· Public charity
United Way of Deschutes County
United way of central oregon brings people, organizations, and businesses together to address the community's most pressing human service needs through services that change people's lives.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 2 grants below total $21,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $94,552 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $73,052 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALZHEIMERS RESEARCH FDN-CURE ALZHEIMERS | $15,000 |
| COCC FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $6,500 |
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 (FY19–23, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +82% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 41 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- COCASA OF CENTRAL OREGON6× · 2017–2022 · $634k · revenue +72% · 55% of their budget
J BAR J YOUTH SERVICES INC6× · 2018–2023 · $334k · revenue +76%
KIDS INTERVENTION AND DIAGNOSTIC SERVICE CENTER7× · 2017–2023 · $318k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- HDHIGH DESERT EDUCATION ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2021 · $100k
- CACOMMUNITY ACTION FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL OREGONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $80k · revenue +39%
- DCDESCHUTES COUNTY VICTIMS ASSISTANCEone grant, 2023 · $59k
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.
The name "Carry It Forward" is meant to highlight the mutual benefits ofdirect service to our unhoused neighbors. Our work is designed to reducesuffering by meeting basic human needs while developing a sustainable modelfor incorporating…
Provide South Lane County community members with basic needs resources, life skills, and resources toward self-sufficiency.
To support public policies that will help oregon's economy and create new family supporting jobs in oregon.
We provide a voice for an effective and accessible behavioral health system of care for Oregonians.
Impact nw prevents homelessness by supporting people as they navigate their journey to stability and strength. founded in portland in 1966, impact nw now serves 26,944 people a year in the greater portland, oregon metro area, including…
Oregon Self Advocacy Coalition supports local self advocacy groups in engaging communities to advocate for the rights of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities to participate, belong, and contribute as valued community…
Providing support and advocacy for abuse survivors.
To connect homeowners with a spare bedroom to rent and home seekers in need of affordable housing
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.
To lead oregon's casa programs to provide a strong voice for every abused and neglected child
To provide suppot, education, advocacy and resources to individuals and familys with disabilities
Eastern oregon health & wellness provides recovery housing and outpatient services that support individuals and families impacted by substance use disorder through safe housing, trauma-informed care, and community-based support.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mountainstar Family Relief Nursery and the most unlike its peers is Reach Out Np. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
64 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. 64 of the 82 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 CASA OF CENTRAL OREGON ↗
- Who funds J BAR J YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS INTERVENTION AND DIAGNOSTIC SERVICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORIMPACT ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN- CENTRAL OREGON ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON AGING OF CENTRAL OREGON ↗
- Who funds BETHLEHEM INN ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAINSTAR FAMILY RELIEF NURSERY ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THRIVE CENTRAL OREGON ↗
- Who funds EVERY CHILD CENTRAL OREGON ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER OF CENTRAL OREGON ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF BEND INC ↗
- Who funds LATINO COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SAVING GRACE ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL OREGON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DAWNS HOUSE CORPORATION LLC ↗
- Who funds LA PINE COMMUNITY KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL OREGON ↗
- Who funds HEART OF OREGON CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds Deschutes County Healthy Beginnings Inc ↗
- Who funds JERICHO ROAD INC ↗
- Who funds Family Access Network Foundation ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC OF THE CASCADES ↗
- Who funds HEALING REINS EQUINE ASSISTED SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF BEND ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY BEND - ST FRANCIS CONFERENCE ↗
- Who funds THE GIVING PLATE ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity of La Pine Sunriver ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD'S HOUSE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds BEND'S COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds DESCHUTES CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Camp Fire Central Oregon ↗
- Who funds WARM SPRINGS COMMUNITY ACTION TEAM ↗
- Who funds MOSAIC COMMUNITY HEALTH ↗
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 · St Charles Health System Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · The Roundhouse Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · The Anjulicia Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · The Collins Foundation · Bend Foundation · Barbara Emily Knudson Foundation · Chambers Family 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 Deschutes 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.
- Diversability Inc — 93% of income from government
- Opportunity Foundation of Central Oregon Inc — 86% of income from government
- J Bar J Youth Services Inc — 71% of income from government
- Neighborimpact — 68% of income from government
- Mountainstar Family Relief Nursery — 60% of income from government
- Central Oregon Veteran & Community Outreach Inc — 51% of income from government
- Saving Grace — 48% of income from government
- Central Oregon Veterans Ranch — 45% of income from government
- Abilitree — 44% of income from government
- Council On Aging of Central Oregon — 43% of income from government
- Heart of Oregon Corps Inc — 28% of income from government
- Warm Springs Community Action Team — 28% of income from government
- Dawns House Corporation Llc — 27% of income from government
- Family Resource Center of Central Oregon — 22% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- Rimrock Trails Treatment Services — 18% of income from government
- La Pine Community Health Center — 18% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Clubs of Bend Inc — 16% of income from government
- Friends of the Children- Central Oregon — 16% of income from government
- Thrive Central Oregon — 12% of income from government
- Latino Community Association — 11% of income from government
- Healing Reins Equine Assisted Services Inc — 11% of income from government
- Mosaic Community Health — 8% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of the Columbia Willamette Inc — 7% of income from government
- Cosa Inc Central Oregon Symphony Association — 4% of income from government
- Volunteers in Medicine Clinic of the Cascades — 3% of income from government
- Smart Reading — 3% of income from government
- Casa of Central Oregon — 2% of income from government
- High Desert Chamber Music Inc — 1% of income from government
- Bethlehem Inn — 0% 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.