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ECODISTRICTS

ECODISTRICTS (Oregon) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,228,700 to it, the largest being THE KRESGE FOUNDATION ($810,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2022
$4
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$2.2M
Net assets
$0
5/11 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Ecodistricts does

Mission

To provide support and leadership for urban change makers and innovators to accelerate sustainable district- and neighborhood-scale regeneration

As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.

Program

The organization ceased operations in 2021 and wound up its activities in 2022. No program services were performed in 2022.

The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.

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 ($1.4M) Expenses 100 ($1.4M) Net assets 100 ($296k)2018 Revenue 90 ($1.3M) Expenses 90 ($1.3M) Net assets 103 ($305k)2019 Revenue 67 ($956k) Expenses 62 ($870k) Net assets 132 ($391k)2020 Revenue 13 ($179k) Expenses 30 ($414k) Net assets 52 ($155k)2021 Revenue 17 ($244k) Expenses 29 ($399k) Net assets 0 ($0)2022 Revenue 0 ($4) Expenses 0 ($3k) Net assets 0 ($0)
201720182019202020212022
Revenue (0)Expenses (0)Net assets (0)

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 $473k to $265k (−44%).

$403k
$386k
$473k
$265k
$65k
$0
201720182019202020212022
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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 63%. 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 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$21k
’17
$9k
’18
$86k
’19
−$236k
’20
−$155k
’21
−$3k
’22
1.7
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.

20172018201920202021
Listed1514141212
Joined·+2+0+0+2
No longer listed·3022
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2021: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $751k → $75k.

1 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 ECODISTRICTS’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

ECODISTRICTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

36%
largest funder
79%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 37% · 2019 48% · 2020 73% · 2021 67% — 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

25% of ECODISTRICTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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 FY2021, 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

ECODISTRICTS draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 8 states in all.

WA
MI
NY
OR
OH
PA
CA
MO

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
Oregon out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $115k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like ECODISTRICTS

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.

Public support

100%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ECODISTRICTS: 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 ECODISTRICTS?
ECODISTRICTS (Oregon) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,228,700 to it, the largest being THE KRESGE FOUNDATION ($810,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ECODISTRICTS have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $2,228,700 in grants to ECODISTRICTS, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ECODISTRICTS?
THE KRESGE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $810,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ECODISTRICTS 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 11 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