Oregon · Public charity
Food for Lane County
FOOD FOR LANE COUNTY is a private, nonprofit food bank dedicated to reducing hunger by engaging our community to create access to food. We accomplish this by soliciting, collecting, rescuing, growing, preparing and packaging food for distribution to a network of social service agencies and programs, and through public awareness,…
- $15M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $114k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $32,083
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 34
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $26M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Food for Lane County funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 12 | $114k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $144k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $134k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $148k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 34 | $190k | 68% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $25k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $6k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $2k | 75% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arc of Lane County | $117,245 | 5 | 1% |
| Upper Willamette Community Dev Corp | $62,050 | 9 | 52% |
| St Vincent de Paul Society of Lane County Inc | $53,783 | 9 | 0% |
| United Way of Lane County | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Catholic Community Services of Lane County Inc | $49,829 | 9 | 0% |
| Plaza de Nuestra Comunidad | $49,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Mid Lane Love Project | $32,784 | 9 | n/a |
| Oregon State Grange Patrons of Husbandry | $30,998 | 9 | n/a |
| St Marys Episcopal Church | $26,900 | 9 | n/a |
| Free People Inc | $16,904 | 9 | n/a |
Show all 43 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arc of Lane County | $117,245 | 5 | 1% |
| Upper Willamette Community Dev Corp | $62,050 | 9 | 52% |
| St Vincent de Paul Society of Lane County Inc | $53,783 | 9 | 0% |
| United Way of Lane County | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Catholic Community Services of Lane County Inc | $49,829 | 9 | 0% |
| Plaza de Nuestra Comunidad | $49,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Mid Lane Love Project | $32,784 | 9 | n/a |
| Oregon State Grange Patrons of Husbandry | $30,998 | 9 | n/a |
| St Marys Episcopal Church | $26,900 | 9 | n/a |
| Free People Inc | $16,904 | 9 | n/a |
| Goldson Food Pantry | $14,920 | 9 | n/a |
| Head Start of Lane County | $14,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Community Sharing Program | $13,550 | 9 | 0% |
| Crossfire Hands of Hope | $13,480 | 9 | n/a |
| Triangle Food Box | $13,000 | 9 | n/a |
| O'Brien Memorial Library | $12,781 | 7 | 2% |
| Network Charter School | $11,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Junction City Local Aid | $10,977 | 9 | 4% |
| Community Food for Creswell | $10,112 | 9 | 12% |
| Lowell Food Pantry | $10,050 | 9 | n/a |
| Helping Hands Coalition | $7,915 | 3 | n/a |
| Mohawk Valley Assembly of God | $7,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Pleasant Hill Lutheran Church | $7,128 | 1 | n/a |
| Eugene Foursquare Church | $6,894 | 9 | n/a |
| Rural Organizing Project | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Shepherd's Table at St John's | $3,880 | 9 | n/a |
| United States Catholic Conference | $3,700 | 6 | n/a |
| Coburg United Methodist Church | $3,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Looking Glass Community Services | $3,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Free People | $3,250 | 9 | n/a |
| Springfield Education Foundation | $3,106 | 9 | 1% |
| Crow-Applegate Church of the Nazarene | $2,900 | 9 | n/a |
| Bethesda Lutheran Church | $2,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Childs Way Inc | $2,100 | 9 | 0% |
| Gods Storehouse | $2,000 | 9 | 5% |
| Fern Ridge Community Services | $1,750 | 4 | 6% |
| Valley United Methodist Church | $1,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America | $1,447 | 9 | n/a |
| Womenspace | $1,249 | 9 | 0% |
| Eugene Christian Fellowship | $1,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Community Supported Shelters | $1,000 | 9 | 0% |
| God's Food Box | $895 | 9 | n/a |
| Teen Challenge International Pacific Northwest Centers | $261 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($76k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Food for Lane County supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 20 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: United Way of Lane County · Chambers Family Foundation · Lane Community Health Council · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Collins Foundation · McKay Family Foundation · PeaceHealth · The Ford Family Foundation · Pacificsource Foundation for Health Improvement · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Woodard Family Foundation · The Autzen Foundation
How this is measured
About Food for Lane County
- How much does Food for Lane County give?
- Food for Lane County reported 12 itemized grants totaling $114,000, out of $14,882,634 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 34 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Food for Lane County fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (82%), Philanthropy (7%), Health (6%).
- Who are Food for Lane County's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Arc of Lane County ($117k), Upper Willamette Community Dev Corp ($62k), St Vincent de Paul Society of Lane County Inc ($54k).
- Does Food for Lane County fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Food for Lane County?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Lane County, Chambers Family Foundation, Lane Community Health Council.
- Where is Food for Lane County based?
- Food for Lane County is based in OR.
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