Oregon · Public charity
Oregon Environmental Council
Oregon Environmental Council champions equitable, innovative, and collaborative solutions to oregons environmental challenges for today and future generations.
- $99k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 80%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $52,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 10
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.1M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 80% of the organizations Oregon Environmental Council funded were first-time grantees, receiving 94% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $213k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 6 | $98k | 100% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $226k | 80% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $151k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $72k | 75% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $8k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $180k | 57% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $367k | 30% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $134k | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Climate Solutions | $210,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Oregon Business Alliance for Climate | $165,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Oregon State University | $120,000 | 1 | n/a |
| International Living Future Institute | $103,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Washington Conservation Action Education Fund | $97,750 | 2 | 2% |
| Better World Group Inc | $79,250 | 2 | n/a |
| Sierra Club Foundation | $62,176 | 1 | 0% |
| Swalley Irrigation District | $60,941 | 2 | n/a |
| Charli Charging Inc | $60,807 | 1 | n/a |
| The Oregon League of Conservation Voters Education Fund | $60,000 | 2 | 5% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Climate Solutions | $210,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Oregon Business Alliance for Climate | $165,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Oregon State University | $120,000 | 1 | n/a |
| International Living Future Institute | $103,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Washington Conservation Action Education Fund | $97,750 | 2 | 2% |
| Better World Group Inc | $79,250 | 2 | n/a |
| Sierra Club Foundation | $62,176 | 1 | 0% |
| Swalley Irrigation District | $60,941 | 2 | n/a |
| Charli Charging Inc | $60,807 | 1 | n/a |
| The Oregon League of Conservation Voters Education Fund | $60,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Green Drop Garage | $54,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hawthorne Auto Clinic | $53,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Pcun | $52,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Cascade Pacific RC&D Area | $52,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Farmers Irrigation District | $38,382 | 2 | n/a |
| Apano Communities United Fund | $35,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Recode | $31,008 | 1 | n/a |
| Renewable Northwest Project Dba Renewable Northwest | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Latino Community Fund of Washington State | $23,750 | 1 | n/a |
| Professional Auto Body & Pain | $22,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Oregon for Climate Action | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Better World Group Advisors | $18,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Green Lents | $18,000 | 3 | 9% |
| North Unit Irrigation District | $17,982 | 1 | n/a |
| Coalition of Communities of Color | $17,750 | 1 | n/a |
| Hacienda Community Development Corporation | $15,500 | 2 | 0% |
| BlueGreen Alliance Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Rogue Climate | $15,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Sightline Institute | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Community Energy Project Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Community Initiatives | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Verde Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Citizens Utility Board | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Euvalcree | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Psu Educational Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mano A Mano | $8,750 | 1 | 1% |
| Trash for Peace | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Beyond Toxics | $7,125 | 1 | 1% |
| Rose Community Development Corporat | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Deschutes River Conservancy | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Coalition of Oregon Land Trusts | $5,500 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Oregon Environmental Council supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Meyer Memorial Trust · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Collins Foundation · The Bullitt Foundation · Seeding Justice · United Way of the Columbia-Willamette · United States Energy Foundation · Gray Family Foundation · Climate Solutions · Wiancko Charitable Foundation Inc · Portland Energy Conservation Inc · Northwest Health Foundation Fund II
How this is measured
About Oregon Environmental Council
- How much does Oregon Environmental Council give?
- Oregon Environmental Council reported 6 grants totaling $99,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Oregon Environmental Council fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (87%), Civil Rights (8%), Public Benefit (2%).
- Who are Oregon Environmental Council's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Climate Solutions ($210k), Oregon Business Alliance for Climate ($165k), Oregon State University ($120k).
- Does Oregon Environmental Council fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 80% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Oregon Environmental Council?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Meyer Memorial Trust, The Oregon Community Foundation, The Collins Foundation.
- Where is Oregon Environmental Council based?
- Oregon Environmental Council is based in OR.
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