· Public charity
United Way of Benton & Lincoln Counties
United way works to increase the organized capacity of people to care for one another.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $109,985 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $265,442 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $155,457 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 · FY2020
- Under $10k5 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $69k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY OUTREACH | $19,580 |
| CARDV | $15,817 |
| STRENGTHING RURAL FAMILIES | $11,891 |
| JACKSON STREET YOUTH SHELTER | $11,846 |
| CORVALLIS DAYTIME DROP IN CENTER | $10,000 |
| CORVALLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $9,586 |
| CORVALLIS ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER | $9,000 |
| OLD MILL CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES | $7,685 |
| CASA LATINOS | $7,580 |
| STONE SOUP CORVALLIS INC | $7,000 |
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 (FY17–20, $144k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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 +48% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2020, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
- FPFAMILY PROMISE OF LINCOLN COUNTY2× · 2017–2018 · $50k · revenue +19%
Center Against Rape and Domestic Violence2× · 2018–2020 · $22k · revenue +48%- SRSTRENGTHENING RURAL FAMILIES2× · 2019–2020 · $19k · revenue +214%
Funded once
- OCOREGON CASCADES WEST COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTSone grant, 2017 · $20k
- LBLINN BENTON FOOD SHAREone grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue +1%
- AHABC HOUSE INCone grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue +13%
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.
Clackamas service center is an inclusive, "one-stop" community center for individuals and families seeking food relief and resources for improved health, dignity, and stability.
Provide South Lane County community members with basic needs resources, life skills, and resources toward self-sufficiency.
To protect children, support families, and bring hope and healing through compassionate, coordinated, and child-centered advocacy, through specialized programs and services, such as multi-disciplinary team coordination, forensic…
Central oregon villages mission is to advocate for and provide safe and secure shelter, housing and related services in central oreogn for the unhoused populations or at risk of becoming unhoused.
Provide crisis intervention and trauma healing and recovery services for victims and survivors of violent crime in the portland area
Head start & other children services
To provide youth in crisis a place of physical and emotional safety while assisting them to build positive relationships and develop their individual potentials.
Mental health, drug abuse support. Operating a day-shelter and inclement weather shelter serving unhoused individuals in Newberg.
Caclc offers child abuse intervention services in a safe, neutral and supportive environment for children who are suspected of being abused or neglected. caclc works with law enforcement and child welfare agencies to support child abuse…
Increase sustainable food security in South Corvallis by providing emergency food and supplies.
To help families with children in our community who are situationally homeless achieve sustainable independence through a community based response by providing temporary housing, usually 60-90 days, along with case management.
To provide solutions for ending homelessness and achieving self- sufficiency.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Linn Benton Food Share and the most unlike its peers is Family Promise of Lincoln County. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 15 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 FAMILY PROMISE OF LINCOLN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds Center Against Rape and Domestic Violence ↗
- Who funds STRENGTHENING RURAL FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds JACKSON STREET YOUTH SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds OLD MILL CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds CASA LATINOS UNIDOS DE BENTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CORVALLIS DAYTIME DROP-IN CENTER ↗
- Who funds CORVALLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CORVALLIS ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds LINN BENTON FOOD SHARE ↗
- Who funds STONE SOUP CORVALLIS INC ↗
- Who funds ABC HOUSE INC ↗
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 · Benton Community Foundation · United Way of Linn Benton and Lincoln Counties · Good Samaritan Hospital Corvallis · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Franklin Conklin Foundation · Linn Benton Food Share · Mario and Alma Pastega Family Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · Corvallis Elks Charity Trust · Corvallis Neighborhood Housing Services Inc
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 United Way of Benton & Lincoln Counties 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.
- Jackson Street Youth Shelter Inc — 59% of income from government
- Strengthening Rural Families — 43% of income from government
- Old Mill Center for Children and Families Inc — 38% of income from government
- Casa Latinos Unidos De Benton County — 36% of income from government
- Abc House Inc — 25% of income from government
- Corvallis Environmental Center — 18% of income from government
- Corvallis Daytime Drop-in Center — 8% of income from government
- Community Outreach Inc — 7% 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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