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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 FY2025(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2025
5
Organizations funded FY2024
80%
First-time grantees FY2024
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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.

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

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

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EnvironmentPublic BenefitEducationHuman ServicesOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving6$98k100%
FY20245$226k80%
FY20236$151k67%
FY20224$72k75%
FY20211$8k100%
FY20207$180k57%
FY201910$367k30%
FY20188$134k50%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

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

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Climate Solutions$210,00042%
Oregon Business Alliance for Climate$165,0001n/a
Oregon State University$120,0001n/a
International Living Future Institute$103,00031%
Washington Conservation Action Education Fund$97,75022%
Better World Group Inc$79,2502n/a
Sierra Club Foundation$62,17610%
Swalley Irrigation District$60,9412n/a
Charli Charging Inc$60,8071n/a
The Oregon League of Conservation Voters Education Fund$60,00025%
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All grantees of Oregon Environmental Council by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Climate Solutions$210,00042%
Oregon Business Alliance for Climate$165,0001n/a
Oregon State University$120,0001n/a
International Living Future Institute$103,00031%
Washington Conservation Action Education Fund$97,75022%
Better World Group Inc$79,2502n/a
Sierra Club Foundation$62,17610%
Swalley Irrigation District$60,9412n/a
Charli Charging Inc$60,8071n/a
The Oregon League of Conservation Voters Education Fund$60,00025%
Green Drop Garage$54,0001n/a
Hawthorne Auto Clinic$53,0002n/a
Pcun$52,5003n/a
Cascade Pacific RC&D Area$52,00011%
Farmers Irrigation District$38,3822n/a
Apano Communities United Fund$35,00030%
Recode$31,0081n/a
Renewable Northwest Project Dba Renewable Northwest$25,00011%
Latino Community Fund of Washington State$23,7501n/a
Professional Auto Body & Pain$22,5001n/a
Oregon for Climate Action$20,0001n/a
Better World Group Advisors$18,5001n/a
Green Lents$18,00039%
North Unit Irrigation District$17,9821n/a
Coalition of Communities of Color$17,7501n/a
Hacienda Community Development Corporation$15,50020%
BlueGreen Alliance Inc$15,00011%
Rogue Climate$15,00016%
Sightline Institute$15,00011%
Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon$10,0001n/a
Community Energy Project Inc$10,00010%
Community Initiatives$10,00010%
Verde Inc$10,00010%
Citizens Utility Board$10,0001n/a
Euvalcree$10,00010%
Psu Educational Foundation$10,0001n/a
Mano A Mano$8,75011%
Trash for Peace$7,50010%
Beyond Toxics$7,12511%
Rose Community Development Corporat$6,00010%
Deschutes River Conservancy$6,00010%
The Coalition of Oregon Land Trusts$5,5001n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Oregon Environmental Council supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 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

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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 22.

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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.

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

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 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.

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 43 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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