Oregon · Nonprofit
BRING Recycling
BRING Recycling (Oregon) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $173,118 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($60,800). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $173k
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What BRING Recycling does
Mission
Our mission is to provide vision, leadership, and tools for living well on the planet we share.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Reuse and retail outlet and donation center: the planet improvement center, part reuse store and part conservation learning center, is a community treasure featuring art, a demonstration garden and examples of green building, creative reuse, and renewable energy. The center has enabled bring to expand sales of used building materials while creating innovative programs that empower our community to reduce waste and live more sustainably. The center promotes resource conservation while providing employment to folks that may have barriers to traditional employment. The center operates for the benefit of the community by offering employment and training to staff and volunteers and by providing low-cost building materials to the public. We process over 2 million pounds of material annually. (continued on schedule o)
$1,091,763 spent$180,630 earned by the program72% of program spendingBusiness program: our rethink business program, a free, comprehensive consulting service, provides lane county businesses with confidential advice and support on practical ways to reduce waste and save money. Businesses receive promotional assistance and free resources, including water-saving devices, recycling collection boxes, and educational materials. To date, weve served more than 500 local businesses and certified 200. (continued on schedule o)
$269,990 spent$291,517 earned by the program18% of program spendingEducation: k-12 education: bring offers free waste prevention education designed to help local schools achieve system-wide improvements in sustainability performance. We combine classroom with experiential learning and in-school resource conservation strategies to inspire good habits throughout the school community and at home. Our award-winning environmental education offerings, which serve thousands of people annually, include field trips to reuse and waste handling facilities, composting demonstrations, classroom visits, and ngss-aligned curricula. We send quarterly e-newsletters to our subscriber list of over 3,500 and offer a telephone and webpage referral service.(continuted on schedule o)
$164,317 spent$151,801 earned by the program11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,526,070.
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 2022 to 2023, from $3.1M to $2.8M (−8%).
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: 2017 1% · 2018 2% · 2019 0% · 2020 12% · 2021 0% · 2022 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
59% of BRING Recycling’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $29k → $18k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% 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 BRING Recycling’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
BRING Recycling leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
70% 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 BRING Recycling.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 54% · 2019 50% · 2020 43% · 2021 66% · 2022 44% · 2023 34% — 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
57% of BRING Recycling's funders are still giving 3 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
70% of BRING Recycling'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 $52k that is directly attributable, 60% of it comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $122k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
BRING Recycling's revenue grew 55% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding BRING Recycling receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $310k on record — $153k federal, $158k state.
- Environmental Protection Agency$153k
- AGENCY PROGRAM RELATED SERVICES$158k
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 BRING Recycling
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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 BRING Recycling: 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 BRING Recycling?
- BRING Recycling (Oregon) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $173,118 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($60,800). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BRING Recycling have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $173,118 in grants to BRING Recycling, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRING Recycling?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $60,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRING Recycling 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 2017–2025), 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