Oregon · Nonprofit
CAUSA OF OREGON
CAUSA OF OREGON (Oregon) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,887,501 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($10,397,567). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2023
- $4k
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $18M
- Net assets
- $0
What Causa of Oregon does
Mission
Causa works to improve the lives of latino immigrants and their families through advocacy, leadership development, civic engagement and coalition building. Latino immirgants and their families are the heart of causa and inspire, implement and champion our work.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2023 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The organization terminated in 2023. The organization did not take an active role in preventing passage of anti-immigrant policies and was not involved in electoral campaigns.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
In oregon, we saw the immediate impact of covid-19 for our bipoc and immigrant communities and took swift action to advocate for state funding to provide financial relief to oregonians who were intentionally excluded from public benefits. We did this, by co-creating the now well-established oregon worker relief coalition and developing the worker relief fund and the quarantine fund to provide disaster relief funds to individuals who have been disproportionately impacted by covid-19. As of now, the fund has raised over $110 million dollars and has had over 35,000 applicants and distributed over $40 million dollars. In order to distribute these funds, we have built a statewide community led infrastructure to ensure access to the fund for our most vulnerable and most affected communities. This program has drastically increased our organizational makeup and has strengthened our partnerships with coalition members across the state in an effort to have one centralized trusted community program. Causa's role was to lead the advocacy effort to get this project off the ground and we were the intial fiscal sponsors of the fund. Now, causa is one of the navigating organizations, oversees the…
$2,131,426 spentof which $2,047,472 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,131,426.
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.
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 $2.2M to $0 (−100%).
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: 2018 3% · 2020 3% · 2021 55%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 8 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $341k → $84.
12 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% 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 CAUSA OF OREGON’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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
CAUSA OF OREGON leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
82% 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 CAUSA OF OREGON.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 36% · 2019 31% · 2020 72% · 2021 39% · 2022 58% · 2023 100% — 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
19% of CAUSA OF OREGON's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
75% of CAUSA OF OREGON'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 $4.5M that is directly attributable, 73% of it comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13M 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.
Organizations like CAUSA OF OREGON
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
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 CAUSA OF OREGON: 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 CAUSA OF OREGON?
- CAUSA OF OREGON (Oregon) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,887,501 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($10,397,567). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CAUSA OF OREGON have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $17,887,501 in grants to CAUSA OF OREGON, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CAUSA OF OREGON?
- THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,397,567 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CAUSA OF OREGON 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 42 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