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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

$125k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$39k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Food & Nutrition$273kHealth$162kHousing & Shelter$159kPhilanthropy$80kHuman Services$72kYouth Development$72kCrime & Legal$51kEducation$12kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $120,247, the rows itemized in this filing. The $125,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $4,753 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $97k
$10,173
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FRIENDS OF THE ASTORIA ARMORY: $18k → 13%FRIENDS OF THE ASTORIA ARMORY: $16k → 13%VOCA Healing Circle: $14k → 13%FRIENDS OF THE ASTORIA ARMORY: $14k → 13%First Steps: $10k → 13%First Steps Center for Autism & Developmental Disabilities: $5k → 13%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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$852k · 11 repeat orgs$54k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
4

Total granted

$852k
$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+67%

Still filing today

91%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesCivil RightsCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • CC
    Clatsop Community Action
    7× · 2018–2025 · $247k · revenue +242%
  • HH
    HELPING HANDS REENTRY OUTREACH CENTERS
    7× · 2018–2025 · $151k · revenue +432%
  • TH
    THE HARBOR INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $146k · revenue +216%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $9k
  • RH
    RESTORATION HOUSE INC
    one grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue +3%
  • SR
    SMART READING PROGRAM
    one grant, 2021 · $6k
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
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
2
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
3
Casa of Eastern Oregon Inc

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.

Crime & Legal
4
The Estuary Center

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.

Health
5
Mid-Columbia Community Action Council

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…

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6
Oregon Child Abuse Solutions

To ensure children and youth in oregon have access to high quality, comprehensive services and resources to address child abuse.

Crime & Legal
7
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Ocean County Inc

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…

Crime & Legal
8
Court Appointed Special Advocates

The Sonoma County Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) Program serves abused and neglected children coming before the Juvenile Court of Protection and Rehabilitation Services.

Civil Rights
9
Coastal Horizons Center Inc

To provide a continuum of professional services to promote healthier lives, stronger families, and safer communities.

Health
10
Clatsop Behavioral Healthcare

"helping people live well" - to provide people with the tools to reach mental wellness

Health
11
Casa of Lincoln & Tillamook Counties Inc

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…

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12
Central Astoria Local Development Coalition Inc

The Organization is to provide cultural enrichment, economic development and housing preservation for the community of Astoria.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Clatsop Community Action; 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.
04the grantee network

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

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)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Clatsop Community Action: $246,654 · OtherClatsop Community ActionUNITED WAY OF CLATSOP COUNTY: $91,093 · OtherUNITED WAY OF CLATSOP COUNTYCamp Kiwanilong Board Inc: $53,031 · OtherCamp Kiwanilong Board IncASTORIA SENIOR CENTER: $26,051 · OtherASTORIA SENIOR CENTER+4 more: $32,498 · Other+4 moreHELPING HANDS REENTRY OUTREACH CENTERS: $151,036 · HealthHELPING HANDS REENTRY OUTREACH CENTERSTHE HARBOR INC: $146,318 · HealthTHE HARBOR INC+1 more: $7,875 · HealthFriends of the Astoria Armory: $47,341 · Human ServicesFriends o…FIRST STEPS CENTER FOR AUTISM AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES: $15,408 · Human ServicesFIRST STE…HEALING CIRCLE: $13,753 · Human ServicesHEALING C…CLATSOP CASA PROGRAM INC: $45,263 · Civil RightsCASCADE PACIFIC COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $18,774 · Youth DevelopmentASTORIA VISUAL ARTS INC: $5,673 · Arts & CultureCLATSOP CO CHILD ABUSE ASSESSMENT CTR: $5,597 · Crime & Legal
Other$449,327Health$305,229Human Services$76,502Civil Rights$45,263Youth Development$18,774Arts & Culture$5,673Crime & Legal$5,597

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetClatsop Community Action: $246,654 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetHELPING HANDS REENTRY OUTREACH CENTERS: $151,036 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetTHE HARBOR INC: $146,318 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CLATSOP COUNTY: $91,093 over 6y, 10% of budgetCamp Kiwanilong Board Inc: $53,031 over 6y, 8.3% of budgetFriends of the Astoria Armory: $47,341 over 3y, 18% of budgetCLATSOP CASA PROGRAM INC: $45,263 over 5y, 8.1% of budgetASTORIA SENIOR CENTER: $26,051 over 3y, 8.7% of budgetCASCADE PACIFIC COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $18,774 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFIRST STEPS CENTER FOR AUTISM AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES: $15,408 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetHEALING CIRCLE: $13,753 over 1y, 13% of budgetASTORIA VISUAL ARTS INC: $5,673 over 1y, 3.8% 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 …The Roundhouse Founda…The Harold & Arlene S…The Ford Family Found…Providence Health & S…Careoregon IncOCF Joseph E Weston P…The Autzen FoundationAmazonsmile Foundation
The Oregon Community FoundationOR23.6× affinity10 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Clatsop County funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Clatsop County. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 18%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
3report 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 Clatsop County 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 18 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2026) is on record and reports $125k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2025, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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