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United Way of the Klamath Basin

Raise money from klamath county residents and distribute to various charities and services of the klamath basin.

$324k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$41k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0176% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Human Services$450kCrime & Legal$80kFood & Nutrition$60kYouth Development$48kEducation$21kHealth$17kCommunity Improvement$12kPublic Benefit$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $289k
$15,498
Median grant
1
States reached
$774k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KLAMATH BASIN SENIOR CITEZEN'S CENTER$40,600
KLAMATH ADVOCACY CENTER$38,513
KLAMATH KID CENTER$33,731
LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTHWEST$32,749
THE YMCA OF KLAMATH FALLS$29,662
KLAMATH LAKE COUNTIES FOOD BANK$29,034
CASA FOR CHILDREN OF KLAMATH COUNTY$21,852
SPOKES UNLIMITED$15,498
CITIZENS FOR SAFE SCHOOLS$12,675
CRATER LAKE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA$12,528
SALVATION ARMY$12,317
UNITED WAY OF KLAMATH BASIN$10,000
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN OF THE KLAMATH BASIN$9,750
KLAMATH HOSPICE AND PALLATIVE CARE$8,500
GIRL SCOUTS OF OREGON AND SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON$6,300
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 (FY17–24, $162k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%KLAMATH BASIN SENIOR CITEZEN'S CENTER: $41k → 16%FOSTER GRANDPARENTS PROGRAM: $6k → 13%FOSTER GRANDPARENTS: $5k → 13%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $39k → 16%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $39k → 16%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTHWEST: $33k → 16%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.
$2.5M · 17 repeat orgs$161k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
9

Total granted

$2.5M
$151k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+563%

Still filing today

82%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalEducationOther
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

  • KA
    KLAMATH ADVOCACY CENTER
    3× · 2017–2024 · $124k · revenue +12%
  • LC
    Lutheran Community Services Northwest
    3× · 2017–2024 · $111k · revenue +91%
  • KK
    KLAMATH KID CENTER INC
    3× · 2017–2024 · $108k · revenue +95%

Funded once

  • KL
    KLAMATH LAKE COUNTIES COUNCIL ON AGINGgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $39k · revenue +47%
  • DR
    DAVID R KINGSLEY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue +563%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $21k
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
Klamath Works Inc

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.

Employment
2
Klamath Grown

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.

Human Services
3
Klamath Health Partnership Inc

Provide accessible, culturally sensitive, affordable, quality driven patient centered health services, with an emphasis on the underserved.

Health
4
Assistance League of Klamath Basin

Assistance league volunteers transform the lives of children through community programs. essential needs are met in our communities so that families flourish.

Human Services
5
Klamath Humane Society Inc

Animal shelter

Animals
6
Klamath Lake Land Trust

Preserving the natural legacy of the upper klamath basin.

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7
Klamath & Lake Community Action Services

We address individual and family needs and make connections to promote communities that thrive.

Community Improvement
8
Klamath Community Youth Sports Comp

Operations of sports park

Recreation & Sports
9
Klamath Co Economic Development Assn

The organization's mission is to promote new and existing business development in southern oregon.

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10
Klamath Outdoor Science School

To inspire a deep appreciation for natural resources community, and the arts through hands-on outdoor education

Science & Tech
11
Klamath Watershed Partnership Bill Lehman

To conserve, enhance, and restore the natural resources of the klamath basin while ensuring the long-term sustainability of the regional economy and local communities.

Environment
12
Klamath Family Head Start

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Klamath Lake Counties Council On Aging; 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.
04the grantee network

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 27 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)
17/17
Grantees still filing
13/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $1,518,400 · OtherIndividual grant recipientKLAMATH ADVOCACY CENTER: $123,600 · OtherKLAMATH ADVOCACY CENTERKLAMATH KID CENTER INC: $108,499 · OtherYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KLAMATH COUNTY: $99,415 · OtherKLAMATH LAKE COUNTIES FOOD BANK: $89,392 · Other+13 more: $300,138 · Other+13 moreLutheran Community Services Northwest: $110,997 · Human ServicesKLAMATH BASIN SENIOR CITIZENS' CENTER: $75,811 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY VOLUNTEER NETWORK: $10,715 · Human ServicesCASA FOR CHILDREN OF KLAMATH COUNTY: $59,243 · Crime & LegalFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN OF THE KLAMATH BASIN: $29,204 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF OREGON & SW WASHINGTON INC: $19,075 · Youth DevelopmentDAVID R KINGSLEY FOUNDATION: $35,423 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE KLAMATH BASIN: $10,000 · PhilanthropyCITIZENS FOR SAFE SCHOOLS: $33,306 · Education
Other$2,239,444Human Services$197,523Crime & Legal$59,243Youth Development$48,279Philanthropy$45,423Education$33,306

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 budgetKLAMATH ADVOCACY CENTER: $123,600 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetLutheran Community Services Northwest: $110,997 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKLAMATH KID CENTER INC: $108,499 over 3y, 10% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KLAMATH COUNTY: $99,415 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetKLAMATH LAKE COUNTIES FOOD BANK: $89,392 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetKLAMATH BASIN SENIOR CITIZENS' CENTER: $75,811 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetCASA FOR CHILDREN OF KLAMATH COUNTY: $59,243 over 3y, 9.2% of budgetSpokes Unlimited: $48,874 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetKLAMATH LAKE COUNTIES COUNCIL ON AGING: $38,699 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetCITIZENS FOR SAFE SCHOOLS: $33,306 over 3y, 9.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN OF THE KLAMATH BASIN: $29,204 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetCRATER LAKE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $28,756 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF OREGON & SW WASHINGTON INC: $19,075 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKLAMATH HOSPICE INC: $15,362 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY VOLUNTEER NETWORK: $10,715 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE KLAMATH BASIN: $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% 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 Ford Family Found…Sky Lakes Medical Cen…The Roundhouse Founda…The Autzen FoundationWashington Federal Fo…First Interstate Banc…Klamath Medical Servi…The Reser Family Foun…The Collins FoundationMarie Lamfrom Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Oregon Community FoundationOR25.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 59%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
5rely 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.

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 27 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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