· Public charity
United Way of Clatsop County
The Mission of the United Way of Clatsop County is to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of Clatsop County Communities
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $120,247 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $125,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,753 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $97k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Clatsop Community Action | $39,096 |
| Helping Hamds Re-Entry | $20,343 |
| The Harbor | $14,093 |
| VOCA Healing Circle | $13,753 |
| First Steps | $10,173 |
| Libraries ROCC | $6,093 |
| Astoria Visual Arts | $5,673 |
| Boy Scouts of America | $5,600 |
| Camp Kiwanilong | $5,423 |
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 (FY18–25, $77k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- CCClatsop Community Action7× · 2018–2025 · $247k · revenue +242%
- HHHELPING HANDS REENTRY OUTREACH CENTERS7× · 2018–2025 · $151k · revenue +432%
- THTHE HARBOR INC7× · 2018–2025 · $146k · revenue +216%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $9k
- RHRESTORATION HOUSE INCone grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue +3%
- SRSMART READING PROGRAMone grant, 2021 · $6k
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.
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…
Provide crisis intervention and trauma healing and recovery services for victims and survivors of violent crime in the portland area
Casa of eastern oregon is dedicated to making a difference in the lives of abused and neglected children from baker, grant, harney, lake, malheur, union and wallowa counties through volunteer advocacy.
Our mission is to enrich the lives of people with autism through meaningful community integration. We provide medical behavioral health services for teens effected by autism.
To alleviate the causes and conditions of poverty in Wasco, Hood River, and Sherman Counties. The purpose of MCCAC shall be the promotion of self sufficiency in families and individuals within the low income economic ranges in the three…
To ensure children and youth in oregon have access to high quality, comprehensive services and resources to address child abuse.
The purpose of casa is to advocate for the best interest of the vulnerable children in foster care. these children have been removed from their homes due to a substantiated case of abuse and neglect. the casa volunteer serves as the…
The Sonoma County Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) Program serves abused and neglected children coming before the Juvenile Court of Protection and Rehabilitation Services.
To provide a continuum of professional services to promote healthier lives, stronger families, and safer communities.
"helping people live well" - to provide people with the tools to reach mental wellness
To assure a safe, permanent, nurturing home for every abused and/or neglected child by providing highly-trained volunteers to advocate for them in the court system. casa serves children in lincoln and tillamook counties in the central…
The Organization is to provide cultural enrichment, economic development and housing preservation for the community of Astoria.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Clatsop Community Action and the most unlike its peers is Restoration House Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 18 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 Clatsop Community Action ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS REENTRY OUTREACH CENTERS ↗
- Who funds THE HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CLATSOP COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Camp Kiwanilong Board Inc ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Astoria Armory ↗
- Who funds CLATSOP CASA PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds ASTORIA SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds CASCADE PACIFIC COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds FIRST STEPS CENTER FOR AUTISM AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES ↗
- Who funds HEALING CIRCLE ↗
- Who funds RESTORATION HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ASTORIA VISUAL ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds CLATSOP CO CHILD ABUSE ASSESSMENT CTR ↗
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 Roundhouse Foundation · The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Care Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · Providence Health & Services - Oregon · Careoregon Inc · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Clatsop County 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.
- The Harbor Inc — 66% of income from government
- Clatsop Community Action — 26% of income from government
- Helping Hands Reentry Outreach Centers — 18% of income from government
- Restoration House Inc — 4% of income from government
- Astoria Visual Arts Inc — 3% 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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