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COMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF LANE COUNTY

COMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF LANE COUNTY (Oregon) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,201,811 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($345,450). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$370k
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$1.2M
Net assets
$223k
11/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 69%
01What it does

What Community Alliance of Lane County does

Mission

Educating and mobilizing for peace, human dignity, and social, racial and economic justice.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Springfield alliance for equity and respect (safer) is a grassroots social justice group based in springfield, oregon. Safer works for accountability from public institutions for the diverse communities they serve, while we build relationships and capacity within springfield's immigrant community. Safer is committed to immigrant rights and racial justice, lgbtq+ rights, and the right to shelter. Safer regularly meets with leaders in the springfield school district, the springfield city government and in the willamalane parks and recreation district to give voice to equity and justice issues in the community. Major accomplishments in 2024: safer activists provided leadership for the annual martin luther king jr. And huerta-chavez events in springfield. Safer continues to organize for educational equity in the district, including adequate language access and policies that protect students from racial harassment and bullying. Safer organized ppublic comment at springfield school district public meetings. Safer's program director accompanied multiple families in navigating school systems and achieving voice and agency in the spaces where decisions are made. Safer and our partners at…

    $88,081 spent
    33% of program spending
  2. Union de activistas provides life affirming opportunities that inspire and build capacity for teens at a crucial moment in their lives. Using curriculum built on the values of community, cultural pride and college and career readiness, union de activistas fosters self-esteem, leadership, civic and community engagement amoung latine youth. Major accomplishments in 2024: union de activistas unified its cohort of students and welcomed new students. The youth and program organizers renovated the office space, making it welcoming and representative of the group's values. Youth activities included: a recruitment celbration, youth radio/radio juventud production, culturally-rooted health and wellness retreat, decolonizing cooking classes, film screenings and discussions, storytelling and creative expression workshops. In the summer, union de activistas offered a yourth leadership workshop focused on cultural heritage, self-esteem and community building. Union de activistas youth participated in community events, professional development opportunities, and civic engagement opportunities including speaking at school board meetings. The union de activistas program organized a workshop on…

    $26,267 spent
    10% of program spending
  3. The education justic program advocates for equity in the policies and practices of public schools. Major accomplishments in 2024: the education justice action team (ejat) maintained monthly meetings to discuss concerns and next steps in partnership with the teacher's union and community allies. Ejat continued monitoring and participation in school board meetings, relationship building, and meetings with dei personnel. Education justice organizing created new avenues for community members to voice concerns about educational equity. Ej mobilized for mental health supports for students and staff and a relational approach to education. The ej organizer coordinated and sponsored the "another world is possible" educator award, which engaged community members to nominate and select two 4j school district educators to receive the award. Education justice also hosted two book clubs for educators and community members who wanted to learn more about education justice concepts and applied practices. Education justice hosted a "cultivating community" zine workshop with students from the education justice youth action team. The ej organizer gave leadership presentations at schools' student…

    $38,960 spent
    15% of program spending
  4. Other major accomplishments: calc maintained its one of a kind resource center in springfield, casa de la unidad/house of unity. The center allows calc to offer a welcoming, safe space for people that are vulnerable and in need. Along with housing calc programs, calc shares casa de unidad with escudo latino. Escudo latino, based in springfield's immigrant community, provides bilingual information and adcovates for equitable access to services for the spanish speaking community. This unique partnership expands the services, outreach and awareness in the communities we serve. Casa de la unidad/house of unity allows calc to host community meetings and events, like our spanish-language parent organizing meetings, union de activists meetings, and planning meetings with willamalance parks and recreation district and springfield school board members. Calc's reimagining national security (rns) initiative, a project grounded in the organization's antimilitarist legacy, coordinated and sponosored research on military industrial complex and extractive industries in lane county. Rns published facts in calc's weekly community calendar, sharing information about us military spending and its…

    $113,339 spent$3,197 earned by the program
    43% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $266,647.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($171k) Expenses 100 ($140k) Net assets 100 ($71k)2018 Revenue 86 ($147k) Expenses 106 ($148k) Net assets 98 ($70k)2019 Revenue 148 ($252k) Expenses 166 ($233k) Net assets 126 ($89k)2020 Revenue 210 ($359k) Expenses 140 ($196k) Net assets 356 ($252k)2021 Revenue 120 ($206k) Expenses 181 ($253k) Net assets 289 ($205k)2022 Revenue 179 ($306k) Expenses 185 ($260k) Net assets 354 ($250k)2023 Revenue 196 ($335k) Expenses 220 ($309k) Net assets 390 ($276k)2024 Revenue 216 ($370k) Expenses 303 ($424k) Net assets 316 ($223k)
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Revenue (216)Expenses (303)Net assets (316)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $115k to $265k (+130%).

$74k
$88k
$115k
$265k
$297k
$307k
$309k
$230k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 0% · 2021 3% · 2022 12% · 2023 8%. 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 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$31k
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−$1k
’18
$19k
’19
$163k
’20
−$48k
’21
$46k
’22
$26k
’23
−$55k
’24
6.2
months of
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.

Board chair

Melissa Carino

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

201920202021202220232024
Listed61110499
Joined·+5+2+1+5+4
No longer listed·03704
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $24k → $182k.

6 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 COMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF LANE COUNTY’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

COMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF LANE COUNTY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% 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

62% 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 COMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF LANE COUNTY.

29%
largest funder
65%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 50% · 2019 54% · 2020 37% · 2021 29% · 2022 43% · 2023 37% — 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

60% of COMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF LANE COUNTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

54% of COMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF LANE COUNTY'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 $549k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from Oregon funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Oregon out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $653k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Government funding COMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF LANE COUNTY receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $29k on record.

State$29k
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Top programs
  • DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$26k
  • DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$3k
  • TRAINING, EDUCATION OR INSTRUCTION SRVC$200

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 COMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF LANE COUNTY

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

63% of spending goes to programs.

Program 63%Management 27%Fundraising 10%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

92%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

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Questions and answers

Who funds COMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF LANE COUNTY?
COMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF LANE COUNTY (Oregon) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,201,811 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($345,450). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does COMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF LANE COUNTY have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $1,201,811 in grants to COMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF LANE COUNTY, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF LANE COUNTY?
THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $345,450 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF LANE COUNTY 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 16 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