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United Way of Benton & Lincoln Counties

United way works to increase the organized capacity of people to care for one another. United way is a funder, a mobilizer, a convener and a fundraiser. United way is a community builder, connecting people through philanthropy, volunteerism and advocacy to the larger united way is a funder, a mobilizer, a convener and a fundraiser.

$265k
Granted FY2020
10
Itemized grants FY2020
10
Organizations funded FY2020
40%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Itemized, FY2020
$110k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2020
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2020
$19,580
Organizations funded a year
3 to 10
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
1

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 40% of the organizations United Way of Benton & Lincoln Counties funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20
Human ServicesFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterHealthPhilanthropyEnvironment
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
FY202010$110k40%
FY20195$49k100%
FY20185$119k60%
FY20173$120kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

International$170kHuman Services$157kEducation$28kHousing & Shelter$19kFood & Nutrition$15kEnvironment$9k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Community Services Consortium$150,0002n/a
Family Promise of Lincoln County$50,000224%
Community Outreach Inc$39,16121%
Center Against Rape and Domestic Violence$21,69321%
Oregon Cascades West Council of Governments$19,5901n/a
Strengthening Rural Families$18,78123%
Jackson Street Youth Shelter Inc$18,69221%
Old Mill Center for Children and Families Inc$15,37020%
Casa Latinos Unidos de Benton County$15,15924%
Corvallis Daytime Drop-In Center$10,00014%
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All grantees of United Way of Benton & Lincoln Counties by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Community Services Consortium$150,0002n/a
Family Promise of Lincoln County$50,000224%
Community Outreach Inc$39,16121%
Center Against Rape and Domestic Violence$21,69321%
Oregon Cascades West Council of Governments$19,5901n/a
Strengthening Rural Families$18,78123%
Jackson Street Youth Shelter Inc$18,69221%
Old Mill Center for Children and Families Inc$15,37020%
Casa Latinos Unidos de Benton County$15,15924%
Corvallis Daytime Drop-In Center$10,00014%
Corvallis Public Schools Foundation$9,58611%
Corvallis Environmental Center$9,00012%
Linn Benton Food Share$7,64710%
Stone Soup Corvallis Inc$7,00012%
Abc House Inc$5,74510%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget United Way of Benton & Lincoln Counties supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFamily Promise of Lincoln County: $50,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetCommunity Outreach Inc: $39,161 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCenter Against Rape and Domestic Violence: $21,693 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetStrengthening Rural Families: $18,781 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetJackson Street Youth Shelter Inc: $18,692 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetOld Mill Center for Children and Families Inc: $15,370 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCasa Latinos Unidos de Benton County: $15,159 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetCorvallis Daytime Drop-In Center: $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetCorvallis Public Schools Foundation: $9,586 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCorvallis Environmental Center: $9,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetLinn Benton Food Share: $7,647 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetStone Soup Corvallis Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetAbc House Inc: $5,745 over 1y, 0.3% 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 13.

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 FoundationOR32.8× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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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Find your warmest path to United Way of Benton & Lincoln Counties through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About United Way of Benton & Lincoln Counties

How much does United Way of Benton & Lincoln Counties give?
United Way of Benton & Lincoln Counties reported 10 itemized grants totaling $109,985, out of $265,442 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does United Way of Benton & Lincoln Counties fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are International (43%), Human Services (40%), Education (7%).
Who are United Way of Benton & Lincoln Counties's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: Community Services Consortium ($150k), Family Promise of Lincoln County ($50k), Community Outreach Inc ($39k).
Does United Way of Benton & Lincoln Counties fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Benton & Lincoln Counties?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Oregon Community Foundation, Benton Community Foundation, United Way of Linn Benton and Lincoln Counties.
Where is United Way of Benton & Lincoln Counties based?
United Way of Benton & Lincoln Counties 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 15 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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