How much does Oregon Law Foundation give?

Oregon Law Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $2,681,369 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Oregon Law Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (91%), Health (3%), Human Services (3%).

Who are Oregon Law Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Oregon Law Center ($7.4M), Legal Aid Services of Oregon ($3.9M), Immigration Counseling Service Inc ($1.4M).

Does Oregon Law Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Oregon Law Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Meyer Memorial Trust, The Oregon Community Foundation, The Collins Foundation.

Where is Oregon Law Foundation based?

Oregon Law Foundation is based in OR.

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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…

$2.7M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 27
Grants FY2024: 20
Organizations funded FY2023: 10%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $35,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $1,031,587
Organizations funded a year: 9 to 20; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 3
Total assets, FY2024: $16M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 10% of the organizations Oregon Law Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEmploymentCrime & LegalCivil RightsEducationOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	25	$2.7M	16%
FY2023	20	$2.1M	10%
FY2022	17	$2.2M	6%
FY2021	16	$2.2M	6%
FY2020	16	$2.7M	13%
FY2019	15	$3.0M	7%
FY2018	16	$2.5M	50%
FY2017	9	$1.0M	n/a

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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 2024.

Crime & Legal$17MHealth$495kHuman Services$484kEmployment$327kHousing & Shelter$220kPublic Benefit$60k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Oregon Law Center	$7,361,347	8	11%
Legal Aid Services of Oregon	$3,879,556	8	9%
Immigration Counseling Service Inc	$1,412,000	8	18%
St Andrew Legal Clinic	$1,037,000	8	15%
Catholic Charities	$743,350	8	n/a
Center for Nonprofit Legal Services Inc	$674,113	8	13%
Disability Rights Oregon	$605,175	8	5%
Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon	$444,900	7	n/a
NWJP Action Fund	$330,000	7	90%
New Avenues for Youth Inc	$280,000	5	1%

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All grantees of Oregon Law Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Oregon Law Center	$7,361,347	8	11%
Legal Aid Services of Oregon	$3,879,556	8	9%
Immigration Counseling Service Inc	$1,412,000	8	18%
St Andrew Legal Clinic	$1,037,000	8	15%
Catholic Charities	$743,350	8	n/a
Center for Nonprofit Legal Services Inc	$674,113	8	13%
Disability Rights Oregon	$605,175	8	5%
Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon	$444,900	7	n/a
NWJP Action Fund	$330,000	7	90%
New Avenues for Youth Inc	$280,000	5	1%
The Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization	$217,000	5	0%
The Lawyers' Campaign for Equal Justice	$205,700	7	2%
Oregon State Bar Olio Program	$160,409	6	n/a
Clackamas Women's Services	$152,000	5	1%
Victim Rights Law Center Inc	$123,000	2	2%
Lutheran Community Services Northwest	$119,575	4	0%
Youth Rights & Justice	$100,000	7	0%
Lane County Law and Advocacy Center	$85,123	1	n/a
Catholic Community Services of Lane County Inc	$79,250	3	0%
Civics Learning Project	$75,000	7	1%
Workforce Investment Council of Clackamas County	$51,500	2	1%
Lewis & Clark College	$45,000	2	0%
The Commons Law Center	$45,000	1	4%
Northwest Justice Project	$38,900	2	0%
Clear Clinic	$35,000	1	4%
Homeless Youth Law Clinic	$25,000	2	n/a
Metropolitan Public Defender Services Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Portland State University Foundation	$19,000	1	0%

Oregon Law Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 23.

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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 TrustOR33.4× affinity14 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 · 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

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 Law Foundation

How much does Oregon Law Foundation give?: Oregon Law Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $2,681,369 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Oregon Law Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (91%), Health (3%), Human Services (3%).
Who are Oregon Law Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Oregon Law Center ($7.4M), Legal Aid Services of Oregon ($3.9M), Immigration Counseling Service Inc ($1.4M).
Does Oregon Law Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Oregon Law Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Meyer Memorial Trust, The Oregon Community Foundation, The Collins Foundation.
Where is Oregon Law Foundation based?: Oregon Law Foundation is based in OR.