· Public charity
Oregon Head Start Association
To be a dynamic organization with diverse membership with strong leadership in early childhood 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 3 grants below total $24,165 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $38,750 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $14,585 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 · $14k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLACKAMAS CO CHILDRENS COMM | $10,000 |
| THE CHILDRENS LEARNING CENTE | $7,789 |
| MID WILLAMETTE CAA HEAD START | $6,376 |
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 (FY18–24, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +103% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 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, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- UCUNITED COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK3× · 2018–2021 · $37k · revenue +92%
- HSHEAD START OF LANE COUNTY2× · 2020–2021 · $34k · revenue +65%
- MWMID WILLAMETTE VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY2× · 2018–2020 · $27k · revenue +186%
Funded once
OREGON COAST COMMUNITY ACTIONone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +19%- MWMID WILLAMETTE VALLEY COMMUNIone grant, 2022 · $9k
- SCSOUTH COAST HEAD STARTone grant, 2024 · $8k
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.
To promote each child's development by providing high quality early childhood education.
Educating children and families with innovative, high quality early childhood learning opportunities and family partnerships to build better communities, one person at a time.
Advocate for early childhood social & economic development and professionals who work with children and their families to advance this mission.
We deliver head start and related programs throughout southeastern az for prenatal through preschool aged children and their families. the focus of our work is: early childhood education & school readiness; health & nutrition; and parent…
To impact families and the community through strong partnerships and high quality early childhood education services, so that families are more self-sufficient and children are school ready and prepared for lifelong learning.
Csc prepares young children and their families to succeed in learning and life through innovative, comprehensive, leading edge services.
Wild Lilac Dev Community offers high quality, inclusive, culturally competent, accessible early childhood education,comprehensive family support, and educational opportunities for child development educators, social service professionals…
Umhs, inc. equips children, families and those who care for them for life-long learning and success through a culture of diversity. we are committed to building an inclusive and equitable community where all can have the opportunity to…
Oregon child development coalition is dedicated to improving the lives of children and families by providing early childhood education, care and advocacy with unique and supportive services to enhance family growth and community success.
To coordinate and provide services for people with needs so they can improve their quality of life.
To support the educational, social and emotional development of children, ages 0-5, by providing high quality, comprehensive and family-focused early childhood services in partnership with the community.
A learning organization committed to parents and children, celebrating diversity with support, respect and trust.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Head Start of Lane County and the most unlike its peers is The Childrens Learning Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 18 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 UNITED COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds HEAD START OF LANE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MID WILLAMETTE VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY ↗
- Who funds OREGON COAST COMMUNITY ACTION ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDRENS LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds CLACKAMAS COUNTY CHILDREN'S COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds KLAMATH FAMILY HEAD START ↗
- Who funds Community Action Team ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN OREGON CHILD AND FAMILY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS AND COMPANY OF LINN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Malheur County Child Development Center ↗
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 Collins Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · 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 Head Start Association 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.
- Clackamas County Children's Commission — 100% of income from government
- The Childrens Learning Center — 100% of income from government
- Klamath Family Head Start — 98% of income from government
- Head Start of Lane County — 98% of income from government
- Southern Oregon Child and Family Council Inc — 92% of income from government
- Oregon Coast Community Action — 85% of income from government
- United Community Action Network — 82% of income from government
- Mid Willamette Valley Community Action Agency — 81% of income from government
- Malheur County Child Development Center — 55% of income from government
- Neighborhood House Inc — 53% of income from government
- Kids and Company of Linn County — 46% of income from government
- Community Action Team — 29% 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.