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Oregon Council for the Humanities

Oregon humanities is an independent nonprofit organization formed in 1978.

$150k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $92,005, the rows itemized in this filing. The $150,017 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $58,012 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $52k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
$8,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OREGON REMEMBRANCE PROJECT$10,000
BLACK CULTURAL INITIATIVE$10,000
ROGUE ACTION CENTER$10,000
NEZ PERCE WALLOWA HOMELAND$10,000
NATIVES OF ONE WIND INDIGENEOUS ALLIANCE$9,000
ECHO MOUNTAIN FIRE RELIEF$8,500
COMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF LANE COUNTY$8,500
ANIMA MUNDI PRODUCTIONS$7,500
SPRINGFIELD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION$7,000
RASIKA$6,375
CHEHALEM CULTURAL CENTER$5,130
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $83k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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%CASA LATINOS UNIDOS: $5k → 18%RED EARTH DESCENDANTS: $13k → 13%THE HEARTH: $10k → 13%THE HEARTH: $8k → 13%THE CENTER FOR AFRICAN IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES: $10k → 12%NURTURELY: $8k → 15%AFRICAN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION: $8k → 12%ANIMA MUNDI PRODUCTIONS: $8k → 13%ANIMA MUNDI PRODUCTIONS: $8k → 13%EDUCATE YA: $8k → 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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

39%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$566k · 27 repeat orgs$891k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
82

Total granted

$566k
$830k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+17%

Still filing today

100%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesEducationCivil RightsPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CC
    Chehalem Center Association dba Chehalem Cultural Center
    3× · 2020–2024 · $33k · revenue +329%
  • WB
    Wallowa Band Nez Perce Trail Interpretive Center
    3× · 2020–2024 · $33k · revenue +174%
  • RO
    RURAL ORGANIZING PROJECT
    2× · 2020–2022 · $28k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • SV
    ST VINCENT DE PAUL
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • MIRACLE THEATRE GROUP
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -7%
  • SF
    SKANNER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +8%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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.

1
Wallowa Valley Arts Council

To promote the arts in wallowa county, oregon.

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2
Central Oregon Center for the Arts

The mission for the central oregon center for the arts is to champion an inclusive, vibrant center for the arts that brings transformative and diverse cultural performances and experiences to central oregon during all seasons

Arts & Culture
3
Southwest Washington Center for the Arts
Philanthropy
4
Willapa Bay AiR
Arts & Culture
5
Cultural Advocacy Coalition Foundation

To raise funds which will be used to increase ongoing public investment in cultural, history, heritage and humanities. By amplifying artists work, publicizing creativity around the State of Oregon, advocating for equal access to funding…

Arts & Culture
6
Columbia Arts

To promote an arts-rich enviroment in the Columbia Gorge, in which novices as well as well-established artists and performers discover and develop their full creative potential.

Arts & Culture
7
Oregon Websites and Watershed Project Inc

Develop educational network to communicate historical and scientific information empasizing natural and cultural resources to pacific northwest.

Environment
8
Rainier Oregon Historical Museum

Preserving the past via a local museum.

Arts & Culture
9
Rainmaker Craft Initiative
Arts & Culture
10
Art in the High Desert

To bring the community an annual high quality art festival

—
11
Cascadia Art Museum

Cascadia Art Museum is an educational nonprofit 501(c)3 organization celebrating the rich tradition of the visual arts in the Northwest region, as shaped by the Cascade Mountains. The museum provides enriching experiences for community and…

Human Services
12
Tualatin Valley Creates

Tualatin Valley Creates drives the development of inclusive resilient creative communities using arts culture heritage and humanities. Tualatin Valley Creates offers professional development workshops for artists administers calls for…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lincoln City Cultural Center; the most unlike its peers is World Stage Theatre. 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

