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Charleston Fishing Families

Charleston Fishing Families (Oregon) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $102,967 to it, the largest being SOUTHWESTERN OREGON WORKFORCE INVESTMENT BOARD ($53,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$108k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$103k
Net assets
$44k
2/10 repeat funders
01What it does

What Charleston Fishing Families does

Mission

To Support the Fishermen/Women of the South Coast of Or

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. SAFETY: Assistance is provided to help fishing families obtain the proper equipment needed to perform their work safety and effectively. This program supported 89 families.

    $27,981 spent
    41% of program spending
  2. LICENSING: Assistance was provided to help 205 fishing families obtain amaintain the proper state-required licenses needed to legally perform ftheir work and avoid penalties.

    $23,888 spent
    35% of program spending
  3. HOLIDAY ASSISTANCE: Provided to fishing families during the most difficult time of the year through $75 gift cards. This program helped 120 families during the Christmas holiday season by providing support for food and childrens holiday gifts.

    $10,044 spent
    15% of program spending
  4. Emergency assistance for Fishermen and their families. 8 Families supporte

    $6,804 spent
    10% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $68,717.

02The organization over time
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $11k → $2k.

2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of Charleston Fishing Families’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

Charleston Fishing Families leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

58% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Charleston Fishing Families.

51%
largest funder
86%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 47% · 2023 93% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

33% of Charleston Fishing Families's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 20% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

100% of Charleston Fishing Families's grant income comes from Oregon funders.

OR
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’22
’23
Oregon out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Charleston Fishing Families receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $103k to it.

Operating margin6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like Charleston Fishing Families

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In Oregon

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Charleston Fishing Families: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Charleston Fishing Families?
Charleston Fishing Families (Oregon) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $102,967 to it, the largest being SOUTHWESTERN OREGON WORKFORCE INVESTMENT BOARD ($53,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Charleston Fishing Families have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $102,967 in grants to Charleston Fishing Families, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Charleston Fishing Families?
SOUTHWESTERN OREGON WORKFORCE INVESTMENT BOARD is the largest funder on record, with $53,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Charleston Fishing Families find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 10 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing