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The Carol and Velma Saling Foundation at a glance

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The Carol and Velma Saling Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$603k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Environment$1.3MPublic Benefit$1.2MHealth$658kArts & Culture$478kFood & Nutrition$245kHousing & Shelter$187kCrime & Legal$151kYouth Development$85kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $432k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $160k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OPB$60,000
WESTERN RIVER CONSERVANCY$50,000
LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS-OREGON$50,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$36,500
COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND$35,000
LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS-PORTLAND$34,000
CLASSROOM LAW PROJECT NOW CIVICS LEARNING PROJECT$32,300
COMMUNITY VISION$25,000
SOUTHERN OREGON LAND CONSERVANCY$25,000
GOOD NEIGHBOR FAMILY PANTRY$25,000
ASSOCIATION OF NORTHWEST STEELHEADERS$24,600
CAMP ANGELOS$20,000
LIFT URBAN PORTLAND$20,000
OREGON LAW STUDENTS PUBLIC INTEREST FUND$20,000
PORTLAND FORWARD$17,500
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:

Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $383k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%COMMUNITY VISION: $25k → 12%COMMUNITY VISION: $30k → 12%COMMUNITY VISION: $25k → 12%COMMUNITY VISION: $25k → 12%COMMUNITY VISION: $25k → 12%COMMUNITY VISION: $25k → 12%COMMUNITY VISION: $23k → 12%COMMUNITY VISION: $20k → 12%PROJECT LEMONADE: $10k → 12%PROJECT LEMONADE INC: $15k → 12%PROJECT LEMONADE INC: $10k → 12%PROJECT LEMONADE INC: $10k → 12%PROJECT LEMONADE INC: $10k → 12%PROJECT LEMONADE INC: $10k → 12%PROJECT LEMONADE INC: $10k → 12%PROJECT LEMONADE INC: $10k → 12%COMMUNITY WAREHOUSE: $15k → 12%COMMUNITY WAREHOUSE: $15k → 12%COMMUNITY WAREHOUSE: $15k → 12%COMMUNITY WAREHOUSE: $15k → 12%COMMUNITY WAREHOUSE: $10k → 12%COMMUNITY WAREHOUSE: $10k → 12%COMMUNITY WAREHOUSE: $10k → 12%COMMUNITY WAREHOUSE: $10k → 12%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 17% of The Carol and Velma Saling Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in OR; by stated purpose, 85%.

The Carol and Velma Saling Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.9M · 30 repeat orgs$312k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against -13% for those funded once.

30 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
8

Total granted

$3.9M
$93k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
-13%

Still filing today

60%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $219k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesCivil RightsCrime & LegalOther
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

  • LO
    LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF OREGON
    8× · 2018–2025 · $401k · revenue +24% · 52% of their budget
  • OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING
    7× · 2018–2024 · $400k · revenue +44%
  • CL
    Civics Learning Project
    8× · 2018–2025 · $300k · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • NR
    NORTHWEST REGIONAL ESD FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $23k · revenue -49% · 28% of their budget
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
  • OREGON FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2021 · $17k · revenue -1%
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 Agricultural Trust

Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.

Environment
2
Oregon Natural Resources Council Fund Oregon Wild

Oregon Wild works to protect and restore Oregon's wildlands, wildlife and waters as an enduring legacy for future generations.

Environment
3
Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council

The Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council is a local nonprofit organization that strives to enhance and restore habitat for fish and wildlife our community and for future generations. Our Board of Directors consists of seven members with…

Environment
4
Oregon Restaurant and Lodging Association

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

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5
Clackamas River Basin Council Inc

The council is organized to foster partnerships for clean water, healthy streams, and abundant fisheries in the Clackamas Watershed

Environment
6
Our Oregon

Promote economic and social fairness by working in coalition open a broad range of issues and activities in the public arena

Human Services
7
North Clackamas Urban Watersheds Council

Public charity watershed council Clackamas County, OR

Public Benefit
8
Oregon Justice Network

Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…

Human Services
9
Priority Oregon

To support public policies that will help oregon's economy and create new family supporting jobs in oregon.

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10
Citizens Utility Board

As directed by oregon voters in 1984, the oregon citizens' utility board (cub) represents the interests of oregon's residential utility customers before administrative, judicial, and legislative bodies. cub works at the intersection of…

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11
Oregon Energy Systems Technology and Research
Environment
12
The Oregon Community Foundation

The mission of The Oregon Community Foundation is to improve lives of all Oregonians through the power of philanthropy.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oregon Food Bank; the most unlike its peers is Wheel to Walk Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 47 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/27
Grantees still filing
14/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $326,815 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYIndividual grant recipient: $204,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF PORTLAND: $160,500 · OtherLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF PORTLANDLift Urban Portland: $158,000 · OtherLift Urban PortlandASSOCIATION OF NORTHWEST STEELHEADERS: $138,900 · OtherASSOCIATION OF NORTHWEST STEELHEADERSOREGON LAW STUDENT PUBLIC INTEREST FUND: $130,890 · OtherOREGON LAW STUDENT PUBLIC INTEREST FUNDECOTRUST: $114,740 · OtherECOTRUSTTHE MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS YOGA PROGRAM: $62,000 · OtherOPB: $60,000 · Other+21 more: $431,600 · Other+21 moreWESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY: $450,000 · EnvironmentWESTERN RIVERS CON…SOUTHERN OREGON LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $143,500 · EnvironmentSOUTHERN OREGON LA…American-Hellenic Educational Center Inc: $140,000 · EnvironmentAmerican-Hellenic …+1 more: $6,000 · EnvironmentLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF OREGON: $401,000 · Civil RightsLEAGUE OF WO…HEALTHY DEMOCRACY FUND: $78,232 · Civil RightsHEALTHY DEMO…OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $400,000 · Arts & CultureOREGON PUBL…NORTHWEST REGIONAL ESD FOUNDATION: $23,000 · Arts & CultureMETROEAST COMMUNITY MEDIA: $17,500 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY VISION INC: $198,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY…Oregon Community Warehouse Inc: $100,000 · Human ServicesOregon Co…PROJECT LEMONADE INC: $85,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT L…Komak: $160,000 · HealthKomakCHILDREN'S NURSING SPECIALTIES INC: $121,360 · HealthCHILDREN'…WHEEL TO WALK FOUNDATION: $46,000 · HealthWHEEL TO …GOOD SAMARITAN FOUNDATION: $40,000 · HealthGOOD SAMA…Civics Learning Project: $299,800 · Crime & Legal
Other$1,787,945Environment$739,500Civil Rights$479,232Arts & Culture$440,500Human Services$383,000Health$367,360Crime & Legal$299,800

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 budgetWESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY: $450,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF OREGON: $401,000 over 8y, 52% of budgetOREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $400,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $326,815 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCivics Learning Project: $299,800 over 8y, 6.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY VISION INC: $198,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetKomak: $160,000 over 8y, 15% of budgetLift Urban Portland: $158,000 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetSOUTHERN OREGON LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $143,500 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetAmerican-Hellenic Educational Center Inc: $140,000 over 7y, 9.9% of budgetASSOCIATION OF NORTHWEST STEELHEADERS: $138,900 over 8y, 36% of budgetCHILDREN'S NURSING SPECIALTIES INC: $121,360 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetECOTRUST: $114,740 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetOregon Community Warehouse Inc: $100,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetPROJECT LEMONADE INC: $85,000 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetHEALTHY DEMOCRACY FUND: $78,232 over 7y, 3.7% of budgetWHEEL TO WALK FOUNDATION: $46,000 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST REGIONAL ESD FOUNDATION: $23,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetMETROEAST COMMUNITY MEDIA: $17,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetOREGON FOOD BANK: $16,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWaterWatch of Oregon: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM OF EAST CENTRAL OREGON: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget350PDX: $6,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCity Club of Portland: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

  • Who funds WESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF OREGON ↗
  • Who funds OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds Civics Learning Project ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY VISION INC ↗
  • Who funds Komak ↗
  • Who funds Lift Urban Portland ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN OREGON LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds American-Hellenic Educational Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds ASSOCIATION OF NORTHWEST STEELHEADERS ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S NURSING SPECIALTIES INC ↗
  • Who funds ECOTRUST ↗
  • Who funds Oregon Community Warehouse Inc ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT LEMONADE INC ↗
  • Who funds HEALTHY DEMOCRACY FUND ↗
  • Who funds WHEEL TO WALK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds DREAM BUILDERS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST REGIONAL ESD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds METROEAST COMMUNITY MEDIA ↗
  • Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds WaterWatch of Oregon ↗

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 …Meyer Memorial TrustOCF Joseph E Weston P…The Collins FoundationThe Autzen FoundationMarie Lamfrom Charita…The Robert D and Marc…The Jackson FoundationJuan Young TrustThe Holzman FoundationThe Harold & Arlene S…The Reser Family Foun…
The Oregon Community FoundationOR34.3× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Collins Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Robert D and Marcia H Randall Charitable Trust · The Jackson Foundation · Juan Young Trust · The Holzman Foundation · The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Care Foundation · The Reser Family 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Carol and Velma Saling Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Carol and Velma Saling Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Community Vision Inc: 92% of income from government
  • WaterWatch of Oregon: 61% of income from government
  • Oregon Community Warehouse Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Oregon Food Bank: 21% of income from government
  • Project Lemonade Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Ecotrust: 14% of income from government
  • Metroeast Community Media: 1% of income from government
  • Community Action Program of East Central Oregon: 1% of income from government
  • Association of Northwest Steelheaders: 1% of income from government
  • Oregon Public Broadcasting: 1% of income from government
  • Western Rivers Conservancy: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
3report 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 47 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-PF 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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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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