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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.

$1.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$791kHousing & Shelter$313kHealth$159kHuman Services$154kYouth Development$129kEnvironment$69kPhilanthropy$25kReligion$12k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $184,200, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,918,553 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,734,353 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$65,400
Median grant
1
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CORE$65,400
ALTERNATIVE YOUTH ACTIVITIES$65,400
THE SAFE PROJECT$53,400
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE SAFE PROJECT: $94k → 17%ALTERNATIVE YOUTH ACTIVITIES: $65k → 17%ALTERNATIVE YOUTH ACTIVITIES: $54k → 17%THE SAFE PROJECT: $53k → 17%CORE: $65k → 14%ALTERNATIVE YOUTH ACTIVITIES: $16k → 17%WOMEN CRISIS: $5k → 17%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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 13 repeat orgs$370k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +329% since the first grant, against +3% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
10

Total granted

$1.3M
$305k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+329%
+3%

Still filing today

31%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • TS
    THE SAFE PROJECT
    5× · 2017–2025 · $152k · revenue +139%
  • CO
    COMPASS OUTREACH INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $148k · revenue +329%
  • AY
    Alternatives Youth Activities Inc
    5× · 2020–2025 · $135k · revenue ×16

Funded once

  • CC
    CURRY COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $142k · revenue -99% · 25% of their budget
  • SC
    SOUTH COAST ESD REGION #7
    one grant, 2022 · $47k
  • SMART READING
    one grant, 2017 · $32k · revenue +7%
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
Restoration House Inc

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.…

Health
2
House of Hope

Assisting and housing females in recovery

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3
Community Wellness Collective

Mental health, drug abuse support. Operating a day-shelter and inclement weather shelter serving unhoused individuals in Newberg.

Health
4
Outsiders Inn

Outsiders Inn (OI) provides peer-lead homeless services and operates multiple shelter programs with a recovery focused model in the Clark County, WA area.

Housing & Shelter
5
Operation Nightwatch - Portland

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…

Health
6
Sunshine for Humanity Inc

Homeless Shelter

Health
7
Family Promise of Cowlitz County

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.

Human Services
8
Open Doors

Homeless services

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9
Youth Empowerment Shelter

To provide youth in crisis a place of physical and emotional safety while assisting them to build positive relationships and develop their individual potentials.

Youth Development
10
Places of Change

Resource for housing and other essential needs

Housing & Shelter
11
Options for Southern Oregon

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

Health
12
Lake Area Helping Hands Inc

Homeless shelter

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Star of Hope Activity Center; 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.
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 24 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/17
Grantees still filing
13/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOUTHWESTERN OREGON COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $182,317 · OtherSOUTHWESTERN OREGON COMMUNITY COLLEGEPort Orford-Langlois School District 2CJ: $154,665 · OtherPort Orford-Langlois School District 2CJCURRY COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION: $141,883 · OtherCURRY COUNTY HOMELESS COALITIONPOWERS SCHOOL DISTRICT: $136,541 · OtherPOWERS SCHOOL DISTRICTBRIGHT EYES MIDWIFERY & WILD RIVER WOMEN'S HEALTH LLC: $89,337 · OtherBRIGHT EYES MIDWIFERY & WILD RIVER WOMEN'S HEALTH LLCSouth Coast Family Harbor: $50,495 · OtherSOUTH COAST ESD REGION #7: $47,250 · OtherNORTH BEND SCHOOL DISTRICT #13: $46,038 · OtherMYRTLE POINT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $43,452 · OtherREEDSPORT SCHOOL DISTRICT #105: $36,078 · Other+6 more: $66,246 · Other+6 moreTHE SAFE PROJECT: $152,400 · Human ServicesTHE SAFE PROJECTAlternatives Youth Activities Inc: $134,900 · Human ServicesAlternatives Youth Activ…BROOKINGS COMMUNITY RESOURCE RESPONSE: $65,400 · Human ServicesBROOKINGS COMMUNITY RESO…COMPASS OUTREACH INC: $148,000 · HealthCOMPASS OUTREACH…BAY AREA FIRST STEP: $91,071 · HealthBAY AREA FIRST S…SMART READING: $31,691 · EducationBob Belloni Ranch Inc: $25,000 · PhilanthropyYOUTH ERA: $10,098 · Youth Development
Other$994,302Human Services$352,700Health$239,071Education$31,691Philanthropy$25,000Youth Development$10,098

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE SAFE PROJECT: $152,400 over 5y, 16% of budgetCOMPASS OUTREACH INC: $148,000 over 7y, 13% of budgetCURRY COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION: $141,883 over 3y, 25% of budgetAlternatives Youth Activities Inc: $134,900 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetBAY AREA FIRST STEP: $91,071 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetSouth Coast Family Harbor: $50,495 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetSMART READING: $31,691 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBob Belloni Ranch Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetYOUTH ERA: $10,098 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTEMPORARY HELP IN EMERGENCY HOUSE: $5,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetOASIS ADVOCACY AND SHELTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% 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 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 ↗

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.

The Ford Family Found…The Oregon Community …Southwestern Oregon W…Humboldt Area Foundat…The Roundhouse Founda…Bay Area Sportsmans A…Judith Ann Mogan Foun…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Ford Family FoundationOR29.4× affinity13 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Oregon Coast Community Action funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Oregon Coast Community Action. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 34%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 24 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 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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