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THE CENTER FOUNDATION

THE CENTER FOUNDATION (Oregon) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $759,733 to it, the largest being MAYBELLE CLARK MACDONALD FUND ($165,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$449k
Funders on record
19
Grants received
$760k
Net assets
$223k
8/19 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 32%
01What it does

What The Center Foundation does

Mission

Provision of no-cost medical care and sports medicine-related research and education to children of public schools in the deschutes county area.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Impact/atc: concussion program/research and provision of no-cost medical care and sports medicine-related education to children of public schools in the deschutes county area.

    $329,884 spent
    90% of program spending

  2. Train your brain - bicycle helmets and safety: train your brain offers educatinoal presentations to youth organizations in central oregon including: elementary schools, boy scouts, community events, and english as a second language classes. The presentations include age-appropriate discussions of brain and spinal cord anatomy and injury prevention techniques such as street, car, and bike safety

    $18,715 spent
    5% of program spending

  3. Ok to play: this program ensures that students in need of a comprehensive well-child visit have a sports physical with their regular primary care provider at the same time at no additional cost to families.

    $8,216 spent
    2% of program spending

  4. Educational programs and other: The Center Foundation presents our annual conference for medical professionals. Uniquely, this in-depth conference includes a cadaveric lab. Led by skilled orthopedic surgeons from the center, the cadaver lab is designed to demonstrate current surgical procedures. Specifically focusing on anatomy, common injuries, and rehabiliation techniques, or conferences provide the most current information in orthopedics and sports medicine.

    $10,983 spent$6,324 earned by the program
    3% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $367,798.

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 ($482k) Expenses 100 ($445k) Net assets 100 ($199k)2018 Revenue 105 ($508k) Expenses 101 ($450k) Net assets 134 ($267k)2019 Revenue 134 ($644k) Expenses 140 ($624k) Net assets 146 ($291k)2020 Revenue 118 ($571k) Expenses 115 ($511k) Net assets 172 ($343k)2021 Revenue 110 ($531k) Expenses 109 ($486k) Net assets 217 ($432k)2022 Revenue 105 ($507k) Expenses 127 ($565k) Net assets 187 ($373k)2023 Revenue 111 ($535k) Expenses 134 ($597k) Net assets 162 ($322k)2024 Revenue 136 ($657k) Expenses 167 ($746k) Net assets 126 ($250k)2025 Revenue 93 ($449k) Expenses 111 ($496k) Net assets 112 ($223k)
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Revenue (93)Expenses (111)Net assets (112)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 2021 to 2022, from $543k to $406k (−25%).

$242k
$307k
$361k
$474k
$543k
$406k
$374k
$291k
$227k
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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.

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2018
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2022
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 11% · 2018 24% · 2019 22% · 2020 18% · 2021 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

98% of THE CENTER FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$37k
’17
$58k
’18
$20k
’19
$60k
’20
$46k
’21
−$58k
’22
−$62k
’23
−$89k
’24
−$47k
’25
0.3
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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

Sandra Visnack

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.

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Joined·+1+6+2+0+3+4+1+2
No longer listed·24415525
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $33k → $77k.

Funder
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$23k
Mt Bachelor Rotary Clubunclassified
$15k
funders
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5 of 19 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.

From the IRS filings of THE CENTER 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

THE CENTER FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

38% 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 THE CENTER FOUNDATION.

22%
largest funder
50%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 33% · 2019 48% · 2020 36% · 2021 55% · 2022 54% · 2023 35% — 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

31% of THE CENTER FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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

80% of THE CENTER FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Oregon funders.

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

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Oregon out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $127k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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

THE CENTER FOUNDATION's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−10% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like THE CENTER 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

Cycle Oregon Foundation78%Community Cycling Center78%Oregon Health and Education Collaborative77%Columbia County Child Abuse Assessm77%Deschutes Children's Foundation76%Kids Intervention and Diagnostic Service Center76%Ore Research & Education Foundation76%Oregon Spinal Cord Injury Connection76%

Nationally

The Orthopaedic Learning Center78%The Kempe Foundation78%Wellness and Prevention Foundation78%Cycle Oregon Foundation78%Education Training and Research Associates78%Community Cycling Center78%Orlando Orthopaedic Center Foundation78%Anne Carlsen Center77%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 16%Fundraising 10%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

74%

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

Part of a family of 1 related entity

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE CENTER FOUNDATION?
THE CENTER FOUNDATION (Oregon) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $759,733 to it, the largest being MAYBELLE CLARK MACDONALD FUND ($165,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE CENTER FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $759,733 in grants to THE CENTER FOUNDATION, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE CENTER FOUNDATION?
MAYBELLE CLARK MACDONALD FUND is the largest funder on record, with $165,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE CENTER 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.

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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 2017–2025), and the filings of 19 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