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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 FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$1.0M
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 2024.

Crime & Legal$17MHealth$495kHuman Services$484kEmployment$327kHousing & Shelter$220kPublic Benefit$60k
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $393k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $990k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
$35,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%VICTIM RIGHTS LAW CENTER: $63k → 16%CLACKAMAS WOMEN'S SERVICES: $40k → 8%CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF LANE COUNTY: $28k → 15%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NW: $33k → 9%VICTIM RIGHTS LAW CENTER: $60k → 16%CLACKAMAS WOMEN'S SERVICES: $40k → 8%CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF LANE COUNTY: $26k → 15%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NW: $32k → 9%CLACKAMAS WOMEN'S SERVICES: $32k → 8%CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF LANE COUNTY: $25k → 15%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NW: $30k → 9%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NW: $25k → 9%CLACKAMAS WOMEN'S SERVICES: $20k → 8%CLACKAMAS WOMEN'S SERVICES: $20k → 8%IMMIGRATION COUNSELING SERVICE: $250k → 12%IMMIGRATION COUNSELING SERVICE: $200k → 12%IMMIGRATION COUNSELING SERVICE: $200k → 12%IMMIGRATION COUNSELING SERVICE: $173k → 12%IMMIGRATION COUNSELING SERVICE: $165k → 12%IMMIGRATION COUNSELING SERVICE: $165k → 12%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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$18M · 23 repeat orgs$204k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
1

Total granted

$18M
$85k

Still filing today

83%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $119k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Crime & LegalHuman ServicesCivil RightsEmploymentEducationOther
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

  • OL
    OREGON LAW CENTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $7.4M · revenue +53%
  • LA
    LEGAL AID SERVICES OF OREGON
    8× · 2017–2024 · $3.9M · revenue +56%
  • IMMIGRATION COUNSELING SERVICE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • LC
    LANE COUNTY LAW AND ADVOCACY CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $85k
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
Oregon Crime Victims Law Center

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…

Crime & Legal
2
Cowlitz-Wahkiakum County Legal Aid Program Inc

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.

Crime & Legal
3
Oregon Justice Network

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…

Human Services
4
Access the Law

To provide legal services and representation to those of modest and limited means who would otherwise forgo legal representation.

Crime & Legal
5
Sexual Violence Law Center

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…

Human Services
6
Linn County Advocate Inc

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.

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7
Legal Aid Justice Center

The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.

Crime & Legal
8
American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon Inc

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…

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9
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…

Crime & Legal
10
Kitsap Legal Services

Providing and facilitating access to justice in kitsap county for low-income individuals or marginalized communities through advocacy and free civil legal services.

Crime & Legal
11
Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs Inc

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…

Philanthropy
12
Eastside Legal Assistance Program

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…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Lawyers' Campaign for Equal Justice; 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.
04the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 28 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
14/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OREGON LAW CENTER: $7,361,347 · Crime & LegalOREGON LAW CENTERLEGAL AID SERVICES OF OREGON: $3,879,556 · Crime & LegalLEGAL AID SERVICES OF OREGONST ANDREW LEGAL CLINIC: $1,037,000 · Crime & LegalST ANDREW LEGAL CLINIC+4 more: $354,600 · Crime & LegalCATHOLIC CHARITIES: $743,350 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITI…CENTER FOR NONPROFIT LEGAL SERVICES INC: $674,113 · OtherCENTER FOR NONPR…ECUMENICAL MINISTRIES OF OREGON: $444,900 · OtherECUMENICAL MINIS…NEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INC: $280,000 · OtherNEW AVENUES FOR …THE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION: $217,000 · OtherTHE IMMIGRANT AN…OREGON STATE BAR OLIO PROGRAM: $160,409 · OtherOREGON STATE BAR…+4 more: $149,123 · Other+4 moreIMMIGRATION COUNSELING SERVICE INC: $1,412,000 · Human ServicesIMMIGRATION…CLACKAMAS WOMEN'S SERVICES: $152,000 · Human ServicesCLACKAMAS W…VICTIM RIGHTS LAW CENTER INC: $123,000 · Human ServicesVICTIM RIGH…Lutheran Community Services Northwest: $119,575 · Human ServicesLutheran Co…CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF LANE COUNTY INC: $79,250 · Human ServicesDISABILITY RIGHTS OREGON: $605,175 · Civil RightsYOUTH RIGHTS & JUSTICE: $100,000 · Civil RightsNWJP Action Fund: $330,000 · EmploymentWORKFORCE INVESTMENT COUNCIL OF CLACKAMAS COUNTY: $51,500 · EmploymentLEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE: $45,000 · EducationTHE COMMONS LAW CENTER: $45,000 · Education
Crime & Legal$12,632,503Other$2,668,895Human Services$1,885,825Civil Rights$705,175Employment$381,500Education$90,000

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 budgetOREGON LAW CENTER: $7,361,347 over 8y, 11% of budgetLEGAL AID SERVICES OF OREGON: $3,879,556 over 8y, 9.1% of budgetIMMIGRATION COUNSELING SERVICE INC: $1,412,000 over 8y, 18% of budgetST ANDREW LEGAL CLINIC: $1,037,000 over 8y, 15% of budgetCENTER FOR NONPROFIT LEGAL SERVICES INC: $674,113 over 8y, 13% of budgetDISABILITY RIGHTS OREGON: $605,175 over 8y, 4.6% of budgetNWJP Action Fund: $330,000 over 7y, 90% of budgetNEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INC: $280,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION: $217,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LAWYERS' CAMPAIGN FOR EQUAL JUSTICE: $205,700 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetCLACKAMAS WOMEN'S SERVICES: $152,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetVICTIM RIGHTS LAW CENTER INC: $123,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetLutheran Community Services Northwest: $119,575 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH RIGHTS & JUSTICE: $100,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF LANE COUNTY INC: $79,250 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCivics Learning Project: $75,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetWORKFORCE INVESTMENT COUNCIL OF CLACKAMAS COUNTY: $51,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMONS LAW CENTER: $45,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetNorthwest Justice Project: $38,900 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCLEAR CLINIC: $35,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetMETROPOLITAN PUBLIC DEFENDER SERVICES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $19,000 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.

  • 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 ↗

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 FoundationOCF Joseph E Weston P…The Autzen FoundationUnited Way of the Col…The Ford Family Found…Rose E Tucker Charita…The Jackson FoundationHoover Family Foundat…The Harold & Arlene S…Juan Young Trust
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Oregon Law Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Oregon Law Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely 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 28 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 2024, released 2024. 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
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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