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Oregon Education Association

Unite the public education profession and to advocate for those professionals to ensure quality education for students in oregon.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$410k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Public Benefit$6.3MHuman Services$1.9MCivil Rights$299kEducation$173kEmployment$97kPublic Safety & Disaster$31kHealth$25kCommunity Improvement$21kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 15 grants below total $765,768 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,279,531 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $513,763 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $138k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $194k
  • $250k+1 grant · $410k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$63M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRANSPARENT ELECTIONS FOR GRASSROOTS$410,000
OUR OREGON$137,500
SALEM-KEIZER EDUCATION ASSOCIATION$56,250
VOTE NO ON THE RECKLESS RECALL$28,000
NORTHWEST HEALTH FOUNDATION$25,000
ASSOCIATION OF SALEM KEIZER ESP$16,250
ASSOCIATION OF SALEM KEIZER ESP$15,555
OLCS - OREGON LABOR CANDIDATE SCHOOL$15,000
BEAVERTON EDUCATION ASSOCIATION$14,750
SALEM-KEIZER EDUCATION ASSOCIATION$12,500
EUGENE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION$10,850
CHINTIMINI UNISERV COUNCIL$6,500
LANE COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION ASSOC$6,050
BEND EDUCATION ASSOCIATION$6,000
LANE COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION ASSOC$5,563
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%OUR OREGON: $300k → 12%OUR OREGON: $418k → 15%OUR OREGON: $300k → 12%OUR OREGON: $275k → 15%OUR OREGON: $288k → 12%OUR OREGON: $184k → 12%OUR OREGON: $431k → 12%OUR OREGON: $138k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

31%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.7M · 8 repeat orgs$6.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
28

Total granted

$2.7M
$5.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
0%

Still filing today

88%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $519k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EmploymentHuman ServicesPublic BenefitEducationCivil RightsHealthOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • OO
    OUR OREGON
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +43% · 45% of their budget
  • FF
    FAMILY FORWARD ACTION
    3× · 2021–2023 · $200k · revenue +109%
  • SK
    SALEM KEIZER EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2022–2024 · $77k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • YO
    YES ON 97
    one grant, 2017 · $3.7M
  • LA
    Legislative Accountability 1
    one grant, 2022 · $600k · 39% of their budget
  • VN
    Vote No on 104
    one grant, 2019 · $400k

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

04Your field

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.

1
Coalition of Oregon School Administrators

Unite all school administrators in the promotion of continuous improvement of education.

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2
Yes on 117

Support measure to bring ranked choice voting to Oregonians

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3
Affordable Housing for Oregon

Support state ballot measure

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4
Taxpayers Association of Oregon

Newsletters IntiativesCommunication to inform the public about taxation and spending at all levels of government in Oregon

Public Benefit
5
Yes for Portland Clean Energy Fund

Support ballot measure

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6
People's Independent Commission

Supports Measure to Remove Lawmakers Power to Set Their Own Pay

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7
Oregon Public Health Association

Advocate for policies that protect and promote healthy and health equity for all people in oregon and provide learning, collaboration and leadership opportunities for public health professionals and the broader community.

Health
8
Portlanders for Charter Reform

Support passage of Portland City Charter reform

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9
Oregonians United to End Slavery

Support passage of state ballot Measure 112

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10
Oregon State Council of Service Employees

Representation and service to indirect union members.

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11
More Treatment for a Better Oregon Yes on 110

Support state ballot measure

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12
Oregon Restaurant and Lodging Association

Orla serves as the leading industry advocate, striving to protect, improve and promote oregon hospitality.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oregon Education Association and the most unlike its peers is Here Together. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%4%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr18%36%20–35yr12%29%35–55yr15%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr18%82%20–35yr12%4%35–55yr15%4%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/42
the rest of the field
12%
1,839/15,619

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 43 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/26
Grantees still filing
12/26
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

YES ON 97 — $3,691,486 · OtherYES ON 97Legislative Accountability 1 — $600,000 · OtherLegislative Accountability 1Transparent Elections for Grassroots Engagement 1 — $410,000 · OtherTransparent Elections for Grassroots Engagement 1Vote No on 104 — $400,000 · OtherVote No on 104Vote No on 103 — $400,000 · OtherVote No on 103+31 more — $691,582 · Other+31 moreOUR OREGON — $2,331,550 · Human ServicesOUR OREGONFAMILY FORWARD ACTION — $200,000 · Community ImprovementOREGON LABOR CANDIDATE SCHOOL — $45,000 · Public BenefitOREGON CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY — $24,000 · EmploymentOREGON EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — $8,781 · EmploymentNORTHWEST HEALTH FOUNDATION FUND II — $25,000 · HealthNATIONAL BOARD FOR PROFESSIONAL TEACHING STANDARDS — $13,300 · Education
Other$6,193,068Human Services$2,331,550Community Improvement$200,000Public Benefit$45,000Employment$32,781Health$25,000Education$13,300

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetOUR OREGON — $2,331,550 over 8y, 45% of budgetLegislative Accountability 1 — $600,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetTransparent Elections for Grassroots Engagement 1 — $410,000 over 1y, 59% of budgetFAMILY FORWARD ACTION — $200,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetSALEM KEIZER EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — $76,750 over 2y, 14% of budgetOREGON LABOR CANDIDATE SCHOOL — $45,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetSALEM KEIZER ASSOCIATION OF CLASSIFIED EMPLOYEES — $31,805 over 1y, 12% of budgetNORTHWEST HEALTH FOUNDATION FUND II — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPTA OREGON CONGRESS — $25,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetOREGON CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY — $24,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetBEAVERTON EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — $23,250 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetEUGENE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — $19,850 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetHere Together — $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBASIC RIGHTS OREGON — $14,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetNATIONAL BOARD FOR PROFESSIONAL TEACHING STANDARDS — $13,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLANE COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — $11,613 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetOregon Alliance to Prevent Gun Violence — $10,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetCHARITABLE PARTNERSHIP FUND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNorthwest Oregon Labor Council — $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetOREGON EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — $8,781 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPORTLAND ASSOCIATION OF TEACHERS INC — $7,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWOODBURN EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — $6,105 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetBEND EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — $6,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetDAVID DOUGLAS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — $5,775 over 1y, 4.8% of budget
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.

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.

Portland Regional Edu…8035 Aft-Oregon Aft A…Service Employees Int…The Oregon Community …
Portland Regional Educational Telecommunications CorporationOR15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Portland Regional Educational Telecommunications Corporation · 8035 Aft-Oregon Aft Afl-Cio · Service Employees International Union · The Oregon Community Foundation

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 Oregon Education Association 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 200%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 81%
  • Northwest Health Foundation Fund Ii — 81% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
20get no government money at all
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 43 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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