Skip to content

Oregon · Nonprofit

SOUTHWESTERN OREGON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION

SOUTHWESTERN OREGON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION (Oregon) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,185,004 to it, the largest being SOUTHWESTERN OREGON WORKFORCE INVESTMENT BOARD ($527,733). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.1M
Funders on record
14
Grants received
$1.2M
Net assets
$7.2M
6/14 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 57%
01What it does

What Southwestern Oregon Community College Foundation does

Mission

The purpose of the Southwestern Oregon Community College Foundation is to support the college in improving people's lives - socially, culturally, economically and educationally - through friend-raising and fundraising.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Grants and academic program support - the foundation's support of southwestern oregon community college includes, but is not limited to receiving, investing and administering funds held for the benefit of the college and ultimately its students. The foundation undertakes special projects to support innovation and investments in new programs and equipment to support instruction and student success. Efforts have focused on the sciences, natural resources, health, culinary programs and the arts.

    $263,756 spentof which $223,783 as grants
    51% of program spending
  2. Scholarships - the foundation awarded $258,438 in scholarships during 2024-25, assisting 344 students with tuition, fees, books, living expenses and other educational expenses. This included the foundation providing ged/transitional education scholarships to students preparing to enter college and pursue career training. Out of those total awards, the foundation awarded 25 scholarships to students experiencing temporary financial emergencies to ensure they were able to complete their terms of study.

    $258,438 spentof which $258,438 as grants
    49% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $522,194.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($531k) Expenses 100 ($352k) Net assets 100 ($5.3M)2021 Revenue 67 ($355k) Expenses 230 ($812k) Net assets 112 ($6.0M)2022 Revenue 153 ($810k) Expenses 143 ($505k) Net assets 101 ($5.4M)2023 Revenue 123 ($655k) Expenses 130 ($456k) Net assets 111 ($5.9M)2024 Revenue 136 ($721k) Expenses 159 ($559k) Net assets 122 ($6.5M)2025 Revenue 199 ($1.1M) Expenses 229 ($808k) Net assets 135 ($7.2M)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (199)Expenses (229)Net assets (135)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $6.5M to $7.2M (+10%).

$5.3M
$6.0M
$5.4M
$6.0M
$6.5M
$7.2M
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$179k
’20
−$457k
’21
$305k
’22
$199k
’23
$162k
’24
$247k
’25
3.0
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

Elise Hamner

Executive director

Board chair

Arnie Roblan

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202020212022202320242025
Listed141416141313
Joined·+3+7+3+0+2
No longer listed·35512
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $111k → $377k.

3 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 SOUTHWESTERN OREGON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION’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

SOUTHWESTERN OREGON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

86% 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 SOUTHWESTERN OREGON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION.

45%
largest funder
91%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 85% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 96% · 2022 65% · 2023 71% — 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

40% of SOUTHWESTERN OREGON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

98% of SOUTHWESTERN OREGON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Oregon funders.

MN
NY
OR
MO
DE

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

’17
’18
’21
’22
’23
Oregon out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $465k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

Organizations like SOUTHWESTERN OREGON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION

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

65% of spending goes to programs.

Program 65%Management 34%Fundraising 2%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

76%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OR

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOUTHWESTERN OREGON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: 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.

A paid feature, included from the $75 plan up. Sign in to download.

Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds SOUTHWESTERN OREGON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION?
SOUTHWESTERN OREGON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION (Oregon) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,185,004 to it, the largest being SOUTHWESTERN OREGON WORKFORCE INVESTMENT BOARD ($527,733). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SOUTHWESTERN OREGON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,185,004 in grants to SOUTHWESTERN OREGON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SOUTHWESTERN OREGON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION?
SOUTHWESTERN OREGON WORKFORCE INVESTMENT BOARD is the largest funder on record, with $527,733 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SOUTHWESTERN OREGON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 14 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