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Community Resource Tr

Primarily, this corporation is organized to achieve the objectives of reducing poverty through: pursing economic wellness; fostering low-income housing; providing structures in which charitable organizations are located; and promoting education in the State of Oregon.

$158k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$98k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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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 2024.

Education$904kHealth$184kPhilanthropy$160kYouth Development$117kHuman Services$41kArts & Culture$33kFood & Nutrition$22kEnvironment$21kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$97,955
Median grant
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States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SALEM-KEIZER PUBLIC SCHOOLS$97,955
GREATER WOODBURN OPPORTUNITY CENTER$60,000
02The need
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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 (FY17–17, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Family Building Blocks: $32k → 14%Salem Leadership Foundation: $9k → 14%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 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.

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Salem Health and Wellness Foundation Inc
Health
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Salem Historical Society
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Portland Seamens Friend Society
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Salems Riverfront Carousel

To enhance the quality of life in the willamette valley by invigorating community cohesiveness, fostering cultural and educational opportunities, creating a living history and increasing tourism.

Recreation & Sports
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Salem Keizer Education Association

Promote professional excellence by advocating for educational professionals.

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6
Seaside Museum & Historical Society

Preserve and interpret the History & culture of Seaside Oregon by operating a Museum and outreach programs.

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The Salem Foundation

The salem foundation exists for the purpose of receiving, safeguarding, and disbursing funds for charitable purposes in the vicinity of salem, oregon.

Philanthropy
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Salem Saturday Market

We are a non-profit member organization dedicated to bringing the best fresh local produce, flowers, meat/dairy, nursery products, authentic artisan food and artisan crafts to the Salem and surrounding communities.

Community Improvement
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Salem Alliance for the Environment Inc

Safe is a group dedicated to assuring that salem, a historical maritime community located on massachusetts' north shore, is a healthy and prosperous place in which to live. like many older industrial cities, salem faces environmental…

Environment
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Springwater Environmental Sciences School

The mission of springwater environmental sciences school is to integrate the sciences throughout the academic core curriculum in a nurturing environment created and maintained by a high level of parent and community involvement.

Education
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Bush House Museum

The bush house museum enhances community engagement with our shared history by exploring and interpreting salem's bush family, bush's pasture park, the cultural diversity of salem history and the development of early oregon.

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Lord and Schryver Conservancy

The lord & schryver conservancy preserves, interprets and stewards the legacy of landscape achitects elizabeth lord and edith schryver for public enrichment.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Historic Elsinore Theatre Inc; the most unlike its peers is Children's Educational Theatre Inc. 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

12 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. 12 of the 16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SALEM KEIZER PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $903,737 · OtherSALEM KEIZER PUBLIC SCHOOLSJEFFERSON SCHOOL DISTRICT: $175,000 · OtherJEFFERSON SCHOOL DISTRICTGREATER WOODBURN OPPORTUNITY CENTER: $102,156 · OtherGREATER WOODBURN OPPORTUNITY CENTER+3 more: $32,000 · OtherUNITED COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $159,596 · Community ImprovementUNITED COMMU…FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC: $32,000 · Human ServicesSALEM LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $9,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S EDUCATIONAL THEATRE INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WILLAMETTE HERITAGE CENTER: $10,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC ELSINORE THEATRE INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureMARION-POLK FOOD SHARE INC: $16,000 · Food & NutritionBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SALEM MARION & POLK COUNTIES: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentSALEMKEIZER COALITION FOR EQUALITY: $10,000 · EducationBRIDGEWAY RECOVERY SERVICES INC: $9,000 · Health
Other$1,212,893Community Improvement$159,596Human Services$41,000Arts & Culture$32,500Food & Nutrition$16,000Youth Development$15,000Education$10,000Health$9,000

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 budgetUNITED COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $159,596 over 1y, 49% of budgetFAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC: $32,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSTRAUB OUTDOORS: $20,500 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetMARION-POLK FOOD SHARE INC: $16,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S EDUCATIONAL THEATRE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SALEM MARION & POLK COUNTIES: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSALEMKEIZER COALITION FOR EQUALITY: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE WILLAMETTE HERITAGE CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSALEM LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHISTORIC ELSINORE THEATRE INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

Maps Community Founda…The Salem FoundationThe Oregon Community …Willamette Health Cou…Salem HealthUnited Way of the Mid…W Walton Decd Charita…Braemar Charitable Tr…The Collins FoundationThe Ford Family Found…Compton Family Founda…Pioneer Trust Bank Na…
Maps Community FoundationOR26.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maps Community Foundation · The Salem Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Willamette Health Council · Salem Health · United Way of the Mid-Willamette Valley · W Walton Decd Charitable Trust · Braemar Charitable Trust · The Collins Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · Compton Family Foundation · Pioneer Trust Bank Na 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 Resource Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Community Resource Tr. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Salemkeizer Coalition for Equality: 77% of income from government
  • Family Building Blocks Inc: 68% of income from government
  • Bridgeway Recovery Services Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Marion-Polk Food Share Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Historic Elsinore Theatre Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Salem Leadership Foundation: 3% of income from government
  • Children's Educational Theatre Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Willamette Heritage Center: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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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How do I get to Community Resource Tr?

Find your warmest path to Community Resource Tr 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.

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 16 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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