· Public charity
United Way of the Klamath Basin
Raise money from klamath county residents and distribute to various charities and services of the klamath basin.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k3 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $303k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KLAMATH ADVOCACY CENTER | $42,789 |
| LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES | $39,298 |
| KLAMATH KID CENTER | $37,749 |
| KLAMATH BASIN SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER | $35,211 |
| YMCA OF KLAMATH FALLS | $33,446 |
| KLAMATH LAKE COUNTIES FOOD BANK | $31,390 |
| CASA | $19,735 |
| SPOKES UNLIMITED | $15,985 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $15,477 |
| PACIFIC CREST COUNCIL | $12,013 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN | $10,169 |
| KLAMATH HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE | $10,098 |
| CITIZENS FOR SAFE SCHOOLS | $9,919 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF OR & SW WASHINGTON | $7,659 |
| FOSTER GRANDPARENTS PROGRAM | $5,708 |
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 (FY17–23, $83k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +49% since the first grant, against +47% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k 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
- KAKLAMATH ADVOCACY CENTER2× · 2017–2023 · $85k · revenue +12%
- LCLutheran Community Services Northwest2× · 2017–2023 · $78k · revenue +91%
- KKKLAMATH KID CENTER INC2× · 2017–2023 · $75k · revenue +95%
Funded once
- KLKLAMATH LAKE COUNTIES COUNCIL ON AGINGgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $39k · revenue +47%
- DRDAVID R KINGSLEY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue +563%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $21k
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.
Provide accessible, culturally sensitive, affordable, quality driven patient centered health services, with an emphasis on the underserved.
To create total community commitment for helping people in need by developing a campus and programs of holistic and collaborative services with the goal of self-sufficiency based upon effort and reward.
A local food network of ranchers, growers, farmers, makers, right here in the klamath basin, promoting the incredible diversity of food we cultivate & encourage you to eat it.
We address individual and family needs and make connections to promote communities that thrive.
Assistance league volunteers transform the lives of children through community programs. essential needs are met in our communities so that families flourish.
Animal shelter
Operations of sports park
Preserving the natural legacy of the upper klamath basin.
To inspire a deep appreciation for natural resources community, and the arts through hands-on outdoor education
The organization's mission is to promote new and existing business development in southern oregon.
Klamath bird observatory advances bird and habitat conservation through science, education, and partnerships.
The mission of klamath family head start is to serve all eligible klamath county, oregon children & families in order to contribute to a healthy, diverse, & cooperative community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Klamath Lake Counties Council On Aging and the most unlike its peers is David R Kingsley Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 26 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 KLAMATH ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Lutheran Community Services Northwest ↗
- Who funds KLAMATH KID CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KLAMATH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds KLAMATH LAKE COUNTIES FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds KLAMATH LAKE COUNTIES COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
- Who funds CASA FOR CHILDREN OF KLAMATH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds DAVID R KINGSLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KLAMATH BASIN SENIOR CITIZENS' CENTER ↗
- Who funds Spokes Unlimited ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS FOR SAFE SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN OF THE KLAMATH BASIN ↗
- Who funds CRATER LAKE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF OREGON & SW WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds KLAMATH HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER NETWORK ↗
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 Ford Family Foundation · Sky Lakes Medical Center · The Roundhouse Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · Washington Federal Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Klamath Medical Service Bureau Foundatio Attn Timothy a Bailey · The Reser Family Foundation · The Collins Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · 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 the Klamath Basin 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.
- Citizens for Safe Schools — 100% of income from government
- Spokes Unlimited — 100% of income from government
- Klamath Lake Counties Council On Aging — 81% of income from government
- Klamath Advocacy Center — 60% of income from government
- Community Volunteer Network — 59% of income from government
- Young Mens Christian Association of Klamath County — 29% of income from government
- Klamath Basin Senior Citizens' Center — 6% of income from government
- Girl Scouts of Oregon & Sw Washington Inc — 5% of income from government
- Klamath Kid Center 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.