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Klamath Defender Services Inc at a glance

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Klamath Defender Services Inc

Provide legal defense services to individuals who cannot afford an attorney.

$753k
Granted FY2022
17
Grants FY2022
2
States reached
$250k
Largest
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02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2022.

Public Benefit$250kYouth Development$125kEducation$85kHuman Services$68kHealth$60kCrime & Legal$60kEmployment$50kArts & Culture$30kOther$0
02FY2022 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 17 grants below total $724,270, the rows itemized in this filing. The $753,248 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $28,978 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 · FY2022

  • $10k–50k11 grants · $174k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $300k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KLAMATH COUNTY SHARIFF'S OFFICE$250,000
TINY MIGHTY AND STRONG CORPORATION$75,000
KLAMATH FAMILY HEAD START$75,000
REACH INC$50,000
KLAMATH COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION$50,000
CASA FOR THE CHIDREN OF KLAMATH COU$50,000
KLAMATH CHILD & FAMILY TREATMENT CE$30,000
KLAMATH BASIN SENIOR CITIZEN'S CENT$30,000
SKY LAKES MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$20,000
MAZAMA HIGH SCHOOLFBLA CLUB$19,270
KLAMATH FALL ASSEMBLY OF GOD$15,000
BADGER RUN WILDLIFE REHAB$10,000
DENNIS BENNETT MEMORIAL INC$10,000
FAVELL MUSEUM INC$10,000
DAVID BEESON MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP F$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%KLAMATH BASIN SENIOR CITIZEN'S CENT: $30k → 16%REACH INC: $50k → 16%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 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
Klamath Lake Land Trust

Preserving the natural legacy of the upper klamath basin.

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2
Klamath Co Economic Development Assn

The organization's mission is to promote new and existing business development in southern oregon.

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3
Children's Museum of Klamath Falls

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.

Arts & Culture
4
Klamath Works Inc

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.

Employment
5
Klamath Watershed Partnership Bill Lehman

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.

Environment
6
Klamath Humane Society Inc

Animal shelter

Animals
7
Klamath Film Inc

To build, promote, and support an industry of filmmaking in and around klamath falls, oregon while connecting our community to film.

Arts & Culture
8
Klamath Falls Little League

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.

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9
Klamath County Library Foundation

Raising funds for library improvements.

Education
10
Klamath Lake Counties Food Bank

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…

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11
Tater Tot Pediatric Therapy

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…

Health
12
Klamath Health Partnership Inc

Provide accessible, culturally sensitive, affordable, quality driven patient centered health services, with an emphasis on the underserved.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Klamath Family Head Start; 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.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 20 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
7/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Klamath County: $250,000 · OtherKlamath CountyOREGON 4-H FOUNDATION KLAMATH COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION: $50,000 · OtherOREGON 4-H FOUNDATION KLAMATH COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATIONLUTHERN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $37,500 · OtherLUTHERN COMMUNITY SERVICESKlamath County School District: $19,270 · OtherASSEMBLY OF GOD: $15,000 · Other+7 more: $70,000 · Other+7 moreREACH INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesREACH INCKLAMATH BASIN SENIOR CITIZENS' CENTER: $30,000 · Human ServicesKLAMATH BAS…KLAMATH FAMILY HEAD START: $75,000 · EducationKLAMATH FA…Tiny Mighty and Strong Corporation: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentTiny Might…CASA FOR CHILDREN OF KLAMATH COUNTY: $50,000 · Crime & LegalKLAMATH CHILD & FAMILY TREATMENT CENTER INC: $30,000 · HealthSKY LAKES MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthFAVELL MUSEUM INC: $30,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$441,770Human Services$80,000Education$75,000Youth Development$75,000Crime & Legal$50,000Health$50,000Arts & Culture$30,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKLAMATH FAMILY HEAD START: $75,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTiny Mighty and Strong Corporation: $75,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetCASA FOR CHILDREN OF KLAMATH COUNTY: $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetREACH INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFAVELL MUSEUM INC: $30,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetKLAMATH BASIN SENIOR CITIZENS' CENTER: $30,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetKLAMATH CHILD & FAMILY TREATMENT CENTER INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSKY LAKES MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetKLAMATH YOUTH BASEBALL: $10,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetOREGON CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF PETS OF KLAMATH BASIN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetBADGER RUN WILDLIFE REHAB: $10,000 over 1y, 13% 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.

Sky Lakes Medical Cen…The Oregon Community …The Ford Family Found…Pacificorp Foundation…The Roundhouse Founda…Amazonsmile Foundation
Sky Lakes Medical CenterOR22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Klamath Defender Services Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Klamath Defender Services Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 30%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
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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Find your warmest path to Klamath Defender Services Inc 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 20 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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