Oregon · Nonprofit
DARKSKY OREGON
DARKSKY OREGON (Oregon) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $443,785 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($400,050). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $436k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $444k
- Net assets
- $435k
What Darksky Oregon does
Mission
Darksky Oregon's mission is to preserve oregon's magnificent dark skies and to diminish light pollution for the health, safety, and well-being of all life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
International dark sky places conservation & certification, sky quality monitoring & data collection, education & outrreach programming.the project's primary aim is to quantitatively measure, interpret, and share skyglow measurements on oregon to better understand the current level of light pollution in comparison to other regions and to document any changes over a five year period. The sky glow data will help to inform action toward healthier and safer communities with less light pollution. The data will also support local efforts to nominate sites under darksky international's dark sky place program.
$37,697 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $37,697.
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
William S Kowalik Phd
Board chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 90% 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 DARKSKY OREGON’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
DARKSKY OREGON leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 DARKSKY OREGON.
“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.
Where its funders are
90% of DARKSKY 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 $44k that is directly attributable, 62% of it comes from Oregon funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $400k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
DARKSKY OREGON holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like DARKSKY 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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 DARKSKY 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 DARKSKY OREGON?
- DARKSKY OREGON (Oregon) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $443,785 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($400,050). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DARKSKY OREGON have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $443,785 in grants to DARKSKY OREGON.
- Who is the largest funder of DARKSKY OREGON?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $400,050 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DARKSKY 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.
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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 2025–2025), and the filings of 4 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