How much does Oregon Council for the Humanities give?

Oregon Council for the Humanities reported 11 itemized grants totaling $92,005, out of $150,017 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 62 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.

What does Oregon Council for the Humanities fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (57%), Civil Rights (7%), Community Improvement (6%).

Who are Oregon Council for the Humanities's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: The Red Door Project ($35k), Chehalem Center Association dba Chehalem Cultural Center ($33k), Wallowa Band Nez Perce Trail Interpretive Center ($33k).

Does Oregon Council for the Humanities fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Oregon Council for the Humanities?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Collins Foundation, The Oregon Community Foundation, James F & Marion L Miller Foundation.

Where is Oregon Council for the Humanities based?

Oregon Council for the Humanities is based in OR.

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Oregon Council for the Humanities

Oregon humanities is an independent nonprofit organization formed in 1978. Oregon humanities connects people and communities through conversation, storytelling, and participatory programs to inspire understanding and collaborative change. (continued on sch. O) the impact of this work is profound: participants listen, question, rethink,…

$150k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 11
Itemized grants FY2024: 12
Organizations funded FY2023: 50%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $92k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $8,500
Largest grant, FY2024: $10,000
Organizations funded a year: 5 to 62; FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 1
Total assets, FY2024: $5.2M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Oregon Council for the Humanities funded were first-time grantees, receiving 47% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyEducationCivil RightsOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	11	$92k	64%
FY2023	12	$86k	50%
FY2022	62	$773k	73%
FY2021	10	$72k	70%
FY2020	47	$399k	98%
FY2019	5	$36k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$832kCivil Rights$109kCommunity Improvement$82kEducation$77kPublic Safety & Disaster$71kPublic Benefit$63kEnvironment$45kHuman Services$35kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Red Door Project	$35,000	2	3%
Chehalem Center Association dba Chehalem Cultural Center	$32,630	3	1%
Wallowa Band Nez Perce Trail Interpretive Center	$32,500	3	5%
The Vanport Mosaic	$31,738	3	7%
Comunidad y Herencia Cultural	$30,000	2	7%
Rural Organizing Project	$27,500	2	1%
Bridgeworks Oregon	$27,500	2	n/a
Japanese American Museum of Oregon	$27,500	3	2%
Maxville Heritage Interpretive Center	$22,500	2	9%
Drexel H Foundation	$22,500	2	16%

