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Oregon Ranked Choice Voting Advocates

The primary mission of OREGON RANKED CHOICE VOTING ADVOCATES (or-rcv) is to educate oregonians and the greater public about how government can better reflect the views and diversity of society through innovations in voting and elections.

$286k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$84k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212024.

Public Benefit$208kCivil Rights$149kArts & Culture$60kHuman Services$25kCommunity Improvement$20kYouth Development$10k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 7 grants below total $269,250 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $286,001 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $16,751 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $199k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$32k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BUILDING POWER FOR COMMUNITIES OF COLOR$84,000
NEXT UP ACTION FUND$65,000
APANO$50,250
URBAN LEAGUE$25,000
EAST COUNTY RISING$20,000
DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF OREGON$15,000
CENTRO$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%URBAN LEAGUE: $25k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your field

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.

1
Oregon Progress Forum

Next up amplifies the voice and leadership of diverse young people to achieve a more just and equitable oregon.

Environment
2
North Star Collaborative Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Northwest Progressive Institute

The Northwest Progressive Institute is a social welfare organization working to raise everyone's equality of life through insightful research and imaginative advocacy. NPI's projects and publications promote policy development based on…

Civil Rights
4
Unite Oregon Action

unite oregon action works across urban and rural divides to build a unified political, intercultural movement for justice in oregon. we are led by people of color, immigrants and refugees, rural communities, and people experiencing poverty.

5
Center for Intercultural Organizing

Center for intercultural organizing dba unite oregon is a diverse, grassroots organization working to build a multicultural movement for immigrant and refugee rights through education, civic engagement, community organizing and…

Civil Rights
6
Pueblo Unido Pdx

Connect immigrants to legal, social, and interpretation services.

Human Services
7
Oregon Center for Public Policy

The oregon center for public policy's mission is to achieve economic justice for all oregonians through research, analysis, and advocacy. ocpp works to change policies that foster economic security and stability for all oregonians. we do…

Employment
8
Our Oregon

Promote economic and social fairness by working in coalition open a broad range of issues and activities in the public arena

Human Services
9
Neighborhood Partnerships Inc

See schedule oneighborhood partnerships, inc. (np or the organization) is an oregon non-profit corporation founded in 1989 whose mission is to help create a better oregon, one in which we all have access to opportunity, stability, and what…

Philanthropy
10
Eugene-Springfield Solidarity Network

To provide assistance and awareness of oregon jobs

Civil Rights
11
Iaf Northwest

In 2024, IAF Pacific continued its work of connecting and strengthening broad-based alliances throughout the Pacific region.Through its Building Partnerships for Collaborative Action initiativethe organization supported Indigenous and…

Community Improvement
12
Oregon Energy Systems Technology and Research
Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Apano Communities United Fund and the most unlike its peers is Portlanders for Charter Reform. 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

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 12 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Portlanders for Charter Reform — $156,000 · OtherPortlanders for Charter ReformNEXT UP ACTION FUND — $65,000 · OtherNEXT UP ACTION FUNDDEMOCRATIC PARTY OF OREGON — $15,000 · OtherDEMOCRATIC PARTY OF OREGONAPANO COMMUNITIES UNITED FUND — $10,000 · OtherCENTRO CULTURAL OF WASHINGTON COUNTY — $10,000 · OtherBUILDING POWER FOR COMMUNITIES OF COLOR — $84,000 · Civil RightsBUILDING POWER FOR COMMU…NEW PROGRESSIVE NETWORK — $20,000 · Civil RightsNEW PROGRESSIVE NETWORKAPANO — $50,250 · Arts & CultureAPANOURBAN LEAGUE OF PORTLAND INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesEAST COUNTY RISING COMMUNITY PROJECTS — $20,000 · Public BenefitNATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentNorth Star Action Center — $6,700 · Community Improvement
Other$256,000Civil Rights$104,000Arts & Culture$50,250Human Services$25,000Public Benefit$20,000Youth Development$10,000Community Improvement$6,700

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPortlanders for Charter Reform — $156,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetBUILDING POWER FOR COMMUNITIES OF COLOR — $84,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetAPANO — $50,250 over 1y, 14% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF PORTLAND INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW PROGRESSIVE NETWORK — $20,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetEAST COUNTY RISING COMMUNITY PROJECTS — $20,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAPANO COMMUNITIES UNITED FUND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCENTRO CULTURAL OF WASHINGTON COUNTY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNorth Star Action Center — $6,700 over 1y, 9.2% of budget
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.

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.

Northwest Health FoundationOR20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Northwest Health Foundation · Northwest Health Foundation Fund II · Seeding Justice · United Way of the Columbia-Willamette · Service Employees International Union · The Collins Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Oregon Community Foundation

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 Ranked Choice Voting Advocates 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 50%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 23%
  • Urban League of Portland Inc33% of income from government
  • Native American Youth and Family Center23% of income from government
  • Centro Cultural of Washington County0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Oregon Ranked Choice Voting Advocates?

Find your warmest path to Oregon Ranked Choice Voting Advocates 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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