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Causa of Oregon
Causa works to improve the lives of latino immigrants and their families through advocacy, leadership development, civic engagement and coalition building.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $279k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OREGON WORKERS RELIEF | $1,306,873 |
| SEEDING JUSTICE | $435,153 |
| MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST | $175,520 |
| CAPACES LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE | $103,342 |
| PCUN | $25,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–21, $183k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Connect immigrants to legal, social, and interpretation services.
Causa works to improve the lives of latino immigrants and their families through advocacy, leadership development, civic engagement and coalition building. latino immirgants and their families are the heart of causa and inspire, implement…
Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…
Latino network action fund seeks to create a more representative democracy in oregon.
Fuerza Laboral is a workers' rights center whose mission is to shift the balance of power in our economy in favor of workers by educating, training, and organizing workers to become community leaders; taking direct action to recover unpaid…
Legal, immigration and community organizing
To improve the quality of life of latino/immigrant workers by promoting leadership development, workers rights, and civic engagement through legal information sharing, training and organizing
Champion equitable responses and recovery efforts for the Latinx community impacted by COVID-19
The jewish coalition builds a jewish voice in the pacific northwest advancing immigrant justice and domestic policy, following the leadership of impacted community.
Latino Union works to defend the rights and dignity of contingent workers, including the right to immigrate, work, live free of oppression and violence, and provide for oneself and one's family.
Colectiva Legal del Pueblo is a non-hierarchal collective organization founded for and by undocumented immigrants working to build community leadership and power for migrant justice through legal services, advocacy and education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oregon Latino Health Coalition and the most unlike its peers is Meyer Memorial Trust. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 16 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds OREGON WORKER RELIEF ↗
- Who funds Innovation Law Lab ↗
- Who funds SEEDING JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST ↗
- Who funds NATIVES OF ONE WIND INDIGENOUS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CAPACES LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ACCION POLITICA PCUNISTA DBA PCUN ↗
- Who funds FARMWORKER HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRATION COUNSELING SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds Latino Network ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE OF UNITED LATIN AMERICAN CITIZENS ↗
- Who funds THE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds OREGON LATINO HEALTH COALITION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Collins Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Oregon Community Foundation · Seeding Justice · Northwest Health Foundation Fund II · The Ford Family Foundation · Providence Health & Services - Oregon · United Way of the Columbia-Willamette · The Roundhouse Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Causa of Oregon funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Oregon Worker Relief — 100% of income from government
- Oregon Latino Health Coalition — 43% of income from government
- Capaces Leadership Institute — 20% of income from government
- Immigration Counseling Service Inc — 20% of income from government
- Latino Network — 15% of income from government
- Farmworker Housing Development Corporation — 7% of income from government
- The Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization — 4% of income from government
- Seeding Justice — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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