Oregon · Nonprofit
SPIRAL LIVING CENTER
SPIRAL LIVING CENTER (Oregon) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,652 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($24,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $70k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $65k
- Net assets
- $34k
What Spiral Living Center does
Mission
To promote sustainable living skills by offering educational and tangible resources for our community to become more self-sufficient
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Community Food Program provides free or low-cost food education (gardening, preservation, cooking) as well as direct food distribution to the community through a regular food pantry and delivering locally gleaned food to sharing tables around the Illinois Valley. Average of 365 people/month receive food through food pantries. We offered 11 educational classes in 2025. There were over 300 attendees to our seed swap event.
$15,399 spent48% of program spendingEarth Scouts offers nature-based workshops for teens and adults. This year Spiral Living Center partnered with the Kalmiopsis Community Arts High School to provide 18 classes on topics such as rainwater design and food preservation.
$15,239 spent48% of program spendingTool & book library. Spiral Living Center's Resource Library has over 1650 books relating to homesteading, rural skills, and sustainable living. Tools include but are not limited to: shovels, rakes, garden hoes, wheel barrows, electric saws, small hand tools, and etc.
$1,135 spent4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $31,773.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Deborah Lukas
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $3k → $14k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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 SPIRAL LIVING CENTER’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
SPIRAL LIVING CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
62% 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 SPIRAL LIVING CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 53% · 2020 100% · 2021 68% · 2022 85% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
62% of SPIRAL LIVING CENTER's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $25k that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40k 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.
Against its field
SPIRAL LIVING CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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In Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SPIRAL LIVING CENTER: 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 SPIRAL LIVING CENTER?
- SPIRAL LIVING CENTER (Oregon) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,652 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($24,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SPIRAL LIVING CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $64,652 in grants to SPIRAL LIVING CENTER, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPIRAL LIVING CENTER?
- THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $24,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPIRAL LIVING CENTER 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 7 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