· Public charity
Oregon Coast Community Action
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 3 grants below total $184,200 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,918,553 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,734,353 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CORE | $65,400 |
| ALTERNATIVE YOUTH ACTIVITIES | $65,400 |
| THE SAFE PROJECT | $53,400 |
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, $353k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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 +329% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 11 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, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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
- TSTHE SAFE PROJECT5× · 2017–2025 · $152k · revenue +139%
- COCOMPASS OUTREACH INC7× · 2017–2024 · $148k · revenue +329%
- AYAlternatives Youth Activities Inc5× · 2020–2025 · $135k · revenue ×16
Funded once
- CCCURRY COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION3× · 2022–2024 · $142k · revenue -99% · 25% of their budget
- SCSOUTH COAST ESD REGION #7one grant, 2022 · $47k
SMART READINGone grant, 2017 · $32k · revenue +7%
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.
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.…
Assisting and housing females in recovery
Mental health, drug abuse support. Operating a day-shelter and inclement weather shelter serving unhoused individuals in Newberg.
Outsiders Inn (OI) provides peer-lead homeless services and operates multiple shelter programs with a recovery focused model in the Clark County, WA area.
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…
Homeless Shelter
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.
Homeless services
To provide youth in crisis a place of physical and emotional safety while assisting them to build positive relationships and develop their individual potentials.
Resource for housing and other essential needs
Programs for people of all ages who have mental health needs. Our holistic approach addresses housing, advocacy, community integration, crisis intervention, therapy, co-occuring issues, education, work & economic well-being
Homeless shelter
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Star of Hope Activity Center and the most unlike its peers is Temporary Help in Emergency House. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
17 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. 17 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 THE SAFE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds COMPASS OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds CURRY COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION ↗
- Who funds Alternatives Youth Activities Inc ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA FIRST STEP ↗
- Who funds BROOKINGS COMMUNITY RESOURCE RESPONSE ↗
- Who funds South Coast Family Harbor ↗
- Who funds SMART READING ↗
- Who funds Bob Belloni Ranch Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ERA ↗
- Who funds TEMPORARY HELP IN EMERGENCY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds OASIS ADVOCACY AND SHELTER INC ↗
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 Ford Family Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Southwestern Oregon Workforce Investment Board · Humboldt Area Foundation · The Roundhouse Foundation · Bay Area Sportsmans Association Inc · Judith Ann Mogan Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Oregon Coast Community Action 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.
- Bob Belloni Ranch Inc — 66% of income from government
- The Safe Project — 65% of income from government
- Bay Area First Step — 54% of income from government
- Alternatives Youth Activities Inc — 34% of income from government
- Youth Era — 31% of income from government
- Brookings Community Resource Response — 26% of income from government
- Smart Reading — 3% 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.