· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +36% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 23 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mid Willamette Valley Community Action Agency funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mid Willamette Valley Community Action Agency. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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