· Public charity
Mid Willamette Valley Community Action Agency
Empowering people to change their lives and exit poverty by providing vital services and community leadership
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $3,917,096 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $21,990,694 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $18,073,598 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 · FY2025
- $10k–50k5 grants · $165k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $127k
- $250k+2 grants · $3.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| POLK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT | $2,700,000 |
| POLK COUNTY FAMILY & COMMUNITY OUTREACH DEPARTMENT | $925,013 |
| CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY | $65,000 |
| RECOVERY OUTREACH COMMUNITY CENTER | $62,130 |
| SEED OF FAITH MINISTRIES | $49,989 |
| SILVERTON SHELTERING SERVICES | $40,030 |
| SABLE HOUSE | $27,500 |
| SAFETY COMPASS | $27,434 |
| ST FRANCIS SHELTER | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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 +56% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.7M 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
- SISALEM INTERFAITH HOSPITALITY NETWORK7× · 2017–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +20% · 53% of their budget
CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY9× · 2017–2025 · $630k · revenue +186%- SSSILVERTON SHELTERING SERVICES7× · 2019–2025 · $547k · revenue +637% · 71% of their budget
Funded once
- MVMID-WILLAMETTE VALLEY HOMELESS ALLIANCEone grant, 2022 · $55k
- SHSALEM HOUSING AUTHORITYone grant, 2019 · $20k
- LILOVE INC OF NORTH MARION COUNTYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +36%
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.
Mental health, drug abuse support. Operating a day-shelter and inclement weather shelter serving unhoused individuals in Newberg.
Restoration House provides save, supervised housing for men with significant behavioral health needs, creating a stable environment where structure, accountability, and wraparound services support personal growth and long-term recovery.…
Operation Nightwatch provides nighttime hospitality for Portland's unhoused population. For a few evenings a week, staff and volunteers at thehospitality center provide a safe place, food, socks, blankets, medical care, and welcome our…
Central oregon villages mission is to advocate for and provide safe and secure shelter, housing and related services in central oreogn for the unhoused populations or at risk of becoming unhoused.
Assisting and housing females in recovery
To help families with children in our community who are situationally homeless achieve sustainable independence through a community based response by providing temporary housing, usually 60-90 days, along with case management.
We are committed to helping victims of sexual assault and abuse and domestic assault and abuse through advocacy support and education. We provide emergency shelter to domestic assault victims. We Also are committed to educating the public…
To connect homeowners with a spare bedroom to rent and home seekers in need of affordable housing
Samaritan House is committed to fostering personal safety, growth, and self-sufficiency in adults and their children through freedom from domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking and removing their risks of homelessness.
Welcome Home is a diverse coalition in the Portland metropolitan region that uses its collective resources to create healthy communities by ensuring everyone has an affordable and stable home. We use community education and collaboration…
Qualified for voca grant to fund program for shelter and services for victims of domestic and sexual violence
Provide shelter and basic needs for homeless people. while fostering self-respect and human dignity, samaritan house will encourage the residents' efforts to find employment and housing.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Hope and Safety and the most unlike its peers is Mano a Mano. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 23 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 POLK CDC ↗
- Who funds CHURCH AT THE PARK ↗
- Who funds SALEM INTERFAITH HOSPITALITY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY ↗
- Who funds SILVERTON SHELTERING SERVICES ↗
- Who funds A RAY OF HOPE TODAY ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST HUMAN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SABLE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds ST FRANCIS SHELTER ↗
- Who funds RECOVERY OUTREACH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE MID-WILLAMETTE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds SAFETY COMPASS ↗
- Who funds WOMEN AT THE WELL GRACE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds MICRONESIAN ISLANDER COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds LOVE INC OF NORTH MARION COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Mano A Mano ↗
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: Maps Community Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Willamette Health Council · Marion-Polk Food Share Inc · United Way of the Mid-Willamette Valley · Salem Health · The Salem Foundation · Evergreen Charitable Trust · Meyer Memorial Trust · Womens Foundation of Oregon · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Mid Willamette Valley Community Action Agency 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.
- Center for Hope and Safety — 68% of income from government
- Sable House — 50% of income from government
- Safety Compass — 25% of income from government
- Micronesian Islander Community — 25% of income from government
- Salem Interfaith Hospitality Network — 25% of income from government
- Polk Cdc — 20% of income from government
- Northwest Human Services Inc — 15% of income from government
- Church at the Park — 12% of income from government
- United Way of the Mid-Willamette Valley — 6% 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.