· Public charity
Klamath Defender Services Inc
Provide legal defense services to individuals who cannot afford an attorney.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 17 grants below total $724,270 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $753,248 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $28,978 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 · FY2022
- $10k–50k11 grants · $174k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $300k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KLAMATH COUNTY SHARIFF'S OFFICE | $250,000 |
| TINY MIGHTY AND STRONG CORPORATION | $75,000 |
| KLAMATH FAMILY HEAD START | $75,000 |
| REACH INC | $50,000 |
| CASA FOR THE CHIDREN OF KLAMATH COU | $50,000 |
| KLAMATH COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION | $50,000 |
| KLAMATH BASIN SENIOR CITIZEN'S CENT | $30,000 |
| KLAMATH CHILD & FAMILY TREATMENT CE | $30,000 |
| SKY LAKES MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| MAZAMA HIGH SCHOOLFBLA CLUB | $19,270 |
| KLAMATH FALL ASSEMBLY OF GOD | $15,000 |
| OCDLA | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF PETS OF KLAMATH BASIN | $10,000 |
| DENNIS BENNETT MEMORIAL INC | $10,000 |
| DAVID BEESON MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP F | $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 (FY22–22, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 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.
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.
Preserving the natural legacy of the upper klamath basin.
The organization's mission is to promote new and existing business development in southern oregon.
To provide a fun, interactive enviroment for children and families to explore and discover the everchanging world around them. through the arts, sciences, and humanities, we hope to stimulate the creative potential within us all.
To create total community commitment for helping people in need by developing a campus and programs of holistic and collaborative services with the goal of self-sufficiency based upon effort and reward.
To conserve, enhance, and restore the natural resources of the klamath basin while ensuring the long-term sustainability of the regional economy and local communities.
Animal shelter
To build, promote, and support an industry of filmmaking in and around klamath falls, oregon while connecting our community to film.
Klamath falls little league is dedicated to providing a supervised baseball and softball program that teaches sportsmanship, teamwork, and leadership while developing player skills in a safe and supportive environment.
Raising funds for library improvements.
Provide food to underprivileged and indigent residents of klamath, lake and siskiyou counties of southern oregon and northern california and to address hunger by providing food to emergency food assistance programs and support other…
Tater tots pediatric therapy is a non-profit pediatric therapy clinic serving klamath falls and the surrounding area. our mission is to provide high quality evidence-based family-centered physical and speech therapy services to the…
Provide accessible, culturally sensitive, affordable, quality driven patient centered health services, with an emphasis on the underserved.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Klamath Family Head Start and the most unlike its peers is Reach Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 20 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 KLAMATH FAMILY HEAD START ↗
- Who funds Tiny Mighty and Strong Corporation ↗
- Who funds CASA FOR CHILDREN OF KLAMATH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds OREGON 4-H FOUNDATION KLAMATH COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds REACH INC ↗
- Who funds KLAMATH BASIN SENIOR CITIZENS' CENTER ↗
- Who funds FAVELL MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds KLAMATH CHILD & FAMILY TREATMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SKY LAKES MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KLAMATH YOUTH BASEBALL ↗
- Who funds OREGON CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF PETS OF KLAMATH BASIN INC ↗
- Who funds BADGER RUN WILDLIFE REHAB ↗
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: Sky Lakes Medical Center · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · Pacificorp Foundation Aka Pacific Power Foundation Aka Rocky Mountain Power Foundati · The Roundhouse 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 Klamath Defender Services Inc 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.
- Klamath Family Head Start — 98% of income from government
- Reach Inc — 42% of income from government
- Klamath Child & Family Treatment Center Inc — 21% of income from government
- Klamath Basin Senior Citizens' Center — 6% of income from government
- Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyers Association — 6% of income from government
- Sky Lakes Medical Center Foundation — 2% 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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