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· Public charity

Causa of Oregon

Causa works to improve the lives of latino immigrants and their families through advocacy, leadership development, civic engagement and coalition building.

$2.0M
Granted FY2023
5
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$1.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Civil Rights$3.2MHuman Services$168kHousing & Shelter$50kCrime & Legal$17kPublic Safety & Disaster$8kHealth$6kOther$0
02FY2023 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $279k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.7M
$175,520
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OREGON WORKERS RELIEF$1,306,873
SEEDING JUSTICE$435,153
MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST$175,520
CAPACES LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE$103,342
PCUN$25,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UNETE: $157k → 13%Immigration Counseling Servic: $17k → 12%LATINO NETWORK: $10k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Pueblo Unido Pdx

Connect immigrants to legal, social, and interpretation services.

Human Services
2
Causa of Oregon

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…

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3
Latino Political Network
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4
Oregon Justice Network

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…

Human Services
5
Latino Network Action Fund

Latino network action fund seeks to create a more representative democracy in oregon.

Community Improvement
6
Fuerza LaboralPower of Workers

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…

Education
7
La Comunidad Inc

Legal, immigration and community organizing

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8
Heartland Workers Center

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

Human Services
9
Illinois Unidos

Champion equitable responses and recovery efforts for the Latinx community impacted by COVID-19

Community Improvement
10
Jewish Coalition for Immigrant Justice Northwest

The jewish coalition builds a jewish voice in the pacific northwest advancing immigrant justice and domestic policy, following the leadership of impacted community.

Human Services
11
Latino Union of Chicago

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.

Human Services
12
Colectiva Legal Del Pueblo

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.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oregon Latino Health Coalition; 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.
04the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
6/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OREGON WORKER RELIEF: $1,306,873 · Public Safety & DisasterOREGON WORKER RELIEFInnovation Law Lab: $1,086,610 · Civil RightsInnovation Law LabSEEDING JUSTICE: $435,153 · PhilanthropySEEDING JUSTICEMEYER MEMORIAL TRUST: $175,520 · PhilanthropyMEYER MEMORIAL TRUS…NATIVES OF ONE WIND INDIGENOUS ALLIANCE: $156,532 · Human ServicesIMMIGRATION COUNSELING SERVICE INC: $16,768 · Human ServicesLatino Network: $10,000 · Human ServicesCAPACES LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $103,342 · Public BenefitOregonians United Against Pro: $60,000 · OtherCatholic Charities - Portland: $11,768 · OtherSOAR: $10,568 · OtherLEAGUE OF UNITED LATIN AMERICAN CITIZENS: $7,535 · OtherTHE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION: $5,700 · OtherFARMWORKER HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $50,000 · OtherOREGON LATINO HEALTH COALITION: $5,500 · OtherACCION POLITICA PCUNISTA DBA PCUN: $56,000 · Arts & Culture
Public Safety & Disaster$1,306,873Civil Rights$1,086,610Philanthropy$610,673Human Services$183,300Public Benefit$103,342Other$151,071Arts & Culture$56,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOREGON WORKER RELIEF: $1,306,873 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetInnovation Law Lab: $1,086,610 over 6y, 9.4% of budgetSEEDING JUSTICE: $435,153 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMEYER MEMORIAL TRUST: $175,520 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNATIVES OF ONE WIND INDIGENOUS ALLIANCE: $156,532 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetCAPACES LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $103,342 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetACCION POLITICA PCUNISTA DBA PCUN: $56,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetFARMWORKER HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIMMIGRATION COUNSELING SERVICE INC: $16,768 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetLatino Network: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEAGUE OF UNITED LATIN AMERICAN CITIZENS: $7,535 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION: $5,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON LATINO HEALTH COALITION: $5,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Collins FoundationMeyer Memorial TrustThe Oregon Community …Seeding JusticeNorthwest Health Foun…The Ford Family Found…Providence Health & S…United Way of the Col…The Roundhouse Founda…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…
The Collins FoundationOR21.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Causa of Oregon funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Causa of Oregon. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 20%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Causa of Oregon?

Find your warmest path to Causa of Oregon through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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