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Oregon Elks Association Trust at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

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Oregon Elks Association Trust

Funding for various organizations providing healthcare and related services, and educational assistance to students attending institutions of higher education.

$299k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$78k
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.

Health$2.7MAnimals$24kPublic Safety & Disaster$20kHuman Services$15kPublic Benefit$14kHousing & Shelter$10k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $134,221, the rows itemized in this filing. The $298,918 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $164,697 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.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $41k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $78k
$14,112
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BOISE VA MEDICAL CENTER: $6k → 8%WHITE CITY VA HOSPITAL: $14k → 8%CAMP MEADOWOOD: $78k → 12%CROSS THE DIVIDE: $7k → 12%OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2.2M → 12%WHITE CITY VA HOSPITAL: $10k → 13%LEBANON VETERANS HOME: $9k → 13%DETROIT LAKE FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%THE DALLES VETERANS HOME: $10k → 16%ROSEBURG VA MEDICAL CENTER: $19k → 17%WALLA WALLA VA HOSPITAL: $13k → 13%WHITE CITY VA HOSPITAL: $13k → 8%CAMP MEADOWOOD: $75k → 12%PORTLANDVANCOUVER VA MEDICAL CENTER: $32k → 12%THE DALLES VETERANS HOME: $8k → 16%ROSEBURG VA HOSPITAL: $18k → 17%PAWS ASSISTING VETERANS: $8k → 8%CAMP MEADOWOOD: $18k → 12%ROSEBURG VA HOSPITAL: $16k → 17%PAWS ASSISTING VETERANS: $8k → 8%CAMP MEADOWOOD: $13k → 12%DIVIDE CAMP: $7k → 17%PAWS ASSISTING VETERANS: $8k → 8%CAMP MEADOWOOD SPRINGS: $6k → 12%DIVIDE CAMP: $7k → 17%ELKS YOUTH EYE SERVICE: $154k → 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.

11%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$315k · 5 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
9

Total granted

$315k
$2.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+84%

Still filing today

80%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’21’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’21’22’24’25
HealthEducationScience & TechAnimalsPublic BenefitMembership BenefitOther
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

  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR REHAB RESEARCH & RECINC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $190k · revenue -56% · 28% of their budget
  • RV
    ROSEBURG VA HOSPITAL
    2× · 2024–2025 · $61k
  • PAWS ASSISTING VETERANS
    4× · 2021–2025 · $24k · revenue +113%

Funded once

  • OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $2.2M · revenue +84%
  • EY
    ELKS YOUTH EYE SERVICEgraduated
    2× · 2022–2023 · $154k · revenue +40%
  • PV
    PORTLAND VA RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $32k · revenue +18%
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
Oregon Council for Behavioral Health

We provide a voice for an effective and accessible behavioral health system of care for Oregonians.

Community Improvement
2
Veterans Recovery Resources

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,…

Public Benefit
3
Veterans Research & Education Foundation

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.

Health
4
Eastern Oregon Workforce Board

To coordinate the resources need to help employers succeed and individuals to advance through innovation and partnerships.

Community Improvement
5
Iowa City Va Medical Research Foundation

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…

Health
6
Oregon Research Institute

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…

Social Science
7
Vietnam Veterans of America Alaska

Assisting veterans with services-connected disabilities and related benefits. service officers to help find benefits for veterans.

—
8
Oregon Energy Systems Technology and Research
Environment
9
Oregon Center for Nursing

To facilitate research and collaboration for oregon's nursing workforce to support informed, well-prepared, diverse and exceptional nursing professionals.

Civil Rights
10
Veterans Navigation Network

Transition for service members.

Health
11
Oregon Restaurant and Lodging Association

Orla serves as the leading industry advocate, striving to protect, improve and promote oregon hospitality.

—
12
Arizona Veterans Research and Education Foundation

To promote, support, and facilitate meritorious biomedical and health services research and education activities conducted by investigators at the phoenix va health care system that contribute to improve healthcare for veterans and the…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Portland Va Research Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 14 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2,209,716 · EducationOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONINSTITUTE FOR REHAB RESEARCH & RECINC: $189,559 · HealthVETERANS CARE CENTERS OF OREGON: $19,067 · HealthELKS YOUTH EYE SERVICE: $153,645 · Membership BenefitROSEBURG VA HOSPITAL: $61,171 · OtherROSEBURG VA MEDICAL CENTER: $19,180 · OtherWALLA WALLA VA HOSPITAL: $13,000 · OtherWHITE CITY VA HOSPITAL: $9,720 · OtherTHE DALLES VETERANS HOME: $8,000 · OtherBOISE VAMC: $6,000 · OtherPORTLAND VA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $32,150 · Science & TechPAWS ASSISTING VETERANS: $24,000 · AnimalsCROSS THE DIVIDE: $21,000 · Public BenefitDETROIT LAKE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Community Improvement
Education$2,209,716Health$208,626Membership Benefit$153,645Other$117,071Science & Tech$32,150Animals$24,000Public Benefit$21,000Community Improvement$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2,209,716 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR REHAB RESEARCH & RECINC: $189,559 over 7y, 28% of budgetELKS YOUTH EYE SERVICE: $153,645 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetPORTLAND VA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $32,150 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPAWS ASSISTING VETERANS: $24,000 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetCROSS THE DIVIDE: $21,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetDETROIT LAKE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetVETERANS CARE CENTERS OF OREGON: $19,067 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

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.

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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 Oregon Elks Association Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Oregon Elks Association Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 94%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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 14 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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