· Private foundation
Helen M Clabough Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $140k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD COLUMBIA WILLIAMETTE | $20,000 |
| HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA | $15,000 |
| SAVING GRACE IMAGINE LIFE WITHOUT VIOLENCE | $15,000 |
| OREGON ORIGINS PROJECT | $10,000 |
| HIGH DESERT FOOD AND FARM ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| CENTRAL OREGON LOCAVORE | $10,000 |
| BLUE RIDGE WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE | $10,000 |
| BEND-LA PINE EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CASA OF CENTRAL OREGON | $10,000 |
| DESCHUTES CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| QUIET GIVERS | $10,000 |
| WAMY COMMUNITY ACTION INC | $10,000 |
| HEALING REINS EQUINE ASSISTED SERVICES | $7,500 |
| COUNCIL ON AGING OF CENTRAL OREGON | $7,500 |
| BOARD HOUSE SOCIETY | $5,000 |
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, $178k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of Helen M Clabough Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +53% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 3 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, 89% 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
- MMountainTrue6× · 2017–2022 · $80k · revenue +258%
- DRDESCHUTES RIVER ALLIANCE6× · 2017–2023 · $65k · revenue +57%
- FAFamily Access Network Foundation5× · 2017–2021 · $63k · revenue +302%
Funded once
- COCENTRAL OREGON LOCAVORE NON PROFITone grant, 2023 · $25k
- TGTHE GIVING PLATEone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +19%
- SCSCALEHOUSE COLLABORATIVE FOR THE ARTSone grant, 2024 · $15k
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.
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
Rogue Climate's mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change including low-income, rural, youth, seniors & communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs &…
Cascades academy is an engaged, vibrant community that weaves challenging academics with experiential learning to inspire socially responsible individuals ready for a diverse and changing world.
The Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council is a local nonprofit organization that strives to enhance and restore habitat for fish and wildlife our community and for future generations. Our Board of Directors consists of seven members with…
Orla serves as the leading industry advocate, striving to protect, improve and promote oregon hospitality.
Promote economic and social fairness by working in coalition open a broad range of issues and activities in the public arena
Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…
To conserve and enhance land in southern oregon to sustain our human and natural communities forever.
The council is organized to foster partnerships for clean water, healthy streams, and abundant fisheries in the Clackamas Watershed
We nurture connections between people,nature,and food by ensuring access to garden space and farmland, and providing education and mentoring on regenerative and sustainable agricultural practices.
Our mission is to grow organizing power and leaders for a more just and thriving Southern Oregon.
Oregon Wild works to protect and restore Oregon's wildlands, wildlife and waters as an enduring legacy for future generations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Oregon Environmental Center Inc Dba - the Environmental Center and the most unlike its peers is Board House Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
59 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. 59 of the 78 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 MountainTrue ↗
- Who funds DESCHUTES RIVER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Family Access Network Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE HUNGER AND HEALTH COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF BEND INC ↗
- Who funds SCALEHOUSE ↗
- Who funds HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds Camp Fire Central Oregon ↗
- Who funds SAVING GRACE ↗
- Who funds KIDS INTERVENTION AND DIAGNOSTIC SERVICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL OREGON LOCAVORE ↗
- Who funds CALDERA ↗
- Who funds CASA OF CENTRAL OREGON ↗
- Who funds The Children's Playhouse Inc ↗
- Who funds HIGH DESERT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds OREGON ADAPTIVE SPORTS ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL OREGON ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER INC DBA - THE ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds HEALING REINS EQUINE ASSISTED SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds High Desert Food & Farm Alliance ↗
- Who funds WAMY COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds DESCHUTES CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN- CENTRAL OREGON ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON AGING OF CENTRAL OREGON ↗
- Who funds OREGON NATURAL DESERT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE GIVING PLATE ↗
- Who funds QUIET GIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds TOWER THEATRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN RIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds WARREN WILSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds OREGON ORIGINS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds BELOVED ASHEVILLE ↗
- Who funds BEDFORD AREA FAMILY YMCA ↗
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 Roundhouse Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · St Charles Health System Inc · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · United Way of Deschutes County · The Anjulicia Foundation · Bend Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina 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 Helen M Clabough Charitable 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.
- Kor Community Land Trust Dba Rootedhomes — 63% of income from government
- Samara Learning Center — 56% of income from government
- Saving Grace — 48% of income from government
- High Desert Food & Farm Alliance — 45% of income from government
- Council On Aging of Central Oregon — 43% of income from government
- Heart of Oregon Corps Inc — 28% of income from government
- Young Audiences of Oregon Inc — 23% of income from government
- Family Resource Center of Central Oregon — 22% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Clubs of Bend Inc — 16% of income from government
- Friends of the Children- Central Oregon — 16% of income from government
- High Desert Museum — 11% of income from government
- Healing Reins Equine Assisted Services Inc — 11% of income from government
- Scalehouse — 10% of income from government
- Oregon Natural Desert Association — 9% of income from government
- Tower Theatre Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
- Casa of Central Oregon — 2% of income from government
- Caldera — 1% of income from government
- Central Oregon Environmental Center Inc Dba - the Environmental Center — 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.