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Molalla Communications Educational Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$588k
Granted FY2025still arriving
141
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$138k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Science & Tech$1.5MEducation$170kHealth$50kHuman Services$26kRecreation & Sports$24kArts & Culture$11kYouth Development$9kEnvironment$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 141 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k138 grants · $388k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $62k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $138k
$3,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$6.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$138,000
Molalla River School District$37,376
Providence Willamette Falls Medical Foundation$25,000
Molalla Boosters Club$6,800
Molalla Chamber of Commerce$6,500
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Molalla Adult Community Center$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Share the Love: $500 → 8%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 196 repeat orgs$507k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

196 repeat relationships: 80 still active in FY2025, 116 since wound down; 61 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

196
167

Total granted

$1.3M
$355k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
0%

Still filing today

4%
4%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $152k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationCrime & LegalHealthYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • FF
    Foundation For Rural Service
    3× · 2023–2025 · $13k · revenue +47%
  • TA
    THE ANGELS IN THE OUTFIELD
    4× · 2022–2025 · $4k · revenue +56%
  • MY
    MOLALLA YOUTH SPORTS INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $4k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • CP
    City Parks Project
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • MA
    Molalla Area Seniors Incorporated
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • MA
    MOLALLA AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2024 · $11k
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.

04Its 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
McMinnville Montessori School

Operation of primary/elementary school

Education
2
Wa High School Equestrian Teams
Recreation & Sports
3
Oregon Agricultural Trust

Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.

Environment
4
Mckenzie Watershed Alliance

To assist in the development implementation and maintenance of coordinated resource management that will enhance the natural resources business and social relationships of the McKenzie Sub-basin.

Environment
5
Tillamook County Fair Association

The Association is organized exclusively for charitable, religious, educational, and scientific purposes in conjunction with the Tillamook County Fair Board, manager and staff. The Association will work to further and promote the…

Youth Development
6
Oregon Wheat Foundation

Issue scholarships for secondary ag eduction

Food & Nutrition
7
Molalla Communications Educational Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
8
Portland Bakstball Officials Association Co Andy Jamison

The provide schools with competent basketball officials who are approved by oregon schools activities association.

Recreation & Sports
9
Oregon Association of Clean Water Agencies

Public education related to clean water resources.

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10
Oregon Wrestling Associationinc

Organize and coordinate wrestling competitions for children aged 6-18 and and senior divisions (adults) in the state of oregon

Recreation & Sports
11
McCULLOCH Co Jr Livestock Show Assn Inc

Mcculloch county junior livestock show benefiting the 4-h and ffa youth of mcculloch county.

Youth Development
12
Mollys Angels
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Antfarm Inc; the most unlike its peers is Monitor Old-Rite School. 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

17 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. 17 of the 424 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
10/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $266,311 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMolalla River School District: $121,204 · OtherMolalla River School DistrictCity Parks Project: $100,000 · OtherCity Parks Project+190 more: $979,964 · Other+190 morePROVIDENCE WILLAMETTE FALLS MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $5,000 · HealthFoundation For Rural Service: $13,200 · EducationMOLALLA BOOSTER CLUB INC: $12,300 · EducationMolalla River Academy: $3,000 · EducationTHE ANGELS IN THE OUTFIELD: $4,000 · Crime & LegalTodos Juntos Inc: $3,150 · Crime & Legal
Other$1,467,479Health$30,000Education$28,500Crime & Legal$7,150

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMolalla Area Seniors Incorporated: $25,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetFoundation For Rural Service: $13,200 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMOLALLA BOOSTER CLUB INC: $12,300 over 2y, 13% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ANGELS IN THE OUTFIELD: $4,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMOLALLA YOUTH SPORTS INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTodos Juntos Inc: $3,150 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMolalla River Academy: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds PROVIDENCE WILLAMETTE FALLS MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Molalla Area Seniors Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds Foundation For Rural Service ↗
  • Who funds MOLALLA BOOSTER CLUB INC ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA1.4× affinity12 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Molalla Communications Educational Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Molalla Communications Educational Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 29%
  • Todos Juntos Inc: 64% of income from government
  • Antfarm Inc: 29% of income from government
  • Molalla River Watch Inc: 21% of income from government
  • Molalla River Academy: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Molalla Communications Educational Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Molalla Communications Educational Foundation 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 424 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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