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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.

$265k
Granted FY2020
10
Grants FY2020
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2020 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $109,985, the rows itemized in this filing. The $265,442 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $155,457 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k5 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $69k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%FAMILY PROMISE: $25k → 16%FAMILY PROMISE: $25k → 16%ABC HOUSE: $6k → 13%OLD MILL CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $8k → 18%OLD MILL CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $8k → 18%CASA LATINOS: $8k → 18%CASA LATINOS UNIDOS: $8k → 18%COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $20k → 18%COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $20k → 18%STRENGTHING RURAL FAMILIES: $12k → 18%STRENGTHING RURAL FAMILIES: $7k → 18%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$329k · 8 repeat orgs$69k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
3

Total granted

$329k
$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+13%

Still filing today

88%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
Human ServicesFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterHealthPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
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

  • FP
    FAMILY PROMISE OF LINCOLN COUNTY
    2× · 2017–2018 · $50k · revenue +19%
  • Center Against Rape and Domestic Violence
    2× · 2018–2020 · $22k · revenue +58%
  • SR
    STRENGTHENING RURAL FAMILIES
    2× · 2019–2020 · $19k · revenue +214%

Funded once

  • OC
    OREGON CASCADES WEST COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • LB
    LINN BENTON FOOD SHARE
    one grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue +1%
  • AH
    ABC HOUSE INC
    one grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue +13%
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
Clackamas Service Center

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.

Human Services
2
Community Sharing Program

Provide South Lane County community members with basic needs resources, life skills, and resources toward self-sufficiency.

Human Services
3
Child Advocacy Center of Coos County

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…

Crime & Legal
4
Central Oregon Villages

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.

Housing & Shelter
5
Center for Trauma Support Services

Provide crisis intervention and trauma healing and recovery services for victims and survivors of violent crime in the portland area

Human Services
6
Malheur County Child Development Center

Head start & other children services

Education
7
Youth Empowerment Shelter

To provide youth in crisis a place of physical and emotional safety while assisting them to build positive relationships and develop their individual potentials.

Youth Development
8
Community Wellness Collective

Mental health, drug abuse support. Operating a day-shelter and inclement weather shelter serving unhoused individuals in Newberg.

Health
9
Children's Advocacy Center of Lincoln County

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…

Civil Rights
10
South Corvallis Food Bank

Increase sustainable food security in South Corvallis by providing emergency food and supplies.

Food & Nutrition
11
Family Promise of Cowlitz County

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.

Human Services
12
Corvallis Homeless Shelter Coalition

To provide solutions for ending homelessness and achieving self- sufficiency.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Linn Benton Food Share; 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.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
12/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY SERVICES CONSORTIUM: $150,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY SERVICES CONSORTIUMOREGON CASCADES WEST COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS: $19,590 · OtherOREGON CASCADES WEST COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTSFAMILY PROMISE OF LINCOLN COUNTY: $50,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF LINCOLN COUNTYCOMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $39,161 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY OUTREACH INCCenter Against Rape and Domestic Violence: $21,693 · Human ServicesCenter Against Rape and Domestic ViolenceSTRENGTHENING RURAL FAMILIES: $18,781 · Human ServicesSTRENGTHENING RURAL FAMILIESOLD MILL CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $15,370 · Human ServicesOLD MILL CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INCCASA LATINOS UNIDOS DE BENTON COUNTY: $15,159 · Human ServicesCASA LATINOS UNIDOS DE BENTON COUNTYABC HOUSE INC: $5,745 · Human ServicesJACKSON STREET YOUTH SHELTER INC: $18,692 · Housing & ShelterLINN BENTON FOOD SHARE: $7,647 · Food & NutritionSTONE SOUP CORVALLIS INC: $7,000 · Food & NutritionCORVALLIS DAYTIME DROP-IN CENTER: $10,000 · HealthCORVALLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $9,586 · PhilanthropyCORVALLIS ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER: $9,000 · Environment
Other$169,590Human Services$165,909Housing & Shelter$18,692Food & Nutrition$14,647Health$10,000Philanthropy$9,586Environment$9,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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.

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 …Benton Community Foun…United Way of Linn Be…Good Samaritan Hospit…The Bessemer Giving F…Franklin Conklin Foun…Linn Benton Food ShareMario and Alma Pasteg…The Autzen FoundationThe Ford Family Found…Corvallis Elks Charit…Corvallis Neighborhoo…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization United Way of Benton & Lincoln Counties funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Benton & Lincoln Counties. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 36%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.
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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.

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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