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United Way of the Mid-Willamette Valley

Uniting people and resources to build thriving and resilient communities.

$556k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$152k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Human Services$1.1MHealth$587kEducation$561kReligion$455kCommunity Improvement$349kYouth Development$317kEnvironment$247kHousing & Shelter$242kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 9 grants below total $321,143 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $555,652 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $234,509 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 · $6k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $113k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $202k
$16,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$9.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PARAKATA CONSULTING$152,000
NORTH SALEM HIGH SCHOOL$50,000
SHELLYS HOUSE$33,000
FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS$26,413
LIBERTY HOUSE$16,000
ACRES OF HOPE$15,000
FAMILY YMCA OF MARION & POLK$12,730
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB$10,000
SALEM LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION$6,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.0M) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%A FAMILY PLACE: $7k → 11%DETROIT LAKE FOUNDATION: $250k → 14%LOVE INC OF NEWBERG: $5k → 11%YAMHILL COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP: $49k → 11%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $39k → 11%LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES: $32k → 11%JULIETTES HOUSE: $26k → 11%JULIETTES HOUSE: $25k → 11%HELPING HANDS RESOURCES: $15k → 14%ENCOMPASS YAMHILL COUNTY: $25k → 11%CASA OF POLK COUNTY: $21k → 13%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SVCS NW: $10k → 11%FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS: $37k → 14%FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS: $15k → 14%FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC: $9k → 14%FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC: $8k → 14%SILVERTON AREA COM AID: $21k → 14%MARION COUNTY CASA: $24k → 14%MARION COUNTY CASA: $12k → 14%SALEM LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $6k → 14%EAST SALEM COMMUNITY CENTER: $200k → 14%LIBERTY HOUSE: $46k → 14%CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY: $21k → 14%LIBERTY HOUSE: $16k → 14%CONGREGATIONS HELPING PEOPLE: $13k → 14%NORTHWEST HUMAN SERVICES: $13k → 14%LIBERTY HOUSE: $12k → 14%LIBERTY HOUSE: $12k → 14%LIBERTY HOUSE: $10k → 14%CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 14%CENTER FOR HOPE & SAFETY: $9k → 14%CENTER FOR HOPE & SAFETY: $7k → 14%CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES: $7k → 14%CENTER FOR HOPE & SAFETY: $6k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

43%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.1M · 34 repeat orgs$2.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +111% since the first grant, against +48% for the ones you funded once.

34 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
82

Total granted

$2.1M
$2.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+111%
+48%

Still filing today

68%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $232k 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 ServicesHealthEducationFood & NutritionCivil RightsYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • CENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY
    4× · 2017–2023 · $294k · revenue +186%
  • CASA OF MARION COUNTY INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $135k · revenue +10%
  • LIBERTY HOUSE
    5× · 2018–2024 · $96k · revenue +70%

Funded once

  • BC
    Blanchet Community Foundation East Salem Community Centergraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue +59% · 33% of their budget
  • NS
    NORTH SANTIAM WATERSHED COUNCIL
    one grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue -28% · 32% of their budget
  • SS
    SAXON SUCCESS FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · 57% of their budget

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Salem Health and Wellness Foundation Inc
Health
2
Willamette Family Medical Center Inc

Providing health care services

Health
3
Salem Health

To improve the health and well-being of the people and communities we serve.

Health
4
Thrive Central Oregon

To connect individuals to the housing and community resources they seek.

Human Services
5
Oregon Justice Network

Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…

Human Services
6
Every Child Central Oregon

Mobilizing the community to uplift children and families impacted by foster care in Oregon.

Human Services
7
Eastern Oregon Health and Wellness Inc

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.

Health
8
Oregon Casa Network

To lead oregon's casa programs to provide a strong voice for every abused and neglected child

Human Services
9
The Wallace Medical Concern

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.

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10
Restoration House Inc

Restoration House provides save, supervised housing for men with significant behavioral health needs, creating a stable environment where structure, accountability, and wraparound services support personal growth and long-term recovery.…

Health
11
Oregon Abuse Advocates and Survivors in Service

Providing support and advocacy for abuse survivors.

