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Corvallis Elks Charity Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $13,260 |
| CVMA | $8,000 |
| CORVALLIS BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE NRA | $5,000 |
| ELKS CHILDRENS EYE CLINIC | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| JACKSON ST YOUTH SHELTER | $500 |
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 (FY17–21, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
25 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 4 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, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- COCOMMUNITY OUTREACH INC5× · 2017–2021 · $10k · revenue +25%
- JSJACKSON STREET YOUTH SHELTER INC7× · 2017–2024 · $7k · revenue +290%
- LBLINN BENTON FOOD SHARE5× · 2017–2021 · $5k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- IFIMPROV FACILITIES CHAR FUNCTIONone grant, 2021 · $6k
- ELELKS LODGE-CHILDREN EYE CLINICone grant, 2019 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
Clackamas service center is an inclusive, "one-stop" community center for individuals and families seeking food relief and resources for improved health, dignity, and stability.
Advocate for victims of crime within the criminal justice system and protective order cases; provide referrals to social-service agencies that can help crime victims recover. the center's services are available statewide at no cost to…
The Beaverton Resource Center connects those in our community struggling with hunger, housing insecurity, and poverty to local resources.
Central oregon villages mission is to advocate for and provide safe and secure shelter, housing and related services in central oreogn for the unhoused populations or at risk of becoming unhoused.
To provide care and support to developmentally disabled individuals who are unable to care for themselves and/or access community services on their own.
Mental health, drug abuse support. Operating a day-shelter and inclement weather shelter serving unhoused individuals in Newberg.
Cbcil's mission is to assist people with disabilities to achieve their goals. cbcil provides five core services of advocacy, independent living, peer counseling, information and referral, and transition services. an array of programs,…
Enhancing lives and building communities by providing transportation and nutrition services.
Grace center's mission is to provide day services that optimize the cognitive and physical abilities of seniors and adults with disabilities so they can remain as independent as possible and in their homes.
To protect children, support families, and bring hope and healing through compassionate, coordinated, and child-centered advocacy, through specialized programs and services, such as multi-disciplinary team coordination, forensic…
Provide services for individuals with developmental disabilities
To provide solutions for ending homelessness and achieving self- sufficiency.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Outreach Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Corvallis Parks and Recreation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 59 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 COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CORVALLIS INC ↗
- Who funds JACKSON STREET YOUTH SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds LINN BENTON FOOD SHARE ↗
- Who funds CORVALLIS DAYTIME DROP-IN CENTER ↗
- Who funds Samaritan Village Inc ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF CORVALLIS INC ↗
- Who funds HOME LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds Center Against Rape and Domestic Violence ↗
- Who funds OLD MILL CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds BENTON COUNTY VETERANS MEMORIAL INC ↗
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: Benton Community Foundation · Mario and Alma Pastega Family Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · United Way of Benton & Lincoln Counties · Good Samaritan Hospital Corvallis · United Way of Linn Benton and Lincoln Counties · Linn Benton Food Share · Ralph Hull Foundation · Franklin Conklin Foundation · Chambers Family 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 Corvallis Elks Charity Trust 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.
- Home Life Inc — 95% of income from government
- Jackson Street Youth Shelter Inc — 59% of income from government
- Old Mill Center for Children and Families Inc — 38% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Corvallis Inc — 16% of income from government
- Corvallis Daytime Drop-in Center — 8% of income from government
- Community Outreach Inc — 7% of income from government
- Samaritan Village Inc — 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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