109 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 109 of the 116 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
41
Early backer (in before they grew)
107/109
Grantees still filing
71/109
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Red Door Project: $35,000 · Arts & CultureWallowa Band Nez Perce Trail Interpretive Center: $32,500 · Arts & CultureTHE VANPORT MOSAIC: $31,738 · Arts & CultureComunidad y Herencia Cultural: $30,000 · Arts & CultureJAPANESE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF OREGON: $27,500 · Arts & Culture+46 more: $553,180 · Arts & Culture+46 moreST VINCENT DE PAUL: $20,000 · OtherBURNS PAIUTE TRIBE: $19,800 · OtherCOOS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $17,500 · OtherOREGON COAST COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS: $17,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF LANE COUNTY: $16,000 · OtherJuneteenth OR: $15,000 · OtherDISABILITY ART AND CULTURE PROJECT: $15,000 · OtherChehalem Center Association dba Chehalem Cultural Center: $32,630 · OtherChehalem Center Association dba …OREGON PROGRESS FORUM: $15,000 · OtherBridgeworks Oregon: $27,500 · OtherBridgeworks OregonMOMENTUM ALLIANCE: $15,000 · Other+24 more: $201,389 · Other+24 moreSKANNER FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Community ImprovementCITY REPAIR PROJECT: $13,844 · Community ImprovementThe Rosewood Initiative: $10,000 · Community ImprovementBLACK CULTURAL INITIATIVE: $10,000 · Community ImprovementROGUE ACTION CENTER: $10,000 · Community ImprovementILLINOIS VALLEY 2010 COMMUNITY RESPONSE TEAM: $8,000 · Community ImprovementCITY CLUB OF CENTRAL OREGON: $7,500 · Community ImprovementWARM SPRINGS COMMUNITY ACTION TEAM: $7,125 · Community ImprovementCorvallis Multicultural Literacy Center: $5,600 · Community ImprovementTHE HEARTH: $17,500 · Human ServicesANIMA MUNDI PRODUCTIONS: $15,000 · Human ServicesNATIVES OF ONE WIND INDIGENOUS ALLIANCE: $12,750 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR AFRICAN IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES ORGANIZATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesNurturely: $7,500 · Human ServicesAYCO: $7,500 · Human ServicesEducate Ya Inc: $7,500 · Human ServicesCASA LATINOS UNIDOS DE BENTON COUNTY: $5,100 · Human ServicesDREXEL H FOUNDATION: $22,500 · PhilanthropyHARNEY COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $14,100 · PhilanthropyCOLUMBIA GORGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyMANO A MANO: $8,000 · PhilanthropyRURAL ORGANIZING PROJECT: $27,500 · Civil RightsOREGON REMEMBRANCE PROJECT: $10,000 · Civil RightsLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF OREGON: $8,152 · Civil RightsFATHER S GROUP: $7,500 · Civil RightsCOALITION FOR RACIAL & EDUCATIONAL JUSTICE: $17,500 · EducationMID-VALLEY LITERACY CENTER: $10,000 · EducationSINGING CREEK EDUCATIONAL CENTER: $10,000 · EducationKxcr Community Radio Partners: $7,500 · EducationSPRINGFIELD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $7,000 · Education
Arts & Culture$709,918Other$412,319Community Improvement$92,069Human Services$82,850Philanthropy$54,600Civil Rights$53,152Education$52,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Red Door Project: $35,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetChehalem Center Association dba Chehalem Cultural Center: $32,630 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetWallowa Band Nez Perce Trail Interpretive Center: $32,500 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetTHE VANPORT MOSAIC: $31,738 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetComunidad y Herencia Cultural: $30,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetRURAL ORGANIZING PROJECT: $27,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetJAPANESE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF OREGON: $27,500 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetMAXVILLE HERITAGE INTERPRETIVE CENTER: $22,500 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetDREXEL H FOUNDATION: $22,500 over 2y, 16% of budgetProfile Theatre Project: $22,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetMIRACLE THEATRE GROUP: $20,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetSKANNER FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetALBANY REGIONAL MUSEUM CORPORATION: $20,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetTRIANGLE PRODUCTIONS: $20,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetEASTERN OREGON REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL dba ART CENTER EAST: $19,800 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetJosephy Center for Arts and Culture: $17,800 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetLINCOLN CITY CULTURAL CENTER: $17,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCOALITION FOR RACIAL & EDUCATIONAL JUSTICE: $17,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCOOS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $17,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetOREGON COAST COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS: $17,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetOREGON JEWISH MUSEUM AND CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST EDUCATION: $17,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE HEARTH: $17,500 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetHOOD RIVER COUNTY HERITAGE COUNCIL: $17,500 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetIMMIGRANT STORY: $17,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetCOMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF LANE COUNTY: $16,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetThe Arts Council of Pendleton Inc: $15,500 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetOREGON PROGRESS