· Public charity
Oregon Elks Association Trust
Funding for various organizations providing healthcare and related services, and educational assistance to students attending institutions of higher education.
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 6 grants below total $134,221 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $298,918 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $164,697 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $41k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $78k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAMP MEADOWOOD | $78,355 |
| ROSEBURG VA HOSPITAL | $16,387 |
| WHITE CITY VA HOSPITAL | $14,112 |
| THE DALLES VETERANS HOME | $10,367 |
| PAWS ASSISTING VETERANS | $8,000 |
| CROSS THE DIVIDE | $7,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 92% of your 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.
5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- IFINSTITUTE FOR REHAB RESEARCH & RECINC7× · 2017–2025 · $190k · revenue -56% · 28% of their budget
- RVROSEBURG VA HOSPITAL2× · 2024–2025 · $61k
PAWS ASSISTING VETERANS4× · 2021–2025 · $24k · revenue +113%
Funded once
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2.2M · revenue +84%- EYELKS YOUTH EYE SERVICEgraduated2× · 2022–2023 · $154k · revenue +40%
- PVPORTLAND VA RESEARCH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $32k · revenue +18%
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.
We provide a voice for an effective and accessible behavioral health system of care for Oregonians.
Our mission is to remove barriers to care, deliver quality integrated health care, and build a better community through recovery and connection. our vision is to build a thriving community where service members, veterans, first responders,…
Veterans research & education foundation's mission is to further medical science by promoting research and educational activities at okcvahcs, eovahcs and favahcs in oklahoma and arkansas.
The iowa city va medical research foundation's (icvarf) mission is to mobilize resources that help improve veterans' healthcare, education, and lives. based in iowa city, a hub of research and health care in the midwest, the foundation…
Oregon research institute is an independent behavioral sciences research center dedicated to understanding human behavior and improving the quality of human life through the prevention and treatment of health, educational, and social…
To coordinate the resources need to help employers succeed and individuals to advance through innovation and partnerships.
To promote and defend the rights of individuals with disabilities.
Assisting veterans with services-connected disabilities and related benefits. service officers to help find benefits for veterans.
Transition for service members.
To facilitate research and collaboration for oregon's nursing workforce to support informed, well-prepared, diverse and exceptional nursing professionals.
Orla serves as the leading industry advocate, striving to protect, improve and promote oregon hospitality.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Portland Va Research Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Oregon Health & Science University Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 14 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 OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR REHAB RESEARCH & RECINC ↗
- Who funds ELKS YOUTH EYE SERVICE ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND VA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PAWS ASSISTING VETERANS ↗
- Who funds CROSS THE DIVIDE ↗
- Who funds DETROIT LAKE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VETERANS CARE CENTERS OF OREGON ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: 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 Elks Association Trust 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.
- Detroit Lake Foundation — 100% of income from government
- Veterans Care Centers of Oregon — 94% of income from government
- Portland Va Research Foundation — 34% of income from government
- Oregon Health & Science University Foundation — 1% 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.