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COMMUNITY LENDINGWORKS

COMMUNITY LENDINGWORKS (Oregon) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,434,023 to it, the largest being The Ford Family Foundation ($1,000,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.0M
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$2.4M
Net assets
$4.7M
7/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%
01What it does

What Community Lendingworks does

Mission

To develop economically vibrant, inclusive communities by providing accessible loans that help community members, small businesses, and affordable housing developers reach their goals regardless of income level, racial identity or location.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Community Lendingworks provides communities with affordable customizable loans to help them build financial stability. This resource allows clients to build credit, borrow for personal needs, start or grow a business, regardless of income level, racial identity or location. We also provide below-market capital to nonprofit affordable housing developers, to purchase land and pay for pre-development costs to build affordable housing for people below 80% area median income.

    $1,441,943 spent$542,833 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,441,943.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.4M) Expenses 100 ($484k) Net assets 100 ($1.6M)2018 Revenue 78 ($1.1M) Expenses 180 ($870k) Net assets 115 ($1.8M)2023 Revenue 51 ($723k) Expenses 269 ($1.3M) Net assets 333 ($5.3M)2024 Revenue 73 ($1.0M) Expenses 340 ($1.6M) Net assets 294 ($4.7M)
2017201820232024
Revenue (73)Expenses (340)Net assets (294)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $3.3M to $3.7M (+13%).

$3.3M
$3.7M
$11M
$10M
2017201820232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 38% · 2018 32% · 2023 2% · 2024 33%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

53% of COMMUNITY LENDINGWORKS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,434 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$933k
’17
$240k
’18
−$578k
’23
−$616k
’24
26
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Emily Reiman

Chief executive officer

Board chair

Jin Plummer

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2017201820232024
Listed8899
Joined·+3·+1
No longer listed·3·1
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $100k → $108k.

1 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $10k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Corvallis Neighborhood Housing Services Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money COMMUNITY LENDINGWORKS raised.

From the IRS filings of COMMUNITY LENDINGWORKS’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

COMMUNITY LENDINGWORKS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

41%
largest funder
86%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 74% · 2020 81% · 2021 72% · 2022 82% · 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

17% of COMMUNITY LENDINGWORKS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

64% of COMMUNITY LENDINGWORKS's grant income comes from Oregon funders.

WA
MT
MN
WI
OR
IN
TX

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

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Oregon out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $425k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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

COMMUNITY LENDINGWORKS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−60% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve25.5mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−4% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government funding COMMUNITY LENDINGWORKS receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.1M on record — $3.7M federal, $2.4M state.

Federal$3.7M
grants $3.7Mcontracts $0
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24
Top agencies
  • Department of the Treasury$3.6M
  • Department of Agriculture$152k
State$2.4M
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21
Top programs
  • LOANS MADE-OTHER$2.4M
  • AGENCY PROGRAM RELATED SUPPLIES$737
  • DISTRIBUTION TO INDIVIDUALS$25

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like COMMUNITY LENDINGWORKS

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Oregon

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 12%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OR

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Neighborhood Building Corporation · exempt
  • Corvallis Neighborhood Housing Services · exempt

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMUNITY LENDINGWORKS: 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 COMMUNITY LENDINGWORKS?
COMMUNITY LENDINGWORKS (Oregon) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,434,023 to it, the largest being The Ford Family Foundation ($1,000,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does COMMUNITY LENDINGWORKS have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $2,434,023 in grants to COMMUNITY LENDINGWORKS, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY LENDINGWORKS?
The Ford Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COMMUNITY LENDINGWORKS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 12 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