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Oregon Environmental Council

Oregon Environmental Council champions equitable, innovative, and collaborative solutions to oregons environmental challenges for today and future generations.

$99k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$52k
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 FY2017–2025.

Environment$1.5MCivil Rights$141kPublic Benefit$26kHuman Services$24kSocial Science$19kEducation$10kHousing & Shelter$6k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CASCADE PACIFIC RC&D$52,000
COMMUNITY INITIATIVES$10,000
VERDE$10,000
COMMUNITY ENERGY PROJECT$10,000
OREGON CITIZENS UTILITY BOARD$10,000
COALITION OF OREGON LAND TR$5,500
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 (FY17–20, $52k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%EUVALCREE: $10k → 20%GREEN LENTS: $6k → 12%GREEN LENTS: $6k → 12%GREEN LENTS: $6k → 12%LATINO COMMUNITY FUND OF WA: $24k → 9%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.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$823k · 12 repeat orgs$846k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +9% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
24

Total granted

$823k
$749k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
0%

Still filing today

58%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $98k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentHuman ServicesEducationSocial ScienceHousing & ShelterPublic BenefitOther

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

  • CS
    CLIMATE SOLUTIONS
    4× · 2017–2020 · $210k · revenue +153%
  • IL
    International Living Future Institute
    3× · 2017–2019 · $103k · revenue +30%
  • WC
    WASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUND
    2× · 2017–2019 · $98k · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • OB
    Oregon Business Alliance for Climate
    one grant, 2019 · $165k · revenue -31%
  • OS
    OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $120k
  • SC
    SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $62k · revenue -55%

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
Cascade Climate Inc

To accelerate progress in interventions that harness Earths natural systems to stabilize the climate.

Environment
2
350PDX

Building a diverse grassroots movement to address the causes of climate disruption through justice-based solutions by inspiring, training and mobilizing people to act.

Environment
3
Clean Energy Transition Institute

The Clean Energy Transition Institute (CETI) is an independent, nonpartisan research and analysis nonprofit whose mission is to accelerate an equitable clean energy transition in the Northwest.

Education
4
Nw Energy Coalition

The NW Energy Coalition is an alliance of over 100 environmental, civic, and human service organizations, utilities, and businesses in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia, plus many individual members. The NW Energy…

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5
Clackamas River Basin Council Inc

The council is organized to foster partnerships for clean water, healthy streams, and abundant fisheries in the Clackamas Watershed

Environment
6
Re Sources

RE Sources mobilizes people of Northwest Washington to build just and thriving communities and to protect the land, water, and climate on which we all depend.

Environment
7
Spark Northwest

Founded in 2001, Spark Northwest accelerates the just transition to clean energy in the Pacific Northwest. Spark Northwest uses two primary strategies: (1) on-the-ground project consulting, focusing on communities with limited financial…

Environment
8
Center for Environmental Law & Policy

The Center for Environmental Law & Policy is a statewide organization whose mission is to protect, preserve and restore Washington's waters through education, advocacy, policy reform, and public interest litigation.

Environment
9
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
10
Environmental Federation of Oregon dba EarthShare Oregon

Earthshare oregon connects oregonians at their workplaces with the leading environmental groups working locally in their community, statewide, and around the world.

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11
North Clackamas Urban Watersheds Council

Public charity watershed council Clackamas County, OR

Public Benefit
12
Earthcorps

To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seeding Justice and the most unlike its peers is Psu Educational Foundation. 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 28 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%3%<5yr16%7%5–10yr20%31%10–20yr18%28%20–35yr10%28%35–55yr12%3%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%3%<5yr16%19%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr18%15%20–35yr10%41%35–55yr12%7%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/43
the rest of the field
15%
10,577/70,562

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

31 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. 31 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
14/31
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CLIMATE SOLUTIONS — $210,000 · OtherCLIMATE SOLUTIONSOREGON STATE UNIVERSITY — $120,000 · OtherOREGON STATE UNIVERSITYBetter World Group Inc — $79,250 · OtherBetter World Group IncSWALLEY IRRIGATION DISTRICT — $60,941 · OtherSWALLEY IRRIGATION DISTRICTCHARLI CHARGING INC — $60,807 · OtherCHARLI CHARGING INCGREEN DROP GARAGE — $54,000 · OtherGREEN DROP GARAGEHAWTHORNE AUTO CLINIC — $53,000 · OtherHAWTHORNE AUTO CLINICPCUN — $52,500 · OtherPCUNFARMERS IRRIGATION DISTRICT — $38,382 · OtherAPANO COMMUNITIES UNITED FUND — $35,000 · Other+11 more — $146,982 · Other+11 moreOregon Business Alliance for Climate — $165,000 · EnvironmentOregon Business Alliance for ClimateInternational Living Future Institute — $103,000 · EnvironmentInternational Living Future InstituteWASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUND — $97,750 · EnvironmentWASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATI…SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $62,176 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATIONTHE OREGON LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND — $60,000 · EnvironmentTHE OREGON LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTE…RENEWABLE NORTHWEST PROJECT DBA RENEWABLE NORTHWEST — $25,000 · Environment+6 more — $56,125 · Environment+6 moreCascade Pacific RC&D Area — $52,000 · Community ImprovementLatino Community Fund of Washington State — $23,750 · Human ServicesGREEN LENTS — $18,000 · Human ServicesEUVALCREE — $10,000 · Human ServicesOregon for Climate Action — $20,000 · EducationRogue Climate — $15,000 · EducationPSU EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationSEEDING JUSTICE — $25,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES — $10,000 · PhilanthropyRECODE — $31,008 · Public Benefit
Other$910,862Environment$569,051Community Improvement$52,000Human Services$51,750Education$45,000Philanthropy$35,000Public Benefit$31,008

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCLIMATE SOLUTIONS — $210,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetInternational Living Future Institute — $103,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetWASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUND — $97,750 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $62,176 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE OREGON LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND — $60,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetCascade Pacific RC&D Area — $52,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAPANO COMMUNITIES UNITED FUND — $35,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetRENEWABLE NORTHWEST PROJECT DBA RENEWABLE NORTHWEST — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSEEDING JUSTICE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREEN LENTS — $18,000 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetHACIENDA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $15,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBlueGreen Alliance Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetRogue Climate — $15,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetSightline Institute — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCommunity Energy Project Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVerde Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEUVALCREE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMano A Mano — $8,750 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTrash for Peace — $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBeyond Toxics — $7,125 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetROSE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORAT — $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDESCHUTES RIVER CONSERVANCY — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Meyer Memorial TrustThe Oregon Community …The Collins FoundationThe Bullitt FoundationSeeding JusticeUnited Way of the Col…United States Energy …Gray Family FoundationClimate SolutionsWiancko Charitable Fo…Portland Energy Conse…Northwest Health Foun…
Meyer Memorial TrustOR46.1× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Environmental Council 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 · 70%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Deschutes River Conservancy — 100% of income from government
  • Hacienda Community Development Corporation — 48% of income from government
  • Green Lents — 38% of income from government
  • The Coalition of Oregon Land Trusts — 18% of income from government
  • Euvalcree — 18% of income from government
  • Coalition of Communities of Color — 15% of income from government
  • Beyond Toxics — 13% of income from government
  • Rogue Climate — 7% of income from government
  • Verde Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Trash for Peace — 2% of income from government
  • Rose Community Development Corporat — 1% of income from government
  • Community Energy Project Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Seeding Justice — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
5report 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

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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines