· Community foundation
Four Way Community Foundation
Support of charitable organizations benefitting the residents of Josephine and Western Jackson counties in the State of Oregon through building a permanent endowment for the community, promoting effective stewardship of assets and uniting resources to address important community needs.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 36 grants below total $489,298 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $551,459 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $62,161 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $131k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $249k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $109k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Boys & Girls Club of the Rogue Valley | $59,369 |
| Josephine County Educational Foundation | $50,000 |
| Rogue Valley Humane Society | $39,565 |
| Grants Pass School District #7 | $37,735 |
| Family Solutions | $29,838 |
| Oregon Center for Creative Learning | $20,000 |
| Josephine County Historical Society | $11,691 |
| City of Gold Hill | $10,000 |
| Friends of the Josephine County Fairgrounds | $10,000 |
| Josephine Community Library Foundation | $10,000 |
| Healing Hearts and Hooves | $10,000 |
| Mobile Integrative Navigation Team | $10,000 |
| La Clinica | $10,000 |
| Pacifica A Garden in the Siskiyous | $10,000 |
| Mid Rogue Foundation | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $304k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 87% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
69 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE ROGUE VALLEY9× · 2017–2025 · $294k · revenue +70%
Josephine Community Library Foundation4× · 2018–2025 · $274k · revenue +52%- RVROGUE VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY9× · 2017–2025 · $180k · revenue +261%
Funded once
- JCJosephine Community Libraries Incone grant, 2017 · $17k
- NUNewman United Methodist Churchone grant, 2020 · $10k
ASANTE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
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.
Our mission is to grow organizing power and leaders for a more just and thriving Southern Oregon.
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.
Local Innovation Works supports recovery and resilience in Southern Oregon by supporting and training emerging leaders in values-aligned community organizations. It also hosts public conversations on topics related to the long term…
Our mission is to help herding dogs who are abandoned, neglected and abused or simply in the wrong home into a loving appropriate home.
Restoration House provides save, supervised housing for men with significant behavioral health needs, creating a stable environment where structure, accountability, and wraparound services support personal growth and long-term recovery.…
Preserve, promote and celebrate our local history
Increase sustainable food security in South Corvallis by providing emergency food and supplies.
To conserve, enhance and protect the quality and ecological integrity of the watersheds by providing a cooperative forum to promote and facilitate integrated watershed management.
To restore, protect, and build resilient urban tree canopies in Oregon, with a focus on underserved and climate-vulnerable communities. The organization provides tree planting, preservation, education, workforce development, and long-term…
Jefferson Regional Health Alliance (JRHA) is a cross-sector learning community that convenes leaders from healthcare, public health, behavioral health, social services, and community-based organizations to improve health outcomes and…
The mission of young roots oregon is to creatively help young families build healthy foundations. our multi-generational vision is to give pregnant and parenting adolescents through age 24 and their children equitable opportunities for…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Living Opportunities Inc and the most unlike its peers is Valley Volunteer Firemen. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
85 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 85 of the 123 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 Family Solutions Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE ROGUE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Josephine Community Library Foundation ↗
- Who funds Josephine County Educational Fund Inc dba Redwood Foundation for Education ↗
- Who funds ROGUE VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Josephine County Historical Society ↗
- Who funds CROSSING BRIDGES THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN LEAF INDUSTRIES OF GRANTS PASS ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN OREGON ASPIRE ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CRISIS SUPPORT TEAM ↗
- Who funds PACIFICA A GARDEN IN THE SISKIYOUS ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE DREAMS INC ↗
- Who funds SISKIYOU FIELD INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Mid Rogue Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE DOME SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC - GRANTS PASS co EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ↗
- Who funds JOSEPHINE COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Barnstormers Theatre ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS VALLEY FAMILY COALITION ↗
- Who funds SUGARLOAF COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MOBILE INTEGRATIVE NAVIGATION TEAM ↗
- Who funds Grants Pass Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds SANCTUARY ONE ↗
- Who funds ROGUE RIVER COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds KALMIOPSIS COMMUNITY ARTS HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY NURTURING CENTER ROGUE VALLEY CHILDREN'S RELIEF NURSERY ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS VALLEY 2010 COMMUNITY RESPONSE TEAM ↗
- Who funds JOSEPHINE COUNTY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE IMAGES REHABILITATION & EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds OREGON CENTER FOR CREATIVE LEARNING DBA KID TIME ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL OUR LADY OF THE VALLEY DIST COUNCIL ↗
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: The Carpenter Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Roundhouse Foundation · Carrico Family Foundation · Robert and Frances Chaney Family Foundation · West Family Foundation · Dutch Bros Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Collins Foundation · United Way of Jackson County Inc
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 Four Way Community Foundation 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.
- Grace Roots — 96% of income from government
- Rogue River Watershed Council — 94% of income from government
- Southern Oregon Child and Family Council Inc — 92% of income from government
- Living Opportunities Inc — 90% of income from government
- United Community Action Network — 82% of income from government
- Southern Oregon Aspire — 82% of income from government
- Maxs Mission — 77% of income from government
- Sugarloaf Community Association — 67% of income from government
- Access — 65% of income from government
- Hearts With a Mission — 51% of income from government
- Oregon Center for Creative Learning Dba Kid Time — 42% of income from government
- Illinois Valley Family Coalition — 40% of income from government
- The Family Nurturing Center Rogue Valley Children's Relief Nursery — 38% of income from government
- Grants Pass Sobering Center Inc — 31% of income from government
- Sunny Wolf Charter School — 26% of income from government
- Greater Applegate Community Development — 26% of income from government
- College Dreams Inc — 23% of income from government
- Siskiyou Field Institute — 17% of income from government
- The Dome School — 17% of income from government
- Rogue Retreat — 12% of income from government
- Friends of the Oregon Caves and Chateau — 11% of income from government
- Barnstormers Theatre — 8% of income from government
- La Clinica Del Valle Family Health Care Center Inc — 7% of income from government
- Compass House Inc — 7% of income from government
- Ontrack Inc — 7% of income from government
- White Oak Farm & Education Center — 5% of income from government
- Options for Southern Oregon — 4% of income from government
- Southern Oregon Guild — 3% of income from government
- Woodland Charter School — 2% of income from government
- Grants Pass Museum of Art — 2% of income from government
- Josephine County Food Bank — 1% of income from government
- Southern Oregon Public Television Inc — 1% of income from government
- Rogue Valley Symphony Association — 1% of income from government
- Casa of Jackson County Inc — 0% of income from government
- Family Solutions Inc — 0% of income from government
- Mid Rogue Imaging Center — 0% of income from government
- Healthy U — 0% of income from government
- Kairos Northwest — 0% 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.