Oregon · Nonprofit
350 DESCHUTES 350Deschutes
350 DESCHUTES 350Deschutes (Oregon) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $381,310 to it, the largest being MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST ($170,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $112k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $381k
- Net assets
- $183k
What 350 DESCHUTES 350Deschutes does
Mission
350 Deschutes is working to address the greatest threat to human lives, climate change, by engaging in climate advocacy, action, and education that serves all people. This year we helped a local food bank and High School get Solar Panels and EV charging infrastructure. We also are educating local High school Juniors are green career pathways.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Launched the Green Career Pathways program at Madras High School: Empowering young people with education and mentorship in clean energy, this program builds pathways to living-wage careers, fostering self-sufficiency and prosperity in underserved communities through collaboration with educators, installers, and trainers. Hosted the first every Sun Day Solar Fest at Drake Park A community awareness event featuring local climate conscious organizations while teaching attendees how solar energy can power a more sustainable future. Hosted the 11th annual Go Clean Energy Conference at Central Oregon Community College, A dynamic forum that connects community members, businesses, and local government to collaborate on advancing clean energy solutions and fostering innovation, education, and resiliency for a sustainable future. 30+ Speakers, 2 conference rooms, community college auditorium. 350 Deschutes served as project coordinator for three Pacific Power community grants: The purchase and installation of a 15.2 kW solar system at Madras High School. This system will save the school money, supports renewable energy generation, and fosters community engagement and education in Jefferson…
$137,969 spentof which $105,855 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $137,969.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $133k to $218k (+63%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
99% of 350 DESCHUTES 350Deschutes’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Amy Thomas
Executive Director
Board chair
Noel Nelson
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $9k → $58k.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of 350 DESCHUTES 350Deschutes’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
350 DESCHUTES 350Deschutes leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
50% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund 350 DESCHUTES 350Deschutes.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 79% · 2019 60% · 2020 98% · 2021 77% · 2022 58% · 2023 60% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
60% of 350 DESCHUTES 350Deschutes's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
100% of 350 DESCHUTES 350Deschutes's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $72k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
350 DESCHUTES 350Deschutes has grown faster than half of the 1,934 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,934 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like 350 DESCHUTES 350Deschutes
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for 350 DESCHUTES 350Deschutes: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds 350 DESCHUTES 350Deschutes?
- 350 DESCHUTES 350Deschutes (Oregon) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $381,310 to it, the largest being MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST ($170,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does 350 DESCHUTES 350Deschutes have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $381,310 in grants to 350 DESCHUTES 350Deschutes, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of 350 DESCHUTES 350Deschutes?
- MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $170,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like 350 DESCHUTES 350Deschutes find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 11 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing