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Oregon · Public charity

Community in Action

To operate programs to alleviate poverty and enhance the public health and welfare by opening to everyone the opportunity for education and training, the opportunity to work and the opportunity to live in decency and dignity.

$1.9M
Granted FY2021
3
Itemized grants FY2021
3
Organizations funded FY2021
0%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Itemized, FY2021
$724k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2021
$92,327
Largest grant, FY2021
$619,960
Organizations funded a year
2 to 3
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
1
Total assets, FY2021
$4.7M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 0% of the organizations Community in Action funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20213$724k0%
FY20203$387k33%
FY20193$287k0%
FY20183$298k67%
FY20172$413kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Human Services$1.9MHousing & Shelter$200kYouth Development$16k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Harney County Senior and Community Servi$1,480,025424%
Origins Faith Community$147,0332n/a
Project DOVE$59,356510%
Boys & Girls Club of Western Treasure Valley$16,00021%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($407k), not named here.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile Foundation
Amazonsmile FoundationWA3.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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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How do I get to Community in Action?

Find your warmest path to Community in Action through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

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.

About Community in Action

How much does Community in Action give?
Community in Action reported 3 itemized grants totaling $723,577, out of $1,938,152 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 3 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does Community in Action fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Human Services (90%), Housing & Shelter (9%), Youth Development (1%).
Who are Community in Action's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: Harney County Senior and Community Servi ($1.5M), Origins Faith Community ($147k), Project DOVE ($59k).
Does Community in Action fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Community in Action?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Community in Action based?
Community in Action is based in OR.

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 5 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $2.6M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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