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Josephine County Educational Fund Inc dba Redwood Foundation for Education
Redwood Foundation for Education works with individuals, families, organizations and businesses to build a better future for Southern Oregon students, schools and community.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 50% of Josephine County Educational Fund Inc dba Redwood Foundation for Education’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $166,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,099,458 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $932,958 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 · FY2024
- $10k–50k7 grants · $117k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Grants Pass School District #7 | $50,000 |
| Academic Masters | $24,000 |
| Southern Oregon ESD | $20,000 |
| Siskiyou Community Health | $20,000 |
| Family Nuturing Center | $20,000 |
| Healthy U | $12,500 |
| Illinois Valley Family Coalition | $10,000 |
| Sugarloaf Community Association | $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 (FY24–24, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% 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 +115% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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
- TFTHE FAMILY NURTURING CENTER ROGUE VALLEY CHILDREN'S RELIEF NURSERY5× · 2020–2024 · $181k · revenue +115%
- SCSISKIYOU COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC5× · 2020–2024 · $176k · revenue +75%
- SCSUGARLOAF COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION3× · 2021–2024 · $30k · revenue +383%
Funded once
- YMYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC - GRANTS PASS co EXECUTIVE DIRECTORone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +11%
- GPGP PROJECT GRADUATIONone grant, 2023 · $12k
- TPTinkerbell Parent Co-Op Preschoolone grant, 2020 · $6k
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.
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…
The YMCA of Medford is a charitable, community service organization that includes men, women, and children of all ages, abilities, incomes, races and religions. Our mission is to put Christian principles into practice through programs that…
Children's corner is a full day child care center that gives each child a warm environment that encourages the development of socialization skills, independence, and a positive self-image.
The mission of the YMCA of the Inland Northwest is to put Christian Principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all. The YMCA of the Inland Northwest is a diverse organization of men, women and…
The specific purpose of this coporation is to further the common welfare of the residents of the cuyama valley by providing recreation, education and public awareness opportunities to the families and youth of the valley and resources for…
Head start & other children services
The organization's mission is to prevent child abuse and neglect by strengthening at-risk families using proven interventions. Using the relief nursery model TVCRN signficantly reduces the likelihood of child maltreatment by reducing the…
We are and Agency created on the fundamental value that strengthening one family at a time will transform our community as a whole. we believe that all people should have access to behavioral healt servicesa and to live a fulfilling life.…
To promote each child's development by providing high quality early childhood education.
Our mission is to build strong kids, strong families, and strong communities. The YMCA of the Chippewa Valley is a community centered association dedicated to building a healthy spirit, mind and body for all people, while maintaining an…
Provides family oriented child care for children by promoting physical, emotional, and social development. Fosters intergenerational linkages between children and senior citizens for their mutual benefit
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Healthy U and the most unlike its peers is Academic Masters Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 14 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 THE FAMILY NURTURING CENTER ROGUE VALLEY CHILDREN'S RELIEF NURSERY ↗
- Who funds SISKIYOU COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Academic Masters Foundation ↗
- Who funds SUGARLOAF COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS VALLEY FAMILY COALITION ↗
- Who funds Community Bridges Foundation ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC - GRANTS PASS co EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY U ↗
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: Four Way Community Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Carpenter Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · 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 organization Josephine County Educational Fund Inc dba Redwood Foundation for Education 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.
- Sugarloaf Community Association — 67% 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
- Siskiyou Community Health Center Inc — 15% of income from government
- Healthy U — 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.
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