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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.

$57k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$19k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$194kYouth Development$117kReligion$76kEducation$56kRecreation & Sports$32kArts & Culture$30kPublic Safety & Disaster$18kPhilanthropy$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 16 grants below total $53,212, the rows itemized in this filing. The $57,212 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $4,000 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $19k
$1,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$9.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
KOSS$1,500
SKY LAKES MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$1,500
KLAMATH-LAKE COUNTIES FOOD BANK$1,026
BONANZA CARES$1,000
PREGNANCY HOPE CENTER$1,000
HEARTS WITH A MISSION$1,000
CAMAS PRAIRIE COWBOY CONVENTION$1,000
KLAMATH FALLS GOSPEL MISSION$1,000
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN$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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%HEARTS WITH A MISSION: $1k → 13%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF KLAMATH BASIN: $2k → 16%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.

43%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$256k · 10 repeat orgs$344k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue 0% since the first grant, against -44% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
34

Total granted

$256k
$327k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
-44%

Still filing today

40%
21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
HealthYouth DevelopmentReligionHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN
    2× · 2023–2024 · $111k · revenue +13%
  • FP
    FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF KLAMATH FALLS
    2× · 2023–2024 · $38k
  • SR
    SMART READING PROGRAM
    4× · 2017–2021 · $36k

Funded once

  • ASANTE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -74%
  • AC
    AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -79%
  • FP
    FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2018 · $32k
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
Klamath Bird Observatory

Klamath bird observatory advances bird and habitat conservation through science, education, and partnerships.

Animals
2
Klamath Health Partnership Inc

Provide accessible, culturally sensitive, affordable, quality driven patient centered health services, with an emphasis on the underserved.

Health
3
Klamath Works Inc

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.

Employment
4
Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center

KS Wilds mission is to protect and restore wild nature in the Klamath-Siskiyou region of southwest Oregon and northwest California.

Environment
5
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
6
Klamath Family Head Start

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.

Education
7
Oregon Cancer Foundation

Our mission is to empower, strengthen and sustain those impacted by cancer in our community through education, support and financial assistance.

Health
8
Klamath Lake Land Trust

Preserving the natural legacy of the upper klamath basin.

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9
Children's Cancer Association

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.

Arts & Culture
10
Central Oregon Health Quality Alliance

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.

Health
11
Klamath River Renewal Corporation

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…

Environment
12
Oregon Rural Health Initiative

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Klamath Lake Counties Food Bank; 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.
04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 54 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
7/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF KLAMATH FALLS: $38,252 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF KLAMATH FALLSSMART READING PROGRAM: $35,641 · OtherSMART READING PROGRAMFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $31,677 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $25,000 · OtherAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETYIndividual grant recipient: $24,054 · OtherIndividual grant recipientKLAMATH COUNTY FIRE DISTRICT 3: $18,000 · OtherKLAMATH COUNTY FIRE DISTRICT 3FRIENDS OF COLLIER PARK AND THE COLLIER PARK LOGGING MUSEUM INC: $13,650 · OtherKLAMATH TRAILS ALLIANCE: $11,650 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $11,170 · OtherBILL SCHOLTES SPORTSMAN'S PARK: $10,000 · Other+31 more: $58,989 · Other+31 moreASANTE FOUNDATION: $100,000 · HealthASANTE FOUNDATIONAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $50,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INCARMS WIDE OPEN CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthARMS WIDE OPEN CHILDHOOD CANCER…PREGNANCY HOPE CENTER: $6,000 · Health+2 more: $1,985 · HealthFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $110,927 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF THE CHILDRE…KLAMATH ICE SPORTS INC: $5,683 · Youth DevelopmentSMART READING: $19,085 · EducationFAVELL MUSEUM INC: $8,687 · Arts & CultureCANDID: $6,525 · PhilanthropyLuis Palau Association: $2,500 · ReligionKLAMATH FALLS GOSPEL MISSION: $1,000 · Religion
Other$278,083Health$167,985Youth Development$116,610Education$19,085Arts & Culture$8,687Philanthropy$6,525Religion$3,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $110,927 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetASANTE FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMART READING: $19,085 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetARMS WIDE OPEN CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFAVELL MUSEUM INC: $8,687 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetCANDID: $6,525 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPREGNANCY HOPE CENTER: $6,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetLuis Palau Association: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF KLAMATH BASIN: $1,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSKY LAKES MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOregon 4-H Foundation: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKLAMATH LAKE COUNTIES FOOD BANK: $1,026 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEARTS WITH A MISSION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKLAMATH FALLS GOSPEL MISSION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCAMAS PRAIRIE COWBOY CONVENTION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetKlamath Trail Alliance: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

  • 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 ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF KLAMATH BASIN ↗
  • Who funds SKY LAKES MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Oregon 4-H Foundation ↗

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 Ford Family Found…The Oregon Community …Wendt Family Foundati…Klamath Medical Servi…Graham Family Foundat…The Avista FoundationDonor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Ford Family FoundationOR22.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Foundation of the Klamath Basin funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Community Foundation of the Klamath Basin. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 17%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.
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Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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