Crime & Legal
12
Sexual Assault Resource Center

Sexual assault resource center (the organization, or sarc) is an oregon public benefit nonprofit corporation founded in 1977. the organization operates a stand-alone advocacy and resource center for people impacted by sexual…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mid Willamette Valley Community Action Agency and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Deepwood. 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 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%6%<5yr13%10%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr18%24%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr19%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%12%<5yr13%14%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr18%18%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr19%18%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 12% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.9%1/108
the rest of the field
10%
273/2,720

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.

04the grantee network

73 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. 73 of the 121 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
28
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/73
Grantees still filing
55/73
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SALEM KEIZER PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $157,500 · OtherSALEM KEIZER PUBLIC SCHOOLSPARAKATA CONSULTING — $152,000 · OtherPARAKATA CONSULTINGNORTHWEST HUB — $84,000 · Other+79 more — $2,095,852 · Other+79 moreCENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY — $293,723 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETYBlanchet Community Foundation East Salem Community Center — $200,000 · Human ServicesBlanchet Community Foundati…CASA OF MARION COUNTY INC — $134,834 · Human ServicesCASA OF MARION COUNTY INCLIBERTY HOUSE — $95,827 · Human ServicesLIBERTY HOUSELutheran Community Services Northwest — $87,696 · Human ServicesLutheran Community Services…FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC — $69,671 · Human ServicesFAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INCCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF THE MID- WILLAMETTE VALLEY & CENTRAL COAST — $59,822 · Human ServicesJULIETTE'S HOUSE — $50,500 · Human ServicesYAMHILL COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP — $49,011 · Human Services+8 more — $118,688 · Human Services+8 moreOREGON HEALTH AND EDUCATION COLLABORATIVE — $100,000 · HealthSANTIAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL — $67,515 · HealthSAMARITAN NORTH LINCOLN HOSPITAL — $37,500 · HealthYAMHILL COUNTY CARE ORGANIZATION INC — $30,560 · Health211INFO — $30,000 · HealthHELPING HANDS REENTRY OUTREACH CENTERS — $28,065 · HealthChehalem Youth & Family Services — $21,300 · HealthBRIDGEWAY RECOVERY SERVICES INC — $20,000 · Health+3 more — $25,892 · HealthSAXON SUCCESS FUND — $150,000 · EducationSANTIAM CANYON SCHOOL DISTRICT PTO — $25,000 · EducationWILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY — $17,000 · EducationSALEMKEIZER COALITION FOR EQUALITY — $10,000 · EducationSMART READING — $7,307 · EducationBE BLAC FOUNDATION — $140,000 · Civil RightsBLACK JOY OREGON — $50,000 · Civil RightsYAMHILL COUNTY CASA PROGRAM — $10,111 · Civil RightsNORTH SANTIAM WATERSHED COUNCIL — $150,000 · EnvironmentINSTITUTE FOR APPLIED ECOLOGY — $13,659 · EnvironmentPODER — $140,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$2,489,352Human Services$1,159,772Health$360,832Education$209,307Civil Rights$200,111Environment$163,659Arts & Culture$140,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCENTER FOR HOPE AND SAFETY — $293,723 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetBlanchet Community Foundation East Salem Community Center — $200,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetNORTH SANTIAM WATERSHED COUNCIL — $150,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetSAXON SUCCESS FUND — $150,000 over 1y, 57% of budgetPODER — $140,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetCASA OF MARION COUNTY INC — $134,834 over 5y, 18% of budgetOREGON HEALTH AND EDUCATION COLLABORATIVE — $100,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetLIBERTY HOUSE — $95,827 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetLutheran Community Services Northwest — $87,696 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST HUB — $84,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SALEM MARION & POLK COUNTIES FOUNDATION — $79,662 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetTHE FAMILY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MARION AND POLK COUNTIES — $74,854 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SALEM MARION & POLK COUNTIES — $72,391 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetFAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC — $69,671 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSANTIAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL — $67,515 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF THE MID- WILLAMETTE VALLEY & CENTRAL COAST — $59,822 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMARION-POLK FOOD SHARE INC — $56,160 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJULIETTE'S HOUSE — $50,500 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetSALEM FOR REFUGEES — $50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetBLACK JOY OREGON — $50,000 