FORUM: $15,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetPORTLAND CHINATOWN HISTORY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetMOMENTUM ALLIANCE: $15,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetANIMA MUNDI PRODUCTIONS: $15,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetCerimon House: $15,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetOREGON BLACK PIONEERS CORPORATION: $15,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetDISABILITY ART AND CULTURE PROJECT: $15,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetSALEM ART ASSOCIATION: $14,750 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHARNEY COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $14,100 over 1y, 12% of budgetCITY REPAIR PROJECT: $13,844 over 1y, 12% of budgetNorthwest Documentary Arts & Media: $13,500 over 1y, 10% of budgetMEDIA-RITES: $12,800 over 2y, 14% of budgetNATIVES OF ONE WIND INDIGENOUS ALLIANCE: $12,750 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE PORTLAND PLAYHOUSE: $12,690 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetRESOLUTIONS NORTHWEST: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFishtrap Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetROSS RAGLAND THEATER AND CULTURAL C: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMID-VALLEY LITERACY CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetPORTLAND INDIGENOUS MARKETPLACE: $10,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetCAPACES LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Rosewood Initiative: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE WILLAMETTE HERITAGE CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% 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 FoundationThe Oregon Community …James F & Marion L Mi…The Ford Family Found…Marie Lamfrom Charita…The Roundhouse Founda…Meyer Memorial TrustRonald W Naito Md Fou…Seeding JusticeThe Autzen FoundationThe Kinsman FoundationRegional Arts & Cultu…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 300%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Maxville Heritage Interpretive Center: 100% of income from government
  • Ayco: 89% of income from government
  • The Vanport Mosaic: 81% of income from government
  • Sexual Assault Resource Center: 81% of income from government
  • Lake County Resource Initiative: 48% of income from government
  • Rogue Valley Mentoring: 42% of income from government
  • Educate Ya Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Corvallis Multicultural Literacy Center: 37% of income from government
  • Casa Latinos Unidos De Benton County: 36% of income from government
  • Rogue Action Center: 29% of income from government
  • Comunidad y Herencia Cultural: 28% of income from government
  • Warm Springs Community Action Team: 28% of income from government
  • Micronesian Islander Community: 25% of income from government
  • Capaces Leadership Institute: 20% of income from government
  • Lane Arts Council: 14% of income from government
  • The Portland Playhouse: 11% of income from government
  • Future Prairie: 11% of income from government
  • Ross Ragland Theater and Cultural C: 11% of income from government
  • High Desert Museum: 11% of income from government
  • Nurturely: 10% of income from government
  • Anima Mundi Productions: 10% of income from government
  • Skanner Foundation: 8% of income from government
  • Community Alliance of Lane County: 7% of income from government
  • Josephy Center for Arts and Culture: 7% of income from government
  • The Arts Council of Pendleton Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Miracle Theatre Group: 6% of income from government
  • Japanese American Museum of Oregon: 5% of income from government
  • Coos Art Museum: 5% of income from government
  • Playa: 5% of income from government
  • Fishtrap Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Lincoln City Cultural Center: 4% of income from government
  • Media-Rites: 4% of income from government
  • Washington County Historical Society: 4% of income from government
  • Portland Chinatown History Foundation: 4% of income from government
  • Albany Regional Museum Corporation: 3% of income from government
  • Southern Oregon Film Society Ashland Independent Film Festival: 3% of income from government
  • The Rosewood Initiative: 3% of income from government
  • PlayWrite Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Wallowa Land Trust: 3% of income from government
  • Astoria Visual Arts Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Eastern Oregon Regional Arts Council dba Art Center East: 3% of income from government
  • Garibaldi Museum Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Triangle Productions: 2% of income from government
  • Profile Theatre Project: 2% of income from government
  • Bosco-Milligan Foundation Architectural Heritage Center: 1% of income from government
  • Alberta Abbey Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • Salem Art Association: 1% of income from government
  • Crossroads Creative & Performing Arts Center Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Black Cultural Initiative: 0% of income from government
  • Oregon Black Pioneers Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • The Willamette Heritage Center: 0% of income from government
  • Mid-Valley Literacy Center: 0% of income from government
  • Jackson County Community Services Consortium: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
30get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely 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.

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 116 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $50k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home