· Public charity
Oregon Law Foundation
The OREGON LAW FOUNDATION builds a fairer legal system and supports justice for all in oregon by:-ensuring access to civil legal help for people with low incomes, or who experience other systemic barriers;-promoting the accessibility of legal education and legal professions to all; and-educating the public about the law and the legal…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $393k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $990k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OREGON LAW CENTER | $1,031,587 |
| LEGAL AID SERVICES OF OREGON | $261,105 |
| IMMIGRATION COUNSELING SERVICE | $200,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $183,000 |
| ST ANDREW LEGAL CLINIC | $161,750 |
| DISABILITY RIGHTS OREGON | $110,000 |
| CENTER FOR NON PROFIT LEGAL SERVICES | $82,527 |
| ECUMENICAL MINISTRIES OF OREGON - SOAR | $75,000 |
| VICTIM RIGHTS LAW CENTER | $63,000 |
| NEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH | $60,000 |
| NORTHWEST WORKERS JUSTICE PROJECT (NEED FUND) | $55,000 |
| IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION | $45,000 |
| THE COMMONS LAW CENTER TOTAL | $45,000 |
| CLEAR CLINIC | $35,000 |
| LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NW | $33,075 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
23 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $119k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- OLOREGON LAW CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $7.4M · revenue +53%
- LALEGAL AID SERVICES OF OREGON8× · 2017–2024 · $3.9M · revenue +56%
IMMIGRATION COUNSELING SERVICE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +57%
Funded once
- LCLANE COUNTY LAW AND ADVOCACY CENTERone grant, 2017 · $85k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Advocate for victims of crime within the criminal justice system and protective order cases; provide referrals to social-service agencies that can help crime victims recover. the center's services are available statewide at no cost to…
Cowlitz Wahkiakum Legal Aid seeks to assure justice for low income people in the civil courts. We provide access to legal help for people whose livelihood, family and wellness are threatened.
Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…
To provide legal services and representation to those of modest and limited means who would otherwise forgo legal representation.
Sexual Violence Law Center (SVLC) is a nonprofit law firm that protects the safety, privacy, and civil rights of survivors of sexual and gender-based violence in Washington through holistic and trauma-informed practices rooted in race and…
Linn County Advocate, Inc., provides quality legal representation for indigent clients in criminal and juvenile cases at the state court level in Linn, Johnson, Benton, and Jones Counties in the state of Iowa.
The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.
We believe that the freedoms of press, speech, assembly, and religion, and the rights to due process, equal protection and privacy, are fundamental to a free people. We advance civil liberties and civil rights by activities that include…
The oregon law foundation builds a fairer legal system and supports justice for all in oregon by:-ensuring access to civil legal help for people with low incomes, or who experience other systemic barriers;-promoting the accessibility of…
Providing and facilitating access to justice in kitsap county for low-income individuals or marginalized communities through advocacy and free civil legal services.
To protect, through litigation and legal representation, the civil rights of persons who have historically been subject to discrimination and poverty. the committee provides pro bono services by mobilizing the resources of volunteer…
Eastside Legal Assistance Program (ELAP) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to making the legal system more accessible to those most in need by providing free or low-cost yet high quality civil legal services to low-income residents of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Lawyers' Campaign for Equal Justice and the most unlike its peers is Lewis & Clark College. 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 41 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
23 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. 23 of the 28 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds OREGON LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SERVICES OF OREGON ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRATION COUNSELING SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds ST ANDREW LEGAL CLINIC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR NONPROFIT LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds DISABILITY RIGHTS OREGON ↗
- Who funds NWJP Action Fund ↗
- Who funds NEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds THE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds THE LAWYERS' CAMPAIGN FOR EQUAL JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds CLACKAMAS WOMEN'S SERVICES ↗
- Who funds VICTIM RIGHTS LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Lutheran Community Services Northwest ↗
- Who funds YOUTH RIGHTS & JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF LANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Civics Learning Project ↗
- Who funds WORKFORCE INVESTMENT COUNCIL OF CLACKAMAS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE COMMONS LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds Northwest Justice Project ↗
- Who funds CLEAR CLINIC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN PUBLIC DEFENDER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Meyer Memorial Trust · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Collins Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · United Way of the Columbia-Willamette · The Ford Family Foundation · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · The Jackson Foundation · Hoover Family Foundation · The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Care Foundation · Juan Young Trust
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 Law Foundation 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.
- Victim Rights Law Center Inc — 89% of income from government
- Workforce Investment Council of Clackamas County — 87% of income from government
- Disability Rights Oregon — 84% of income from government
- Youth Rights & Justice — 81% of income from government
- Clackamas Women's Services — 33% of income from government
- New Avenues for Youth Inc — 20% of income from government
- Immigration Counseling Service Inc — 20% of income from government
- Oregon Law Center — 11% of income from government
- Legal Aid Services of Oregon — 10% of income from government
- The Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization — 4% of income from government
- St Andrew Legal Clinic — 2% of income from government
- Lewis & Clark College — 2% of income from government
- Center for Nonprofit Legal Services Inc — 2% of income from government
- Clear Clinic — 1% of income from government
- Portland State University Foundation — 0% of income from government
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.