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Lincoln County Foundation
The LINCOLN COUNTY FOUNDATION is an agency established to receive, administer and disburse funds and other property to assist the people of lincoln county, oregon; particularly the young people through grants and scholarships.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $231,647 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $942,153 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $710,506 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
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $180k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $130,000 |
| LINCOLN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $50,000 |
| OREGON COAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $25,474 |
| SEASHORE FAMILY LITERACY | $19,952 |
| OLALLA CENTER | $6,221 |
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 (FY18–23, $48k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +49% since the first grant, against -3% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 5 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $232k 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
- OOTHER2× · 2018–2020 · $63k
- AAANGELS ANONYMOUS INC3× · 2018–2023 · $48k · revenue +49%
- LCLINCOLN CITY KIWANIS6× · 2017–2022 · $48k
Funded once
- LCLC CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERone grant, 2017 · $40k
- OOTHERSone grant, 2017 · $29k
LINCOLN CITY CULTURAL CENTERone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -3%
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.
Assist education of youth and help children and communities internationally
Be a force for improvement in inner north-northeast portland primiarily for children
Support community organizations
The organization's mission is to enable rotarians to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through the improvement of health, education, and alleviation of poverty, both locally and worldwide.
Uncompensated service to others in our community, our nation, and the world.
The school provides youth activities and education for students within the coos bay, oregon, school district. the school operates a public school that educates students in a waldorf style program.
The portland rotary charitable trust is the entity by which the rotary club of portland carries out its philanthropic activities in both the local and world communities servicing primarily the needs of youth.
Lane Community College Education Association is the union that represents 200 full-time and 375 part-time faculty members at Lane Community College in Eugene, Oregon. LCCEA is an affiliated unit of the Oregon Education Association (OEA)…
To promote the arts in wallowa county, oregon.
Eugene Rowing Club strives to build a team-oriented program. Our student athletesdevelop personal character, time management skills, an ethic of cooperation, and physical fitness with a team culture of crew and rowing. Athletes learn to…
To deliver economic development services to facilitate creation, growth and retention of lincoln county businesses.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lincoln City Cultural Center and the most unlike its peers is Olalla Center. 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 24 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 LINCOLN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ANGELS ANONYMOUS INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON COAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CITY CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds SEASHORE FAMILY LITERACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds ROTARY DISTRICT 5110 YOUTH EXCHANGE ↗
- Who funds OLALLA CENTER ↗
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: The Oregon Community Foundation · The Roundhouse Foundation · Braemar Charitable Trust · 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 Lincoln County Foundation 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.
- Lincoln City Cultural Center — 73% 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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