· Public charity
Willamette Workforce Partnership
The purpose of this corporation is to work in concert with the business community, schools, colleges, public agencies, units of government, community-based organizations, and nonprofit entities to develop a skilled workforce able to compete for, retain, and advance in employment in today's and tomorrow's economy.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $176k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $835k
- $250k+3 grants · $3.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY SERVICES CONSORTIUM | $2,502,591 |
| UNITED WAY | $418,869 |
| CHEHALEM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES | $415,997 |
| CHEMEKETA COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $244,016 |
| MID WILLAMETTE VALLEY COMMUNITY | $236,047 |
| HIGHTOWER WORKFORCE INITIATIVES LLC | $149,380 |
| EASTER SEALS OREGON | $130,000 |
| BE-BLAC FOUNDATION | $75,953 |
| CROSSROADS COMMUNITIES | $28,974 |
| MEDICAL TRAINING ACADEMY | $26,228 |
| VALLEY FAB CORP | $25,000 |
| EXITBLISS CORP | $18,566 |
| KNIFE RIVER TRAINING CENTER | $17,430 |
| ARE MANUFACTURING INC | $16,125 |
| METAL INNOVATIONS | $16,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $88k) 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.
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 +35% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 8 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $252k 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
- CYChehalem Youth & Family Services7× · 2017–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +29% · 89% of their budget
- MWMID WILLAMETTE VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY4× · 2020–2025 · $557k · revenue +127%
- WIWorksystems Inc2× · 2017–2019 · $216k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- CFCENTER FOR COMMUNITY INNOVATIONone grant, 2017 · $289k · 53% of their budget
- KCKID CAROUSEL DAY CARE IN CARE OF EDone grant, 2022 · $99k
- RGRICKY GIL (BARBER)one grant, 2022 · $71k
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 coordinate the resources need to help employers succeed and individuals to advance through innovation and partnerships.
Swwdc's mission is to prepare and promote a skilled and adaptive workforce for a thriving economy in southwest washington. swwdc and its community partners provide job search assistance, education and training to individuals and assist…
To provide employment and alternative service programs for developmentally disabled adults in the portland metro area.
Se works' mission is to strengthen the economic health and well being of our diverse community by facilitating successful connections between job seekers and employers.
To promote economic and social advancement of farmworkers and disadvantaged individuals through the provision of education, training, advocacy and services that enhance self-sufficiency.
Central Ozarks Private Industry Council, Incorporated (COPIC) strives to provide all customers with access to professional, high-quality workforce development services, resulting in sustainable employment and contributing to positive…
To accelerate inclusive economic prosperity in lane county, oregon
Offering access to employment and training information and services, promoting linkages to job seekers and employers, and providing guidance, workplace readiness skills and job training opportunities.
Lead the diversification of central oregon's economy through marketing, targeted recruitment, business expansion, formation of effective public/private partnerships and venture coaching for early stage companies.
The SWC mobilizes partnerships, data-driven innovation,and strategic investment to build an equitable workforce ecosystem where every individual can access opportunity, every business can find talent, and every community can thrive.
To oversee and manage regional Federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) programming. CCWI performs the functions of the regional workforce board and applies for/obtains additional funding for our region with the mission of…
EWIB efficiently coordinates employment-related services in concert with a multitude of state and local agencies at benefit to both businesses and job-seekers. These services offer new opportunities and/or skills to the regional workforce,…
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 Kid Central. 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 29 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 338 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 SOUTH COAST BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE MID-WILLAMETTE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Chehalem Youth & Family Services ↗
- Who funds MID WILLAMETTE VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY ↗
- Who funds BE BLAC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR COMMUNITY INNOVATION ↗
- Who funds Worksystems Inc ↗
- Who funds LANE WORKFORCE PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS OF OREGON ↗
- Who funds INTEGRATED SUPPORTS FOR LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL TRAINING ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds WORKFORCE INVESTMENT COUNCIL OF CLACKAMAS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ROGUE WORKFORCE PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds Oregon Manufacturing Extension Partnership Inc ↗
- Who funds MV ADVANCEMENTS ↗
- Who funds Oregon Northwest Workforce Investment Board ↗
- Who funds Dress for Success Oregon ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN OREGON WORKFORCE INVESTMENT BOARD ↗
- Who funds A RAY OF HOPE TODAY ↗
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: United Way of the Mid-Willamette Valley · Willamette Health Council · Oregon Workforce Partnership · The Ford Family Foundation · The Salem Foundation · Salem Health · The Oregon Community Foundation · Barbara Emily Knudson Foundation · Maps Community Foundation · The Roundhouse Foundation · Southwestern Oregon Workforce Investment Board · Intercommunity Health Plans Inc
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 Willamette Workforce Partnership 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.
- Oregon Northwest Workforce Investment Board — 93% of income from government
- Lane Workforce Partnership — 92% of income from government
- Rogue Workforce Partnership — 90% of income from government
- Workforce Investment Council of Clackamas County — 87% of income from government
- East Cascades Workforce Investment Board — 86% of income from government
- Oregon Manufacturing Extension Partnership Inc — 83% of income from government
- Mid Willamette Valley Community Action Agency — 81% of income from government
- Mv Advancements — 81% of income from government
- Easter Seals of Oregon — 77% of income from government
- Family Building Blocks Inc — 68% of income from government
- Worksystems Inc — 55% of income from government
- South Coast Business Employment Corporation — 41% of income from government
- Gate Youth Association — 6% of income from government
- United Way of the Mid-Willamette Valley — 6% of income from government
- Festival Chorale Oregon — 4% of income from government
- Oregon Garden Foundation — 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.