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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 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, FY2017 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
VERDE$10,000
COMMUNITY ENERGY PROJECT$10,000
OREGON CITIZENS UTILITY BOARD$10,000
COMMUNITY INITIATIVES$10,000
COALITION OF OREGON LAND TR$5,500
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 (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. Its 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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +9% since the first grant, against -2% for those 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%
-2%

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
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

  • 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%
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
Cascade Climate Inc

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

Environment
2
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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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
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
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
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
7
Western Resource Advocates

Western Resource Advocates (WRA) is a regional nonprofit advocacy organization fighting climate change and its impacts to sustain the environment, economy, and people of the West. As the region's go-to experts for more than three decades,…

Crime & Legal
8
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
9
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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10
Oregon Energy Systems Technology and Research
Environment
11
Oregon Natural Resources Council Fund

Oregon Wild works to protect and restore Oregon's wildlands, wildlife and waters as an enduring legacy for future generations.

Environment
12
Earthcorps

To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seeding Justice; 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.
04the grantee network

31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
13/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 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
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.

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

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 Environmental Council funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Oregon Environmental Council. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
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 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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