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.3M · 17 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +138% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
26

Total granted

$7.3M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+138%
+15%

Still filing today

88%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterHealthCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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

  • EW
    EAST WASHINGTON COUNTY SHELTER PARTNERSHIP COUNCIL INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +242%
  • OD
    OPEN DOOR COUNSELING CENTER
    8× · 2017–2025 · $929k · revenue ×32 · 27% of their budget
  • DV
    DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER
    8× · 2017–2025 · $879k · revenue +138%

Funded once

  • EQUITABLE GIVING CIRCLEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $154k · revenue +55%
  • AH
    ASHA HOPE AMANAKI
    one grant, 2023 · $132k
  • LC
    Lutheran Community Services Northwestgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $108k · revenue +32%
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
Welcome Home Coalition

Welcome Home is a diverse coalition in the Portland metropolitan region that uses its collective resources to create healthy communities by ensuring everyone has an affordable and stable home. We use community education and collaboration…

Community Improvement
2
Urban League of Portland Inc

To help empower african americans and others achieve equality in education, employment, and economic security.

Human Services
3
Oregon Human Development Corporation

To promote economic and social advancement of farmworkers and disadvantaged individuals through the provision of education, training, advocacy and services that enhance self-sufficiency.

Human Services
4
Impact Nw

Impact nw prevents homelessness by supporting people as they navigate their journey to stability and strength. founded in portland in 1966, impact nw now serves 26,944 people a year in the greater portland, oregon metro area, including…

Human Services
5
Immigrant Womens Community Center

The mission of the Immigrant Women's Community Center is to provide community building, training, and direct services, primarily for immigrant women and their families, promoting financial independence, emotional health, and physical…

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6
Thrive Central Oregon

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

Human Services
7
Four Rivers Welcome Center

The Welcome Center assists refugee immigrants in Malheur County to find the resources they need to build successful futures in our community.

Human Services
8
Seattle Indian Center
Human Services
9
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
10
Cultivate Initiatives

The organization collectively works alongside those on the margins to empower individuals and communities through an inclusive range of services and support in east portland.

Housing & Shelter
11
Ywca of Greater Portland

To eliminate racism, empower women and promote peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.

Human Services
12
Reclaiming Our Greatness

Reclaiming Our Greatness's mission is to create transformative outcomes for the families we serve by providing proactive case management coupled with creative resource development.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Just Compassion of East Washington County; the most unlike its peers is Mercy Connections. 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

35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 43 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/35
Grantees still filing
26/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OPEN DOOR COUNSELING CENTER: $929,242 · OtherOPEN DOOR COUNSELING CENTERCENTRO CULTURAL OF WASHINGTON COUNTY: $668,635 · OtherCENTRO CULTURAL OF WASHINGTON COUNTYNEW NARRATIVE: $465,441 · OtherNEW NARRATIVEFAMILY PROMISE OF WASHINGTON COUNTY: $237,947 · OtherFAMILY PROMISE OF WASHINGTON COUNTYTHE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION: $182,238 · OtherTHE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE COMMUNITY ORGA…ASHA HOPE AMANAKI: $132,281 · Other+13 more: $454,609 · Other+13 moreDOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER: $878,757 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTERJUST COMPASSION OF EAST WASHINGTON COUNTY: $461,816 · Human ServicesJUST COMPASSION OF EAST WASHINGTON CO…HOMEPLATE YOUTH SERVICES: $431,059 · Human ServicesHOMEPLATE YOUTH SERVICESFAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER WASHINGTON COUNTY: $231,989 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER WASHINGTON …NEW NARRATIVE: $225,965 · Human ServicesNEW NARRATIVETHE BOYS & GIRLS AID SOCIETY OF OREGON: $218,688 · Human ServicesTHE BOYS & GIRLS AID SOCIETY OF OREGO…ADELANTE MUJERES: $131,818 · Human ServicesLutheran Community Services Northwest: $108,379 · Human Services+5 more: $143,330 · Human ServicesEAST WASHINGTON COUNTY SHELTER PARTNERSHIP COUNCIL INC: $1,354,763 · Housing & ShelterEAST WASHINGTON COUNTY SHE…PROJECT HOMELESS CONNECT WASHINGTON COUNTY: $497,710 · Housing & ShelterPROJECT HOMELESS CONNECT W…BIENESTAR INC: $111,277 · Housing & ShelterBIENESTAR INCForest Grove Foundation Inc: $127,273 · Community ImprovementUMOYA RELIEF FOUNDATION: $75,353 · Community ImprovementLIFEWORKS NW: $107,773 · HealthASSIST: $46,017 · HealthDE ROSE COMMUNITY BRIDGE AND HOLISTIC WELLNESS: $17,966 · HealthEQUITABLE GIVING CIRCLE: $153,773 · PhilanthropyOREGON CHINESE COALITION: $14,063 · PhilanthropyWorksystems Inc: $124,523 · Employment
Other$3,070,393Human Services$2,831,801Housing & Shelter$1,963,750Community Improvement$202,626Health$171,756Philanthropy$167,836Employment$124,523

