· Public charity
Sky Lakes Medical Center
SKY LAKES MEDICAL CENTER will continually strive to reduce the burden of illness, injury and disability, and to improve the health, self- reliance and well-being of the people we serve.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $144,548 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $20,120,992 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $19,976,444 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $89k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF KLAMATH | $50,000 |
| OREGON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $37,500 |
| CITY OF KLAMATH FALLS | $21,548 |
| KLAMATHLAKE COUNCIL OF AGING | $10,000 |
| KLAMATH COUNTY FAIR | $10,000 |
| OREGON TECH FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| OREGON TECH ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT | $5,500 |
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 (FY18–20, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +48% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $113k 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
- FOFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN OF THE KLAMATH BASIN5× · 2017–2023 · $54k · revenue +149%
- BUBASIN UNITED SOCCER CLUB INC3× · 2019–2022 · $37k · revenue +44%
- KBKLAMATH BASIN SENIOR CITIZENS' CENTER3× · 2018–2020 · $19k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- SLSKY LAKES MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue +10%
- KCKLAMATH COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $50k
- KBKLAMATH BASIN AUDUBON SOCIETYone grant, 2022 · $28k · revenue -40%
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.
Animal shelter
To conserve, enhance, and restore the natural resources of the klamath basin while ensuring the long-term sustainability of the regional economy and local communities.
A local food network of ranchers, growers, farmers, makers, right here in the klamath basin, promoting the incredible diversity of food we cultivate & encourage you to eat it.
Preserving the natural legacy of the upper klamath basin.
To build, promote, and support an industry of filmmaking in and around klamath falls, oregon while connecting our community to film.
Promotion of downtown events, businesses and the downtown area.
Provide accessible, culturally sensitive, affordable, quality driven patient centered health services, with an emphasis on the underserved.
The organization's mission is to promote new and existing business development in southern oregon.
Klamath falls little league is dedicated to providing a supervised baseball and softball program that teaches sportsmanship, teamwork, and leadership while developing player skills in a safe and supportive environment.
Provide resources and expertise to the residents of klamath and lake counties through economic development, community revitalization and community sustainability.
Klamath falls bmxc strives to provide an affordable and family friendly bicycle motocross racing experience in the klamath basin. we seek to grow the sport of bmx racing by cultivating a welcoming atmosphere where all riders can…
24 hour crisis intervention and education center
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Klamath Works Inc and the most unlike its peers is Favell Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
20 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. 20 of the 32 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 SKY LAKES MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE KLAMATH BASIN ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN OF THE KLAMATH BASIN ↗
- Who funds CASA FOR CHILDREN OF KLAMATH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE KLAMATH BASIN ↗
- Who funds BASIN UNITED SOCCER CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds KLAMATH BASIN AUDUBON SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds KLAMATH BASIN SENIOR CITIZENS' CENTER ↗
- Who funds KLAMATH LAKE COUNTIES FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds KLAMATH ICE SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds KLAMATH COMMUNITY YOUTH SPORTS COMP ↗
- Who funds KLAMATH LAKE COUNTIES COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
- Who funds OREGON TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INTEGRAL YOUTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds KLAMATH HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds KLAMATH YOUTH BASEBALL ↗
- Who funds KLAMATH WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds KLAMATH CHILD & FAMILY TREATMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FAVELL MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds ROSS RAGLAND THEATER AND CULTURAL C ↗
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 Ford Family Foundation · Klamath Medical Service Bureau Foundatio Attn Timothy a Bailey · Klamath Defender Services Inc · The Roundhouse Foundation · Wendt Family Foundation · United Way of the Klamath Basin · The Honzel Family Foundation · Pacificorp Foundation Aka Pacific Power Foundation Aka Rocky Mountain Power Foundati · The Autzen Foundation · Graham Family Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust
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 Sky Lakes Medical Center 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.
- Klamath Lake Counties Council On Aging — 71% of income from government
- Integral Youth Services — 59% of income from government
- Klamath Works Inc — 33% of income from government
- Klamath Child & Family Treatment Center Inc — 21% of income from government
- Ross Ragland Theater and Cultural C — 20% of income from government
- Klamath Basin Senior Citizens' Center — 7% of income from government
- Sky Lakes Medical Center — 0% 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.
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