over 1y, 82% of budgetYAMHILL COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP — $49,011 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF DEEPWOOD — $48,600 over 1y, 21% of budgetMID WILLAMETTE VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY — $48,078 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMano A Mano — $45,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetSALEM INTERFAITH HOSPITALITY NETWORK — $40,474 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetSAMARITAN NORTH LINCOLN HOSPITAL — $37,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST FRANCIS SHELTER — $36,221 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetSALEM FREE CLINICS — $32,580 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetREACH NORTHWEST — $31,500 over 2y, 13% of budgetYAMHILL COUNTY CARE ORGANIZATION INC — $30,560 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGARTEN SERVICES INC — $30,325 over 1y, 0.2% of budget211INFO — $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWILLAMETTE HUMANE SOCIETY — $28,423 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHELPING HANDS REENTRY OUTREACH CENTERS — $28,065 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetFAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS FOUNDATION — $26,413 over 1y, 31% of budgetENCOMPASS YAMHILL VALLEY — $25,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE SALEM SENIOR CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetSALEM ROTARY FOUNDATION — $24,600 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetOREGON HUMANE SOCIETY — $21,284 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMCMINNVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $20,856 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCASA OF POLK COUNTY INC — $20,530 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetSILVERTON AREA COMMUNITY AID INC — $20,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetWILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY — $17,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHIV ALLIANCE — $15,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHELPING HANDS RESOURCES — $15,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetACRES OF HOPE — $15,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR APPLIED ECOLOGY — $13,659 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNORTHWEST HUMAN SERVICES INC — $13,288 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Maps Community Founda…The Oregon Community …The Salem FoundationWillamette Health Cou…Marion-Polk Food Shar…Salem HealthOCF Joseph E Weston P…The Collins FoundationBraemar Charitable Tr…M J Murdock Charitabl…Marie Lamfrom Charita…The Ford Family Found…
Maps Community FoundationOR74.5× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maps Community Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Salem Foundation · Willamette Health Council · Marion-Polk Food Share Inc · Salem Health · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Collins Foundation · Braemar Charitable Trust · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Ford 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 the Mid-Willamette Valley 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 200%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 23%
  • North Santiam Watershed Council — 100% of income from government
  • Institute for Applied Ecology — 99% of income from government
  • Mid Willamette Valley Community Action Agency — 81% of income from government
  • Salemkeizer Coalition for Equality — 77% of income from government
  • Family Building Blocks Inc — 68% of income from government
  • Center for Hope and Safety — 68% of income from government
  • Yamhill Community Action Partnership — 61% of income from government
  • 211INFO — 60% of income from government
  • Hiv Alliance — 54% of income from government
  • Sable House — 50% of income from government
  • Poder — 50% of income from government
  • Encompass Yamhill Valley — 46% of income from government
  • Salem for Refugees — 35% of income from government
  • Garten Services Inc — 34% of income from government
  • Salem Interfaith Hospitality Network — 25% of income from government
  • Liberty House — 23% of income from government
  • Bridgeway Recovery Services Inc — 18% of income from government
  • Helping Hands Reentry Outreach Centers — 18% of income from government
  • Northwest Hub — 16% of income from government
  • Northwest Human Services Inc — 15% of income from government
  • Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center — 11% of income from government
  • Isaac's Room — 5% of income from government
  • Marion-Polk Food Share Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Yamhill County Casa Program — 3% of income from government
  • Salem Leadership Foundation — 3% of income from government
  • Smart Reading — 3% of income from government
  • Willamette University — 1% of income from government
  • Casa of Marion County Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Santiam Memorial Hospital — 1% of income from government
  • Yamhill County Care Organization Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Samaritan North Lincoln Hospital — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
20get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
9rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 121 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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