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Oregon Pathfinder

Oregon Pathfinder promotes and supports a healthy Oregon economy, thriving employment opportunities, a strong and competitive business environment, and provides opportunities for intelligent, civil political discourse.Donations to Oregon Pathfinder support our overall mission and may be used for any purpose that meets the missions goals,…

$136k
Granted FY2022
5
Grants FY2022
5
Organizations funded FY2022
20%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2022
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 5
FY2019 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
2

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 20% of the organizations Oregon Pathfinder funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22
Civil RightsPublic 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20225$134k20%
FY20215$317k20%
FY20205$309k60%
FY20195$201kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2022.

Public Benefit$696kCivil Rights$240kHousing & Shelter$25k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Evergreen Freedom Foundation$348,64242%
Action PAC$255,5004n/a
Bridget Barton for Oregon$200,0002n/a
Taxpayers Association Of Oregon$49,500214%
Safe Neighborhoods for Oregon$25,0001n/a
Slavic Vote$20,700343%
Common Sense of Oregon Incorporated$20,0001n/a
Cascade Policy Institute$16,50011%
Oregon Liberty Assn$15,0001n/a
Jobs and Progress Fund Inc$10,00012%

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How do I get to Oregon Pathfinder?

Find your warmest path to Oregon Pathfinder through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Oregon Pathfinder

How much does Oregon Pathfinder give?
Oregon Pathfinder reported 5 grants totaling $136,200 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 5 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2022.
What does Oregon Pathfinder fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2022, its largest causes are Public Benefit (72%), Civil Rights (25%), Housing & Shelter (3%).
Who are Oregon Pathfinder's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2022: Evergreen Freedom Foundation ($349k), Action PAC ($256k), Bridget Barton for Oregon ($200k).
Does Oregon Pathfinder fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Oregon Pathfinder based?
Oregon Pathfinder 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 10 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient (grants abroad are filed by region only, and grants under $5,000 are not itemized), so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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