Oregon · Nonprofit
BROWN HOPE
BROWN HOPE (Oregon) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,963,927 to it, the largest being Shelby Cullom Davis Charitable Fund Inc ($1,650,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $998k
- Funders on record
- 43
- Grants received
- $4.0M
- Net assets
- $435k
What Brown Hope does
Mission
Brown Hope is planting and nurturing seeds for racial justice and healing. We serve and mobilize communities in order to heal our collective soil from the poisons of our past and present, so our future roots can thrive.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2023 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Ceased blackstreet bakery economic development program and mutual program.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
In 2023, the black resilience fund supported 25 households in multnomah county through a village-building cohort with a 3-year income guarantee. Each cohort member receives between $1,000, $1,500, $2,000 a month depending on household size. A total of 68 people are served through the program.
$718,264 spentof which $454,107 as grants60% of program spendingIn 2023, over 1,000 individuals were served through power hour. This program is an intentional space for black, brown, and indigenous people to build community, inspire potential, and heal from racial trauma. Power hour is a weekly, two hour event with several social activities that happen during that time, including small breakout groups, a collective vibe check, a guest speaker presentation and q&a, and a closing mindfulness meditation.
$236,685 spentof which $87,145 as grants20% of program spendingThe organization continued other programs and initiatives throughout 2023 focused on inspiring community discourse and action around racial justice and healing.
$238,906 spent$26,079 earned by the program20% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,193,855.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $1.9M to $487k (−74%).
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 27% · 2021 23% · 2022 14% · 2023 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of BROWN HOPE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 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
Cameron Whitten
CEO
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 12 funders, grant income rose $500 → $649k.
12 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 BROWN HOPE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 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
BROWN HOPE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
30% 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 BROWN HOPE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 36% · 2021 33% · 2022 36% · 2023 54% — 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
6% of BROWN HOPE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
BROWN HOPE draws 61% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 15 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
BROWN HOPE's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 12 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,535 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Government funding BROWN HOPE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.8M on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$695k
- OTHER DISTRIBUTION TO TAXABLE SUBRECIP$688k
- PAYMENTS TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$197k
- OTHER SPECIAL PAYMENTS$185k
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$5k
- AGENCY PROGRAM RELATED SERVICES$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 BROWN HOPE
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
52% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
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 BROWN HOPE: 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 BROWN HOPE?
- BROWN HOPE (Oregon) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,963,927 to it, the largest being Shelby Cullom Davis Charitable Fund Inc ($1,650,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BROWN HOPE have?
- IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $3,963,927 in grants to BROWN HOPE, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BROWN HOPE?
- Shelby Cullom Davis Charitable Fund Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,650,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BROWN HOPE 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 FY2023 (financials across 2020–2023), and the filings of 43 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