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Rural Organizing Project

Our mission is to strengthen the skills, resources and vision of primary leadership in local autonomous human dignity groups with a goal of keeping such groups a vibrant source for a just democracy.

$30k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$30,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 1
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$2.6M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Rural Organizing Project funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
Arts & CultureOther
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
FY20231$30k100%
FY20221$10k100%
FY20201$9kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

Arts & Culture$30kEducation$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$9k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Broadcast Baker$30,0001n/a
Friends of the Cottage Grove Public Library$9,6341n/a

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($9k), not named here.

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About Rural Organizing Project

How much does Rural Organizing Project give?
Rural Organizing Project reported 1 grants totaling $30,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 1 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Rural Organizing Project fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2023, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (62%), Education (20%), Public Safety & Disaster (18%).
Who are Rural Organizing Project's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2023: Broadcast Baker ($30k), Friends of the Cottage Grove Public Library ($10k).
Does Rural Organizing Project fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Rural Organizing Project based?
Rural Organizing Project 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 3 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $16k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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