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All grantees of Oregon Council for the Humanities by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Red Door Project	$35,000	2	3%
Chehalem Center Association dba Chehalem Cultural Center	$32,630	3	1%
Wallowa Band Nez Perce Trail Interpretive Center	$32,500	3	5%
The Vanport Mosaic	$31,738	3	7%
Comunidad y Herencia Cultural	$30,000	2	7%
Rural Organizing Project	$27,500	2	1%
Bridgeworks Oregon	$27,500	2	n/a
Japanese American Museum of Oregon	$27,500	3	2%
Maxville Heritage Interpretive Center	$22,500	2	9%
Drexel H Foundation	$22,500	2	16%
Profile Theatre Project	$22,500	2	2%
St Vincent de Paul	$20,000	1	n/a
Miracle Theatre Group	$20,000	1	2%
Skanner Foundation	$20,000	1	23%
Albany Regional Museum Corporation	$20,000	1	6%
Triangle Productions	$20,000	1	9%
Burns Paiute Tribe	$19,800	1	n/a
EASTERN OREGON REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL dba ART CENTER EAST	$19,800	1	6%
Josephy Center for Arts and Culture	$17,800	2	3%
Lincoln City Cultural Center	$17,500	2	2%
Coalition for Racial & Educational Justice	$17,500	1	2%
Coos County Historical Society	$17,500	2	2%
Oregon Coast Council for the Arts	$17,500	2	1%
Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education	$17,500	1	1%
The Hearth	$17,500	2	4%
Hood River County Heritage Council	$17,500	2	5%
Immigrant Story	$17,000	1	12%
Kxcj-Lp	$16,925	2	n/a
Community Alliance of Lane County	$16,000	2	2%
The Arts Council of Pendleton Inc	$15,500	2	3%
Jim Pepper Native Arts Festival Jim Pepper Native Arts Council	$15,000	1	n/a
Oregon Progress Forum	$15,000	2	2%
Portland Chinatown History Foundation	$15,000	2	3%
Momentum Alliance	$15,000	2	2%
Anima Mundi Productions	$15,000	2	3%
Juneteenth OR	$15,000	1	n/a
Cerimon House	$15,000	2	7%
Oregon Black Pioneers Corporation	$15,000	1	5%
Disability Art and Culture Project	$15,000	1	28%
Salem Art Association	$14,750	1	1%
Harney County Library Foundation	$14,100	1	12%
City Repair Project	$13,844	1	12%
Northwest Documentary Arts & Media	$13,500	1	10%
Media-Rites	$12,800	2	14%
Natives of One Wind Indigenous Alliance	$12,750	1	1%
The Portland Playhouse	$12,690	2	0%
Resolutions Northwest	$10,000	1	1%
Fishtrap Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Ross Ragland Theater and Cultural C	$10,000	1	1%
Mid-Valley Literacy Center	$10,000	1	7%
Portland Indigenous Marketplace	$10,000	1	8%
Capaces Leadership Institute	$10,000	1	0%
The Rosewood Initiative	$10,000	1	1%
The Willamette Heritage Center	$10,000	1	2%
High Desert Museum	$10,000	1	0%
Wisdom of the Elders Incorporated	$10,000	1	2%
Friends Of The Oregon Trail Regional Museum Inc	$10,000	1	14%
Cascade School of Music	$10,000	1	1%
Friends of the Cascade Locks Historical Museum	$10,000	1	11%
Black Cultural Initiative	$10,000	1	2%
Columbia Gorge Community College Foundation	$10,000	1	1%
Coalicion Fortaleza	$10,000	1	1%
Oregon Remembrance Project	$10,000	1	8%
Causa of Oregon	$10,000	1	0%
Rogue Action Center	$10,000	1	2%
Singing Creek Educational Center	$10,000	1	n/a
UC-Veg	$10,000	1	n/a
Center for African Immigrants and Refugees Organization	$10,000	1	1%
World Arts Foundation Inc	$10,000	1	6%
Future Prairie	$10,000	1	8%
Natives of One Wind Indigeneous Alliance	$9,000	1	n/a
Episcopal Diocese of Eastern Oregon 601 Union	$8,695	1	n/a
Echo Mountain Fire Relief	$8,500	1	8%
League of Women Voters of Oregon	$8,152	1	5%
Illinois Valley 2010 Community Response Team	$8,000	1	2%
Mano a Mano	$8,000	1	4%
Nurturely	$7,500	1	1%
Curry Coast Community Radio	$7,500	1	n/a
Museum at Warm Springs	$7,500	1	2%
Southern Oregon Film Society Ashland Independent Film Festival	$7,500	1	2%
PlayWrite Inc	$7,500	1	4%
Coos Art Museum	$7,500	1	2%
Garibaldi Museum Inc	$7,500	1	9%
Geercrest Farm & Historical Society	$7,500	1	10%
World Stage Theatre	$7,500	1	3%
Ayco	$7,500	1	1%
Crossroads Creative & Performing Arts Center Inc	$7,500	1	2%
Jackson County Community Services Consortium	$7,500	1	2%
Josephine County Historical Society	$7,500	1	11%
Father S Group	$7,500	1	n/a
The North Lincoln County Historical Museum Inc	$7,500	1	6%
Micronesian Islander Community	$7,500	1	n/a
Sexual Assault Resource Center	$7,500	1	1%
Educate Ya Inc	$7,500	1	2%
Washington County Historical Society	$7,500	1	2%
Kxcr Community Radio Partners	$7,500	1	n/a
Alberta Abbey Foundation	$7,500	1	3%
Tananawit	$7,500	1	n/a
Yamhill County Historical Society	$7,500	1	5%
City Club of Central Oregon	$7,500	1	6%
Wallowa Land Trust	$7,500	1	4%
Lake County Resource Initiative	$7,356	1	3%
Warm Springs Community Action Team	$7,125	1	1%
Astoria Visual Arts Inc	$7,090	1	7%
Springfield Public Library Foundation	$7,000	1	4%
Rasika Society for Arts of India	$6,375	1	1%
Newport Public Library Foundation Inc	$6,263	1	9%
Womens Civic Improvement League	$6,250	1	4%
Playa	$6,000	1	3%
O'Brien Memorial Library	$6,000	1	0%
Lane Arts Council	$6,000	1	1%
City of Toledo	$6,000	1	n/a
Corvallis Multicultural Literacy Center	$5,600	1	2%
Rogue Valley Mentoring	$5,200	1	0%
Casa Latinos Unidos de Benton County	$5,100	1	1%
Bosco-Milligan Foundation Architectural Heritage Center	$5,075	1	1%

Oregon Council for the Humanities supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 100 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 100.

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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 FoundationOR125× affinity69 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Collins Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · James F & Marion L Miller Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Roundhouse Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Ronald W Naito Md Foundation · Seeding Justice · The Autzen Foundation · The Kinsman Foundation · Regional Arts & Culture Council

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.

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About Oregon Council for the Humanities

How much does Oregon Council for the Humanities give?: Oregon Council for the Humanities reported 11 itemized grants totaling $92,005, out of $150,017 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 62 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Oregon Council for the Humanities fund?: By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (57%), Civil Rights (7%), Community Improvement (6%).
Who are Oregon Council for the Humanities's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: The Red Door Project ($35k), Chehalem Center Association dba Chehalem Cultural Center ($33k), Wallowa Band Nez Perce Trail Interpretive Center ($33k).
Does Oregon Council for the Humanities fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Oregon Council for the Humanities?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Collins Foundation, The Oregon Community Foundation, James F & Marion L Miller Foundation.
Where is Oregon Council for the Humanities based?: Oregon Council for the Humanities is based in OR.