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Community Foundation of the Klamath Basin
Serving klamath falls and the greater klamath basin by providing grants and designated funds to strengthen existing and potential new programs in order to effectively enhance the quality of life for families and citizens in our region.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE KLAMATH BASIN’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 16 grants below total $53,212 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $57,212 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,000 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $19k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $19,252 |
| SMART READING | $9,817 |
| KLAMATH ICE SPORTS INC | $5,683 |
| RAGLAND RIFE FOUNDATION | $3,302 |
| BILL SCHOLTES SPORTSMAN'S PARK | $3,150 |
| FAVELL MUSEUM INC | $1,628 |
| SKY LAKES MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| KOSS | $1,500 |
| KLAMATH-LAKE COUNTIES FOOD BANK | $1,026 |
| KLAMATH FALLS GOSPEL MISSION | $1,000 |
| BONANZA CARES | $1,000 |
| PREGNANCY HOPE CENTER | $1,000 |
| CAMAS PRAIRIE COWBOY CONVENTION | $1,000 |
| HEARTS WITH A MISSION | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN | $869 |
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 (FY23–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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 0% since the first grant, against -44% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- FOFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN2× · 2023–2024 · $111k · revenue +13%
- FPFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF KLAMATH FALLS2× · 2023–2024 · $38k
- SRSMART READING PROGRAM4× · 2017–2021 · $36k
Funded once
ASANTE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -82%- ACAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INCone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -79%
- FPFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $32k
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.
Klamath bird observatory advances bird and habitat conservation through science, education, and partnerships.
Provide accessible, culturally sensitive, affordable, quality driven patient centered health services, with an emphasis on the underserved.
To create total community commitment for helping people in need by developing a campus and programs of holistic and collaborative services with the goal of self-sufficiency based upon effort and reward.
KS Wilds mission is to protect and restore wild nature in the Klamath-Siskiyou region of southwest Oregon and northwest California.
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
The mission of klamath family head start is to serve all eligible klamath county, oregon children & families in order to contribute to a healthy, diverse, & cooperative community.
Our mission is to empower, strengthen and sustain those impacted by cancer in our community through education, support and financial assistance.
Preserving the natural legacy of the upper klamath basin.
At Children's Cancer Association (CCA), our mission is to deliver Joy-centric programs that create immediate and measurable improvement to the mental and emotional wellness of young patients.
Our mission is to promote health for the benefit of the community by identifying and supporting healthcare innovation and collaboration to achieve improved quality, reduced costs, and improved patient experience.
Krrc's mission is to implement the klamath hydroelectric settlement agreement by removing four hydroelectric dams on the klamath river, restoring surrounding lands, and implementing required mitigation measures. (continued on schedule o)as…
To support or benefit the ohsu foundation, ohsu, and sky lakes medical center, inc. in furtherance, to support the construction of a new health care building on the campus of sky lakes medical center and advance the ohsu campus for rural…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Klamath Lake Counties Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is Luis Palau 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 26 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 8% 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.
19 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. 19 of the 54 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 FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds ASANTE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SMART READING ↗
- Who funds ARMS WIDE OPEN CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAVELL MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CANDID ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY HOPE CENTER ↗
- Who funds KLAMATH ICE SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds Luis Palau Association ↗
- Who funds SKY LAKES MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Oregon 4-H Foundation ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF KLAMATH BASIN ↗
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 Ford Family Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Wendt Family Foundation · Klamath Medical Service Bureau Foundatio Attn Timothy a Bailey · Graham Family Foundation · The Avista Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 organization Community Foundation of the Klamath Basin 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.
- Hearts With a Mission — 38% of income from government
- Klamath Trail Alliance — 17% of income from government
- Sky Lakes Medical Center Foundation — 4% of income from government
- Smart Reading — 3% 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.
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