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Sid and Karen DeBoer Foundation

The Sid and Karen DeBoer Foundation is a supporting organization of The Oregon Community Foundation (OCF). The Foundation makes grants that further the mission of OCF which is to improve lives of all Oregonians through the power of philanthropy.

$2.3M
Granted FY2023
9
Grants FY2023
8
Organizations funded FY2023
13%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$55,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$1,275,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 12
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$107k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 13% of the organizations Sid and Karen DeBoer Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthEducationPhilanthropyCrime & LegalAnimalsYouth 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20238$2.2M13%
FY202211$3.0M18%
FY20218$507k13%
FY20208$301k25%
FY201912$3.0M42%
FY20188$3.4M13%
FY20178$5.8Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Recreation & Sports$14MArts & Culture$1.7MEducation$1.2MYouth Development$846kPublic Benefit$145kHealth$84kCrime & Legal$55kPhilanthropy$50kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Where it is load-bearing

Sid and Karen DeBoer Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYoung Mens Christian Assoc Ashland: $10,246,845 over 7y, 78% of budgetMt Ashland Association: $3,899,267 over 6y, 62% of budgetOregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc: $1,668,000 over 7y, 3.6% of budgetKids Unlimited of Oregon: $825,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetSouthern Oregon University Foundation: $736,142 over 7y, 5.1% of budgetSt Mary's of Medford Inc: $383,275 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetAsante Foundation: $64,380 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity Works Inc: $60,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetHearts & Vines Foundation: $55,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetImpact Through Golf Foundation: $51,200 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDesert Classic Charities: $44,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUnited Way of Jackson County Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetAshland Schools Foundation: $22,500 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetUniversity of Oregon Foundation: $13,154 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Oregon Humane Society: $11,200 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAshland Community Hospital Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRogue Community College Foundation: $6,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAshland Rotary Foundation: $6,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

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 Oregon Community FoundationOR26.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · Joe & Frances Naumes Family Foundation · Carrico Family Foundation · The Carpenter Foundation · Careoregon Inc · The Avista Foundation · The Roundhouse Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · Jed & Celia Meese Foundation · West Family Foundation · Gardner Grout Foundation · Silicon Valley Community 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.

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About Sid and Karen DeBoer Foundation

How much does Sid and Karen DeBoer Foundation give?
Sid and Karen DeBoer Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $2,255,500 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 12 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Sid and Karen DeBoer Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (77%), Arts & Culture (9%), Education (7%).
Who are Sid and Karen DeBoer Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Young Mens Christian Assoc Ashland ($10M), Mt Ashland Association ($3.9M), Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc ($1.7M).
Does Sid and Karen DeBoer Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Sid and Karen DeBoer Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Oregon Community Foundation, Joe & Frances Naumes Family Foundation, Carrico Family Foundation.
Where is Sid and Karen DeBoer Foundation based?
Sid and Karen DeBoer Foundation is based in OR.

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 21 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $2.5M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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