Oregon · Nonprofit
BASIC RIGHTS EDUCATION FUND
BASIC RIGHTS EDUCATION FUND (Oregon) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,624,919 to it, the largest being MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST ($1,191,667). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $891k
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $3.6M
- Net assets
- $825k
What Basic Rights Education Fund does
Mission
Basic Rights Education Fund will ensure that all lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender oregonians experience equality by building a broad and inclusive politically powerful movement, shifting public opinion and achieving policy victories.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Transgender justice work: within the lgbtq community, transgender individuals face disproportionate rates of unemployment, poverty, harassment, assault and homelessness. Institutional barriers to health care and identity documents, as well as discrimination and mistreatment by government agencies contribute to these adverse outcomes. Our transgender justice program seeks to address and counter these conditions through our work with policy makers and state agency staff on three key issues: transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage, full implementation of our state's existing nondiscrimination law and improving the safety and wellbeing of transgender oregonians in jails and prisons. (continued on schedule o)according to the 2015 u.s. Trans survey, transgender people are twice as likely to be unemployed and twice as likely to live in poverty than their non-transgender peers. To help address this crisis, we administer our fair workplace training, which aims to increase the number of oregon employers committed to providing an inclusive and affirming workplace for transgender employees. Demand for the program has proven high, and since launching it in october 2016, we've delivered…
$1,083,828 spent$32,500 earned by the program96% of program spendingRacial justice work: since 2007, basic rights oregon has worked to counteract strategies pitting communities of color against lgbtq communities. Basic rights is committed to creating lgbtq leadership that truly reflects our community. This means prioritizing groups that have been historically underrepresented, such as queer and transgender people of color. We do this by working in coalition with important organizational stakeholders across the state, including the fair shot coalition.
$8,458 spent1% of program spendingCivic & statewide engagement: basic rights oregon seeks to serve oregon's lgbtq population in every community, every county and every corner of the state. A key component of this approach is locating and supporting the vibrant, grassroots activism that's already creating change around us. To help facilitate this effort, we organized a statewide leadership summit in eugene, which continued in 2022. The summit was attended by over 100 community advocates and leaders from throughout oregon. The event helped to foster a shared understanding of our movement's values and strategies and had especially strong participation from youth and transgender communities. (continued on schedule o)in fy22 the organization carried out a statewide tour, visting 8 cities across the state to perform trans 101 and other trainings and coordinate with local advocates.
$25,912 spentof which $3,053 as grants2% of program spendingAdvocacy
$14,909 spent1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,133,107.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 $1.6M to $889k (−44%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 1% · 2021 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of BASIC RIGHTS EDUCATION FUND’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Kyndall Mason
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $99k → $455k.
11 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 BASIC RIGHTS EDUCATION FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 funders by total. 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
BASIC RIGHTS EDUCATION FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
58% 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 BASIC RIGHTS EDUCATION FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 42% · 2019 55% · 2020 31% · 2021 35% · 2022 41% · 2023 62% — growing more concentrated.
“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
41% of BASIC RIGHTS EDUCATION FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
52% of BASIC RIGHTS EDUCATION FUND's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.7M that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
BASIC RIGHTS EDUCATION FUND receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $3.6M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,800 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding BASIC RIGHTS EDUCATION FUND receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $73k on record.
- TRAINING, EDUCATION OR INSTRUCTION SRVC$33k
- PROF DEV INSTATE TUITION/REGISTRATION$21k
- TRAINING EDUCATION OR INSTRUCTION SRVC$9k
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$5k
- AGENCY PROGRAM RELATED SERVICES$4k
- INTER-AGENCY TRAINING,EDUC,OR INSTR SVCS$1k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BASIC RIGHTS EDUCATION FUND
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.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
57%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Basic Rights Oregon · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BASIC RIGHTS EDUCATION FUND: 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 BASIC RIGHTS EDUCATION FUND?
- BASIC RIGHTS EDUCATION FUND (Oregon) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,624,919 to it, the largest being MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST ($1,191,667). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BASIC RIGHTS EDUCATION FUND have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $3,624,919 in grants to BASIC RIGHTS EDUCATION FUND, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BASIC RIGHTS EDUCATION FUND?
- MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $1,191,667 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BASIC RIGHTS EDUCATION FUND 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 31 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing