· Public charity
Occu Foundation Inc
The corporation is organized to provide a foundation for philanthropic education and charitable activities for improving the life of the members and employees of oregon community credit union, its subsidiaries and citizens of the communities they serve.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $340,666 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $406,316 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $65,650 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 $10k2 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $152k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $177k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PEACEHEALTH SACRED HEART FOUNDATION | $176,936 |
| FOOD FOR LANE COUNTY | $45,500 |
| BETHEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $24,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES | $20,000 |
| MOSAIC COMMUNITY HEALTH | $19,500 |
| PROJECT HOPE OF LANE COUNTY | $12,980 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $10,500 |
| MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| POSITIVE COMMUNITY KITCHEN | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY SHARING PROGRAM | $5,750 |
| EVERY CHILD LANE COUNTY | $5,500 |
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 (FY21–24, $194k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% 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 +13% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 2 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION5× · 2019–2023 · $914k · revenue +50%- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF OREGON AND SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON4× · 2021–2024 · $122k · revenue +28%
- FFFOOD FOR LANE COUNTY3× · 2020–2024 · $107k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF EUGENEone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -44%
PARENTING NOWgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +58%- UWUNITED WAY OF LANE COUNTYone grant, 2020 · $35k · revenue -10%
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.
The mission of Lane County Community Foundation (the Foundation) is to improve the quality of life in Lane County, Kansas and communities within Lane County, and to ensure that the communities in and around Lane County will forever remain…
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
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)…
Our children oregon's mission is to be a voice and force for the common good for all oregon children, ensuring all children have the resources and opportunities they need to reach their full potential. we elevate data and the voices of…
To accelerate inclusive economic prosperity in lane county, oregon
Positive change for thriving communities: to empower people to work toward social and economic independence, otherwise improving the lives of those served by the corporation, under relevant community services block grant programs.
The oregon center for public policy's mission is to achieve economic justice for all oregonians through research, analysis, and advocacy. ocpp works to change policies that foster economic security and stability for all oregonians. we do…
Every Child mobilizes community to support children and families impacted by foster care in Linn, Benton, Lincoln.
To lead oregon's casa programs to provide a strong voice for every abused and neglected child
We partner with our community to make good health possible for all. wallace serves individuals and families who face barriers to care throughout the east multnomah county in the portland metropolitan area.
To support public policies that will help oregon's economy and create new family supporting jobs in oregon.
We work collectively to educate and advocate for systems that elevate the vital work of care and caregiving in its many forms within our community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Every Child Lane County and the most unlike its peers is Positive Community Kitchen. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
55 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. 55 of the 61 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 PEACEHEALTH SACRED HEART MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EUGENE CIVIC ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds LANE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF OREGON AND SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR LANE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF EUGENE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds MARION-POLK FOOD SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BETHEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARENTING NOW ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF LANE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Education Together Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CORVALLIS NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SALEM HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOPE OF LANE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BUSHNELL UNIVERSITY FKA NORTHWEST CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GOWEST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Positive Community Kitchen ↗
- Who funds THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds McKenzie Community Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOU ↗
- Who funds MOSAIC COMMUNITY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds CASCADE RELIEF TEAM ↗
- Who funds Oregon Parks Forever ↗
- Who funds SPARROW CLUBS USA ↗
- Who funds LOVEFIRST ↗
- Who funds EVERY CHILD LANE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds VIDA MCKENZIE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Four Way Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds Lines for Life ↗
- Who funds RELIEF NURSERY INC ↗
- Who funds ARC OF LANE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds KEEP OREGON GREEN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MCKENZIE VALLEY LTRG OF LANE COUNTY ↗
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 Ford Family Foundation · Chambers Family Foundation · The Roundhouse Foundation · The Woodard Family Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · United Way of Lane County · McKay Family Foundation · PeaceHealth · The Autzen Foundation · Juan Young Trust · The Coeta and Donald Barker 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 Occu Foundation Inc 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.
- Arc of Lane County — 79% of income from government
- Lines for Life — 70% of income from government
- United Way of Lane County — 31% of income from government
- Relief Nursery Inc — 30% of income from government
- Oregon Coast Aquarium Inc — 24% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- Connected Lane County — 17% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Clubs of Emerald Valley — 15% of income from government
- Corvallis Neighborhood Housing Services Inc — 11% of income from government
- Keep Oregon Green Association Inc — 11% of income from government
- Mosaic Community Health — 8% of income from government
- Marion-Polk Food Share Inc — 5% of income from government
- Food for Lane County — 5% of income from government
- Mckenzie Valley Ltrg of Lane County — 3% of income from government
- Bushnell University Fka Northwest Christian University — 3% of income from government
- Smart Reading — 3% of income from government
- The Oregon Community Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Parenting Now — 1% of income from government
- Volunteers in Medicine Clinic — 0% of income from government
- Salem Health Foundation — 0% 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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