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEAST WASHINGTON COUNTY SHELTER PARTNERSHIP COUNCIL INC: $1,354,763 over 7y, 25% of budgetOPEN DOOR COUNSELING CENTER: $929,242 over 8y, 27% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER: $878,757 over 8y, 9.0% of budgetCENTRO CULTURAL OF WASHINGTON COUNTY: $668,635 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetPROJECT HOMELESS CONNECT WASHINGTON COUNTY: $497,710 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetJUST COMPASSION OF EAST WASHINGTON COUNTY: $461,816 over 5y, 10.0% of budgetHOMEPLATE YOUTH SERVICES: $431,059 over 8y, 9.5% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF WASHINGTON COUNTY: $237,947 over 5y, 44% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER WASHINGTON COUNTY: $231,989 over 2y, 11% of budgetNEW NARRATIVE: $225,965 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE BOYS & GIRLS AID SOCIETY OF OREGON: $218,688 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetTHE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION: $182,238 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetEQUITABLE GIVING CIRCLE: $153,773 over 1y, 14% of budgetADELANTE MUJERES: $131,818 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetForest Grove Foundation Inc: $127,273 over 2y, 11% of budgetWorksystems Inc: $124,523 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBIENESTAR INC: $111,277 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLutheran Community Services Northwest: $108,379 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLIFEWORKS NW: $107,773 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKA AHA LAHUI O OLEKONA: $95,843 over 1y, 28% of budgetCENTER FOR INTERCULTURAL ORGANIZING: $81,086 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetUMOYA RELIEF FOUNDATION: $75,353 over 1y, 51% of budgetAPANO COMMUNITIES UNITED FUND: $64,600 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCENTER FOR AFRICAN IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES ORGANIZATION: $48,572 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetASSIST: $46,017 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetWE CARE: $32,951 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetBRIDGE POMOJA: $31,406 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC: $28,125 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR TIGARD TUALATIN SCHOOLS: $19,028 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetDE ROSE COMMUNITY BRIDGE AND HOLISTIC WELLNESS: $17,966 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetMercy Connections: $16,781 over 1y, 18% of budgetSOMALI AMERICAN COUNCIL OF OREGON: $15,739 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCOOL ISLAM CORPORATION: $14,875 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetOREGON CHINESE COALITION: $14,063 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetISLAMIC OF SOCIAL SERVICE OF OREGON: $13,620 over 1y, 2.8% 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.

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 …Careoregon IncMeyer Memorial TrustThe Collins FoundationMarie Lamfrom Charita…OCF Joseph E Weston P…United Way of the Col…Seeding JusticeWorksystems IncHealth Share of OregonOregon Consumer Justi…Onpoint Community Cre…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Community Action Organization funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Community Action Organization. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • We Care: 100% of income from government
  • Worksystems Inc: 55% of income from government
  • De Rose Community Bridge and Holistic Wellness: 44% of income from government
  • Forest Grove Foundation Inc: 44% of income from government
  • Mercy Connections: 42% of income from government
  • Oregon Chinese Coalition: 41% of income from government
  • Adelante Mujeres: 31% of income from government
  • Center for Intercultural Organizing: 28% of income from government
  • Ka Aha Lahui O Olekona: 27% of income from government
  • Somali American Council of Oregon: 21% of income from government
  • Homeplate Youth Services: 17% of income from government
  • Cool Islam Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Lifeworks Nw: 8% of income from government
  • Bienestar Inc: 8% of income from government
  • New Narrative: 6% of income from government
  • Islamic of Social Service of Oregon: 4% of income from government
  • Just Compassion of East Washington County: 4% of income from government
  • The Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization: 4% of income from government
  • The Boys & Girls Aid Society of Oregon: 3% of income from government
  • Centro Cultural of Washington County: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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.

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 43 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The regranting layer
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home