· Public charity
United Way of Lane County
We do this by investing in local organizations and coalitions who serve our most vulnerable communities, bringing leaders together across sectors to identify and implement solutions, and engaging people across lane county to take action through volunteering and donating, making a bigger impact together.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 50 grants below total $1,262,015 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,361,707 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,099,692 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 $10k10 grants · $75k
- $10k–50k33 grants · $631k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $556k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RELIEF NURSERY | $134,143 |
| FOOD FOR LANE COUNTY | $90,000 |
| EUGENE PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $76,337 |
| MAPLETON SCHOOL DISTRICT 32 | $69,684 |
| LANE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $65,000 |
| HOPE & SAFETY ALLIANCE | $65,000 |
| SOUTH LANE SCHOOL DISTRICT | $55,637 |
| FERN RIDGE SCHOOL DISTRICT 28J | $49,642 |
| PEARL BUCK CENTER INC | $37,383 |
| BLACK CULTURAL INITIATIVE | $32,000 |
| DAISY CHAIN CREATING HEALTHY | $30,542 |
| CRESWELL SCHOOL DISTRICT | $29,500 |
| DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION | $28,158 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OREGON | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN LANE COUNTY | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $2.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
102 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2025, 58 since wound down; 5 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k 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
- TETHE EARLY EDUCATION PROGRAM INC5× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +75%
- ODOSLC DEVELOPMENTS INC8× · 2017–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +142%
- FFFOOD FOR LANE COUNTY9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +49%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $970k
- G5GRANTS 5Kone grant, 2022 · $861k
- KEKINDERCARE EDUCATION LLCone grant, 2021 · $208k
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 meet the workforce needs of employers and individuals through partnerships and innovations in lane county, oregon.
Lane Community College Education Association is the union that represents 200 full-time and 375 part-time faculty members at Lane Community College in Eugene, Oregon. LCCEA is an affiliated unit of the Oregon Education Association (OEA)…
To accelerate inclusive economic prosperity in lane county, oregon
To connect individuals to the housing and community resources they seek.
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.
Every Child mobilizes community to support children and families impacted by foster care in Linn, Benton, Lincoln.
We partner with our community to make good health possible for all. wallace serves individuals and families who face barriers to care throughout the east multnomah county in the portland metropolitan area.
To help empower african americans and others achieve equality in education, employment, and economic security.
Positive change for thriving communities: to empower people to work toward social and economic independence, otherwise improving the lives of those served by the corporation, under relevant community services block grant programs.
At l'arche portland people with and without developmental disabilities create home and build community together. we nurture long-term mutual relationships that reveal the gifts of people with developmental disabilities. in doing so we…
LCSNW partners with individuals, families and communities for health, justice and hope. LCSNW provides a wide variety of social services in Oregon, Washington and Idaho and serves people of all ages, cultures and faiths.
To promote economic and social advancement of farmworkers and disadvantaged individuals through the provision of education, training, advocacy and services that enhance self-sufficiency.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eugene Mission Inc and the most unlike its peers is Effective School Practices Rwanda English Project. 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 33 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
99 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 99 of the 166 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 THE EARLY EDUCATION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds OSLC DEVELOPMENTS INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR LANE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds RELIEF NURSERY INC ↗
- Who funds PLAZA DE NUESTRA COMUNIDAD ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN AFFORDABLE HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF LANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds EUGENE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY OF LANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LOOKING GLASS COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PARENTING NOW ↗
- Who funds WOMENSPACE ↗
- Who funds PEARL BUCK CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds WHITE BIRD CLINIC ↗
- Who funds MAPLETON FOOD SHARE ↗
- Who funds SHELTERCARE ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SW OREGON ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF EUGENE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Springfield Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds Community Sharing Program ↗
- Who funds LANE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
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: Chambers Family Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Lane Community Health Council · The Ford Family Foundation · Pacificsource Foundation for Health Improvement · Food for Lane County · The Woodard Family Foundation · The Collins Foundation · PeaceHealth · McKay Family Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Autzen 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 Lane 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.
- Northwest Youth Corps — 100% of income from government
- Mckenzie Watershed Alliance — 100% of income from government
- South Willamette Solutions — 100% of income from government
- Arc of Lane County — 79% of income from government
- Pearl Buck Center Incorporated — 76% of income from government
- Womenspace — 62% of income from government
- 211INFO — 60% of income from government
- South Lane Family Nursery Inc — 58% of income from government
- Transponder — 58% of income from government
- Hiv Alliance — 54% of income from government
- The Early Education Program Inc — 33% of income from government
- Relief Nursery Inc — 30% of income from government
- White Bird Clinic — 29% of income from government
- Metropolitan Affordable Housing Corporation — 24% of income from government
- Ophelia's Place — 22% of income from government
- Looking Glass Community Services — 18% of income from government
- Sheltercare — 18% of income from government
- Connected Lane County — 17% of income from government
- Bohemia Food Hub — 12% of income from government
- Oregon Law Center — 11% of income from government
- Laurel Hill Center — 10% of income from government
- Nurturely — 10% of income from government
- Christians As Family Advocates — 10% of income from government
- Sponsors Inc — 8% of income from government
- McKenzie River Trust — 8% of income from government
- Community Alliance of Lane County — 7% of income from government
- St Vincent De Paul Society of Lane County Inc — 7% of income from government
- Our Community Birth Center — 6% of income from government
- Food for Lane County — 5% of income from government
- New Hope Christian College — 5% of income from government
- South Lane Mental Health Services Inc — 5% of income from government
- Willamette Family Inc — 4% of income from government
- Goodwill Industries of Lane and South Coast Counties Inc — 3% of income from government
- Eugene Symphony Association Inc — 2% of income from government
- Parenting Now — 1% of income from government
- Greenhill Humane Society Spca — 1% of income from government
- Onward Eugene — 1% of income from government
- Black Cultural Initiative — 0% of income from government
- Volunteers in Medicine Clinic — 0% of income from government
- National Indian Child Welfare Association — 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.