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United Way of Jackson County Inc

Medford, OR · EIN 93-0576632. Reported 97 grants totalling $968,918 to 26 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

26organizations funded
$9,000median reported grant
$968,918granted, 2020-2024
94%of grantees funded again the next year
15%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For United Way of Jackson County Inc, the IRS classifies it as a federated giving programme -- a United Way, Jewish federation, Community Chest or similar (NTEE T70Z).
  2. How spread out its giving is. 26 distinct organizations, with 15% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 94% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $9,000. Half of what it reported fell between $7,000 and $12,500; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $21,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
55 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
42 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Community Volunteer NetworkMedford, OR$142,8201052024
Living Opportunities IncMedford, OR$93,000552024
Kids Unlimited of OregonMedford, OR$70,564552024
CASA of Jackson County IncMedford, OR$61,000552024
Addictions Recovery Center IncMedford, OR$56,000552024
Jackson County SartAshland, OR$50,000552024
Center for Non Profit Legal ServicesMedford, OR$47,000552024
Hearts With a MissionMedford, OR$43,000552024
Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Southern Oregon IncMedford, OR$40,000552024
Young Mens Christian AssociationMedford, OR$39,000552024
Southern Oregon Child and Family Council IncCentral Point, OR$37,500442023
Food & Friends IncWashington, DC$36,000332024
Young Mens Christian Association of AshlandAshland, OR$33,800552024
Compass House IncMedford, OR$32,142552024
Resolve Center for Dispute Resolution and Restorative JusticeMedford, OR$32,000552024
Maxs MissionJacksonville, OR$26,000332024
The Family Nurturing CenterMedford, OR$25,000222021
Rogue RetreatMedford, OR$24,092332024
H O P E Equestrian CenterEagle Point, OR$18,000332024
Rogue Valley Council of GovernmentsCentral Point, OR$15,000222021
Jackson County Child Abuse Task ForceMedford, OR$11,000222024
Habitat for Humanity International IncMedford, OR$9,000112024
La Clinica Del Valle Family Health Care Center IncMedford, OR$8,000112024
Talent Maker CityTalent, OR$7,000112024
College Dreams IncGrants Pass, OR$6,000112024
Rogue Food UnitesAshland, OR$6,000112024

21 of 26 (81%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

It also reported 2 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 20 of 26 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Human Services
5 orgs
Mental Health
4 orgs
Education
3 orgs
Employment
1 org
Youth Development
1 org
Civil Rights
1 org
Diseases & Disorders
1 org
Crime & Legal
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202019$187,167$8,000
202118$182,167$8,750
202218$188,212$9,750
202318$191,372$9,750
202424$220,000$8,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

96% of its giving went to organizations in Oregon. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Oregon
$933K
District of Columbia
$36K

Down to the city

Medford, OR
$734K
Ashland, OR
$90K
Central Point, OR
$52K
Washington, DC
$36K
Jacksonville, OR
$26K
Eagle Point, OR
$18K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

The Oregon Community Foundation23 shared recipientsThe Carpenter Foundation14 shared recipientsThe Ford Family Foundation12 shared recipientsCarrico Family Foundation11 shared recipientsCareoregon Inc10 shared recipientsAnna May Family Foundation9 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $9,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Oregon.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from United Way of Jackson County Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 25 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 60 Hawthorne Street, Medford, OR, 97504.

EIN 93-0576632 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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