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· Private foundation
CORVALLIS ELKS CHARITY TRUST
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$39k
Granted FY2024
7
Grants
3
Communities
$13k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 88% of CORVALLIS ELKS CHARITY TRUST’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
brunchsupporveteransbentondisadvantagedstudentseye
2020
studentveteranshomelesssuppordisadvantagedstudentsbenton
2021
homelessdisadvantagedbentonveteranseye
2022
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2023
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2024
youth
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 7 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$607k
Total assets
Largest grants
- CORVALLIS ELKS LODGE$13,260
- CVMA$8,000
- CORVALLIS BOYS & GIRLS CLUB$5,000
- FRIENDS OF THE NRA$5,000
- ELKS CHILDRENS EYE CLINIC$5,000
- MEADWOOD SPRINGS CAMP$2,000
- JACKSON ST YOUTH SHELTER$500
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY18–21, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18% — the area typically sits at 16%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
63%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$127k · 24 repeat orgs$75k to everyone else
24 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
24
25
Total granted
$127k
$55k
Still filing today
33%
0%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther
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
OLD MILL CENTER FOR CHILDREN2× · 2018–2019 · $3k · revenue +54%- ALASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF CORVALLIS4× · 2018–2021 · $2k · revenue +25%
- CDCORVALLIS DAYTIME DROP IN CENTER3× · 2018–2020 · $2k · revenue +659%
Funded once
- ELELKS LODGEone grant, 2020 · $6k
- IFIMPROV FACILITIES CHAR FUNCTIONone grant, 2021 · $6k
- ELELKS LODGE-STUDENT SCHOLARHIPSone grant, 2019 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
Beacon Village
Beacon Village provides compassionate and supportive shelter for unhoused individuals ready to transform their lives and establish roots in their community.
Human Services
2
Beaverton Resource Center
The Beaverton Resource Center connects those in our community struggling with hunger, housing insecurity, and poverty to local resources.
Human Services
3
Central Oregon Collective
To provide care and support to developmentally disabled individuals who are unable to care for themselves and/or access community services on their own.
Human Services
4
Community Living Inc
Enrich the lives of individuals with development disabilities
Human Services
5
Community Living Services Incorporated
Assist individuals with disabilities to live and work independently in the community.
Human Services
6
Community Living Centers Inc
Provide foster care for mentally challenged adults as well as manage other residential property owned 100% by clc with similar mission
Human Services
7
Community Sharing Program
Provide South Lane County community members with basic needs resources, life skills, and resources toward self-sufficiency.
Human Services
8
Community Lendingworks
Strengthening oregon communities through personal and business lending.
Community Improvement
9
Benco
To provide residential services in benton county, oregon, for people who have intellectual disabilities or have other developmental disabilities. the organization has two distinct programs: group homes and supported living. these programs…
Human Services
10
Community Living Inc
To empower participants to live independently in the community.
Human Services
11
Corvallis-Benton County Council of
The organization's mission is to provide emergency financial assistance to low income residents of benton county, oregon whose need could not be met by other agencies. financial assistance provided includes rental assistance, utility…
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12
Clackamas Service Center
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.
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Outreach Inc and the most unlike its peers is Corvallis Daytime Drop-in Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$178,616Human Services$12,500Health$4,000Food & Nutrition$3,500Arts & Culture$2,000Housing & Shelter$1,500
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.
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.
Benton Community FoundationOR18.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Benton Community Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · United Way of Benton & Lincoln Counties · Mario and Alma Pastega Family Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · 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 organisation 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
- Home Life Inc — 95% of income from government
- Old Mill Center for Children — 38% of income from government
- Corvallis Daytime Drop-in Center — 8% of income from government
- Samaritan Village Inc — 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: BENTON COUNTY VETERANS MEMORIAL.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 911750848 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on BENTON COUNTY VETERANS MEMORIAL, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 4% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to Corvallis Elks Charity Trust?
Find your warmest path to Corvallis Elks Charity Trust through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines