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Helen M Clabough Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Helen M Clabough Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$190k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$256kEnvironment$233kFood & Nutrition$218kYouth Development$171kArts & Culture$148kEducation$124kHealth$113kHousing & Shelter$64kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $50k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $140k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PLANNED PARENTHOOD COLUMBIA WILLIAMETTE$20,000
SAVING GRACE IMAGINE LIFE WITHOUT VIOLENCE$15,000
HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA$15,000
BLUE RIDGE WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE$10,000
CENTRAL OREGON LOCAVORE$10,000
BEND-LA PINE EDUCATION FOUNDATION$10,000
OREGON ORIGINS PROJECT$10,000
HIGH DESERT FOOD AND FARM ALLIANCE$10,000
CASA OF CENTRAL OREGON$10,000
DESCHUTES CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION$10,000
QUIET GIVERS$10,000
WAMY COMMUNITY ACTION INC$10,000
COUNCIL ON AGING OF CENTRAL OREGON$7,500
HEALING REINS EQUINE ASSISTED SERVICES$7,500
BOARD HOUSE SOCIETY$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SAVING GRACE: $20k → 10%BEDFORD AREA FAMILY YMCA: $5k → 8%SAVING GRACE IMAGINE LIFE WITHOUT VIOLENCE: $15k → 10%BEDFORD AREA FAMILY YMCA: $5k → 8%CASA OF CENTRAL OREGON: $10k → 10%CASA OF CENTRAL OREGON: $10k → 10%DESCHUTES CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%DESCHUTES CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%CASA OF CENTRAL OREGON: $7k → 10%BOARD HOUSE SOCIETY: $5k → 10%FAMILY ACCESS NETWORK: $15k → 10%FAMILY ACCESS NETWORK: $15k → 10%FAMILY ACCESS NETWORK: $13k → 10%COUNCIL ON AGING OF CENTRAL OREGON: $10k → 10%FAMILY ACCESS NETWORK: $10k → 10%FAMILY ACCESS NETWORK: $10k → 10%COUNCIL ON AGING OF CENTRAL OREGON: $8k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 9% of Helen M Clabough Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Helen M Clabough Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 35 repeat orgs$275k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
39

Total granted

$1.1M
$255k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+19%

Still filing today

89%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • M
    MountainTrue
    6× · 2017–2022 · $80k · revenue +258%
  • DR
    DESCHUTES RIVER ALLIANCE
    6× · 2017–2023 · $65k · revenue +57%
  • FA
    Family Access Network Foundation
    5× · 2017–2021 · $63k · revenue +302%

Funded once

  • CO
    CENTRAL OREGON LOCAVORE NON PROFIT
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • TG
    THE GIVING PLATE
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +19%
  • SC
    SCALEHOUSE COLLABORATIVE FOR THE ARTS
    one grant, 2024 · $15k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Oregon Agricultural Trust

Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.

Environment
2
Rogue Climate

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 &…

Education
3
Cascades Academy of Central Oregon

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.

Education
4
Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council

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…

Environment
5
Oregon Restaurant and Lodging Association

Orla serves as the leading industry advocate, striving to protect, improve and promote oregon hospitality.

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6
Our Oregon

Promote economic and social fairness by working in coalition open a broad range of issues and activities in the public arena

Human Services
7
Oregon Justice Network

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…

Human Services
8
Southern Oregon Land Conservancy Inc

To conserve and enhance land in southern oregon to sustain our human and natural communities forever.

Environment
9
Clackamas River Basin Council Inc

The council is organized to foster partnerships for clean water, healthy streams, and abundant fisheries in the Clackamas Watershed

Environment
10
Outgrowing Hunger

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.

Food & Nutrition
11
Rogue Action Center

Our mission is to grow organizing power and leaders for a more just and thriving Southern Oregon.

Community Improvement
12
Oregon Natural Resources Council Fund Oregon Wild

Oregon Wild works to protect and restore Oregon's wildlands, wildlife and waters as an enduring legacy for future generations.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Oregon Environmental Center Inc Dba - the Environmental Center; 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.
05the grantee network

59 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/59
Grantees still filing
40/59
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PLANNED PARENTHOOD COLUMBIA WILLIAMETTE: $70,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD COLUMBIA WILLIAMETTESAVING GRACE: $50,000 · OtherSAVING GRACECENTRAL OREGON LOCAVORE NON PROFIT: $25,000 · OtherWAMY COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $20,000 · OtherTHE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · OtherTHE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INCKIDS INTERVENTION AND DIAGNOSTIC SERVICE CENTER: $35,000 · OtherKIDS INTERVENTION AND DIAGNOSTIC SERVICE CE…CENTRAL OREGON LOCAVORE: $35,000 · OtherCENTRAL OREGON LOCAVOREOREGON ADAPTIVE SPORTS: $23,500 · OtherHEALING REINS EQUINE ASSISTED SERVICES INC: $21,500 · Other+33 more: $227,610 · Other+33 moreMountainTrue: $80,000 · EnvironmentMountainTrueDESCHUTES RIVER ALLIANCE: $65,000 · EnvironmentDESCHUTES RIVER…CENTRAL OREGON ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER INC DBA - THE ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER: $22,500 · EnvironmentCENTRAL OREGON …AMERICAN RIVERS INC: $15,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN RIVERS…Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League: $8,000 · Environment+1 more: $5,000 · EnvironmentFamily Access Network Foundation: $63,000 · Human ServicesFamily Access …SAVING GRACE: $35,000 · Human ServicesSAVING GRACECASA OF CENTRAL OREGON: $27,000 · Human ServicesCASA OF CENTRA…DESCHUTES CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Human ServicesDESCHUTES CHIL…COUNCIL ON AGING OF CENTRAL OREGON: $17,500 · Human ServicesCOUNCIL ON AGI…BEDFORD AREA FAMILY YMCA: $10,000 · Human ServicesBEDFORD AREA F…+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF BEND INC: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRL…Camp Fire Central Oregon: $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentCamp Fire Cen…CALDERA: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentCALDERAThe Children's Playhouse Inc: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe Children'…FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN- CENTRAL OREGON: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF TH…THE MAYFLY PROJECT: $6,128 · Youth DevelopmentTHE HUNGER AND HEALTH COALITION INC: $56,000 · Food & NutritionTHE HUNGER …BLUE RIDGE WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE: $52,035 · Food & NutritionBLUE RIDGE …High Desert Food & Farm Alliance: $21,050 · Food & NutritionHigh Desert…THE GIVING PLATE: $15,000 · Food & NutritionTHE GIVING …+2 more: $3,500 · Food & NutritionSCALEHOUSE: $49,000 · Arts & CultureSCALEHOUS…HIGH DESERT MUSEUM: $25,000 · Arts & CultureHIGH DESE…TOWER THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureTOWER THE…BEAT: $10,000 · Arts & CultureBEATOREGON ORIGINS PROJECT: $10,000 · Arts & CultureOREGON OR…YOUNG AUDIENCES OF OREGON INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureYOUNG AUD…ASHEVILLE WATCHDOG: $5,000 · Arts & CultureHOSPITALITY HOUSE OF NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA: $45,000 · Housing & ShelterBELOVED ASHEVILLE: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterKOR COMMUNITY LAND TRUST DBA ROOTEDHOMES: $7,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $1,500 · Housing & Shelter
Other$542,610Environment$195,500Human Services$177,500Youth Development$171,128Food & Nutrition$147,585Arts & Culture$124,000Housing & Shelter$63,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMountainTrue: $80,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetDESCHUTES RIVER ALLIANCE: $65,000 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetFamily Access Network Foundation: $63,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetTHE HUNGER AND HEALTH COALITION INC: $56,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetBLUE RIDGE WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE: $52,035 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF BEND INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSCALEHOUSE: $49,000 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetHOSPITALITY HOUSE OF NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA: $45,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCamp Fire Central Oregon: $40,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetKIDS INTERVENTION AND DIAGNOSTIC SERVICE CENTER: $35,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSAVING GRACE: $35,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCENTRAL OREGON LOCAVORE: $35,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTHE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetCASA OF CENTRAL OREGON: $27,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetThe Children's Playhouse Inc: $25,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetHIGH DESERT MUSEUM: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOREGON ADAPTIVE SPORTS: $23,500 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetCENTRAL OREGON ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER INC DBA - THE ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER: $22,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHEALING REINS EQUINE ASSISTED SERVICES INC: $21,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHigh Desert Food & Farm Alliance: $21,050 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetDESCHUTES CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetWAMY COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN- CENTRAL OREGON: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetOREGON NATURAL DESERT ASSOCIATION: $17,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCOUNCIL ON AGING OF CENTRAL OREGON: $17,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetQUIET GIVERS INC: $15,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTOWER THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE GIVING PLATE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN RIVERS INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBEAT: $10,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetHEART OF OREGON CORPS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBEDFORD AREA FAMILY YMCA: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBELOVED ASHEVILLE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON ORIGINS PROJECT: $10,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetWARREN WILSON COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG AUDIENCES OF OREGON INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFARM CAFE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetBlue Ridge Environmental Defense League: $8,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWORLD MUSE: $7,500 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetKOR COMMUNITY LAND TRUST DBA ROOTEDHOMES: $7,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetTHE MAYFLY PROJECT: $6,128 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF LYNCHBURG: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ACCC LIBRARY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetCHATHAM COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetDiscover Your Northwest: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARA LEARNING CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

The Roundhouse Founda…The Autzen FoundationThe Oregon Community …Maybelle Clark Macdon…First Interstate Banc…St Charles Health Sys…Marie Lamfrom Charita…United Way of Deschut…The Anjulicia Foundat…Bend FoundationThe Ford Family Found…The Community Foundat…
The Roundhouse FoundationOR47.2× affinity22 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Helen M Clabough Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Helen M Clabough Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 16%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 78 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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