Oregon · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR INTERCULTURAL ORGANIZING
CENTER FOR INTERCULTURAL ORGANIZING (Oregon) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,430,799 to it, the largest being MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST ($2,744,375). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.5M
- Funders on record
- 54
- Grants received
- $10M
- Net assets
- $4.0M
What Center for Intercultural Organizing does
Mission
Center for Intercultural Organizing dba unite oregon is a diverse, grassroots organization working to build a multicultural movement for immigrant and refugee rights through education, civic engagement, community organizing and mobilization, and intergenerational leadership development.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Community organizing in 2023, unite oregon hosted multiple community events, including tenant rights workshops, the power of testimony & storytelling training sessions, discussion events such as the 82nd avenue community conversations event, our climate justice listening tour community forums, our regional transportation plan community engagement event, and the tualatin valley highway community workshop series. All of these events were designed to provide community members with educational opportunities and to gather feedback, ideas, and details on needs from community members. The outreach and content for these events focused on marginalized communities and their needs. We saw nearly 900 participants from our base communities across the 25 community organizing events that unite oregon provided statewide. The major priority areas touched on in these events were affordable housing, health equity, economic prosperity, transportation/climate, and education. The events and discussions also gathered information and feedback from community members about the intersectionality of these issues, especially how the disparities in one area increase or directly contribute to those in other…
$1,454,065 spent35% of program spendingLeadership development build - unite oregons building undergraduates through inclusive leadership development (build) program extends to roosevelt, franklin, and grant high schools. The program works to foster leadership skills and is a collaborative initiative that works to dismantle systemic barriers hindering educational achievement among students of color. Yield - for the 2023-2024 school year, unite oregon engaged with 49 students through the youth-led involvement through engagement and leadership development (yield) program. This last years yield program was focused on enhancing bipoc student engagement and learning outcomes through a series of structured activities and lessons focused on leadership building, advocacy, and navigating social challenges. Bold - unite oregon graduated 14 new community leaders through its 11th cohort of beaverton organizing & leadership development (bold) program, adding to a network of over 200 bold alumni. The educational topics in 2023 included your city council, beaverton 101, member spotlight, political education & civic engagement, how to give public testimony, meet city councilors, and testimony practice & feedback. Belt - unite oregons…
$1,263,288 spent31% of program spendingCivic engagement in 2023, unite oregon hosted our first in-person/hybrid united for action summit with over 160 attendees statewide, and our chapters hosted in-person gatherings. The chapters were united virtually for part online agenda and part in person. Community members, unite organizers, and the policy team at the summit educated members on our six pillar areas. We also presented policy and campaign concepts proposed through our leadership council and community leaders' spaces. This year, we had 15 pitches presented across the state. Each chapter watched all the pitches and then voted on their top five priorities to see unite oregon focus its work on. Our communities directly influence, decide, and drive our systems to change work. The summit is now an annual event where we can ensure we are current on communities priorities. During the 2023 legislative session, we hosted a legislative launch event and a lobby day event before the second chamber committee deadline. These events combined saw over 150 community participants. Our members, board, and staff met with 25 legislators to advocate for our annual action agenda. The 2023 legislative session highlighted how important…
$1,103,562 spent27% of program spendingPublic policy unite oregon continued its advocacy for policy changes to reduce the disparities experienced by bipoc communities and people experiencing poverty. Our priority bills included the following: community resilience hubs (hb 3409, formerly hb 2990) - establishes centralized locations for people and resources to gather before, during, and after natural disasters. Status - passed emergency housing for all (hb 3462). Summary - ensure emergency housing meets fair housing standards. Status - passed stable homes for oregon families (sb611). Summary - provides tenant rent stabilization protections. Status - passed food for all oregonians (sb610). Summary - creates a state-funded food assistance program for people who currently meet the income threshold to qualify for snap but are excluded solely based on their immigration status. Status - died. Guaranteeing the right to vote (sb579). Summary - restore voting rights / allow incarcerated oregonians to register to vote, update voter registration, and participate in elections based on where they resided before incarceration. Status - died. Housing minimum wage (hb2699). Summary - this was our first session working with rep. Gamba on…
$319,672 spent8% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,140,587.
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 $6.1M to $8.8M (+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: 2017 45% · 2018 53% · 2019 36% · 2020 50% · 2021 44% · 2022 45% · 2023 47% · 2024 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of CENTER FOR INTERCULTURAL ORGANIZING’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $365k → $2.3M.
9 of 54 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 CENTER FOR INTERCULTURAL ORGANIZING’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 54 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
CENTER FOR INTERCULTURAL ORGANIZING has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
71% 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 CENTER FOR INTERCULTURAL ORGANIZING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 48% · 2019 20% · 2020 40% · 2021 29% · 2022 27% · 2023 54% — 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
36% of CENTER FOR INTERCULTURAL ORGANIZING's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
66% of CENTER FOR INTERCULTURAL ORGANIZING's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
CENTER FOR INTERCULTURAL ORGANIZING holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 978 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 978 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding CENTER FOR INTERCULTURAL ORGANIZING receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8.0M on record — $573k federal, $7.5M state.
- Environmental Protection Agency$573k
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$4.5M
- PAYMENTS TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$1.7M
- OTHER SPECIAL PAYMENTS$538k
- OTHER DISTRIBUTION TO TAXABLE SUBRECIP$460k
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$210k
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$35k
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 CENTER FOR INTERCULTURAL ORGANIZING
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
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
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 CENTER FOR INTERCULTURAL ORGANIZING: 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 CENTER FOR INTERCULTURAL ORGANIZING?
- CENTER FOR INTERCULTURAL ORGANIZING (Oregon) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,430,799 to it, the largest being MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST ($2,744,375). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR INTERCULTURAL ORGANIZING have?
- IRS filings report 54 organizations giving $10,430,799 in grants to CENTER FOR INTERCULTURAL ORGANIZING, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR INTERCULTURAL ORGANIZING?
- MEYER MEMORIAL TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $2,744,375 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR INTERCULTURAL ORGANIZING 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 54 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