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Josephine County Foundation

The JOSEPHINE COUNTY FOUNDATION's mission is to educate high school students about non-profits, have them operate an actual business, learning skills such as public speaking, finances, fundraising, project management, leadership, teamwork, and to perform community work which results in a better educated, healthier and more vibrant…

$168k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$27k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0181% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Public Safety & Disaster$456kEducation$160kPublic Benefit$36kScience & Tech$12kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $103,546, the rows itemized in this filing. The $167,839 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $64,293 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $91k
$12,451
Median grant
1
States reached
$556k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THREE RIVERS SCHOOL DISTRICT$26,900
ROGUE RIVER SCHOOL DISTRICT$24,095
APPLEGATE VALLEY FIRE DISTRICT$18,000
SOUTHERN OREGON HEADSTART$12,451
Individual grant recipient$10,000
NEW HOPE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$7,100
HIDDEN VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL$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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 30% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 8%APPLEGATE VALLEY FIRE DIST #9: $90k → 13%OREGON INSTITUE OF TECHNOLOGY: $6k → 16%OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 18%WILLIAMS FIRE DEPARTMENT: $45k → 18%APPLEGATE VALLEY FIRE DIST #9: $70k → 13%OREGON INSTITUE OF TECHNOLOGY: $6k → 16%OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY: $7k → 18%WILLIAMS FIRE DEPARTMENT: $21k → 18%JACKSONVILLE FIRE DEPARTMENT: $60k → 13%OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY: $7k → 18%ILLINOIS VALLEY FIRE DISTRICT: $23k → 18%JACKSONVILLE FIRE DEPARTMENT: $38k → 13%WILLIAMS FIRE DEPARTMENT: $21k → 18%APPLEGATE VALLEY FIRE DIST 9: $22k → 13%ILLINOIS VALLEY FIRE DISTRICT: $17k → 18%APPLEGATE VALLEY FIRE DISTRICT: $18k → 13%WILLIAMS FIRE DEPARTMENT: $9k → 18%FRIENDS OF APPLEGATE FIRE: $10k → 13%ILLINOIS VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL: $5k → 18%JACKSONVILLE FIRE DEPARTMENT: $10k → 13%NORTH VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL: $7k → 18%GREENSPRINGS FIRE DEPARTMENT: $10k → 13%NORTH VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL: $6k → 18%FRIENDS OF APPLEGATE FIRE: $10k → 13%WOLF CREEK RURAL FIRE DISTRIC: $20k → 18%GREENSPRINGS FIRE RESCUE: $10k → 13%THREE RIVERS SCHOOL DISTRICT: $27k → 18%JACKSONVILLE FIRE DEPARTMENT: $9k → 13%NEW HOPE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $7k → 18%GREENSPRINGS FIRE RESCUE: $9k → 13%LINCOLN SAVAGE MIDDLE SCHOOL: $7k → 18%SOUTHERN OREGON HEADSTART: $12k → 13%HIDDEN VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL: $6k → 18%JACKSON FIRE DISTRICT 4: $17k → 13%HIDDEN VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL: $5k → 18%EVANS VALLEY FIRE DISTRICT 6: $29k → 13%ROGUE RIVER SCHOOL DISTRICT: $24k → 13%ROGUE RIVER SCHOOL DISTRICT: $21k → 13%ROGUE RIVER FIRE DISTRICT: $10k → 13%LAKE CREEK FIRE DEPT: $22k → 13%ROGUE RIVER FIRE DISTRICT: $8k → 13%PROSPECT RURAL FIRE DISTRICT: $25k → 13%PROSPECT RURAL FIRE DISTRICT: $24k → 13%TOWN OF BUTTE FALLS: $22k → 13%PROSPECT RURAL FIRE DISTRICT: $22k → 13%TOWN OF BUTTE FALLS: $14k → 13%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$703k · 14 repeat orgs$184k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
7

Total granted

$703k
$110k

Still filing today

7%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Public Safety & DisasterEducationOther
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

  • AV
    APPLEGATE VALLEY FIRE DIST #9
    3× · 2021–2023 · $182k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    4× · 2021–2024 · $117k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    4× · 2021–2024 · $96k

Funded once

  • EV
    EVANS VALLEY FIRE DISTRICT 6
    one grant, 2023 · $29k
  • LC
    LAKE CREEK FIRE DEPT
    one grant, 2021 · $22k
  • WC
    WOLF CREEK RURAL FIRE DISTRIC
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
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
04the grantee network

3 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. 3 of the 26 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
3/3
Grantees still filing
1/3
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

APPLEGATE VALLEY FIRE DIST #9: $182,300 · OtherAPPLEGATE VALLEY FIRE DIST #9Individual grant recipient: $117,111 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $96,201 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPROSPECT RURAL FIRE DISTRICT: $70,574 · OtherPROSPECT RURAL FIRE DISTRICTROGUE RIVER SCHOOL DISTRICT: $44,635 · OtherILLINOIS VALLEY FIRE DISTRICT: $40,257 · OtherTOWN OF BUTTE FALLS: $35,700 · OtherEVANS VALLEY FIRE DISTRICT 6: $29,250 · Other+16 more: $239,813 · Other+16 moreGREENSPRINGS FIRE AND RESCUE: $18,900 · Public Safety & DisasterSOUTHERN OREGON CHILD AND FAMILY COUNCIL INC: $12,451 · Education
Other$855,841Public Safety & Disaster$18,900Education$12,451

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGREENSPRINGS FIRE AND RESCUE: $18,900 over 2y, 10% of budgetNEW HOPE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC: $7,100 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

  • Who funds GREENSPRINGS FIRE AND RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN OREGON CHILD AND FAMILY COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW HOPE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 92%
  • Southern Oregon Child and Family Council Inc: 92% of income from government
  • Greensprings Fire and Rescue: 18% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to Josephine County Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Josephine County Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 26 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 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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