Linn Benton Food Share
Corvallis, OR · EIN 93-1099406. Reported 205 grants totalling $23.9M to 58 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
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:
- What kind of organization it is. For Linn Benton Food Share, the IRS classifies it under food & nutrition rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE K33Z) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 58 distinct organizations, with 8% 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.
- How much its list changes. 94% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 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 $87,499. Half of what it reported fell between $29,684 and $162,647; the smallest was $5,005 and the largest $626,934. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
205 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $23.9M in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Corvallis Food Pantry | Corvallis, OR | $1,981,983 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Philomath Community Services Inc | Philomath, OR | $1,379,842 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Sweet Home Emergency Ministries | Sweet Home, OR | $1,332,626 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Council of Mid-Willamette Valley Society of St Vincent De Paul | Mcminnville, OR | $1,021,249 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Mid Valley Gleaners | Albany, OR | $1,017,650 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Marys River Gleaners Association | Corvallis, OR | $911,128 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Helping Hands Gleaners Inc | Albany, OR | $896,128 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Fish Lebanon | Lebanon, OR | $862,066 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Sharing Hands | Brownsville, OR | $835,019 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Caring Team Ministry | Lebanon, OR | $812,124 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Salvation Army | Honolulu, HI | $743,277 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| North Santiam Gleaners | Scio, OR | $706,806 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Coastal Range Food Bank Inc | Blodgett, OR | $688,121 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Community Outreach Inc | Corvallis, OR | $681,740 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Ten River Food Web | Corvallis, OR | $661,834 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Alsea Valley Gleaners | Alsea, OR | $626,829 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| First Christian Meal Site | Albany, OR | $619,248 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Fair Share Gleaners | Sweet Home, OR | $599,910 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Sweet Home Assembly | Sweet Home, OR | $588,205 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Sweet Home Gleaners Inc | Sweet Home, OR | $522,597 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Jefferson Community Pantry | Jefferson, OR | $415,060 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| First Assembly of God | Lebanon, OR | $413,618 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Alsea Food Bank | Alsea, OR | $399,176 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| South Benton Food Pantry | Monroe, OR | $385,417 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Albany Gleaners-Association | Albany, OR | $379,629 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Southbend United Methodist Church | Gainesville, GA | $367,767 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Albany Helping Hands | Albany, OR | $325,931 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| St Vincent De Paul - Lebanon | Lebanon, OR | $321,021 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Family Tree Relief Nursery | Albany, OR | $313,547 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Canyon Gleaners | Mill City, OR | $302,229 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Community Helping Addicts Negotiate Change Effectively | Albany, OR | $279,312 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Fish of Albany Incorporated | Albany, OR | $227,665 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Lebanon Gleaners Inc | Lebanon, OR | $217,930 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Jackson Street Youth Shelter Inc | Corvallis, OR | $180,202 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Signs of Victory Ministries Incorporated | Albany, OR | $149,936 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Central Valley Harvester | Halsey, OR | $148,975 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Eido LLC | Corvallis, OR | $142,125 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship of Corvallis Inc | Corvallis, OR | $135,601 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Sweet Home Community Chapel Mennonite | Sweet Home, OR | $134,217 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Teen Challenge International Pacific Northwest Centers | Milwaukie, OR | $132,245 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Harrisburg Harvesters Gleaners Inc | Harrisburg, OR | $116,937 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| South Benton County Gleaners | Monroe, OR | $108,120 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Community Services Consortium | Albany, OR | $92,545 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Corvallis Homeless Shelter Coalition Inc | Corvallis, OR | $92,349 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Adair Village Food Pantry | Adair Village, OR | $86,719 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Chamberlin House Inc | Albany, OR | $76,039 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Creating Housing Coaltion | Albany, OR | $75,007 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Lebanon Soup Kitchen | Lebanon, OR | $70,458 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Corvallis Kiwanis Foundation | Corvallis, OR | $57,121 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Village Christian Church | Adair Village, OR | $48,698 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Corvallis Daytime Drop-in Center | Corvallis, OR | $39,420 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Family Assistance and Resource Center Group Inc | Sweet Home, OR | $34,528 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Pathfinder Clubhouse | Corvallis, OR | $26,396 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Old Mill Center for Children and Families Inc | Corvallis, OR | $21,605 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Corvallis | Corvallis, OR | $18,103 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Center Against Rape and Domestic Violence | Corvallis, OR | $10,319 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Marion-Polk Food Share Inc | Salem, OR | $10,310 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| South Benton Nutrition Program Inc | Monroe, OR | $8,391 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
54 of 58 (93%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 34 of 58 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.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 49 | $5,929,149 | $95,634 |
| 2021 | 52 | $5,019,145 | $66,767 |
| 2022 | 52 | $5,479,272 | $84,921 |
| 2023 | 52 | $7,425,484 | $108,072 |
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
95% 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.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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How to approach this grantmaker
- 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.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $87,499 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Oregon.
- 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 Linn Benton Food Share's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 52 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: 545 Sw 2ND St, Corvallis, OR, 97333.
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