How do I find funders for a civil rights and advocacy nonprofit in Oregon?

Start with the funders already giving to civil rights and advocacy in Oregon, currently Meyer Memorial Trust, The Oregon Community Foundation, Seeding Justice. Then look at who funds the civil rights and advocacy organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Oregon from out of state.

How much grant money goes to civil rights and advocacy in Oregon?

$180M reached 230 civil rights and advocacy organizations in Oregon, from 629 funders. 55% came from funders also based in Oregon.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Funding · Oregon · Civil rights and advocacy

Who funds civil rights and advocacy in Oregon

Civil rights and advocacy funding in Oregon is unusually spread out: no single organization draws even 12%, though Causa of Oregon leads, and the money reaches 230 groups.

$180M

granted

230

organizations

55%

from in-state

The short version

629 funders gave $180M to 230 civil rights and advocacy organizations in Oregon across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
55% of that came from funders also based in Oregon; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of civil rights and advocacy in Oregon is Meyer Memorial Trust, at $27M.
The civil rights and advocacy organization drawing the most is Causa of Oregon, at $16M.

Largest funders of civil rights and advocacy in Oregon

The funders giving the most to civil rights and advocacy organizations in Oregon, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1Meyer Memorial Trust$27M 2The Oregon Community Foundation$23M 3Seeding Justice$7M 4The Collins Foundation$6M 5Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$5M 6New Venture Fund$5M 7Northwest Health Foundation$4M 8Causa of Oregon$3M 9Inatai Foundation$3M 10National Philanthropic Trust$2M

Civil rights and advocacy organizations in Oregon that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

220 other civil rights and advocacy organizations$96M

Causa of Oregon$16M Latino Network$14M Equality Federation Institute$12M Center for Intercultural Organizing$9M Coalition of Communities of Color$8M

How to find civil rights and advocacy funders in Oregon

1
Start with the funders already active in Oregon
The funders giving the most to civil rights and advocacy in Oregon are Meyer Memorial Trust, The Oregon Community Foundation, Seeding Justice. A funder already writing civil rights and advocacy checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the civil rights and advocacy organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.
3
Add the out-of-state funders reaching in
45% of civil rights and advocacy money in Oregon comes from funders elsewhere, so national civil rights and advocacy funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Oregon.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a civil rights and advocacy nonprofit in Oregon?: Start with the funders already giving to civil rights and advocacy in Oregon, currently Meyer Memorial Trust, The Oregon Community Foundation, Seeding Justice. Then look at who funds the civil rights and advocacy organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Oregon from out of state.
Who is the largest civil rights and advocacy funder in Oregon?: Meyer Memorial Trust gives the most to civil rights and advocacy organizations in Oregon, $27M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to civil rights and advocacy in Oregon?: $180M reached 230 civil rights and advocacy organizations in Oregon, from 629 funders. 55% came from funders also based in Oregon.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.